Big Mouth+Small Face=Beautiful!

Estes dois posts foram coletados do blog Fungus Mungus' Weird Stuff in Japan. É de um professor de inglês que mora em Iwate, distante província para quem mora em Tokyo. Fica ao norte, perto de Hokkaido. Lá sempre tem terremotos... meda!
Bom, a indicação foi do Afi e tenho de concordar que é um ótimo site. Conheça um pouco mais do Japão estranho neste blog. Deleitem-se:



From another page of the Annals of Japanese Quackery, I present

The Slim Mouth Piece

Despite it's misleading name, this gadget is supposed to make your mouth bigger, not smaller. BIGGER? Yes, bigger. Who on earth would want this? Well, the theory is that if you widen your mouth, you will have the appearance of a small face, so prized by the Japanese.

Apparently, this device comes in regular, small, and large sizes so no matter what size your face is, you can have the mouth of your dreams! Now, that is weird!



Small Face
In the west, we obsess over having small bodies. There, thin will probably always be in, but in Japan, where many people already have thin bodies, having a chiisai kao, or small face, is a prized attribute. Most of the JPOP idols, many lacking talent, at least have "small faces".

I ran across this little device that is supposed to help the girl achieve the small face of her dreams. Behold, I give you the:

Ofuro de Kogao

Literally meaning "small face in the bath", this nifty little device is designed to be worn in the bath. It supposedly slims your face, giving you that pixish face such as those sported by Ayumi Hamasaki (see my blog post on the Ayumi Van in a previous blog post). I think if small faces make it big in the west, they should market this product as Kogao de Jason.