Old School Beauty Treatments That Should Stay Vintage

Freckle Remover 1000

No, it wasn't actually called the Freckle Remover 1000, but we think that'd be a pretty good name for a machine like this. How else would you dissuade people's fears after they saw a photo like this? The device pictured here is actually a machine that used CO2 to remove freckles in the early 20th century. A single point, like on a tattoo machine, would poke and remove freckles from people's skin.

All they had to do was wait a week for their skin to heal. While it worked, it wasn't exactly healthy. Plus, we don't know if we could go through the trauma of having to strap into this thing back in the day.