One of my students returned from a trip to California with this little Korean-made Beauty Compact Slicer, measuring 12.5 cm x 7 cm (5″x 3″) in size.

To soften and whiten your skin

The first thing I noticed was the woman’s forehead with cucumber slices. Very thinly sliced with this gadget, they stay up. This reminded me of my teenage years, when I used regular-sliced cucumber slices to soften my skin. But I had to apply them lying down, in hiding from my mom, as cucumbers where meant for eating in a household where nine people needed to get fed.

What also caught my attention was the slicer’s suggestions on the back: * Ideal for slicing natural ingredient, such as cucumber, potato, kiwi, etc.

Potato and kiwi for your skin? This got me curious and since then I have learned:

To whiten your skin

* Apply potato or kiwi slices (thinly sliced)

To reduce pigmentation of freckles

* Apply the rind of a watermelon (thinly sliced)

For some reason, I got this present at the same time I started reading Twilight (upon the insistence of my teenage daughter). There is so much talk of white skin, porcelain complexion, and pale faces;

By the way, I was pleasantly surprised by this book. Easy to read, hard to put down, and my daughter and I now share notes about it. Twilight: Volume 1 (Amazon.de) Twilight (The Twilight Saga) (Amazon.com)

Beauty Compact Slicer

This Korean product is available at Eden Marketing Corporation.

… it’s a sunny day for once in Germany. I think I’ll go and soak up some sun shine!