…the things some women do…
Don’t know if I’ll get around to doing a formal update of today’s activities as it’s past 11 and my jet lag is starting to kick in (basically I just hung out with mom and my aunt but I thought I’d take the opportunity to post about the daily life in Japan outside of Tokyo) but I wanted to post this one since it’s just so…weird. At least to me.
Now, I say it’s weird to me because I’m not a woman (yes, it’s true…) so I must ask the female readers here to please comment or e-mail me back about this. I’m really curious if I’ll get a bunch of “what the hell???” or if I will get a bunch of “Screw you!!! THIS is what us women go through every day to meet the ever rising standards of today’s impossible Hollywood inspired falsehoods of beauty!!!”
*ahem*
Or maybe something in between….
Anyway, I was in a typical drug store with my mom and my aunt since they wanted to pick up a few things. But while browsing, I ran into this…and naturally I took a pic.
According to the package, the name of the product directly translated is “Aluminum Double Chin Shape”. It claims that as soon as you put it on you’ll start sweating…alot. By “blocking infrared radiation generated by your body and instead reflect it back into you it will increase the temperature to an amazing level and get rid of any excess water in your body as sweat”.
Huh?
It claims to slim up your neck and chin and even help with getting rid of your double chin. As if the fat in your body will just melt away as water or that your double chin is the result of your chin retaining too much water like a camel’s hump…. Now..if they claimed that they can somehow liquidize the fat in your body and have it start oozing out of your pores, maybe I can understand this (ewwwwwwwwwwwww) but…really… This can’t really work right?
I know the sauna is refreshing by opening up your pores and letting you just sweat it out…but…not sure if you can actually slim up by concentrating the sweating to parts of your body. Because if that’s the case, I know some people that should have some unbelievably skinny armpits…. Though…I’ve also never seen a fat armpit either…hmm…maybe it DOES work. :)
It just looks freaky though.
I did a bit of searching on the web and found out that this company also makes other products…including one that takes this concept to the absolute extreme as seen here…
Do you really need to look like some futuristic Jason to look good? I mean….Jason X (the one where he was in space in the future….watch it..it’s funny) had a metal hockey mask in that one but he still looked like shit. :)
Anyway, am I the only one that thinks this is just bizarre?? Comments?
