Coffee Grounds

I think I can still hear my cousin Karen screaming at me from the bathroom. It was the summer I turned 17 and she and I were "body prepping" for swimsuit season. Of course we had no money for salon treatments or any of that kind of stuff so she and I were using "homemade" beauty remedies. Since Karen was always complaining about the cellulite on the back of her thighs I, being the caring cousin that I am, told her about this great solution that I had read about - somewhere? The secret ingredient: cellulite creams that were used at ritsy spas were all incorporating caffeine. So, I told Karen that all she had to do was take used coffee grounds, dampen her thighs, put the coffee grounds on, wrap her thighs in saran wrap and rub her thighs continuously. Then after about 15 minutes I told her to take a shower and scrub it all off with a loofah. Well...it kinda worked. When she got out of the shower she had huge red welts all over and her thighs swelled so much that it did hide some of the cellulite. It took a couple days, but the swelling eventually went down...but it took was more than a couple of days for her to start talking to me again.