Stars seek bird poo facials and Vampire FaceLift for Oscars

The Oscars are just around the corner and in addition to the craze about who's going to win, there is always great anticipation about who is wearing what, how the stars are looking and what are their vanity secrets. Even if they don't win, they don't fail to make a lasting impression on everyone.

To look their best, these stars are offered to undergo beauty treatments that range from expensive to eccentric. From treatments like black diamond nail varnish which costs a whopping $250,000 (Rs 1.3 crore approximately), to weird facials with bird poo and bull testicles, stars do all kinds of things to ensure they look radiant on the red carpet.

Demi Moore confessed she once underwent a treatment wherein leeches were put on her skin to detoxify her blood. While Gwyneth Paltrow once arrived at the Academy Awards with bruises on her back from a kind of acupuncture done for lowering stress and increasing blood flow. Men too haven't been far behind. X Factor and American Idol judge Simon Cowell was reportedly carrying pocket-sized inhalable oxygen shots to sustain his looks.

Adding to the list of weird beauty tricks is the spanking new Vampire FaceLift. It requires the patient's blood to be mixed with fillers. A tube full of blood is taken from the patient's body and mixed with dermal fillers and injected back into the skin of the face.

When regular creams and treatments fail, stars give these odd ones a try! Did they work? We'll have to wait till Feb 24^th to find out.