This is really old news. If you PM me your mailing address, Gia, I will send you some amazing Asian exfoliation tools. Of all the Asians, the Koreans are the most into having their skin torn away in the bath. In Japan, having a person savage your outer layer is known as "Korean scrubdown". They sell horribly-rough, probably-plastic exfoliation towels, mitts (a glove to get into all your crevices), and rag-on-a-stick contraptions. About a buck apiece.



Since you live in New York City, you might take your ass over to a Korean sauna (or jimjilbang), where you can not only get a scrubdown, but a profoundly sadistic massage called kyungnak. The "happy ending" is the part where they stop doing it.