Would you brave the nightingale facial?

THE latest anti-ageing trend counts Angelina Jolie and Victoria Beckham among its fans — impressive, considering it involves smearing bird droppings on your face.

It’s thought first to have been used as a beauty treatment in 17th-century Japan, where geisha girls would use nightingale facials to repair skin damage caused by their heavy, lead-based make-up.

The experience involves having a mixture of rose water and finely ground nightingale droppings spread across the skin and left to dry under LED lights. It supposedly acts as an age-reversing exfoliant.

If you’re feeling brave, book a treatment from £180 at vivoclinic.com