"It leaves my skin refreshed and flawless!"
Posted on 05/01/2008 12:24:16 AM PDT by LibWhacker
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Forget avocado, evening primrose oil or other exotic ingredients, the latest facial to hit New York is a mask made with bird excrement.
The Geisha Facial, available at Shizuka New York for $180, about $100 more than the shop's other facials, contains nightingale excrement.
The Japanese powder, also known as uguisu no fun, is rich in the amino acid guanine, said to brighten and cleanse skin. In the 18th century geishas and kabuki actors used the powder to clean heavy white makeup off their faces.
"I'm always trying to bring Japanese culture and tradition to my spa," said Shizuka Bernstein. "I heard my mother talk about this treatment when I was a little girl."
The Japanese manufacturers of the powder treat it with ultraviolet light to kill bacteria. Bernstein mixes the substance at her spa with finely-ground rice bran to neutralize its slightly musky odor.
She claims the mask helps women achieve a porcelain white quality to their skin.
"I was a little tentative at first," said Andrea Nieto, who recently received the treatment. "But there was no smell. It was creamy and rich."
You got that right: It doesn't sound like any fun at all! Why not jusr empty your parakeet's cage and DIY?
The Japanese are a strange silly little people.
Rather expensive to get $hitfaced.
You know, I’ve taken those who talk up bird flu to task on more than one occasion, but this seems like a very unwise thing to do in this day and age. They say you shouldn’t put your hands anywhere near your nose, if you’re trying to avoid the flu, or the common cold. Of course bird poo is okay though. LOL, not hardly...
Isn’t that the truth.
| Poor | Rich | |
|---|---|---|
| Smart | No | No |
| Stupid | No | Bingo! |
Why pay all that money when you can just stand under a flock of pigeons and look up for free?
I bet there’s some rich marketing dude in Japan laughing his guts out and dreaming up his next stunt:
“Ret’s see, we gottem to eat Raw Fish. And now they rub the poo of the Nitingare onto their face. What joke can me make them do next?”
I can imagine the inventors sitting around drinks laughing at
the idiots who buy this.
Facial with bird excrement takes flight at New York spa...
wonder if the ILLEGALS are working to collect the crap???
just doing the jobs Americans won’t do!!!
BTTT
What an unbelievable way to waste money...
A man and a woman are walking, through the park when a bird flys over, and plop! Drops a load on the woman.
She shouts, “Quick! get me a piece of toilet paper!”
And he says....”What for?!! Its a 1/4 of a mi away by now!!!”
The funny thing is they make such damn good cameras.
Now I wonder if it makes any difference where the bird excrement comes from? For example I would think that prisine free-range bird excrement is acceptable (in the City that is pigeon poop falling from buildings) but that excrement harvested from a cage that had come into contact with the NY Times might elevate the risk of some several diseases (both dermal and neurological in origin).
Too easy! Ping.
I guess you can drink cat poop coffee while you’re getting your facial...
Cheers!
“porcelain white”
Yeah. I always wondered just what is that white stuff in bird crap. Could it be bird crap?
“Gift of the Nightingale...’cause you’re worth it.”
“slightly musky odor”
Wow! White and musky. Why wouldn’t everyone pay somebody big bucks to have him rub bird crap on their face. I must not be rich enough.
I guess that old saying is true:
“The rich are different from you and me”.
Uric acid I believe, and yes, I do have too much free time.
You are right. So glad I don’t have feathers.
Can you imagine all of “those” functions passing through a “cloaca”? Could be hard to determine if you are “coming” or going.
Yeah, I’m scratching “a bird’s cloaca” off my list of potential vacation getaways as we speak :)
punchline from an old joke:
“if the Foo schitz, wear it”
I don’t think that would ever appear on the first 100 pages of my dream vacations list.
OK. I’m grossed out now. Over and out.
“I can imagine the inventors sitting around drinks laughing at the idiots who buy this.”
And they try to outdo each other on how gross they can make their treatments. I think the same applies to food. Lets tell the gringos that live roaches are a delicasy!
Bird excrement facials? Who do you sue if you get bird flu?
Meanwhile, at the neighborhood hospital, staff are busy with universal precaution gyrations to keep C.Diff and MRSA at bay so Medicare will not without payments.
I’m always in the wrong business.
sheesh
Don't need any help, my car does that quite well.
but this takes the cake!
Guanine is not an amino acid - its one of the four bases that make up DNA. It’s organic though, so it must be good for you!
Further proof that PT Barnum was right.
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