Vibrator glasses for a “taller” nose
Generally when I think “rhinoplasty” and Japanese, it is trying to remember what kanji characters to use. Japanese have cute button noses; rhinoplasty shouldn’t be an issue, right? But oh no.
Japanese judge beauty by how “tall” your nose is. That is, how humped and high the bridge is. The second-most popular plastic surgery procedure for Japanese and Asians after eyelid surgery is “dorsal augmentation” to raise the bridge of the nose. These glasses allegedly invented by Joji Yamahara (emeritus professor of the University of Sydney’s pharmacology department) vibrate the bridge of the nose to make it “taller” just as the Japanese love.
Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women: Rhinoplasty glasses
…a Japanese professor at the University of Sydney has made it possible for folks to get their gaijin nose without going under the knife. His invention comes in the form of a pair of lensless glasses, where the magic lies in the polythene nose piece. Powered by mercury batteries, the nose piece vibrates at 7,000 Hz per minute, creating a force that excites the growth of your nasal bridge cartilage. Wear it for three minutes everyday, and you should be able to look down your newly augmented nose in two to three weeks.
A pair costs HK$1, 680 at JC Shop outlets in Hong Kong, where they’ve experimented on a model – her nose was apparently raised from 20 degrees to 30 degrees after seven days of use.
UPDATE: Here’s an even sillier nose product from Japan…
Photo thanks to Gnosis’ flickr site.
Actually such nose clips for beauty are a world-famous medical frauds. Called a “nose straightener” in the West, it’s featured on the cover blurb of the book, “Quack!: Tales of Medical Fraud from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices” and on the top page of the website Museum of Questionable Medical Devices.
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December 26th, 2005 at 8:58 am
I would like to know where I can buy ” Rhinoplasty glasses ” in America. thanks
December 27th, 2005 at 3:10 pm
Hi Vivain!
Sorry, but those ‘Rhinoplasty glasses’are not being sold anywhere now. Dr Yamahara is no longer active in the production of these ” Rhinoplasty glasses” since he now has retired from the University of Sydney and has returned to Japan where he is occasionally involved in selling fakey health foods in his Osaka neighborhood as a hobby.
L8r…
Taro
February 7th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
the advertisement for these glasses still appear on http://www.jcshop.com.hk/retail/003/main.htm. is there a japanese ebay or something? xD i’ll do anything for a pair of these!
February 8th, 2006 at 10:00 am
Sorry to say, nearly all Japanese websales require a Japanese credit card or Japan-only postal COD. Basically, no Japanese website will ship overseas because credit-card fraud is so common.
You can try to ask for a special order from the only Japanese company who does ship to overseas, J-List.com.
http://affiliates.jlist.com/click/393/71
February 9th, 2006 at 3:57 pm
i’ll try out your idea! if it works, i’ll be forever grateful! ^____^
February 13th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
hey Taro are there any other products in Japan that can augment your nose? i found this http://www.rakuten.co.jp/goodsman/513286/405809/ but i’ve never heard anything about it, so i’m hesitant about purchasing it.
September 29th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
hey where can i get it in malaysia?? can you please tell me , or even the way to get that item from malaysia? thanks.
October 10th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
what website sell it right now can ship to USA or Canada?
thanks in advance!
October 10th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Sorry.
Not only do the “Rhinoplasty glasses” not work, no Japanese website wants to directly ship products to customers outside Japan.
You try one the Japanese “proxy mail order/auction” firms such as goodsfromjapan.com (but note, Buyer Beware).
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Hey taro, you know about the HANAHANA product from jap? the nose clip thing?
does it actually work, or just stretches your skin or does it actually make your nose shaper?
if it does, is it permanent? since theres nothing to support it after you take the clip off.
its just like braces how u need plates after right?
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Neither the HANAHANA nose clip and these vibrator glasses have any significant effect (besides temporary discomfort).
L8r…
Taro, with a nose 3-times “taller” than any Japanese :-)
PS: Actually, the nose clip for beauty is a world-famous medical fraud.
Called a “nose straightener” in the West, it’s featured on the cover blurb of the book, “Quack!: Tales of Medical Fraud from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices” and on the top page of the website Museum of Questionable Medical Devices.
February 23rd, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Taro, do you know any way of making my nose bigger? Do you think my nose will stay like this or will keep growing?
February 23rd, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Well, the nose clip would “work” like it does on people who have worn thick and heavy glasses all their life. That is, if you wore the nose clip every night for eight or ten years you would end up with two dents on the sides of the bridge of your nose just like people who have worn heavy glasses all their life.
Basically, once you finish growing (around age 18 for women, 21 for men) you can have a small silicon implant placed in the bridge of nose for less than 900,000 yen. That may sound expensive but that a less money than what most people waste on fashion over a period of five years. The silicon implant lasts a lifetime so it’s a huge bargain appearance-wise and fashion-wise.
Noses do grow with age, but mostly in width which is seldom what people want. :-)
September 12th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Why does everybody want to look like pinocheo, in these comments?
September 14th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
I agree with Rigel, all you vain people that want to use these contraptions, that most likely do nothing, must have some mental disorder. What sort of fool would put themselves through pain just to move the bridge of their bloody nose!
April 15th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Hey, nice tips. Perhaps I’ll buy a bottle of beer to that person from that chat who told me to go to your blog :)
September 5th, 2009 at 11:24 am
That’s quite sad, as the button nose, along with the epicanthic fold on East Asian people make them look younger (especially when nearing those fifties).
September 8th, 2009 at 11:41 am
I’m from New Zealand and I have a broad nose I’d like to have a nice straight nose like a Turk or Greek so where in New Zealand can you get them from the nose straighteners?? I’ve always wanted to look like some sexy Mediteranean guy!
September 11th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
where in new zealand can you get it from
March 25th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
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May 30th, 2010 at 12:23 am
Nag, nag, nag…
June 12th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Hi, I have questions related to the post. Would you mind answering them if I ask here or shall I ask on email? Thanks.
June 13th, 2010 at 1:11 am
Sorry but your comment is getting filters as “spam” so you better make your questions here (not via email).
June 25th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
hi I do sell them.please come to my blogshop at cookies-andcream.weebly.com for more info.
June 30th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
I hate the shape of my fucking nose. It unblances my face. I wish I had a beautiful Greek nose. Not some shitty cross between a Roman nose and a Nubian one. Stupid parents and their race mixing. You guys wouldn’t know how it feels being a 15-year old girl with light skin and feautures of an ape. I LOOK DISGUSTING. I really want to kill myself to see if I come back as a beautiful blonde-haired, blue/eyed beauty.
July 25th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
this website doesn’t even exist sandaara. But is there a website that has a medical fraud encyclopedia on nose straighteners??
July 25th, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Sandaara is just a CommentBot without any nose.
July 25th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Just read the following from the book:
Quack! Tales of Medical Fraud from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
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August 2nd, 2010 at 3:16 pm
if you get bloody nose, you can clip your nose with clippers 24 / 7. i have gained a western nose over the 5-6 teen years where i so frequently had bloody nose, and i am asian with both parents having button nose. clip dat shit!
August 2nd, 2010 at 3:45 pm
YES! That’s the spirit!
August 9th, 2010 at 2:04 am
hahaha wow
August 10th, 2010 at 10:24 am
I never fail to really like taking a look at makeup artists at work. It’s similar to seeing an artist coloring their canvas.
August 11th, 2010 at 2:10 am
There is no need for Vibrator glasses for a “taller” nose. There is a Creator who designed things decently and in order including our noses. That is not religion; it is reality, otherwise, we would not have a universe constructed and functioning with such perfect coordination.
August 18th, 2010 at 10:19 am
Over time, I think this will be very good information but I’m so young at the moment so I don’t think this is a good option for me. But thanks for the info, can anyone elabourate on this, I mean is there any more information available, like any links on GrowingTaller?
August 18th, 2010 at 10:43 am
I want to try this, but I just don’t have the time, can anyone please help me find more information on this? I’m still not convinced (no offence to the poster)
September 17th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
I have read these comments and laughed at those wanting this product….I will repeat what many have:
THESE PRODUCTS DO NOT WORK. So if you buy one you are WASTING YOUR MONEY. Here is a tip – invest your money in something that will work to make you look good – a nice pair of glasses, a new hairstyle, good quality makup and a lesson how to use it, do some exercise, smile often and you will appear more attractive. Celebrate YOU because you are unique.
November 20th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
I wanna get my nose straightened because it’s slightly misaligned, even though it’s not a real big problem that people don’t even realise anythings really wrong with it but when I take pictures of myself it looks a lot worse and also on some videos! I damaged my nose when I was 14,(Now I’m 18) it wasn’t badly damaged it was just kinda pressed down by an adult who was supposedly joking around and then I started to realise it’s a little bit bent. I feel really insecure about myself these days because the nose is the main point of the face and can spoil all the faced other features just because of minimal damage to the nose! Further it’s also affected my breathing through one of the nostrils and I might get surgery done on it to make it straighter, but one thing I won’t do is to risk using these products on my nose!
December 15th, 2010 at 2:52 am
a beautiful Greek nose? Do you know what’s a Greek nose?
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090515215850/nonciclopedia/images/4/48/Profilo_GRECO_Pigreco.jpg
February 19th, 2011 at 1:03 pm
@ GG has been spamming! I bet you GG is a staff member of nosesecrets. Love that picture Jack!
March 2nd, 2011 at 3:52 pm
Have you seen the photos on nose right yet? theirs not much of a change. http://www.nosesecret.com/pages/Photo-Gallery.html
the asian dude and black chicks nose hasnt changed a lot
April 23rd, 2011 at 5:45 pm
They’re more like the Clothespin-from-Hell as you can see below. Almost every large drugstore in Japan has them for sale (even though they don’t work).
available via Amazon.com
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