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You normally wont find fish or bird droppings at the beauty section of big department stores. But these bizarre cosmetic ingredients have been used by Japanese women for ages to maintain their smooth, wrinkle-free complexion.

Now, trendy, high-end spas are offering these ancient remedies to both men and women who are willing to try anything in the name of beauty. These geisha-inspired treatments are the latest craze and are taking the beauty industry by storm.

For several centuries, Japanese women made their own skincare formulas at home with natural food products and the trade secrets of their female ancestors were passed from generation to generation. It is these ancient beauty rituals and renewed interest in the once denigrated geisha that have been resurrected in Japan and sold around the world, said Stephanie Rafanelli in the Daily Mail.

For starters, how about a goldfish pedicure? In this procedure, hundreds of miniature fish eat your feet right before your very eyes! But dont panic. Were not talking about piranhas here. The treatment uses doctor fish or gara rufa that nibble away dead, scaly skin in a matter of minutes.

Several beauty salons have picked up on this trend, which has long been used in Turkey, China, and Japan. The fish feed on dead skin, leaving the healthy, new skin exposed. The result is supposed to be soft smooth skin without a hint of roughness, explained Amy White in AssociatedContent.com.

Your most unpleasant flaky bits will be swiftly nibbled away in 15 unbearably ticklish minutes to reveal baby, clean feet. So the only thing youre likely to die of is laughing, Rafanelli added.

If you have a strong stomach, get a nightingale-dropping facial at Haris Salon in London. This 90-minute treatment will help lighten and brighten dull skin. The birds feces were used by early geishas and Kabuki actors to remove their thick make-up. Prior to applying, the droppings were dried in the sun. This has been replaced by ultraviolet light to sterilize them. At 135 its one of the most expensive facials but customers swear it leaves the skin shiny, clean, and fresh looking for the rest of the week. Plus its odor-free!

Nightingale droppings contain an enzyme called guanine which bleaches and heals the skin, which makes it such an effective facial ingredient. This amino acid’s benefits have long been known by Japanese geishas and Kabuki actors. Even monks have used these droppings to condition their exposed scalps, revealed White.

Believing that beauty is not only skin deep, the Takano Yuri Beauty Clinic in Japan is known for its Etiquette Up treatment that supposedly purifies the body. This weird beauty regimen promises to detoxify your internal organs and make your feces odor-free. Your bathroom visits will be more pleasant afterwards. Did I mention this procedure is also good for the skin and eliminates wrinkles? Indeed, Japan is the place to be for pretty feces I mean faces!

With the recession that continues to bite many of us are considering a staycation to rediscover what the UK is all about. After all, there is a good reason why Britain has such a large influx of tourists in the holiday season. We live in an area of outstanding natural beauty with immeasurably rich cultural and historic traditions.

Natural Beauty

Thanks to erosion the sand isn’t all overseas. Britain has a bewildering 11,000 miles of coastline, much of it unspoilt by large hotel complexes and tourist traps. And to add to the Olympic legacy, for active families, Britain has some of the best national parks in the world. Thats no overstatement. From the sparse and untamed wilds of Dartmoor to the breathtaking volcanic fells of the Lake District; whether its hiking, climbing, cycling or canoeing, there is something for every adventurer in the family.

Cultural & Historic Traditions

Yes so the weather isnt always brilliant. It can rain from time to time. This is, ironically, where Britain shines. Thousands of years of history weren’t for nothing. When the weather doesn’t qualify for time spent at the beach, Britain has an unrivalled quantity of castles and stately homes to explore. We have brilliant cities of cultural excellence in London, Edinburgh, Liverpool and Manchester where there is fantastic food, shopping, theatre and art to be tasted.

Cost-Effective

Not only can Britain offer many of the same things and more that an overseas holiday can, it can also be cheaper too. While Britain itself isn’t necessarily cheap, by virtue of driving to your destination instead of flying can save you hundreds of pounds. By car you are also free to travel with as much or as little as you want. No expensive baggage allowances.

This means you can take food from home if youre going self-catering and you can also avoid heavy rental fees by taking your own sports equipment with you. Driving also means that location is less essential. If you’re visiting a city, you can reduce accommodation prices dramatically by staying further afield.

The most beneficial thing to your budget is that you are a national. You are well aware of what is overpriced and what isn’t and are unlikely to fall into tourist traps or get shortchanged as a result.

Until recently, if you asked the average person where they were going on holiday, the most definitive answer would probably have been anywhere outside of Britain, anything to escape the cold, mossy, overcast rock we inhabit. But this has shown you why that stereotype is wrong and why the tide is starting to turn, back to the United Kingdom.

Stories about animals have long been children’s favorites. One of the all-time most popular such books is “Black Beauty”, uncommon in that the story is written in first particular person, that’s, in the “voice” of the hero, a horse named Black Beauty.

First revealed in 1877, “Black Beauty” was written by Anna Sewell, a lady who was crippled since childhood and who had great compassion for both individuals and animals. Anna’s mom was a well-liked author of many youngsters’s books, which Anna helped to edit. Oddly, “Black Beauty” was the only book Anna wrote and was written within the year before she died. Printed just months earlier than her death, she did reside lengthy sufficient to see her e-book succeed.

Her focus on the plight of the 19th century horse grew, in part, out of her experiences as a toddler, driving her father’s carriage as he went to and from work in London. There she noticed how cruelly treated and mishandled had been the some 20,000 horses hitched to hansom cabs, as well as coal carts and different kinds of wagon transport. In contrast to as we speak, not a lot consideration was given to animals who have been treated poorly by their owners.

Within the 1800’s, it was thought of modern for carriage and hansom drivers to make use of harsh bits that minimize and hurt the horses mouths, as well as reins known as “bearing reins” which pressured the horses’ head back and up in a painful position. Many drivers and owners didn’t care much about their horses and simply wore them out with laborious work, long hours and inadequate care.

These practices so distressed Anna that she determined to inform the story of the lifetime of a horse of the occasions, in hopes of raising public awareness. In her personal words, Anna said, “I am writing the lifetime of a horse … to induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding of the remedy of horses.” Thus was the story of “Black Beauty” born.

Black Beauty is the hero, a fantastic, good-natured stallion, who in the midst of his life experiences conditions and homeowners each good and bad. The 2 different foremost characters are Ginger, a chestnut mare who’s teamed with Black Beauty as a cart horse, and their pal Merrylegs, a candy pony with a great and sort owner.

The three inform their tales, with the ups and downs of life. Black Beauty sees many sides of life, from his beginning on a horse farm with form house owners, eventually becoming a riding horse, a carriage horse for a wealthy owner after which a interval because the overworked and in poor health-treated cart horse.

Although Anna Sewell didn’t intend “Black Beauty” to be a youngsters’s story, this traditional ebook has bought over 30 million copies, with three films eventually made, based mostly on the one guide written by this crippled girl with a passion for the plight of the 19th century horse.