Like neatly removing the decal from a new pair of sunglasses or convincing a chinchilla to slide across a dusty coffee table, facial peels are a deeply satisfying way to clean up an appearance. Rid your visage of surface sullies with today's Groupon: for $49, you get a chemical peel at Avanti Skin Center (up to a $125 value).
Chemical peels aim to treat or diminish the appearance of blemishes, wrinkles, and scars. One of Avanti Skin Center's licensed aestheticians first chooses a chemical solution according to the client's skin type and Mensa score. The beta-hydroxy peel tackles the battle scars of acne and the trichloroacetic-acid peel irons out wrinkles caused by ageing or sleeping face-down in a swim cap. Like a triplet who's just inhaled helium, the alphahydroxy-acid peel is the lightest of the trio and requires minimal recovery time. After dull masks of dead skin cells are peeled from mugs, new skin cells flourish with increased oxygen intake and generate a glow strong enough to keep closet monsters in hiding.
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The Groupon Guide to: Barbecue Secrets
Every barbecue joint boasts a secret ingredient or technique that makes its sauce unlike any other. Since most barbecue chefs have taken these secrets to the grave, here's a new list of public-domain barbecue secrets for the aspiring grillsman:
- Throw recipe thieves off your trail by filling your sauce with decoy ingredients such as talc, water, and heaping spoonfuls of rival sauces.
- Age your sauce in an oak cask for 15 years—it doesn't do anything, but you'll sure be hungry by then.
- Go bananas—add bananas to your sauce!
- BBQ is short for B.B. Queen—the wife of legendary bluesman B.B. King—and real barbecue sauce must contain exactly one of her soulful tears.
- As with success in any field, the real secret ingredient is confidence —except in barbecue sauces, in which it is horseradish.
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