Max Factor’s Beauty Calibrator: A beauty-measuring device to analyze facial flaws, 1930s

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In the 1930s, make-up legend Max Factor came up with an ingenious invention combining phrenology, cosmetics, and a pseudo-scientific approach to analyze a woman’s facial flaws. This is the Beauty Micrometer, a Clockwork Orange-style device that claimed to measure facial ugliness. Placed on and around the head and face, the beauty micrometer uses flexible metal […]

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