$ 0 0 Pictures below describe how terrible beauty care procedures looked like in the 1930s and 1940s. Women now must be happy they don’t have to spend many hours sitting under strange devices or put weird things on their faces. Permanent hair procedure. Germany, 1929 Blow-drying, 1920s. See more Images via vintage everyday: 15 Unusual and Bizarre Beauty Devices in the 1930s and 1940s.