Bizarre Vintage Inventions That Prove Our Ancestors Were High

3. The Face-Strengthening Mask

In the 1950s, women wore bizarre rubber masks with straps designed to “tone” facial muscles. It resembled Hannibal Lecter’s look—but marketed as glamorous. Users were told to wear them for 15 minutes daily to “fight gravity and aging.”

Instead, these things terrified children, strained marriages, and probably created more wrinkles from the sheer horror of looking in the mirror. Aging gracefully? Sure. Aging while looking like a sci-fi villain? Not so much.

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