Beauty is Pain. Literally. In 1874, S.D. Power wrote The Ugly-Girl Papers, a beauty guide that reads more like a chemistry textbook for assassins.She suggested eating charcoal to clear the skin. She recommended washing your face with ammonia. She advised filing your own teeth with sandpaper. Annotated by The Horrified Dermatologist, this book exposes the terrifying reality of Victorian beauty standards.Learn how to: Bleach Your Face: With lemons, lead, and regret.Cure Baldness: By rubbing onions on your scalp until you cry.Whiten Your Hands: By sleeping in gloves filled with wet oatmeal.Look "Ethereal" By drinking vinegar until you develop anemia.