Old School Beauty Treatments That Should Stay Vintage

Skull Shaping

It's good to know that going to great lengths just for the sake of beauty isn't just some modern, western thing. Take the Maya, for example, who used to strap children's heads to things in order to create a deformity and shape their skulls. And it turns out that this practice was actually quite common in different cultures around the world. The Huns, Germanic tribes, native Americans, Hawaiians, and Tahitians all shared similar practices.

Researchers suspect that this specific practice started around 1000 BC and that it was done mostly for aesthetic reasons and didn't relate to social status.