Skin creams and salves

Monday, January 2, 2012

The Most Beautiful Man...

Life Magazine, Oct. 11, 1937
from the text below, "One of the publicity stunts advertising the Paris Exposition was a contest for "The Most Beautiful Man in Europe"..."Others, such as the man in the middle, used ochre or iodine solution to achieve a red Indian skin."

Iodine mixed with oil of some sort, no doubt, all the better to highlight the musculature.

Li

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