Italian beauty standards

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The history of Western film is a pretty good barometer of how beauty standards have changed from decade to decade. We've ricocheted from girlish innocence in the early 1900s, to Flapper-style raunch, to 1970s high-cheekboned neurosis, all the way to…

GIULIA TOFANA: 17th century Italian pioneering feminist and retailer of bespoke poisons. She sold her lethal invention, aqua tofana, largely to ladies who wished to be rid of their husbands. It became a family business with her daughter also involved in the trade. They were allegedly responsible for 600 deaths, mainly of married men. Despite her popularity with the general public Signora Tofana was denounced and executed by the Papal authorities in 1659.

"If people knew the reasons for my fear,they'd be able to understand my pain."-- Phonetic Trigger (translated) Lucrezia Borgia's Comb was created by an unidentified Renaissance alchemist. It transmits the mindset of Lucrezia Borgia via the crystals and ionized metal of the comb and grants the user mind controlling abilities, though at the price of great personal jealousy and anger. The comb was discovered when the Warehouse received a report of a college student attacking his girlfriend and…

Beauty standards vary in different parts of the world. This quiz will tell you which country's beauty standards you fit into.

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This experiment by journalist Esther Honig is really something interesting to watch! During the experiment, she took a simple and plain photo of herself. After that, she asked Photoshop artists from around the world to alter it, according to beauty standards in their countries. 23 artists gave her a completely different look - the results are quite astonishing and tell us a lot about beauty standards around the world! Have a look for yourself:

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