Most people try to avoid getting hit by a poorly aimed piece of bird poop, but some are willing to pay $180 to have the avian feces smeared all over their face. Believe it or not, approximately 100 customers visit the Shizuka New York skin care salon each month to get a bird poop facial, according to The Associated Press. The salon utilizes imported Asian nightingale poop combined with rice bran for the $180 facial. The facial is said to maintain the face’s soft features by utilizing an enzyme in the feces to exfoliate the skin.

“I try to bring Japanese beauty secrets to the United States,” Spa owner Shizuka Bernstein told The AP.

Though the odd concoction doesn’t exactly market itself, spa employees told CBS 2 that the nightingale feces are sterilized with UV lights.

CBS 2 reports that despite the mixture’s ingredients, the bird poop facials actually smell like rice bran.

According to The Huffington Post, bird poop facials appeal to a number of wealthy citizens, including “Top Gun” star Tom Cruise.

“Tom doesn’t go in for Botox or surgery, but he does pay close attention to all the new and popular natural treatments,” a source told Now magazine. “He recently started experimenting with the nightingale poo facial.”

Cruise isn’t the only Hollywood star concerned about the smoothness of his face. The HuffPost reports that Victoria Beckham was the first celebrity to make the bird poop facial popular among Hollywood’s elite.

Shizuka New York skin care salon even has a section of its website devoted to answering questions about the so-called “Geisha Facial.” According to the website, Geishas discovered that regular nightingale poop facial could be utilized to help remove makeup and to retexturize the skin. Prior to this discovery, Geishas had suffered from chronic skin care problems due to the lead and zinc in their face powder.

ABC News points out a few other examples of strange facials, including the snail facial, the vampire face-lift, the “face-slapping” treatment and the bull semen hair treatment. Perhaps the strangest-sounding facial of the ones mentioned above, the vampire face-lift involves drawing blood to be utilized in facial injections. According to ABC News, a doctor utilizes a Selphyl to draw blood, treat it and inject it back into the patient’s face to eliminate wrinkles. Dr. Andre Berger told ABC News that the vampire-face lifts last for about 15 months.

Would you get a bird poop facial? Would you pay $180 to have someone spread nightingale feces on your face? Share your thoughts in the comments section.