Beauty is painful

Introducing Lip Venom (NY Times article). Now you can sting your lips into a fuller, more luxurious state of distention, with this painful, irritant-laden lip gloss. This is just the thing for my date tonight.

This stuff literally makes your lips inflate by irritating them with some secret combination of chemicals. People who have used it say that it hurts, but it’s worth it to have full, plump lips.

WTF! Who are you people?!

[via Kottke.org]