Black Facial Tissue from Japan (Where Else?)

• bean
  March 19th, 2008 at 7:04 pm

  That actually looks like a good idea. Funerals, people who are squeamish about snot or nosebleeds… it has real applications.

• Yudonomi
  March 19th, 2008 at 7:23 pm

  I got some black q-tip style ear swabs the last time I was in Japan. I wasn’t ready for the brutal honesty of how much gunk comes out of my ears.

• Desmondus
  March 19th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

  Using black napkins always leaves like a smear of black on the face/hands. I wonder if these do it too.

• Nastia
  March 19th, 2008 at 8:16 pm

  What a waste of dye

• aj
  March 20th, 2008 at 2:10 am

  @Nastia
  I’m pretty sure they bleach the normal ones, so we’re wasting chemicals one way or the other

• NM
  March 20th, 2008 at 7:23 am

  Well Renova already made history by making the black toilet paper!
  http://www.renovaonline.net/black/?lmd=38624.448519

  I’d rather be fashionable wiping my face than other parts of my body!

• Widgett
  March 20th, 2008 at 10:33 am

  This means I’m a hipster at last? Awesome.

• lorenzo
  March 20th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

  You don’t use them like normal tissue. You use them to blot the oils off your face. Japan has lots of different kind, many of which are black (you can see the oil afterwards because it makes the matte paper shiny)

• Kelly
  March 20th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

  see. in my circle, we use the brand name “kleenex” to refer to all kinds of kleenex-ish items.
  i saw the words “black facial tissue” and i thought it was referring to the face skin of black people.

• Fn
  March 21st, 2008 at 12:57 am

  Or, if you’re Black.

• zenzele
  March 21st, 2008 at 8:11 am

  Looks like gray to me, not black, but still odd. Then again, it’s no odder than pink.

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