10 Weird (and Slightly Horrifying) Beauty Tools You Can Buy Online
When it comes to the East, we never seem to get enough of the adorably packaged beauty products, semi-complicated beauty regimens and on-point street style. Even the weirdest beauty ingredients have become our most coveted ones. With Asia’s R&D departments leading the discovery of new ingredients to infuse into products, you can also expect some, um, more eyebrow-raising beauty tools.
As beauty die-hards, we’ve come across some pretty strange things in the industry. You would think after hearing about the Kardashians’ fave waist-training corset and Kylie Jenner’s latest breast and butt enhancing cream obsession we would be immune to strange trends, but you’d be surprised. JapanTrendShop.com is one of the many e-commerce sites for all things Japanese, from household gadgets to high-tech gizmos. It also houses some interesting beauty-related contraptions (see: face expander). At a first glance, these tools look, well, horrifying and like it can put you through some serious discomfort (no pain, no gain?). But after reading the descriptions and its effortless slimming testimonies, can you blame us for questioning its claims and results. Come on, a mask that helps eliminate belly fat?
From face toning bands that help smoothen out smile lines to breast massagers that sculpt your bust back to its perky state, we tracked down 10 of the craziest beauty tools developed by our friends overseas. Diet and workout trends, watch out, because there’s a new slimming competitor in town that doesn’t require our asses off the couch. Take it with a grain of salt, though.
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The leg slimmer
According to the company, these socks apply different amounts of pressure throughout your leg and feet to help tone your legs while you catch up on your beauty sleep. Or the way we see it, possibly (and dangerously) cut off circulation in the middle of the night.
Slimwalk Overnight Slimming Socks ($49,
7/10 The neck de-wrinkler Starting to see the first signs of sagging skin in the neck area? Neck wrinkle iron to the rescue. Iron out those wrinkles with the help of EMS and radio waves emitting via this heater-like equipment. Just strap it around your neck. And rumour has it, this will help triple the rejuvenated look of your neck…or something. Neck Wrinkle Iron ($161, japantrendshop.com)weird beauty tools neck wrinkle iron
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As beauty die-hards, we’ve come across some pretty strange things in the industry. You would think after hearing about the Kardashians’ fave waist-training corset and Kylie Jenner’s latest breast and butt enhancing cream obsession we would be immune to strange trends, but you’d be surprised. JapanTrendShop.com is one of the many e-commerce sites for all things Japanese, from household gadgets to high-tech gizmos. It also houses some interesting beauty-related contraptions (see: face expander). At a first glance, these tools look, well, horrifying and like it can put you through some serious discomfort (no pain, no gain?). But after reading the descriptions and its effortless slimming testimonies, can you blame us for questioning its claims and results. Come on, a mask that helps eliminate belly fat?
From face toning bands that help smoothen out smile lines to breast massagers that sculpt your bust back to its perky state, we tracked down 10 of the craziest beauty tools developed by our friends overseas. Diet and workout trends, watch out, because there’s a new slimming competitor in town that doesn't require our asses off the couch. Take it with a grain of salt, though.
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