Source: CCTV.com

05-10-2007 17:27

If beauty is only skin deep, you still may need deep pockets to afford it. A recent beauty expo in Tokyo "Beautyworld Japan 2007" revived one of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra's legendary beauty tips - a pure gold face mask. Even the ancients, it seems, knew that beauty only comes at a price.

In present-day Japan, you can feel like a queen.

What captured people's attention at a recent beauty expo, was the "pure gold skin treatment." Applying a gold leaf facial pack, its inventors' claim, will rejuvenate your looks as gold accelerates the cell growth in the basal layer of the skin. Wrinkles and blemishes can also expect banishment.

"My face started feeling warm when they finished applying gold. It feels luxurious and I feel spoiled, " says Satomi Ogura, customer.

Takao Ishikawa, spokesman for Umo Inc., the Tokyo-based company that provides the gold facial treatment says it could be a magic therapy for women.

"The effects of gold include anti-aging. It can also remove wrinkles and blemishes that women often worry about most, " says Takao Ishikawa.

More than 700 exhibitors from 23 countries joined the Beautyworld Japan 2007, Japan's biggest beauty expo.

The event showcases everything from beauty products to slimming machines. The secret of immortality is just around the corner.

 

Editor:Chen Ge