🫣 The 'Facekini' Is Gaining Popularity In China As Temperatures Soar

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
My Heart podcasts, hear more Gold one on one point
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app and Amanda jam Nation. When I was younger, I
used to travel the world with Beyond two thousand. I
do stories standing on the equator, I'd be in Africa.
I'd be in the worst, the harsh climates of the world.

(00:31):
And because that was in the eighties, I never wore sunscreen.
I had makeup on my face, which I think maybe
stop my face copping too much damage. Never or a hat,
never wore sunglasses. You couldn't on camera. Back of my hands,
you know, are one hundred years old. My neck and
chestial areas. Chest you that's enough of it from you.

(00:56):
You know, copped a whole lot of sun damage. I've
been dealing with for years. Yeah, but you've got good skin. Well,
I think my face isn't so bad because I will
make up. That's the only thing that saved me. But
I want to bring back the paraso because even now,
wearing sunscreen a hat out in summer, you can't protect
yourself from the harshness of the sun. I want to

(01:18):
bring back the parasol. You'd look kind of kooky. I
would look like from some sort of brideshead revisited year,
wouldn't I? I have to wear the long white cheese
cloth outfit. We went with it. That could work. What
about what they're doing in China. Chinese women are spending
a lot sun on skin care, as are women in
South Korea. Apparently it's a major business in South Korea

(01:40):
is women's skin care and cosmetics. In Beijing, women are
now wearing something called a face kini. It's a very
hot new fashion trend because they've got soaring temperatures there
that are shattering records. I'll show you a picture of
it in a minute. But the air temperature is rising
above thirty five degrees celsius. In many parts of China,
the ground surface temperature is sowing as high as eighty degrees,

(02:02):
and people have taken to wearing portable fans in hats
covering themselves up completely. But particularly females who are worried
about skin damage have been taken to wearing this face kini,
a vakini, a fakini. Get the fikini out of here.
I'm going to show you a picture of it and
see if you can describe what you see. And that's

(02:24):
these millions and millions of these have been selling good.
Looks like she's off to rober Bank. Looks like she's
getting to a bonnie blue of it. Oh, it's this
kind of mask that you wear after you've had burns
that it's a complete sort of near prene or whatever
fase cover with your eyes, your nose and your mouth out.

(02:47):
And that's it. So when are you getting one of those?
You know, I'm going to wear it inside here because
you just can't trust after the show, Remind me to
dake it off when I go to the bank.