Posted on 11/25/2017 10:19:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
Chinese street barber Xiong Gaowu deftly scrapes a straight razor along the inside of his customer's eyelid.
"You should be gentle, very, very gentle," said Xiong, who performs traditional eyelid shaves at his roadside location in Chengdu, the capital of the southwestern province of Sichuan.
Customers swear by the practice of "blade wash eyes", as it is known in Mandarin, saying they trust Xiong's skill with the blade.
"No, it's not dangerous," said 68-year-old Zhang Tian. "My eyes feel refreshed after shaving and I feel comfortable."
Xiong, 62, said he learned the technique in the 1980s and serves up to eight customers a week, charging 80 yuan ($12) per shave.
"It was difficult at the beginning, but it became a piece of cake afterwards," he said.
The technique appears to unblock moisturizing sebaceous glands along the rim of the eyelid, said Qu Chao, an opthalmologist who works at a nearby hospital in Chengdu.
"Patients will feel their eyes are dry and uncomfortable when the glands are blocked," she said. "When he is shaving, it is most likely that he is shaving the openings of these glands."
She said there was a risk of infection if the equipment was not sterilised.
"If he can properly sterilize the tools that he uses, I can still see there is a space for this technique to survive," Qu said.
While customers insisted their eyes felt better after a shave, onlookers cringed at the sight of Xiong wielding his razor.
"I am afraid to do it," said He Yiting, 27, who winced as she watched.
This was more cringey than the asian kids eating the bbq-ed asian boy I saw over on 4chan.
I am gonna talk to my barber about this! LOL
NOT!
Cannibalism?
Kind of funky looking.
An electric shaver could do equally well. But I’ll keep my eyelashes anyhow. They help keep cat hair out of my eyes.
This is crazy. Crazy posing as “trendy” to make other idiots do it too.
I don’t even want to know what’s next.
P.S. This story may or may not be true, but it is believable, sadly.
Shaving the inner lid and ingrown lashes would treat this problem st least temporarily.
I have scratchy eyes, but i just rub salt in them to take my mind off the itchiness
The glands get clogged with Ocular Rosacea, so this may provide relief for that.
As if the words “Chinese Barber” weren’t scary enough.
Pass.
I'm wondering how he knows this...
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/torture-mass-murder-rape-cannibalism-8017041
Torture, mass murder, rape and cannibalism ... the horror of Mao’s Cultural Revolution 50 years on
“At one school in Wuxan, in the south of the country, students beat to death geography teacher Wu Shufang then forced another teacher to rip out his heart and liver, which the pupils barbecued and ate.”
I’m having it done right bit, rgwewua vi evwrrwe dwwkubf.
And with age. Taking fish oil and warm compresses work really well.
Doubt his beginning customers thought it was a piece of cake.
That is what I do...fish oil & warm compresses!
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