We used to do WHAT to look CUTE? PAINFUL BEAUTY SECRETS!

As a young girl in Hong Kong, I saw my great-grandmother's bound feet with my own eyes. She was no longer wealthy, but stuck with these useless and painful feet. I saw her foot-binding cloths and I just felt so horrified, grossed out, and sad all at the same time. This was in the early 1980s. Thanks, Bailey for researching and talking about this!

I’m sorry but the fact that Paul’s crotch is blurred the entire episode is HILARIOUS

Please do a part 2 to beauty standards. For skin bleaching, gages, neck rings, and tattooing.

When I was a newlywed my husband and I watched the swan When he saw me applying through email to be a contestant he said the sweetest most heart felt words. He was almost in tears because I was so insistent. I gave up the idea for his sake. I’m so grateful I did. We’ve been married over 20 years. He’s my soulmate. And I don’t need surgery. (honestly even if I did, I didn’t because F that.)

Corsets are only bad IF YOU TIGHT LACE, when appropriately sized they are quite supportive for back pain. I wear them frequently, when I was younger I wore a 22in corset. They also help with cramping postpartum.

beauty standards really constructed us to have internalized misogyny towards ourselves and other women. hope we all break free from this and love ourselves to the fullest. 🤞❣️

I found you on YT when I was in rehab and I fell inlove. I’ve been clean 4 years now and I am just so happy that I can use your channel as a milestone basically. Love you 🫶

I’m Egyptian and we still do sugaring today instead of using regular wax. It’s really easy to make at home and it’s better for your skin vs. wax. 😊

If corsets are fitted to the wearer and worn properly, nothing is damaged and actually helps with posture! Bernadette Banner has a few great videos on debunking the “corsets are harmful” myth!

I wonder if foot binding inspired the way women dress their feet for ballet? Just the way you described it , that's where my mind went

Im so happy to see everyone defending corsetry in the comments bc i saw the thumbnail and my heart dropped a little. I was worried that no one would call it out.

I’m actually about to start wearing a corset again…one that fits properly. I sit a lot for my job and I think it would really help with my posture.

Tightlacing was actually not as common as it is believed. The myth of the corset that restricts your breathing was started by men (who also wore corsets for a time) and is perpetuated by Hollywood. Women would play sports, rock climb, do trapeze, all while wearing a corset. The padding in the corset does most of the work in creating the hourglass shape. I would recommend the videos of Karolina Zebrowksa for more information on corset myths.

I'm the Victorian era they used bustles, crinoline skirts and layers and layer and layers to achieve the "beauty standard" they didn't altar their bodies physically. I mean some high class did tight lace but it wasn't the common practice! Sometimes I wish we could be a bit more like that!

After my fist child, like literally after birth at the hospital, my mother wrapped me up in a sheet, real tight like a corset so that my body would begin to go back to its original form and heal properly. And afterwards, my body looked amazing!-literally within weeks of giving birth. Corsets do work, they’re uncomfortable for the most part but they do work. Even a cheap one made from a sheet 😅. My mother knew what she was doing. 🥰 I have 3 kids now and used a corset every time. 👌🏻

The funny thing about the Victorian and Edwardian eras is that you didn't actually want to look too thin, because that made you look poor. You can see plainly from images of the time that people who were considered beautiful were actually more on the plump side. Additionally, even larger women still wore corsets. It didn't make them thinner, it simply changed the shape of what was there and supported all the skirts and layers. Up until the invention of the crinoline in the 1850s, corsets were very necessary as they kept the weight of the many, many, many heavy starched petticoats from cutting into your waist. They did have many downsides, but what people fail to accept is that they were both practical and needed for the rest of the outfit to function. Even working class women wore corsets. Women performing extreme sports wore corsets. It didn't prevent them from living their lives any more than bras do now. In fact, they are generally safer than stuff like shapeware, because they kept the pressure off of areas that shouldn't have it (look into why frontlacing corsets are dangerous if you're interested), were made of breathable materials that wicked sweat (yes, there were sumer corsets), and they were made to individual fits (there were off-the-rack ones, but they could be altered).

I have a corset that I wear sometimes for back pain, it is actually quite comfortable, we keep the laces at the right position and just hook it up the front. It is very supportive.

Corsets really weren’t as bad as history would make them out to be. Tight lacing was really not common place. Stays were more common and were practically sport bras. Bernadette banner does a great job explaining the corset history and so maybe look at some fashion historians for better information on it. Love you bunches Bailey ❤

This episode was pure peak Bailey humor!! 😂😂😂

Ms. B. I've been sitting with for three or four years now, and I tells ya, every time feels like the first time. In all seriousness, I'm literally sitting here folding laundry with a cup of coffee, and it's like my BFF has just plopped down in front of me, and is, like, "Gurl... list. en." Thank you for all that you do!