Around the time of this photograph, some women applied belladonna to their eyelids, albeit in minimally toxic amounts, to dilate their pupils so they’d have that wide-eyed consumptive look.[*1] Magazines also offered instructions for how to apply red paint to the lips and cheeks to capture the hectic glow of consumptive fevers. I probably do not need to point out that these standards of beauty are still informing what is considered to be feminine beauty in much of the world.
