First it was bull semen used to give you better hair, then bird droppings used as a beauty treatment, now I'm informed that people used to put deadly nightshade in their eyes because they thought it made them prettier.
Back in the Middle Ages it was used by Italian ladies to dilate their pupils and make their eyes more attractive. Hence another name for the plant, Belladonna, meaning 'beautiful women'.
The theory has, I should point out, been comprehensively rubbished. You'd have thought that the fact that it could make you blind and kill you would have been a clue!
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