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Anti-wrinkle treatments like injecting botox are fair enough. But when items like
GRANTED, beauty has a price. But then in modern days one is surprised at the high cost women (and some men, too) are prepared to pay the exorbitant prices for making themselves gorgeous. Here one has to concede that down the ages, the fair sex has been only too willing to suffer for beauty. The Romans and Egyptians of the pre-Christ era were only too happy to try for beauty by applying plaster to their faces, with cosmetics forbidden now, namely sulfide, and soot to their eyes. The theory those days was that the plaster gives the skin a whitening effect and makes your skin glow. The beauty industry has come a long way from those days. But even today, if they feel that it would make them more attractive, women are not averse to be bizarre. For example, in Hong Kong, you can get gold fish pedicure in most of the malls. You keep your feet in the crystal bowls in which the gold fish are swimming, and in a matter of half an hour, all the rough patches on your feet are nibbled away by the fish, and your feet skin is now baby soft. Nowadays gold facials are another racket. If it means plastering your face with cosmetics laced with gold-based chemicals, then there is some meaning in it. But in many far eastern cities like Tokyo, they just cover your face with a gold mask for half an hour, telling you that the gold will energise your skin. But the real racket is in the anti-wrinkle treatments given in many of the beauty salons. Injecting botox is fair enough, although modern medicine has come out fiercely against it. But when items like human placenta (yes, the stuff that connects the mother and child in the womb), snake venom, and viper poison are prescribed for the modern miss, one is shocked at the game behind it. And the price of these
preparations is exorbitant. An ounce of the anti-wrinkle agent,
Placental, costs about Rs 10,000, and the cosmetic known as Viprodex
is priced at Rs 13,000 an ounce. You go to any state-of-the-art salon
in our major metros and ask for these anti-wrinkle agents, and you
will get them. One precaution is that you should watch the expiry date
on If your wrinkles are of post-pregnancy weight-loss nature, then, as Angelina Jolie did, you can go in for the expensive caviar anti-wrinkle treatment in which for Rs 10,000 the eggs of sturgeon, which constitute the caviar, are rubbed on to your skin. When it comes to losing weight, many weird methods are enticing the unfortunate beauty seeker. In leech therapy, patronised by the Hollywood actress Demi Moore, one of the steps necessary to remove all toxins from your body is to have yourself immersed in turpentine, itself a toxic liquid. It seems to be a sort of exposing yourself to toxins to detoxify. One method of inducing weight loss by acupuncture experts is to have a pin stapled to your ear’s cartilage, which is supposed to be the stomach’s acupressure point to induce weight loss. Who doesn’t want healthy, nourished and unbelievably shiny hair like the women in those shampoo ads? But would you use a conditioner containing, say, the reproductive juices of a bull to get it? No? But in Hong Kong some beauty parlours have this remedy. Then again you can jump into a tub filled with donkey’s milk in many international spas to give that splendorous sheen to your body parts. This is the secret message of pyramids and their legendary queen Cleopatra of ancient civilisation. A popular legend goes that Cleopatra soaked herself in donkey’s milk to get a glowing, flawless skin. Poppea, Roman emperor Nero’s wife, took along several donkeys, wherever she went, so that she could bathe in their milk. Since we are on the
subject of milk, here is another one strange beauty aid based on milk.
If you are looking for a soap with scent and healing properties, would
you consider using something made out of breast milk? Apparently there
is a website which sells breast milk soap and beauty products made by
the owner from her own breast milk. — MF
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