6 Weird Beauty Secrets of the Most Beautiful Women in History

Marie Antoinette

Secret beauty ritual: a face mask made of cognac, eggs, powdered milk, and lemon, colored veins, plus stewed pigeon water

Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was very popular at the time and everybody considered her a unique beauty. Even though she was beautiful, it seems that the results of her schooling were not so good. For example, when she was 10 years old, she couldn’t write correctly. 

Nevertheless, she was very concerned about her beauty routine, namely that she couldn’t go to bed without a face mask made of cognac, eggs, powdered milk, and lemon and her special face cleanser made out of pigeon. And that’s not all! At that time, thin women were considered beautiful, so those who weren’t that skinny tried to create the illusion of a thinner body by coloring their veins with a blue pencil (in general, skinny people have pronounced veins).