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" It&amp;#039;s been a busy old summer and my face is feeling it. Our faces are pretty useless at hiding things eh?  Hard night? Obvious. Too much chocolate? So obvious.  That time I pulled a sicky to go snowboarding, and got sunburn around my goggles? So, SO obvious.  There are an increasing number of products available to help mitigate the telltale nature of our faces though, thank goodness. We can shovel a load of makeup on, for one. Or get married and wear a veil. In really extreme circumstances, say.  One of the things sweeping the &amp;quot;hide your woes&amp;quot; product aisle are chemical peels. It is almost as extreme as getting married just so you can wear a veil to hide your eye bags. Your face gets a layer of chemicals put over it, so that your skin blisters off and new, fresh skin is revealed beneath. It can apparently do wonders for wrinkles or discoloration or acne.  I am interested in the natural alternatives for chemical peels. I don&amp;#039;t fancy getting my skin burnt off one bit, and I don&amp;#039;t like the price tag attached either. But the idea of sloughing off the wind-weary, sun-dried old skin on my visage is appealing. The theory The main ingredient for a natural facial peel is an acidic fruit \u2013 the acid and enzyme in them work away at your skin as a chemical exfoliant. Strawberries or citrus will do, but I settle on pineapple. How could I not? It is such a bolshy fruit, with its spiky up-do and hard outer shell.  I also know that pineapple has powers. Pineapple is so potent it can make you have a baby!  *does a bit of googling*  Oh, right, sorry, yeah. So, you have to be pregnant for starters. And really heavily pregnant, like, overdue. And then you need to eat about 11 pineapples.  Okay, but still; way to go pineapples!  The recipe  I mix up half a cup of chopped up pineapple with a tablespoon of honey and I blend it until is smooth.   The experience  Ugh. It cannot get grosser than this. (Well, maybe the Face-Off style chemical peels are equally as gross.) I slop it on my face and it runs down my neck and into my ears. It stings like fury when it slides into my eyeballs.  I can feel my skin tingling a little, but even though I am lying on my bed ensconced in white towels it does not feel like a spa day. It feels like I have had a really bad run in with an angry waitress at the local smoothie bar.  I put it on quite heavily and it doesn&amp;#039;t really act like a peel at all. In the places where only a thin layer has been it does dry out a little and peel off.  The results But oh!!! My skin is so soft and smooth! And I am absolutely sure it has evened out. The reddish patches vs whitish patches have merged and my face is bright and just, sort of, ZING-Y! Conclusion  Say no to tattle-tale faces! Use the power of a pineapple to detox your skin, reveal a fresh new layer and make your face shine. And, if you make too much you can always drink it. (Just double check to make sure you aren&amp;#039;t heavily pregnant.)  RELATED: LUCY DEMONSTRATES HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN FAKE TAN "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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