
Again in 2010, the New York Instances printed a small piece on edible magnificence merchandise, highlighting such odd concoctions as Nutra Resveratrol Anti-Ageing Water and, much more disturbing, a espresso in Singapore that accommodates collagen, and which is supposed to enhance the pores and skin.
In Japan, they even add collagen to yogurt drinks, dried fruits, and different meals.
It looks as if a bizarre technique to go as a way to concurrently fulfill your magnificence and your caffeine repair. Then once more, we have seen worse.
Listed here are the 6 most terrible issues girls do to themselves to be “lovely:”
1. Facials
No. We’re not speaking about facials of the post-sexual climax type, although spermine facials do exist. In truth, some girls fork over as a lot as $250 for this specific spa remedy, which is supposed to decrease wrinkles and clean pores and skin. What else are we dousing our faces in?
Human placenta (used as a hydrating remedy, and costing a mean of $500), snail secretion (the goop apparently blocks out environmental air pollution, and likewise has rejuvenating qualities), and chook poop (nightingale excretion, truly; it is mentioned to be wealthy within the amino acid guanine, which brightens and cleanses pores and skin).
2. Snake massages
We’re virtually prepared to smear chook poop throughout our faces if it means we can’t get snakes thrown onto our naked backs. In Israel, spa proprietress Ada Barak got here up with the concept for snake massages. Mainly, she positioned a mass of entwined snakes onto her prospects’ backs, letting the sensation of the snakes’ motion in opposition to the pores and skin calm them.
And by “them,” we imply her apparently-out-of-their-minds-brave prospects. We might be something however calm.
3. Fish pedicures
Folks throughout the nation have been instantly disgusted when Sherri Shepherd received a fish pedicure on a July 2008 episode of The View. What’s a fish pedicure? It is an unconventional magnificence remedy wherein a gaggle of small Garra rufa fish, a sort of carp, assist exfoliate the toes by feeding on the useless, flaking pores and skin (we simply puked in our mouths just a little).
Since information of the remedy first swept throughout a wide range of media channels, a number of states and animal rights teams have sought to ban them.
4. Booty surgical procedure
We have written about magnificence queen Solange Magnano’s unlucky demise ensuing from, of all issues, a butt elevate. Apparently, the liquid injected into Miss Magnano’s behind traveled to her lungs and mind, inflicting respiratory failure. As if we did not already want a cause to stay with the butt that God gave us, this unhappy, sordid story clinches issues for us.
5. Labiaplasty
Are you aware what’s uncomfortably near our labia? The clitoris is probably the most delicate of girls’s erogenous zones. And if that will get nicked, we’re screwed. However that is not the one cause we would not search out surgical procedure to beautify our vag. To be trustworthy, the insinuation that our labia are too giant will get us all in a huff. As a result of you already know what? The male sexual organ ain’t the prettiest factor both.
6. Honorable point out: Hair extensions
I do know that, in its place magnificence remedy, hair extensions do not maintain a candle to issues like fish pedicures and chook poop facials however we simply needed to weigh in.
Mainly, we expect hair extensions look fairly scorching, however we additionally noticed that episode of America’s Subsequent Prime Mannequin, the place one of many fashions sat for eight hours getting her extensions put in, solely to maintain crying from the ache. Is the look price it? We do not suppose so. There are higher methods to get lengthy hair.
Steph Auteri is a freelance author and editor. She’s been featured in Playgirl, Time Out New York, American Curves, New York Press, Nerve, and different publications.