The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “15 strangest beauty trends throughout history.”
- Return of the ohaguro
- Eyebrows, Hairlines, and “Hairs Less in Sight”: Female Depilation in Late Medieval Europe
- Why Footbinding Persisted in China for a Millennium
- Dangerous beauty: hazardous chemicals and poisons in historic cosmetics
- The history of Victorian makeup
- Deadly Nightshade (Atropa belladonna)
- Powder and Patches: Porcelain for the Boudoir in Eighteenth Century Europe
- A Bad Hair Day? The History of British Wigs and Wig-Curlers
- The forgotten Victorian beauty trend of painting on fake veins
- Morphological consequences of artificial cranial deformation: Modularity and integration
- The tricho system: hypertrichosis, radiation, and cancer
- The golden nose – reshaping the nose 100 years ago
- Beauty Advice from the Nineteen Twenties: Keep Your Chin(s) Up
