This is not a cosmetics or cosmetics review website. This is a website that investigates, analyzes, and searches for the solution of height increase. However I felt that I probably would be able to give my own personal review on the theory of this product due to previous research in bone remodeling.
Sometimes I see products being sold at the local convenience store I shop at and I get a slight swinge of anger from seeing something which I know would never work but still sells to people due to their insecurities like vanity or fear. This happened to me yesterday.
While I was walking through the local supermarket trying to get toiletries I ended up in the aile where female cosmetic products were being sold. Along that long and large section, I saw again what I would only call the “Japanese Face Slimming Roller Massager”. Refer to picture to the right if you are not familiar or know what I am talking about.
I remember back when I was living in the states going to places like the Japanese based store Diaso or the locally Seattle based asian supermarket chain Uwajimaya and seeing this thing which was a Japanese invention. Now that I am living in East Asia I am seeing this product again.
Although I have never bought the roller and used it myself, I wanted to give a thought to the effect of the Japanese face slimming roller massager. I actually think that the extended use of this massager may actually cause the opposite intended effects of face slimming due to how bones remodel.
Note: Picture is taken from EBeautyBlog.com
We see from other pictures that the natural state of the roller is not in a V-shape but in a rather tight tweezer shape. If I was to put this thing on my face, would the elasticity be weak enough to only roll my skin or will the elasticity be stronger and actually cause the roller ends to be touching my bone ie. jawline?
If it is just touching my outer layer of epidermis, my skin, then what it does as it rolls along the face is to move around the adipose tissue making it slightly more uniform in distribution thus causing the face to be slightly smoother. Think of the big Zambonis (Ice resurfacer) which you find at ice skating rinks.
In terms of the application for massager, it seems to work well. In quite a few forums like HERE we find out that it is a nice product if you are looking to get a way to massage your cheeks and face. People like its stress lowering, comforting, therapeutic effects. The effects made by the few people who review show it helps in a psychological way which is probably a placebo. They say it relieves tension and maybe also reduces pain.
However, due to how it is touching and at what frequency on the face, there is a chance that repeated application of the hard surface can cause the jawline bones, the side mandibular area to actually thicken, due to the Wolff’s Law. Periosteal and appositional growth of the bone may lead to the bones to grow wider and thus the face wider too. Of course this is assuming the face slimmer is even touching the bone. If it is, it would cause it from continued use, but the effects would be so small it would be mostly unnoticeable, maybe only 1-2 mm of mandibular bone thickening.
In addition, if we remember our basic knowledge on massage theories, one of the biggest things that happens to human skin when you apply a loading motion like massages and acupressure is that it would lead to the blood vessels in that area to dilate leading to better and increased circulation and blood flow. This means the area would actually become slightly engorged. Think about how a person who gets hit by a blunt object will find that area later to be swollen. This would also lead to the opposite intended effect, making the face wider.
If the product does have any face slimming effects, its application on the skin must be very soft and it would cause the adipose tissue unders the skin to move away from the area where it is being rolled and applied at to another area. However it seems this thing is cheap at around $3-5 in most stores so it is worth a try just to see how it feels.
