Seeing how beauty standards back then could lead to hair loss, it's a reminder that everyone should embrace how they look, with or without hair. Today it's 'love yourself' rather than 'pour caustic chemicals on your head'!

Lye in hair? Cutting edge stuff! Guess they took 'dyeing your hair' a bit too literally back in the day!

I can't even imagine doing that to my hair. Dying it might damage it a bit, but at least it doesn't come with a side of chemical burns.

Sure, it sounds crazy to us now, but achieving Queen Elizabeth I's red hair was the ultimate fashion statement back then—it was a symbol of power and allure. There's even evidence that suggests the chronic headaches from such practices contributed to the high opiate use among upper-class women at the time, as they sought relief from the pain.

As someone who does reenactments, I have to say THANK GOODNESS we don't have to use authentic 16th-century beauty techniques. I'll stick to my modern, non-caustic hair dyes, thank you very much.

Talk about taking 'pain is beauty' literally, huh? Lye in your hair, just thinking about it makes my scalp burn 😂

Oh, the things we do for beauty! It wasn't just lye, either—women also wore lead-based makeup, which caused a host of health problems. Gotta appreciate not living in the 16th century for that reason!