A longtime Japundit reader alerted me to an important beauty treatment now available at New York’s Shizuka salon, a place I went to once in search of a Japanese-style manicure.
a high-end Japanese spa in midtown, has just introduced a new “Geisha Facial,” which promises to cleanse, brighten, and exfoliate a patron’s face—thanks to a secret ingredient: bird poop. For centuries in Japan, both Kabuki actors and geishas used uguisu no fun, or nightingale droppings, to clean off their thick white makeup and soothe their faces; apparently, guanine, found in the droppings, helped their complexions.
Hopefully the bird droppings are not collected from the upper reaches of Hokkaido.
Vanity, after all, can make you sick.
Spam emailers have discovered that eating seaweed can miraculously rid women between the ages of 25 and 54 of the roll of fat around their middlesection.
Just take a couple of sea-weed tablets every day, and perhaps you too will see your weight plummet, so you too can join the ranks of women who enjoy the lowest rate of obesity in the world!
Personally, I’ll stick to weekly misoshiru and some nice sunomono with wakame.
Uguisu photo via.
well Marie, after looking after, and ensuring that my brother-in-laws Finch Cage were E.O.
http://www.gouldiansforsale.com/articles/article2.htm
what could I do? - Ayumu is the Boss..Arden just trails on behind…me? I dig skiing..
http://www.kusatsu-kokusai.com/winter/english/school/index.html
Cheers
remora
Marie,
as I have said before, you are the “First Lady” of Japundit..I would never wish to be ill-mannered or give you disrespect.
It’s not in my nature.
remora
Ha. Sometime I’ll tell you the story of what happened when Emperor Meiji visited Hokkaido, and while he rode in an open carriage, a crow flew over pooped on him.
well Marie, I swam around and managed to sniff(?) out some other pretty outré “beauty” unguents that claim to roll back the years such as …
BULL SEMEN TREATMENT: Reminiscent of ‘that’ scene in There’s Something About Mary, this deep-conditioning protein treatment is a mixture of Aberdeen Angus Bull semen and Katera ? an Iranian protein rich plant. The semen is extracted as part of a breeding programme using blow-up cows. Also available at Hari’s salon for £85.
http://www.gigglesugar.com/128291
(hey!!what a job!! check out the the guy in the photo)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-464194/Turning-Japanese-beauty-thats-taking-over.html
I’m sure that the Japanese have a lot more beauty secrets that they are just itching to unleash on the unsuspecting Beauty Salons of the West…but is the West ready for ‘em ? - that’s what I’m wondering.
remora
this site is a very interesting one, and I’ve visited it occasionally.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP1752156.html
It’s quiet heavy going at times, but I managed to run across this and another patent, both taken out by those ever experimenting boundary-pushing Japanese.
Wild Watermelon and Miso Powder..
remora