Japan Trend Shop – A Selection Of Weird Things To Order From Japan

On July 14, 2013 by Tim Newman

Facewaver Excercise Mask

Many of the products on sale at the Japan Trend Shop are based around keeping your face youthful. This facial exercise mask promises that unattainable Cinderella fresh, manga faced youthfulness we all crave. Simply wear it for a few minutes every day and pull faces. This apparently exercises facial muscles and increases blood flow. Also, you get to look pretty cool whilst you’re doing it.

Men’s Germanium Kogao Sauna Mask

The pursuit of youthful beauty is not just for the ladies. This sauna mask is aimed at men. It advises you to wear it whilst doing household chores, the increased sweating will “shrink your face” giving you are more slender profile and younger looks. And even if it doesn’t work, you’ll still get that cool Silence of the Lambs look…

Beauty Lift High Nose – Electric Nose Lift

Despite looking like a medieval torture device, this product promises to make your nose “just that little bit firmer and higher”. I didn’t realise your nose could be too low? And I am now worried that my nose is not firm enough either? Oh dear. This vibrating gadget of nonsense is $69 though so I will have to deal with having a soft, low nose I’m afraid.

Magical Tooth Yaeba Snaggleteeth

So, I understand the products people buy to make themselves look younger/ more attractive/ fresher, but this last product is super weird. Here’s what the blurb on the website has to say –

It’s no secret that Japanese dentistry leaves a lot to be desired. But don’t judge local teeth only through the lens of only what you are used to. There are some differences in aesthetic here. Take yaeba (snaggletooth), for instance. It’s not anyone by a long shot but there is nonetheless a certain swathe of Japanese girls, or media outlets at any rate, who think that having snaggleteeth is “cute”, as perhaps Americans might see Kirsten Dunst as the ‘Girl Next Door’.

It seems that some Japanese women have had dental procedures to make their teeth look less perfect and this is a cheaper option. It truly is a mad world isn’t it? I’d understand it if they were going for the gothy vampire look but….