The beauty industry has a nasty habit of pointing out all our flaws and making us feel incredibly insecure about ourselves and our appearance.
Between not-so-subtle advertising — the Victoria’s Secret “THE PERFECT BODY” billboard springs to mind — and the media’s obsession with Photoshopping women within an inch of their lives, it’s easy to develop a few uneasy feeling about your various sags, wrinkles and bags.
It’s also easy to get sucked into the idea that you need to spend money — a whole heap of it — to compat these supposed imperfections. (Hands up if you’ve ever spent upwards of $50 on a tiny little bottle of foundation or shelled out hundreds for hair foils or even thousands for fillers? Yeah, us too.)
But imagine a product that actually analysed your appearance and listed each and every one of your imperfections and the products you can buy to combat them.
Well, that’s exactly what a new mirror does — and we reckon it’s kind of terrifying.
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I just came back from a month in Japan, and Panasonic has a huge range of 'odd' cosmetics products there, and advertises them constantly on the little TV screens on the Tokyo train network. There are weird boot things to help your tired feet after wearing heels all day; some weird headset that prevents crow's feet; etc. This is just the next thing!
They also had a light that came with two modes; to me they just looked like 'warm' and 'cold' light. One helps a kid study (much to mum's delight) and the other helped him relax. Japan is a strange, but wonderful, place.
Not "everything" that's wrong with beauty industry - no cruelty to animals here.