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Lipstick
“Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.”
~Liz Taylor~
Radio Active Beauty…
Delving into the beauty world with my new job has drawn me to a fascination with historic beauty products, and imagine my delight when this Wit came across a deliciously strange article called 8 Fascinating French Beauty Fads. #3 of the 8 fascinations had me spell-bound.
In 1932, Dr. Alfred Curie launched a Tho-Radia line of beauty products that were made from, you guessed it, radio-active materials such as thorium chloride and radium bromide. Thorium is a radio-active chemical element named after the God of thunder, Thor, and has been experimented with as an alternate source for nuclear power plants. Pure thorium is a silvery-white metal that maintains a lovely luster for a long time…which was no doubt why Alfie injected it into his cream, cleansing milk, face powder, lipstick, and even toothpaste (the thought makes me cringe…).
Radium Bromide is a bromide salt discovered in 1898 by Pierre and Marie Curie, who curiously are no relation to our French doctor Alfie. This salt form of radium keeps the chemical from turning black and made the radium easier to work with, though it was highly radio-active and so dangerous in that it could explode under certain conditions.
So, was Tho-Radia guaranteed to make you glow?
Tho-Radia promised lighter and brighter skin. The ads featured a glowing (no pun intended) woman who taunts, “Stay old if you want.”
Or, uh, what?…die trying?
For more interesting French beauty fads of the past, some literally worth dying for, check out People, Places and Bling, for a most interesting, and a bit creepy, article.
xoxo, Wit
Themed Thursday… the black turtleneck
So, it is that time of year…time to finally retire the summer shorts, the sandals, the flip-flops if you wear them, the skimpy tanks and bathing suits, though my friend in L.A. said it was 90 degrees yesterday. Here in Pa. we are getting a chill, though the slightly warm 70 degree Indian summer this week has those damned katydids chirping again at night. Seriously, does anyone know their life cycle? But I digress. I love black turtlenecks. If you dare, with white jeans or pants, even in October, are a classic fashion statement.
Fashion bloggers prove the point.
And our icons historically show that everyone should own at least one.
