slip your cucumber slices into the slots in the frame over and behind each lens and let them slide down the guiding grooves past the nose and snugly, gently over your eyes. relax.
when your cucumber refreshment period is over, just remove cucumber slices and there you have it, no more fumbling around for your spectacles. you know, making a spectacle of yourself!
if wearing a facial mud pack at the same time, this has the added bonus of keeping mud pack out of the eyes which is not nice.
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See link for my version, I wouldn't want the hours of artwork to go to waste...-- imaginality, Aug 22 2008 I imagine a kind of dual microtome mounted down the sides of the spec frames, with a device like an artillery piece's autoloader swapping in fresh slices, and ejecting spent ones.The advantage of this, of course, is how utterly cool you'd look (pun intended) with a fresh cucumber resting on each side of your head.-- coprocephalous, Aug 22 2008 wonderful draughtmanship [imaginality]
is there a benefit to balancing two half cucumbers on your eyes as opposed to a slice on each?-- po, Aug 22 2008 Well, apparently the only reason cucumber slices help is because they're chilled. So the only benefit from that perspective might perhaps be that a half-cucumber would retain its coolness longer. After all, the saying is 'cool as a cucumber' not 'cool as a slice of cucumber'...
...But, trivial concerns of truth and reality aside, I think there are plenty of people who do think cucumber has some amazing moisturising properties and to those people I say, if a slice of cucumber is good for you, surely a half-cucumber will let even more cucumbery juices drizzle out onto your weary eyelids and revitalise you all the more?-- imaginality, Aug 22 2008 I think the weight of half a cucumber per eye can only make you look weary!-- po, Aug 22 2008 Well, sure, that's one way of putting it. Perhaps a fairer, less loaded description is the one used in our advertising copy:
"Enjoy the lovingly firm and insistent pressure, in many ways you can think of as a deliciously intense massage for your eyes. The masseusotherapeutic benefits of the half-cucumbers are scientifically proven to be equivalent to having a masseur's foot pressing on your eye, but with none of the health risks that that would entail.*
*However, overuse of cucumberspecs may cause headaches, temporary blindness and/or permanent muscular-skeletal eye socket deformities in a small to moderate number of cases."-- imaginality, Aug 22 2008 does it come with a warning against accidentally sitting on them?-- po, Aug 23 2008 random, halfbakery