The latest skin-perfecting treatment to have New York women all in a tizzy is, quite literally, a load of crap. Bird crap, to be exact. The "Geisha Facial" is so named because geisha have used nightingale droppings as a makeup remover. (You can buy your own from Chidoriya.) The facial entails slathering your face in guano flown in from Japan. (Thankfully, it is zapped with a UV light to kill any lingering bacteria.) All this for the low, low price of $216.
But it's not all BS: The poop contains a compound called guanine, which is said to remove pollutants from the skin, to clear pores, and to even out skin tone. It's my doody to ask you: Would you try this treatment, or are you pooh-poohing it?
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Your doody. HA!
And no way.
1There are way too many products that clear skin of make up and debris without ever having to be excreted from a bird. But thanks for doodooing your doo diligence and keeping us informed.
2LOL , no thank you for me. Thanks for the cool info though!
3No doodoo for me.
4no thank you.
5Ew, no that sounds terrible.
6NOPE.
7I'd use it. I mean, if it works, why not. But I won't be spending $200 for poop anytime soon.
8I can't get my head around slathering bird poop all over my face. No thanks.
9Maybe if someone else was paying for it and I have to ask, does it smell??
10I don't care if that facial could make me look like Beyonce, I am not paying $216 for a BIRD POOP facial.
11i'd totally try it, just not for $216. at least not $216 of my own money, ha!
12This reminds me of the snail facial in the show Penn and Teller's Bullsh*t.
Basically Penn and Teller's show sent a man in a white coat to a mall. His job was to get people to try wacky things and then ask the participants if they actually believed that it worked(alternative medicine show).
One of the things he did was to convince people to try a snail facial. The facial was simply snails crawling all over the participant's face.
Funny enough, the participants actually believed that the snail slime improved the skin. LOL
I would wager that the bird poop facial is basically the same thing.
13Ewww Ewww Ewww!
14Wow. I think it's kind of cool, especially those looking for a "natural" or "organic" remedy. I wonder, are the birds fed an organic diet? Anyhoo, it always seemed to me bird poop was pretty oily on first drop, so I can see how it could take of make-up. Once, a bird poo'd on my head, and I just jerked my head forward really fast and the whole lot of it slid right off. I'm sure my conditioner and product helped to give my hair a marble floor-like coating, but I didn't have to go back inside to wash again either. And this bird was no gull-- just a nasty old blackbird or something similar. Gross.
15Also, I don't recollect an odor; I don't think bird guano smells much, just like ammonia if anything.
No!
16that's beyond disgusting...
17gross. i don't need to pay $216 to know this is crap...pun intended!
why spend a ton of money on that. seriously.
18=
sounds enticing. if no one told me that it was bird poop getting rubbed on my face, i'd try it! besides, doesn't it mean good luck when a bird poops on your head?
19nooooo way... there are soo many effective facials out there that dont use doody!!
20hahaha 8 people voted Yes!
Que asco!
21i wouldnt trust anything that takes paint off a car on my face, so hell naaaww i would not try this.
22People will use or do anything if you put a high enough price tag on it. Not a chance in hell would I ever rub bird sh** on my face. Although this doesn't surprise me, they put koala crap in key chains and sell it.
23That's gross. I'd be afraid to get a disease. I know how easy it is not to sanitize things properly. I guess if I knew someone who got amazing results than I might. I don't have the money to do it anyway actually.
24This sounds like it's coming from an SNL skit. Yuck!
25I wouldn't get a Poop Facial for free!
26Haha. I actually heard of this recently. I probably would never want one, but I can't say I'm as grossed out as other people. I think my own poop grosses me out more than bird poop.
27No way! Unless that bird poops 24kt gold or platinum, nothing from that birds rear is going to be used on my face. No, Never, Can't make me (well maybe if you gave $10,000, then I might,lol.)
28Ewwwwwwwwwww no.
29Never!
30a bad idea in so many ways. first of all, bird crap is 100% uric acid. it is the same everywhere. secondly, why would you pay 200+ for uric acid when you can just get a sacilylic acid treatment for much cheaper?
31Ugh. No.
32$216?
It's $17.99 on the Chidoriya website. Anyway, it's UV treated. So, I'd try it for $17.99.
33Wow..this might be the nastiest thing I've read for awhile.
34guanine is one of the bases that makes up dna. clearly the poop would contain some sort of genetic material. and treating it with UV light would probably damage the guanine anyway.i really dont see how this is special. it just sounds like a big scam to me
35Eww, no thanks!
My mom probably would, though.
36lol no
37Cover my face with what is all over my car nowadays? No thanks. Actually I wouldn't pay that for ANY facial, not when I have to pay for things like FOOD and GAS. Sheesh. My pores are the least of my worries.
38thats gross
39MY DAD LIVES IN NEW YORK & HE WENT FOR OEN OF THESE AND IT DIDNT DO ANYTHING EXCEPT GIVE HIM A RASH, HE ACTUALLY WENT BACK AND DEMANDED HIS MONEY BACK OR HE WOULD SUE.LOL
40ewww is that a joke or what
41there is a saying where I live, that I won't tell right now lollll it is about those who spend so much money on "crap"!
Funny. This "sh*t" is literally on the front page of CNN.com right now. Way to go BellaSugar.
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