You know how when you drink a lot, your skin looks sort of sallow and mottled in the morning? Yeah, well, one bar offers cocktails that supposedly have the opposite effect. Skintoxicating!
At Provocateur, unnecessarily featured in the Times, patrons can drink fruity cocktails made with ingredients that purport to even skin tone, decrease acne, or remove wrinkles. Cocktail co-creator calls these ingredients “crystallines,” and says the cocktail menu is “radically innovative” and the bar owners are “true visionaries.” Of course, this doesn’t actually work. Frank Bruni of the Times checks with a dermatologist, who confirms what you probably know anyway, which is that alcohol basically dries your skin out and makes it look worse, no matter how much bullshit you put in it.