Is new facial a load of crap?

Fancy having bird crap smothered into your face?

Didn’t think you would. But, apparently, it’s just the thing to get rid of those nasty blackheads and improve your skin tone.

In fact, 50 minutes of nightingale No.2 being rubbed into your face at Shizuka Bernstein’s New York beauty spa Shizuka New York will set you back a cool $216.

Talk about getting shit-faced. Well, you may laugh, but New Yorkers are actually giving it a go, while the Fancy having bird crap smothered into your face?

Didn’t think you would. But, apparently, it’s just the thing to get rid of those nasty blackheads and improve your skin tone.

In fact, 50 minutes of nightingale No.2 being rubbed into your face at Shizuka Bernstein’s New York beauty spa Shizuka New York will set you back a cool $216.

Talk about getting shit-faced. Well, you may laugh, but New Yorkers are actually giving it a go, while the Japanese geishas and kabuki dancers have been using it since the 18th Century. Bernstein calls it her ‘Geisha Facial’, and it’s a traditional cleanser that was used to wash off heavy white make-up.

Speaking to the New York Post, Bernstein, who came to America from Japan, explained she got a few a blank faces when she first talked about it.

She said: “My English is not perfect, it’s my second language.

“And they [her customers] know I could be making a mistake with what I was saying. And they would ask me if I was sure; if I was really talking about bird poop.”

So, I guess what you really want to know is whether it smells. Well, apparently, there is an odour, but it comes in a powder form, directly from Japan, and, according to Bernstein it smells like “hay” or “the outside”.

Ok, so the other question is it just a load of crap – literally.

Well, speaking to the New York Post, Andrea Nieto was certainly one satisfied customer.

She said: “You wouldn’t even know it was nightingale droppings. And after, my skin was softer than it had been in a really long time. And it looked clearer to me, too.

“But you gotta wonder how they figured to use these things. Who put two and two together like that?”

Source: The New York Post