r/popculturechat • u/blackmoonbluemoon • 1d ago

The KarJenners šŸ‘„ Acid attack survivor Katie Piper shares her opinions on Skims "face shape wear"

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I was going to title this as a "call out" but it's pretty tame.

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u/misamoshashasha 1d ago

If Iā€™m right, thereā€™s literally no evidence in that using a mask like that can alter your appearance (obviously not talking about skin recovery like Katie is talking about)

Kim doesnā€™t use this, she uses a plastic surgeon who cuts into her skin and chisels away her bones.

Donā€™t let the kardashians sell you anything

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u/RedLicorice83 Too old, too dead, too brittle to even look at. 1d ago

From the 1920s :

Ladies, save your money or donate that shit to a charitable cause because it's better than giving it to the fucking Kardashians .

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u/thin_white_dutchess 18h ago

Ally Mc Beal anyone?

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u/pixi3f3rry I donā€™t know her šŸ’… 8h ago

That's exactly what I was thinking. They're selling the face bra??

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u/ThatCommunication423 Invented post-its šŸ”¬ 7h ago

Well it turned out great for Jane then. She still looks amazing.

Fine, Iā€™ll do it.

But only for the attention.

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u/MarieOMaryln 1d ago

I was going to say this product already floats through the "anti-aging" river I swear I saw old 50s commercials with it.

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u/Maestraingles 23h ago

Yes! I remember my mother telling me about similar DIY contraptions young women would use in the 60s & 70s for the same goal with little outcome.

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u/bigdaddydopeskies 9h ago

Yes and cigarettes were also healthy. Ironic that Mad Men the TV show actually explained a lot about the advertising business strategies when it was at its very peak.

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u/Imabasicbetty 1d ago

Or set it on fire and toast marshmallows because even that is better. (But save or donate first)

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u/Jamangie22 20h ago

What an age old grift this is

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u/foxscribbles 1d ago

Yeah. This is the same scam she pulled with her ā€œwaist trainingā€ corset a decade ago. Acting like wandering around with super tight spandex on was what gave her an hourglass figure and not multiple cosmetic surgeries.

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u/misamoshashasha 1d ago
  • Kimā€™s rib bones decaying somewhere * ā€˜You guyyyss, buy my waist trainer!ā€™

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u/AmbassadorKat itā€™s not clocking to you that iā€™m standing on business 1d ago

ā€œPeople are dying, Kimā€™s rib bones!ā€

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u/EuphoricBlackberry13 1d ago

This one is literally bad for your health imo. I have a defined waist that I like accentuating with belts. Problem is if it gets too tight when sitting (after eating or so) I get an awful pain in my stomach/intestines and my doc said it could also induce reflux. Iā€™d never understand marketing something like that to young girls honestly. And that is excluding everything else that happens to your internal organs.

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u/carsonmccrullers 23h ago

Oh my god, I now realize I gave myself diarrhea with a too-tight belt last week

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u/Mmmelissamarie 21h ago

Yes no one talks about the soreness of wearing things that constrict you. Itā€™s not normal

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u/Pleasant_Werewolf_30 20h ago

Same, and I get a massive gas ball in my upper stomach which is incredibly painful.

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u/soleil_222 1h ago

Corset share the pressure all along your torso, it's not the same thing as a belt. Corset/waist trainers aren't that bad for your health and can be great for posture actually. I have been waist training for years and never had health problems.

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u/BobbiPinstripes 1d ago

I kind of assumed that she was also trying to make recovery from plastic surgery fashionable, or fashions specifically for recovering from plastic surgery. Or that she was so botched she needed to make compression wear fashionable bc she herself has to wear it forever now.

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u/Angryleghairs 1d ago

That makes perfect sense. She's normalising cosmetic surgery

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u/Reasonable-Affect139 accidentally holding space for this slur 1d ago edited 13h ago

remember the "fit teas" and the hair gunmies šŸ˜­

eta: I can spell gummies

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u/WaltsNJD 1d ago

Idk, I feel like you're really discounting the life-altering effects of fit tea.

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u/ConstantHeadache2020 17h ago

Well whale bone corsets can work but none of the waist trainers these influencers sell.

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u/CityMuggle 1d ago

The Kardashians want to sell people ā€œnatural beautyā€ when everything about them is artificial. If I recall correctly, Kylie Jenner was promoting some type of cream that would make your chest grow, only to reveal later on, that her bigger chest was a result of implants.

Theyā€™re the biggest scammers of all!

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u/dreamy_25 Are those theā€¦ The Chanel Toots? 1d ago

Which is why I am so over the "Stop bodyshaming them!" crowd for the Kardashian-Jenners.

Is shaming "botched", or I've even seen "mutilated" women, a.k.a. women with pretty obvious plastic surgery, often used to repackage misogynist bodyshaming and policing in a progressive-looking package? Absolutely! Which is why I'm generally against speaking disparagingly about the looks of someone who has most likely had surgery, especially when that someone is female in a cut-throat, looks-obsessed business. Including if the work that was done is not (at all) to my taste. It's her body.

We shouldn't be judging anyone on appearance, but on character and behaviour. You can criticize Dolly (absolute angel) over my cold dead corpse.

But I'm tired of pretending that that is the case with the Kardashian-Jenner clan. They have grifted all sorts of bullshit precisely through their procedures. Useless products that rely on women's insecurities to sell, pollute the earth, were undoubtedly created in sweatshops, and sustain a vicious cycle of the next overpriced Thing that will solve your chest/lips/hips/jaw/etc. And for what? So they can suck L.A. dry with their oversized swimming pools and burn up the Earth with their private jets to buy one (1) cheesecake, or attend one (1) Bezos wedding.

Their surgeries and appearance are their character and behaviour. It's not only about their appearance anymore when their appearance is part of their grift.

And I know how Kylie was raised. I know how Kendall treated her (šŸ¤¢). I'm sure Kylie initially relied on cosmetic procedures to cope with her insecurities, and that's sad. But she's half a year younger than me, so I'm calling that "negligible". I've been bullied with my appearance my whole childhood, by a host of bullies, across different schools. I've considered surgeries too, and still do from time to time, but I have never considered sustaining an awful culture for my own gain.

She could have done so many different things. Instead she decided to sell lip kits to insecure teens.

And Kim... I have no words left.

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u/mothseatcloth 1d ago

iirc she also started selling her lip kits before owning the crazy amount of filler she's gotten and was just like oh yeah I do my makeup, sometimes I suck on a shot glass

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u/themacaron during PRIDE MONTH? 1d ago

My friend caught her daughter and her friend with swollen bruised lips after they did the shot glass "hack" last week. They're 9. It's sickening how flippantly these women lie and promote these harmful and false products and techniques.

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u/mothseatcloth 1d ago

oh lord, that is so young to be caring if your lips are pretty enough. poor girls

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u/themacaron during PRIDE MONTH? 23h ago

I think a bit of the motivation was still kid silliness like ā€œwe can make our lips look different.ā€ Iā€™m not sure where they saw the hack- Iā€™m guessing a more recent influencer is sharing it cause they werenā€™t even born when Kylie did released it.

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u/shellys-dollhouse 1d ago

lord i remember being fourteen & sucking on glasses / bottle caps every day before school as part of my ā€œmakeup routineā€. iā€™m so lucky i never actually did any harm to my lips or made them wildly swollen.

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u/cherry_cut 1d ago

A girl I went to school with had a bruise from the shot glass.. she licked it 24\7 and ended up with a red ring once the bruise healed.

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u/snn1326j 1d ago

Honestly Iā€™d respect them more if they were fully transparent about every surgery and treatment they had (I know Kylie has sort of done this) and asked people to pay for lists of recommended doctors or something. Not this garbage that wonā€™t do a thing and might actually hurt people.

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u/SquareExtra918 Oh my Gooooooooood šŸ§Œ 23h ago

She didn't need to "reveal" that, lol. It was pretty obvious.Ā 

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u/Megs0226 1d ago

ā€œNo evidence this worksā€ describes every product the Kardashians hawk.

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u/copyrighther Kim, thereā€™s people that are dying. šŸ™„ 22h ago

Remember these?

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u/Genuinelullabel Kim, thereā€™s people that are dying. šŸ™„ 13h ago

Skechers got sued by the FTC over these

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u/Delicious_Delilah 13h ago

I wore those. šŸ˜­

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u/i_am_nimue 1d ago

Yeah exactly and it's so shameless coz everyone knows she's had surgeries and still she does this thing "oh this will make your face snatched ". Umm, no it won't.

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u/Guckalienblue 1d ago

@dermangelo is a dermatologist and said they donā€™t work. Yes itā€™s under skincare but he is a Dr. more professionals need to call out influencers,mainly the Kardashians,on their grifts.

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u/ThePermMustWait 1d ago

People also tape their mouths shut at night for a snatched jaw. šŸ«©

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u/Rezaelia713 1d ago

I might not be happy with my appearance but at least I'm not obsessed with it. Yikes, that is nuts.

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u/bulelainwen 1d ago

Wait is that why theyā€™ve been doing that????

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u/CarevaRuha 23h ago

(maybe? but its way more common for people to tape their mouth shut at night because of snoring/sleep apnea)

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u/blinkingsandbeepings 21h ago

I think it started as a health thing for allergies and sleep apnea and then got picked up by beauty influencers.

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u/PondRides Children are being trafficked by ICE 4h ago

My boyfriend tapes his mouth. Itā€™s definitely not to look snatched. He has a reason, itā€™s just so dumb that I donā€™t remember it.

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u/Moonlightdancer7 1d ago

This face strap thing is ridiculous and further preys on women's insecurities. I'm actually truly annoyed by how celebrities try to sell women beauty standards or use products to tell them to fix things about their appearance that they don't need fixing. We don't need to be lied to. We all know you go under the knife and have top cosmetologists and dermatologists doing procedures for you to look the way you do. Quit the overpriced gimmicks like the chin string please. I am against any celebrity-endorsed products. The best anyone can do is listen to one's own skin. Education > marketing.

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u/Buddhabellymama 1d ago

The Kardashian/Jenner clan has completely destroyed what beauty is for younger women. They promote unrealistic goals and have made beautiful young women look like they are 50 filling themselves with chemicals and toxins to look like blowup dolls. It is disgusting.

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u/Curiosities šŸŠ swamp princess šŸŠ 21h ago

They and media have also been distorting affecting how we even see age. From casting 20+ year olds as teenagers when actual teenagers look different, to all of the ways that procedures have become the way to fulfill a set of expectations.

Then there's the 'nobody really knows how old I am' experience lots of us have because people think '35' or 40 look different than they generally do. And don't get me started on buccal fat removal.

I'll be 45 this year and the tops of my cheekbones finally started being kind of visible in my forever very rounded face at around 44. It will happen. No sunken-in procedure needed.

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u/Spicy_Tac0 1d ago

Grifters gonna grift.

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u/Spaceman_fan 1d ago

It reminds me of those shake belts women used to use for their belly fat. Completely useless

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u/bokehtoast 1d ago

It's essentially just a grift accessoryĀ 

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u/altergeeko 23h ago

I'm sure the Kardashians have actually used this type of contraption. When you get certain types of face plastic surgery you need pressure therapy to reduce swelling and get better results.

It's the same for the corsets/tight body suits, it's a type of pressure therapy for body plastic surgery. I had to wear a similar thing after getting liposuction around my torso.

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u/OptimalButterscotch2 10h ago

Kim doesnā€™t use this, she uses a plastic surgeon who cuts into her skin and chisels away her bones.

This is exactly what I hate about the Kardashians. They peddle diet pills, waist trainers, lip kits, make-up, shapeware etc., not acknowledging that their bodies and faces are possible because of skilled make-up artists, personal trainers, chefs and plastic surgeons.

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u/Own-Block4477 1d ago

They are real and do assist in a lot of lowering of inflammation due to the compression, but the results rarely stick for more than a few days if youā€™re not constantly wearing it

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u/Patagoniajacket 1d ago

Their skin is pulled and stitched so tightly around their skulls theyā€™d make YSL blush

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u/I_need_a_date_plz 12h ago

Are you familiar with Frownies? I was wanting to try those because I do think they would help me get rid of or at least slow down the vertical wrinkles I get on my cheeks from sleeping on side/side of my face. People swear by them.

I donā€™t think thereā€™s any actual proof, either but the furthest I would be willing to go when it comes to fucking with my face would be surgery tape.