Deconstructed salad facial is the most unhinged facial treatment going viral

If someone blindfolded you and asked you to guess whether you were watching a skincare treatment or someone making kachumber salad... you might genuinely struggle.

A video going viral on social media shows a salon owner covering a client's face with what appears to be the entire contents of the vegetable drawer.

We're talking shredded cucumber. Grated potato. Beetroot. Lots of beetroot.

The cucumber and potato are carefully layered across the forehead and scalp, while the beetroot is enthusiastically rubbed all over the lips—and, for reasons known only to the salon owner, the rest of the lower face too.

The promised results? Glowing skin, fewer dark circles and naturally pink lips.

Let's unpack this masterpiece.

First, the beetroot. Yes, beetroot stains your lips. That's because... it's beetroot. It will absolutely give you pink lips—for about as long as it takes you to eat your next biryani. It's less of a beauty treatment and more of a temporary food colouring incident.

Then we have the potato. This is every South Asian grandmother's favourite skincare recommendation, and to be fair, potatoes do contain vitamin C and are often used in DIY home remedies.

But if your dark circles are genetic, no amount of grated potato—whether applied at home or professionally arranged in a salon—is going to negotiate with your DNA.

Genes don't care how many potatoes you bought. Finally, the cucumber.

Honestly, cucumber is the least controversial member of this facial.

It's cooling. It's soothing. It's also something you could recreate at home for less than the price of a chai.

None of this is to say traditional remedies don't have value. Plenty of them do.

But there's a noticeable difference between natural skincare and looking like someone emptied the sabzi basket directly onto your face.

The client, to their credit, sat through the entire treatment without flinching.

We just hope the post-facial glow was worth smelling like a fresh produce aisle.