It is an established fact that old timey Halloween costumes are waaaay scarier than any costume you could find today.

Genesis & Lady Jaye

 Women help prepare the bride for her wedding day by applying a white cream powder and traditional tattoos onto her face. The white paint is meant to prevent bad luck, the red cheeks a symbol of fertility, and the golden garnishing represents the heavens.

Venus 

Tiiu Kuik by Paolo Roversi for Vogue Italia, September 2003

Simon Marmion - Man of Sorrows (c. 1460). Detail.

Actias dubernardi female (left) and male (right)

Émotion (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1966)

Stylist Andrew Richardson caressed by a Russian circus performer, photographed by Steven Meisel as part of the Madonna photo essay ‘Flesh + Fantasy’ for Rolling Stone magazine, 1991.