Hi my beautiful friends how are you today? My name is Bailey Sarian and today is Monday which means

it's murder, mystery and makeup Monday. If you are new here, hi! Every Monday I sit down and I

talk about a true crime story that's been heavy on my, that wasn't a good one. Heavy on my, okay we

got it. Noggin and I do my makeup at the same time. If you're interested in true crime and you

like makeup, I would highly suggest you hit that subscribe button. Anyways today I want to talk

about a story that I've been working on for like a year, um, which makes it sound like I'm gonna have

like some grand storyline, right? No. You see this case, there's not that much information about this

woman, but it's too interesting and it's too fitting to not talk about it. The case of Julia

Tophana, have you heard of her? Well, let me tell you, this chick is crazy. So she is the most

successful serial killer whose name you've probably never heard of. Let's welcome to the stage,

Julia Tophana. I'm sorry, that setup was like I was announcing her. Okay, yes she's the most

successful serial killer. That like is never talked about. Julia killed hundreds of men in the

17th century in Italy when she turned her makeup business into a poison factory. Did I tell you

it was fitting because it kind of is? Well, no, because I'm not killing people. Never mind. Julia

was selling a deadly concoction called Aqua Tophana, which was thought to have been laced with

arsenic, lead and Beledonna, which I didn't quite understand what Beledonna was. She doesn't know

anything on my dad. I know. The Beledonna berry juice was used historically in Italy. You see

the women use just a drop of it in each of their eyes to dilate their pupils. And what this would

do is give their eyes like this luminous, striking appearance. So they say, lead and arsenic were

common ingredients for facial powders at the time and it would lighten the skin. You know, this was

again during the Renaissance when nobody knew any better. Okay? They found dilated pupils to be

highly attractive, which you know, nowadays when you see someone dilated pupils, you're like,

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