Beauty can truly be pain. Fascinating text and amazing photographs explore many extreme trends, including lip plates, lead makeup, and foot bindingeven the hazards of some modern day fashions. Readers will be amazed at how far people are willing to go to be considered fashionable.- Goodreads. .

Includes index.

Time line of fashions -- Lip and ear plates -- Chinese foot binding -- Neck rings -- Trends of the 11000s and 1200s -- Men's fashion -- The corset -- The fontange -- Lead makeup -- The crinoline cage -- New Heights -- Fashion today -- Glossary -- Index -- Websites.