00:00I'm Lucy Fink, and this week is five days of beauty experiments.
00:07After trying five days of total skin care, I realized that you guys respond very well
00:11to content that's about makeup and beauty care and different unique methods to take
00:16care of your skin and your body.
00:17Working at Refinery29, I sit in the same office as some of the world's best beauty editors.
00:23Maria Del Russo is our beauty editor here.
00:26She has been known to try some pretty wacky beauty experiments.
00:30I'm the one on the beauty team who kind of does all the weird experiments and stuff.
00:34All in the name of her job.
00:36The craziest thing I've ever done has probably been, I got this massage before she like oils
00:41you up.
00:41She actually bites your back.
00:43I sat down with her this morning, take a look.
00:45So this week I'm going to give you full liberty to send me out on five assignments for five
00:50crazy beauty experiments.
00:51Well, today is Monday, so day number one, and I am sending you for a bird poop facial.
00:59Bird poop?
01:03The geisha facial, or the bird poop facial, is a Japanese treatment that, for lack of a
01:11better term, smears bird on your face.
01:15I'm going to apply nightingale droppings with rice bran.
01:19It's a powder, and I'm going to add a little bit of water, make it like a paste.
01:24I understand how at first glance that can be kind of alarming, but these bird droppings
01:29are sanitized beforehand using ultraviolet light, and they're actually taken from a rare breed
01:34of bird that eat only seeds and berries, so it's entirely vegan poop.
01:38It's supposed to help your cells and revitalize you, and it was luxurious and gourmet, and
01:45there's really no other way to describe it.
01:50On Tuesday, I'm going to send you into a sensory deprivation room.
01:55When it comes to going inside tight spaces, I'm a little bit claustrophobic, so I chose
02:01to float inside one of the floatation suites instead of in one of the capsules.
02:05The first thing you do is take a shower to rinse all the dirt off your body, and then
02:08you open a door to reveal this shining blue room.
02:13I've never been to the Dead Sea.
02:14I've never floated in any type of water.
02:17I almost just didn't even believe that I would float.
02:20You have the option to turn the lights to different color settings.
02:22You can turn the stars on the ceiling on or off, or if you're feeling real risky, you
02:27could just turn the lights out entirely.
02:30And if you choose to do that, there's actually no visual stimuli all around you.
02:34So the only thing you can think about is turning your attention inward.
02:38You can't really tell where the water ends and where your body begins.
02:41I do think that this experience was probably the closest thing I'm ever going to experience
02:46to what it actually felt like to be in the womb.
02:54On Wednesday, you get to stay at home, but you're going to do a beer hair mask.
02:59Beer?
02:59Beer.
03:00Am I going to get drunk?
03:01You're going to get totally bombed.
03:02Okay, I know it sounds weird, but it is said that beer is good for your hair.
03:07Apparently, the malt and the yeast help make it shiny and stronger.
03:11The B vitamins stimulate hair growth.
03:13Maria suggested that I use a very hoppy beer because apparently hops contain silica, which
03:18help to fortify and strengthen the hair.
03:20Hoppy beer is happy beer.
03:22Truthfully, my bathroom smelled like a frat house for the remainder of the day.
03:26And I just don't know if it's something I'm interested in trying more than once, but please,
03:31by all means, comment below and let me know if it's not a waste of a beer.
03:35If it's actually good for my hair, I will do it.
03:37I think my hair came out looking pretty good.
03:39What do you think?
03:39Hmm?
03:40Hmm?
03:41Hmm?
03:44On Thursday, it's actually my favorite treatment of the bunch.
03:48I'm sending you to a Moroccan hammam.
03:50Today, it was time to get my full body treated at once.
03:54I really like trying beauty treatments from other cultures because I think for just an
03:57instant, it lets you see what it's like to live like someone across the world.
04:01Hammam is a ritual that's thousands of years old.
04:04This particular treatment that I did today was derived from ancient Roman and Greek practices
04:09whereby you lie on a heated marble slab and another person comes in the room and just entirely
04:15scrubs you down.
04:17She used a black olive scrub followed by a clay mask and at the very end, because it's
04:21really hot in there and you don't want your body to go into shock the moment you leave,
04:25you get cool water thrown at you, so that's a nice awakening there at the end.
04:30Sure, I live in 2016, but this is an ancient practice that now I've carried forward thousands
04:36of years into my current lifetime and now I get to share it with all of you, so look
04:40at us, making history and keeping it up.
04:49On Friday, you've been telling me that your nails have been feeling a little brittle and
04:52weak, so I'm actually going to have you do a garlic nail mask.
04:56Ooh.
04:56Mmm.
04:57It's Friday.
04:57Yay.
04:58The garlic nail treatment that I made today used chopped up cloves of garlic, olive oil,
05:02and petroleum jelly mixed together, blended really quickly in a blender, and then poured
05:08into a bowl.
05:09I applied the mixture to my nails with a cotton pad, let it sit on my nails for 20 minutes,
05:13and then rinsed it off with soap and water.
05:16The smell is pretty much gone, if I'm being honest.
05:18I've heard that this garlic nail treatment is supposed to help strengthen your nails and
05:22help them grow faster, but of course I'm not going to know if that's true from just having
05:25done it one time, so I saved the leftover mixture in a container, and I plan on using that every
05:30day for the next few weeks, so I will get back to you on my nail growth.
05:34This week gave me a real taste of what life as a beauty blogger would be like, and I think
05:38I like it.
05:40It was a hoot.
05:41I'm feeling smooth.
05:42I think I'm looking clear.
05:43And truthfully, I'm smelling very interesting.
05:47My hair smells really interesting.
05:48Comment below letting me know the strangest beauty routine you've ever tried, maybe I'll
05:53give it a go.
05:53And let me know what you think I should try next time on Try Living With Lucy.
05:56Hey YouTube, Lucy Fink here.
05:59Do you want to see me try taking five classes in five days?
06:02I learned a lot.
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