Glow: Would you rub chilli on your face?

Lankan beauty blogger says the mask leaves her skin glowing and works to prevent wrinkles

In recent times, we've seen beauty bloggers rub everything, from turmeric to live snails, on their faces in pursuit of glowing skin.

But this latest 'natural face mask' might be the strangest yet.

Beauty blogger, Rochelle Wickramasuriya, from Sri Lanka, made a chilli face mask, with her friend, Habiba, which involved rubbing actual chilli and cayenne pepper onto her skin, in order to tighten it, brighten it and stimulate the blood flow.

The 22-year-old shared this most unusual of treatments on her Instagram page, via a video that has been viewed more than 120,000 times in five days.

'GET THE JLO GLOW USING ALL NATURAL PRODUCTS [sic],' she headlined her recent post.

'I was doing some research on ancient beauty secrets using natural ingredients and came across chilli,' Ms Wickramasuriya told Daily Mail Australia, when explaining her inspiration for the bonkers treatment.

'We [she and her friend] came up with a mask using milk fat, which we both used many times in the past.

'We tested it out a few times and it gave us amazing results.'

For those who might want to try the treatment at home, Ms Wickramasuriya recommends mixing whole milk with lemon juice, cayenne pepper, cinnamon powder and honey.

The blogger's un-appetis- ing-looking paste is then to be applied to the entire face 'avoiding the eyes and other sensitive areas'.

It should then be left on for '3045 minutes until it dries', Ms Wickramasuriya says on Instagram.

'Wash it off and VOILA! Glowing skin!,' the vlogger captioned her recent Instagram post.

According to Ms Wickramasuriya, the unusual beauty treatment 'instantly adds a glow to the skin, brightens skin, tightens skin, [and] stimulates blood flow.

'The main ingredient, cayenne pepper, is enriched in vitamins and antioxidants, which increases collagen production and also helps reduce/prevent wrinkles, acne scars and pigmentation, [sic]' the blogger wrote.

'Its anti inflammatory properties also helps tackle acne and scarring.'

If all of this sounds like a bit of a tall order for a bit of pepper and chilli, then consider the Instagram comments, which seem to be swaying towards positive after a trial:

'I tried it still haven't washed it off waiting 20 more minutes it's currently burning [sic],' one person wrote, to which Ms Wickramasuriya replied that if it was burning a little bit it was fine, but if it was unbearable, it should be washed off:

'Thank you I just took it off it made my skin feel very smooth definitely got the "glow" totally worth it [sic],' the same commenter wrote underneath Ms Wickramasuriya's response.

So what do you think? Would you rub chilli on your face for glowing skin?