4/1/2008

Today, the mega-popular website Boing-Boing just discovered the “Video of creepy eyelid-poking beauty tip” that has been the all-time favorite of readers here on the 3Yen since 2005*, Japanese Makeup Lesson in Eye Torture.

A common sight in Japan are women (and men) blithely toweling on makeup* as they barrel along riding on Japanese commuter trains. However, for some strange reason I never see them do this eyeball forking, hee, hee.
The most popular plastic surgery procedure for Japanese and Asians the so-called “double eyelid” surgery to make slanted eyes rounder. Continuing on the same vein that I mentioned in Vibrator glasses for a “taller” nose to raise the bridge of the nose, here’s a “Makeup Lesson” for eye gluing and taping to simulate round eyes. See it as makeup lesson as a video and here as still pictures in plain HTML as shown below

Via Weekly Teinou * Woman which means this BoinBoing news item has been floating around the Japanese blogosphere since 2004.

Here are some more horrific pictures of this meaningless “beauty” procedure.

And for more fun with eyeballs, check out my previous reports:
–Japanese eye torture on the train
–Kinky ‘lash bar’ in Tokyo
–Hello Kitty eyeballs