| PERMANENT TINTING A woman submits to facial tattooing in order to have permanently rosy cheeks. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6706 | |
| Catalog #: | 371708 | |
| Clip Number: | 371708-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 19 | |
| Timecode: | 01:07:19 - 01:09:46 | |
| Location: | United Kingdom | |
| Year Shot: | 1928 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEAUTY CULTURE: Body Decoration, Tattoo BEAUTY CULTURE: Cosmetics LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK | |
| Description: | PERMANENT TINTING - of the complexion! Another of the weird things done in the name of beauty, blush tattoos. A woman submits to facial tattooing in order to have permanently rosy cheeks. Woman sits on sheet-covered couch, looking in hand mirror & pointing w/ a little stick at various parts of her face. She's talking to the Doctor, a man in a white coat standing at rt., who leans toward her attentively. CU woman pointing at face. MLS she reclines on the couch. Doc puts towel over her. MS he rubs her face (maybe just cleaning off make-up), then starts to squirt a narrow stream of liquid onto her cheek. CU Doctors gloved hands poking a little stick into some dark stuff, also on table are weird electric things. MS he takes instrument attatched to wire (a tattoo pen) and makes a little circle on her cheek. ECU his hand holding sinister looking instrument to her face. CU he continues poking at womans face which now has big blotch on it. MCU he hands her mirror. She looks in it and does not seem to find this at all disturbing. Next the doctor applies some cream and powder over the ugly blotch. "Three days later the face has healed and Milady has acquired her permanent complexion!" MCU woman again lying on couch with a big piece of cotton over spot on face. Doctor lifts it. Her face looks normal now. Bizarre, oddities, scary, sci-fi, cosmetics, 1920s styles, fads, medicine | |
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