Excerpt from The Arts of Beauty or Secrets of a Lady's Toilet: With Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of FascinatingIt is to guard women against these monstrous impo sitionf, and to save them from such needless a'nd useless expenditures, that I have encumbered this work with so many recipes. They were, many Of them, given me by celebrated beauties who used them themselves, and most Of them were, originally, written in the French, Spanish, German, and Italian languages. In translat ing them, I am painfully impressed that I may have used many unprofessional terms, even if I have com mitted no worse blunders but, if my meaning is intel ligible, they may, I think, be relied upon as the safest and best preparations which a lady can employ in her toilet.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.