Bird droppings, bull testicles among pre-Oscar beauty treatments!

Hollywood stars wanting to look their best for Tinseltown's biggest night of the year are being offered beauty treatments.

Hollywood stars wanting to look their best for Tinseltown's biggest night of the year are being offered beauty treatments ranging from the lavish to plain loony such as $250,000 black diamond nail varnish and bird excrement facials.

The Academy Awards on February 24 are almost as much about fashion as they are about films, with the televised red carpet arrivals and ceremony drawing an estimated audience of one billion people worldwide.