Colin A. Borden

Colin A. Borden Instagram – Today, we have TikTok for beauty secrets, in the 1930’s, there was this torture device. The Max Factor Beauty Calibration Machine. Would you use it…?
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In 1932, makeup legend Max Factor came up with an ingenious invention combining phrenology, cosmetics and a pseudo-scientific analysis of a woman’s physical flaws.
Max Factor’s “Beauty Calibrator” enabled Hollywood makeup artists to pinpoint where facial corrections needed to be made. This machine, also known to the trades as the Beauty Micrometer, revealed that a natural “Perfect Face” was a myth. | Posted on 09/Jul/2024 22:35:51