Old School Beauty Treatments That Should Stay Vintage

A Different Kind of Torture Device

We're just going to make up our own names for these devices from here on out because it's just too much fun. This contraption, which we will call the facial defect detector, was invented by Maksymilian Faktorowicz in 1932. This was a mask one would wear on their heads. It contained a lot of little adjustments that an operator could make to pinpoint facial "defects," as they called them in their advertising. The operator would then apply makeup to try and cover or alter those defects.

These things were apparently popular among Hollywood actors. The advertising even points out how facial features were enlarged on the big screen and that makeup artists needed a tool to catch defects that escaped the naked eye.