You can’t possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you’ve felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.

In Crosley’s characteristically comic, hyper-specific style, the line satirizes the earnest absurdity of adolescent “beauty” rituals—especially the DIY, kitchen-counter experiments that circulate among preteens as rites of passage. By pairing the clinical-sounding “prepubescent beauty treatment” with the grotesquely tactile image of “cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks,” the quote highlights how young people mimic adult self-care without adult knowledge, turning aspiration into slapstick. The “strange but exhilarating tingle” captures the mix of discomfort and thrill that often accompanies early attempts at self-transformation: pain and novelty read as proof that something is “working,” even when the practice is nonsensical.