Chinese barber makes people feel better doing something odd. Shaving off their eyelids!
A street barber in China gently scrapes a razor along the rim of his customer's eyelids.
There are diverse cultural and traditional practices around the world. It is a fact. But there is always something new that we come across that surprises us. This tradition practiced in China is will not only surprise you but leave you perplexed.
A street barber named Xiong Gaowu in Chengdu, the capital of the southwestern province of Sichuan practices 'blade wash eyes', as it is called in Mandarin, where he gently scrapes a razor along the rim of his customer's eyelid."You should be gentle, very, very gentle," said Xiong, who performs the traditional eyelid shaving.
"The shaving of the eyelid unblocks moisturizing sebaceous glands. Patients will feel their eyes are dry and uncomfortable when the [sebaceous] glands are blocked. When he is shaving, it is most likely that he is shaving the openings of these glands.", an ophthalmologist who works at a nearby hospital in Chengdu said, as reported by China Daily..
However, fearing chances of getting infected, Dr Qu Chao said, "If he can properly sterilize the tools that he uses, I can still see there is a space for this technique to survive."
Xiong, 62, said he learned the technique in the 1980s and serves up to eight customers a week, charging 80 yuan ($12) per shave.
Apart from Xiong, other trained barbers in China also practice the age old custom of shaving. While a number of customers said that their eyes felt better after the shave, fascinated onlookers flinched at the sight of the trained barber shaving his customer's eyelids.
There are diverse cultural and traditional practices around the world. It is a fact. But there is always something new that we come across that surprises us. This tradition practiced in China is will not only surprise you but leave you perplexed.
A street barber named Xiong Gaowu in Chengdu, the capital of the southwestern province of Sichuan practices 'blade wash eyes', as it is called in Mandarin, where he gently scrapes a razor along the rim of his customer's eyelid."You should be gentle, very, very gentle," said Xiong, who performs the traditional eyelid shaving.
However, fearing chances of getting infected, Dr Qu Chao said, "If he can properly sterilize the tools that he uses, I can still see there is a space for this technique to survive."
Xiong, 62, said he learned the technique in the 1980s and serves up to eight customers a week, charging 80 yuan ($12) per shave.
Apart from Xiong, other trained barbers in China also practice the age old custom of shaving. While a number of customers said that their eyes felt better after the shave, fascinated onlookers flinched at the sight of the trained barber shaving his customer's eyelids.
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