Compared to this beauty-enhancement technology of Ye Analog Days gone by, wheatgrass and colonics sound positively tempting. "Woman wearing a magnetic collar to dissipate wrinkles and slow aging process of cells." Bel Air, CA, US, 1961. Photographed by Allan Grant for LIFE Magazine. (via, thanks Susannah Breslin!)
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If those magnets work against hard water, do they also work against clogged arteries?
If not, I'll stay in my orgone box for now.
It looks like maybe something else attaches to this, given the holes on either side?
That thought is leading me to some very disturbing visuals, so of course I thought I'd share it with you ;)
At first I thought this was implying a head transfer was necessary for looking beautiful.
Save yourself some time and just go with the wheatgrass colonic.
@3, Nice! I never thought of using high powered magnets to keep my head attached. Now maybe I won't lose it so often :)
I'm still very curious about the holes on either side. They could easily be part of the initial casting process, I guess. Or used to plug into some kind of charging station...
Invokes Rule 34 for some, no doubt.
No Gillian Andersons were harmed in the making of this beauty.
Is this a still of a cut scene from "The Brain That Wouldn't Die"?
"Bolt ON! Bolt ON! Apply directly to the neck - for a new head, it's BOLT ON!"
It may not make women beautiful but at least they won't have to worry about vampires biting them in the neck while they sleep.
You all laugh, but the device works.
The woman pictured looks exactly the same today as she did in 1961. Unfortunately, I do not have a photograph to prove this made-up fact.
Yep. We laugh, while we (or at least our contemporaies) pay large amounts of money for cosmetic products with pseudo-scientific names that do next to nothing. Ho hum. Plus ca change.
Compared to plastic surgery, it's like...er...wheatgrass and colonics.
Wear metal collar? Silly.
Slice incision in chest, insert bag of saline, repeat with other side? Sillier.
Today we are not so silly anymore. None of these magnets for us.
Injecting one of the deadliest poisons known to man under the skin is perfectly sane of course.
I really thought this was a decapitated head with the nasty bits obscured by the metal collar o_O Then I looked at the title (really fast) and saw something about "How to Look Beautiful after Life" and had to do the blink/rub eyes/blink combo to actually see the real title.
... but it still looks like a decapitated head o_O
What a wonderful illustration of the fact that it always had been, and always will be, so much snake oil.
Oh, please. That's a whale of an exaggeration.
Compare botox to dimethylmercury. One or two drops of the stuff spilled onto a gloved hand condemned a promising chemist to a slow, horrible death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn
excerpt for the tl;dr folks:
"the single exposure to dimethylmercury had raised her blood mercury level to 4,000 micrograms per liter, or 80 times the toxic threshold"
Please don't use such emphatic statements unless you're really quite certain you're correct. They undermine the perceived credibility of an otherwise reasonable statement.
So this is how fetish images infiltrated our wholesome,American 50s magazines.
Airpillo, people must be crowding around you at parties wanting to hear about the horrors of organic chemistry.
I believe botulinum toxin (or "essence of putrification" as we alchemists like to call it) is a marvellous way to prepare for the afterlife. It's recipients already have that embalmed look while alive, and with many there isn't even a need to remove the brain and heart upon entombing. Both have withered away to dry vestigial stumps long before the first injection.
I don't know about that, but the couple times I've shown up in a lab coat, with an erlenmeyer flask full of rum and coke, did seem to attract attention...
And then there was the time I stored some homebrew beer in an empty carboy of sulfuric acid from Mallinckrodt, to the chagrin of the guys who drank it and later asked, pale-faced, if they just drank what the label said was inside...
Okay, okay, I'll shut up now :p