LOS ANGELES: Hollywood stars wanting to look their best for Tinseltown’s biggest night of the year are being offered beauty treatments ranging from the lavish to plain loony such as $ 250,000 black diamond nail varnish and bird excrement facials. It’s a night when women — and men — spare no expense to out-dazzle other Oscar-goers and ends a two-month run of awards shows to reward the top stars and films of the previous year. “It’s the grand finale to the awards show season so celebrities pull out all the stops when it comes to fashion and beauty,” said style expert Sam Saboura, a fashion host on the cable channel TLC. In the past, the ever-youthful actress Demi Moore, 50, has admitted to having leeches put on her skin to detoxify her blood. Angelina Jolie told Vanity Fair in 2011 that her sons Maddox and Pax had pedicures in which fish “eat the dead skin off your feet” while music impresario Simon Cowell was reported to carry pocket-sized inhalable oxygen shots to maintain his looks.
Bird droppings, vampire facelifts among pre-Oscar beauty treatments
