Scott-face masque

I confess, I have never had a facial treatment, until now.

After a fun afternoon of football, auto racing or hunting, a group of guys simply will not make it a perfect day by getting a facial – and maybe our nails done.

My wife, Victoria, on the other hand, loves it, so I let her take the lead in my first facial, using the Poreishi Mushroom Reishi Facial Mask.

Perhaps it was prophetic that my first-ever 'facial' experience was on October 31, Halloween, the night we all dress up in scary costumes.

Victoria put on the first mask, to show me how, and then I donned my own. We looked like two silly versions of Jason Voorhees, the evil villain of the 'Friday the 13^th' horror movies, known for wearing a hockey mask.

I expected our 14-month-old son, Seymour, to shriek in terror until I realized he'd never seen any horror movies in his life. Instead, he looked at his Mommy and Daddy and giggled, waiting for us to do something else funny.

My first mask was cool and damp, with a natural earth fragrance thanks to the reishi mushrooms. Research on reishi mushrooms shows that they are unique in their ability to restore and heal human tissue, based on more than 4,000 years of use in traditional Asian medicine.

Removing the mask, there was no greasy feeling; Victoria says many facial treatments make the skin feel tighter, but not  in a good way, just constricted. The Poreishi mask instead left my face feeling smooth and refreshed.

Two showers, a shave and a day later my face still feels different. I've lived with a dryness for so long that I didn't miss it until it was gone.

It makes me want to invite my guy friends over to watch sports, drink beer and then do facials together. Well, not really. But this is something I could do for myself regularly.