CHER BELIEVES IN SECOND CHANCES

CHER & The Loneliest Elephant showed how the power of celebrity and social media can be, er, Strong Enough to make a change.

The documentary on the Smithsonian Channel on Thursday followed the singer as she battled to free Kavaan, the

“world’s loneliest

Poor elephant”, from a lifetime of neglect.

35 years Kavaan had been held captive for

Kaat a squalid zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan. Jumping on to a #Freekavaan social media campaign, Cher went

and nd to Pakistan to save the elephant even wrote a song about him.

“I knew that we had to get him out,” she said. Kavaan, she got you, babe.

MAKE-UP: A Glamorous History on BBC2 on Tuesday was an absolutely fascinating tour of the ages, via toxic foundation, mouse-hide eyebrows and animal fat hair wax.

It was enough to make you grateful that a) women are no longer expected to spend six hours painting their faces white and sculpting their hair into a gravity-defying tower, and b) that the pursuit of beauty is no longer a perilous life-threatening experience.

Professional make-up artist Lisa

Eldridge looked into the beautifying tricks of the Georgians, which were more scary than sexy.

They used toxic white face paint made with lead, and Lisa tried out recipes for rouge and eyebrow pencils, involving grinding dry beetles and burning cloves.

But it was the hidebrows that Lisa found most difficult to stomach.

“It’s like the Sharpie brow all over again… horrendous,” she said. “It’s killing the whole look.” Some things are best left in the past.