Facial

  • The cured meat facial

    Posted: June 14th, 2011 - 2:05pm by Doug Powell

    At one restaurant in Italy, pork and relaxation are one and the same—and you can even experience a mortadella facial.

    The Atlantic reports the treatment consisted of deep breathing, eating, and drinking. Participants were served a plate of choice salumi—sliced prosciutto, culatello, salami, and Tuscan head cheese from Simone Fracassi. Then we were given large cloth napkins, to be placed over one's head and the plate, deeply inhaling the porky perfumes, stimulating salivary glands and appetite. Remove napkin, taste salumi, and drink sparkling wine—Champagne, Italian sparklers, or Lambrusco. Then head for dinner. I felt renewed.

    Main image: La Madia Travelfood/Gourmadia S.r.l.

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  • Raw egg facials may be a bad idea

    Posted: January 21st, 2011 - 10:27am by Doug Powell

    bites-l newsie Gonzalo Erdozain writes his wife recently applied a raw egg facial mask.

    He’s worried about salmonella, she wants to tighten her pores.

    According to a quick web search, egg white apparently draws the oils out, while the egg yolk moisturizes. Another says raw eggs are an excellent enhancement for a person's hair care regimen. Among the recommendations:

    “To use raw eggs as part of your facial care regimen, crack two eggs into a bowl. Mix the whites of the eggs and the yolks of the eggs together. Apply the raw egg mixture to your face. When you use raw eggs as part of your facial regimen, you don't have to worry with avoiding the eyes. Massage the egg mixture into the face. Let it set for five to ten minutes. Rinse away with a soft washcloth and warm water. … Look for the best natural skin care in your grocer's dairy section.”

    This is a bad idea. Eggs are for cooking and eating, not facials.
     

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  • I’m in love with your facial symmetry, but it’s the alcohol talking, not me: beer goggles explained

    Posted: August 20th, 2010 - 4:38pm by Doug Powell

    The Urban Dictionary defines beer goggles as the “phenomenon in which one’s consumption of alcohol makes physically unattractive persons appear beautiful.”

    A recent study in the journal Alcohol has found a reason why some of us might find people we normally would consider ugly to be handsome: we stop noticing facial symmetry.

    In a new study, scientists went to bars near their university in England and asked students to participate in a small experiment. The students were given a breathalyzer test to determine whether or not they were drunk and then asked to determine which photo in a pair, repeated for 20 pairs, was the more attractive and which was the more symmetrical.

    Students who were sober found symmetrical faces more attractive and were able to determine more readily which were the more symmetrical faces. But the drunk students lost both their preference for symmetry and their ability to detect it. Women more readily lost this ability than did men.
     

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