Tired of the time and money needed to keep up with today’s female beauty standards? Thinking about plastic surgery because makeup just won’t cut it anymore? Fortunately, there’s a new product that will help women overcome these problems: the Uniface mask.
The mask seeks to deliver a “dream fulfilling face that satisfies today’s beauty standards” – all for just $399.99. The mask features saucer-like eyes, luscious lashes, a high nose bridge, narrow chin and cheeks.
Uniface is made of an extremely thin “bionic-skin” and is applied with “cell-blending” glue so that women won’t even feel like they’re wearing anything, which is good since it can only be removed by a trained technician. Luckily, the rest of the upkeep is incredibly simple — the mask, like regular skin, only requires a simple wash.
There’s one major problem standing between interested customers and the Uniface beauty mask, though: no physical and online retailers stock the mask because it doesn’t actually exist. Instead it was a thesis project of Zhuoying (Joy) Li, an Interaction Design student at NYU.
Li, who moved from China to the US during high school, created the project to comment on the pressure that women, particularly Chinese women, face to conform to mainstream beauty standards and its effect on self-esteem.
“The longer I stay in the US, the more important I feel individuality is regarding facial appearance, which is the opposite in China,” she told CNET last month.
In addition to the mask, Li also designed an accompanying, and very professional-looking, website, “to ironically communicate how media has manipulated women’s desire to have the same extreme facial features,” she wrote on the project’s thesis page.
“Uniface is intended to raise the awareness of this beauty issue, and to make women rethink about what they are doing to themselves.”