The Japanese are Shrinking Their Heads

Interesting.

i don't know if those devices would work as intended. one's head may continue to grow, but just in a different direction. they did things like that in europe back in the day, but deliberately.

Wow!

wow is right

How strange! There's an invention for everything isn't there?

Double wow! :-))

this is awesome
Thanks for writing

lol Amit... really shrinking heads! Think I might just buy myself a Kogao Meiku Beruto. :)

What does 855 yen translate to in American dollars? If they were 2 for 1 - you could count me in.

This is crazy stuff. You let me in on the latest secret in beauty treatment. Thanks C Jordan. Haha

That mouth exerciser is not so far-fetched. I have seen similar devices in the States, -and you can even perform a series if facial exercises without this tool, which tighten those 'laugh lines' and smooth-out the divet (that trenchy-looking valley-thing on your upper-lip / below the nose.) And by strengthening the facial muscles, you can even-out an un-even smile.

From a website asnwering the question "How many muscles does it take to smile?", come this: (quoted in entirety)

"It takes one more muscle to smile than to frown, according to plastic surgeon David H. Song, MD, FACS, assistant professor at the University of Chicago Hospitals.


"...Newspapers around the globe assure us, "Frowning takes more muscles than smiling,"
13 to smile, 33 to frown - The Washington Post.
10 to smile, 100 to frown - The New York Times,
4 to smile, 64 to frown - The Hindu. An urban myth?

Only Cecil's "The Straight Dope" got an expert (Dr. Song) to go through the motions. A genuine smile takes two muscles to crinkle the eyes, two to pull up the lip corners and nose, two to elevate the mouth angle, and two to pull the mouth corners sideways. Total smile: 12.

On the other hand, a frown needs two muscles to pull down the lips and wrinkles in the lower face, three to furrow the brow, one to purse the lips, one to depress the lower lip, and two to pull the mouth corners down. Total frown: 11.

A fake smile, however, only takes two muscles. We detect the fake because "the eyes aren't smiling."

So, who knows, really? :-\