31. This Person Is Freezing Away Their Freckles
Long before the current idea that people can accept themselves as beautiful no matter what, there were very stringent standards for beauty that led to some people undergoing rather bizarre and painful procedures. This one is of a freckle remover, during a time when people deemed freckles to be less than beautiful. The woman in the chair has a doctor literally freeze the skin on her face with carbon dioxide. He would then peel the skin off to have no freckles remaining. Supposedly, the skin would heal within two weeks, but the scars would last forever on the inside and out.