Bird poop facial, anyone?

[Baitball Blogger]

Luxury skin care in Mike Bloomberg’s Manhattan: Bird poop facial

At Shizuka New York skin care salon off Fifth Avenue, roughly 100 clients a month are shelling out $180 each for a traditional Japanese facial “using imported Asian nightingale excrement mixed with rice bran,” reports Verna Dobnik for the Associated Press. The treatment is touted as “a way to keep the face soft and smooth using an enzyme in the poop to gently exfoliate the skin.”

While the spa’s eponymous owner Shizuka Bernstein has been offering the Geisha Facial for only five years, the beauty secret is thought to date back to the 1600s, when it was stumbled upon (but how?) by Japanese geishas and actors.


“The treatment begins with steam to open the pores and soften the skin. Cream is applied. And then comes what Bernstein calls ‘the nightingale part.



http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/2/dropping-180-bird-poop-facials-nyc-spa/

[HarveyDarkey]

1. And then there's this

[Baitball Blogger]

3. What kind of journalist would give a bird a second run?

Empirical observation is not strong in this one.

However, in the "show, don't tell" department he should get a Pulitzer because I do believe there are finches in that tree.

[In_The_Wind]

2. No thank you

[Baitball Blogger]

4. $180.

Truly remarkable.

[In_The_Wind]

5. I have lots of parrot poo, but it'll all go out with the trash.