Eight Kinds Of The Most Insane Beauty Methods

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In the quest for youthful beauty, no treatment is too outlandish. From the use of wild ingredients like bird poo and human placenta to plastic surgery for the nether regions, look back at some of the craziest lengths1 people went to for beauty in the '00s.

1.Is that poo on your face?
Exotic facials were one way to turn back the hands of time, to help uncover that baby face hidden under the wrinkles and acne. But desperate times did indeed call for desperate measures. From human placenta and snail secretion to bird poo, people were ready to put anything and everything on their faces in the name of beauty.

2.De-stressing snakes
For most people, snakes elicit a sense of panic. But the owner of Ada Barak's Carnivorous Plant Farm near Tel Aviv, Israel, believes she's harnessed the relaxing power of the slithering creatures. In 2007, she made headlines for her new spa offering: For $70, spa-goers can get a massage from six non-venomous serpents2, which are placed on different surfaces of the body.

3.Feet-feeding fish

Salon owners found a whole new use for fish, making a splash with fish pedicures ...
... in 2008. Customers plunge their tootsies into a tank filled with tiny fish that nibble off dead skin, resulting in softer feet.

4.You smell like lunch
Vanilla, cocoa, fruit - the essences of sweet foods have long been present in personal care product fragrances. But this decade, some companies have looked to the savory scents of our favorite processed foods for inspiration. In 2008, Burger King came out with Flame, which they describe as a scent of seduction, with a hint of flame-broiled meat.

5. "I love big ass"
While curvy women rejoiced, those with flat backsides scrambled to join the club. The solution? Butt augmentation, or butt implants, which is exactly what it sounds like. There's also the Brazilian butt lift, which involves transferring fat into the butt. The number of people surgically enhancing their derrieres is very small when compared to more popular procedures like breast implants, but according to the American Society of Plastic Surgery, butt enhancement was one of the few procedures that increased in popularity, even with the bad economy.

6.Nips, tucks ... down there
Labiaplasty, the most established of the vaginal plastic surgery procedures4, is the reduction of the vaginal lips. Though it's still not a very common surgery, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, which started keeping statistics on vaginal rejuvenation in 2005, saw a 30 percent increase in the number of patients by 2006.

7.Bathing drunk
Plain water is sooo '90s. For those with money, the options are endless. Soak in a sake bath or one of several other options, including green tea, red wine or coffee, at the Hakone Kowakien Yunessun Hot Springs Amusement Park and Spa Resort in south-central Japan.

8.Wrinkle reduction
Frozen foreheads barely raise eyebrows these days, but there was once a time when injecting a toxin produced by bacteria into one's face would have been considered odd. The Botox trend didn't gain traction until 2002, when it was approved to be used for cosmetic purposes. Botulinum toxin injections work by weakening or paralyzing certain muscles or by blocking certain nerves, reducing the appearance of wrinkles. http://www.toryburchshoesol.com