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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weird beauty tools face stretcher mask

The face stretcher This exercise mask that trains your face (?) is not only said to result in tighter-looking skin, but also improve and increase blood circulation. We recommend you don’t wear it around...well, living, breathing humans. Like, at all. Facewaver Exercise Mask ($69, japantrendshop.com)