15 Unimaginable Things Women Did In The Past Just For The Sake Of ‘Beauty’ There have been some very weird beauty practices in the past that have left us puzzled. Suntan vending machines and using a literal iron to iron hair are just the tip of the beauty iceberg. A Young Woman Holds Her Arms And Legs In Four Water Bathes With Electric Current, To Improve Blood Circulation, Circa 1938. There have been some very weird beauty practices in the past that have left us puzzled. Suntan vending machines and using a literal iron to iron hair are just the tip of the beauty iceberg. #1 A Full-Faced Swimming Mask Helped Protect Women’s Skin From The Sun, 1920s #2 A Woman Having A Seam Painted Onto Her Leg, To Make It Appear That She Is Wearing Stockings, 1926 #3 Rita Perchetti And Gloria Rossi Try Out Their New Portable Bathhouse So They Can Change Their Clothes After Sunbathing On Coney Island Beach, 1938 #4 "Ironing" Hair, 1964 #5 Before The Invention Of Sun-Screen In The Mid 1940s, Ba...