Old School Beauty Treatments That Should Stay Vintage

Nose Shaper Model 25

Humans have been wearing things to reshape their bodies and improve their skin for thousands of years. However, the model 25 nose shaper pictured here might be one of the scariest of the modern era. Actually called the Trados Nose-Shaper Model 25, these things were all the rage in 1918. While we can see why one might want to change facial features before modern plastic surgery, this might be taking it a bit too far.

It looks pretty painful. And while that ad is actually kind of funny, it's funny in a bad way. It's as if the ad is trying to give us a backhanded compliment or something.