There are a million different resolutions we make as the new year gets underway, and a lot of us really, I mean, really want to look more fabulous than we did last year or the year before, right?

How about doing what our ancestors did and slathering your face and hair with everything from ostrich eggs to pee to crocodile dung or fixing overplucked eyebrows by

gluing on mouse pelts. It's all about looking good at any price. I'm Patty Steele. Suffering

for beauty in the new year. Next on the backstory. We're back with the backstory.

Resolutions are top of mind as the new year unfolds.

We want to be more successful, more at peace, happier, and definitely better looking.

I mean, who doesn't want to look good?

Now it's all about shots like Ozympic and Manjuro to make the weight fall off. There's plenty of

plastic surgery, laser treatments, and trips to the med spa for Botoxin fillers. So I thought we would

revisit our earlier backstory about suffering for beauty. Now first, we'll go back more than 10,000

years to ancient Egypt. Men and women were

anxious to hang on to youth by protecting their skin. They used creams, oils, and makeup made

with herbs, spices, flowers, and other less savory ingredients to look better. There was a primitive

sunscreen made with ostrich eggs,

and for noble women, there was nothing like a milk bath, although Cleopatra later on apparently

preferred to lounge in a bath of sour milk. And who doesn't want a facial? Aloe and spices were

mixed with honey and milk for an anti-wrinkle and anti-inflammatory mask.

And makeup was essential to women and men.

Lead, copper, and semi-precious stones were ground up for eye shadow.

Their dark almond-shaped eyeliner was made from burnt almonds, animal fat, and again deadly lead.

Her lipstick, nail polish, and blush,

they used animal blood and clay. Moving to the Greek and Roman empires, Ploutis, a Roman philosopher,

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