Nina Strochlic highlights new products meant to replace plastic surgery in Asian markets. One of the devices:
This glasses-like contraption pledges to
provide a double-fold eyelid after five minutes a day of wearing it, as an alternative to the increasingly popular 20-minute eyelid surgery. The $16 plastic frame appears to push up into the eyelid cover to separate it from the lid. As you blink, the device supposedly trains your lids into the desired look of depth. The product apparently sold thousands of units in its first month, and was expanded to 200 stores.
Last month, Geoffrey Cain noted that the DIY approach is “popular among anxious Korean teens who lack the funds” to pay cosmetic surgeons:
Another popular contraption: the $6 jaw-squeezing roller device. Vendors claim it pushes the jaw line into a pleasing petite, oval form. The two teens spend hours rolling and molding the product along their jaw, trying to fit their faces into the perfect shape — and inflicting a good deal of pain in the process. … The pain pales compared to the infamous double-jaw surgery, a recent fad among South Korean and Chinese women. The procedure involves cutting off and realigning part of the jaw bone, and carries the risk of permanent damage.
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