• Also during the Elizabethan era, women brushed egg whites over their faces in order to have a glazed look.
•In ancient China, the belief that it was desirable for women to have tiny feet led to food binding.
•From the 14th to 19th centuries in Europe, women would bind their waists with corsets to make them look tiny. The corsets were so tight that often women could not breathe properly and sometimes fainted.