WTF – Mouth Stretchers

Filed as: Korea FTW! // Responses: 55

Ok, so let’s begin this by saying that this isn’t a very common item in Korea. We asked our Korean friends about it, and they’ve never seen it before. That doesn’t make it any less of a Wonderful Treasure Find. That just means we’re totally in the dark about this one.

We found it at the Watson’s, which is kind of like a Shopper’s Drug Mart (if you’re Canadian) or a Walgreens (I’m assuming…if you’re American). Sorry we can’t find any other equivalents for people of other countries! Anyhow, they’ve got lots of cool/weird/wtf beauty items there, and this one definitely caught our attention. It’s a mouth stretcher. The science behind it is beyond us. What exactly are you stretching your mouth for? Does a wider mouth make you prettier? Some really wide mouths are scary. We thought it might be a smile trainer: we saw a documentary a while ago called the Human Face starring John Cleese (awesome documentary, by the way), and in it they showed classes in Japan that taught you how to smile. They would train people how to smile by making them bite on pencils for a while, similar to how we held the “A Oh” mouth stretcher. Is that what this is for? Training people how to smile? Because, let’s just say this loud and clear: if you need to put this contraption in your mouth to teach you forcefully how to smile, then that’s…really sad. How about just watching something funny. Laughing is an easier way to smile than using the A Oh Mouth Stretcher.

We’re not even sure if Mouth Stretchers is the proper term for them. Simon originally wanted to call them “Mouth Hole Stretchers” but Martina was really grossed out at the idea of stretching out a mouth hole. It sounded a lot grosser than intended. So we dropped the “hole.” Anyone know what these things are really called? Or for that matter, if they work? Has anyone used these before? We’ve enabled anonymous commenting, FYI, so don’t be ashamed to say if you used them or not. We won’t think any less of you! We might ask for picture evidence, though, just to prove that you’re not trolling.

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http://twitter.com/pec30 Pauline Calvillo

Simon and Martina you guys were grossed out by cleaning each others ears with those light saber ear cleaners but yet you guys share a toothbrush?????? Yucky isn’t that more invasive than the ear cleaning? lol
http://twitter.com/metacognition18 Lisa Dawson

This looks like something I saw on the QVC network one time here in the States. Apparently its used for facial exercising? Its supposed to strengthen your cheeks, neck, and chin area. Its for those people with the droopy chins I guess? Anyway here’s a link to it on the QVC site…
http://www.qvc.com/qic/qvcapp.aspx/view.2/app.detail/params.aol_refer.false.tpl.detail.msn_refer.false.item.L0136.ref.BV1?

O_O…….
Ejamaris

i saw this in youtube called facial flex… is it the same thing?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=723767824 Geraldine Tan

I can imagine a debator using it minutes before his debate showdown to help him with his speech.

HANGRY

Yes! and afterwards he will become a master debator!

http://www.eatyourkimchi.com Simon and Martina

BA-ZING!

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=662971444 Duha Wilkinson

“It’s called love” HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
http://twitter.com/frutiilla Ariela Pedreros

the weirdest treasure find ever :P i couldnt stop laughing with all the jokes XD
B2ST rules! :D … and also SuJu .. oh gosh im really hoping they’re coming to Chile *O*
IT’S ME :D

This is actually used to help lose cheek fat :)
do the “ah” and “oh” sound, and it helps lose chubby cheek~!
Ruby

I saw this in Hong Kong. It’s suppose to slim your face. invented by Japanese apparently. hehe…
Linus Berglund

This is a thing to train the muscles in your face to avoid wrinkles. It has been sold in europe and northern america in ridiculous TV-ads under the name Facial Flex. Just google it and you’ll see some youtube videos that will make you laugh.

Some wind musicians (mostly clarinetists) use it to train their embochure (“position and strength of the lips”)
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Anonymous

Oh. My. FREAKING. Gosh. I just laughed so hard I was crying! I couldn’t even breathe properly! LOL!! “Hippopatomuf.”
yuaelt

Dear Martina and Simon: this is probably a practice/warm-up tool for singers. When you sing on stage you are supposed to open your mouth really wide for the clear sound. Needless to say, good pronunciation is also a must. This kind of practice tool helps improve your control of facial muscles surrounding your lips, there are tons of exercises for that. Remembering how my instructor used to make me walk around with a wine cork stuck between my upper and lower teeth (“keep your mouth open to this degree, for an hour. yes, an hour. you can’t? ok, bite on this… now you can, BWAHAHAHAHA”), I find this mouth stretcher thingie very smart!

if you want to check how it works, go to karaoke, and try saying ah-oh-ah-oh (or eeh-oh-eeh-oh) repeatedly for some time with this stretcher in your mouth, paying attention to stretch your mouth as far as possible in the right direction (right-left for ah’s/eehs and up-down for oh’s), don’t forget the correct breathing too (use your belly). after 5 to 10 minutes of this idiocy, start singing. I don’t know how much difference can there be after a single warm-up session, but there’s still a big chance you’ll do better than usual!
animegurl155

You guys are seriously The Cutest Couple, you’re perfect together! How did y’all meet? ^^
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=227201664 Habib Ahsan

Funny!
Daydreamny

lol! I need to get for fun.
Supremehaeng

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Guest

Boots or superdrug if you’re from England!
cyan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81tCp2IjlxUÂ check this out. o uo
TONYANA

hey that…contraption was on ep 12 of season 3 of TOSH.O
it’s supposed to be an exercise apparently.