Face slapping: New massage technique for men

Enjoy a good face slap?

A fresh meat trader at the Bang Kapi market in Bangkok offers a face-slapping service for men who like the fresh-faced look.

She says that by applying the right slapping technique, she can make the skin look fresher, more vibrant, and alive.

Beauty-conscious gays and kathoey who want to improve their appearance are among her most loyal supporters, says Plernrasami Ngernthongudompet, 39, who adds she took up face slapping to supplement her daytime income.

Plernrasami is a student of Thailand's pre-eminent face and breast slapper, Kemika na Songhla, who has appeared on television to demonstrate her technique (ตบนมอึ๋มและตบหน้าแอ๊บแบ๊ว).

Kemika slaps women's faces and breasts to make them bigger, though the stories I have read do not say how long the swelling lasts.

She has appeared on television to demonstrate her technique. To see the face-slapping demo, go here (link harvested - it died). For the breast-slapping demo, go here (link harvested - it died). 

In the first video, the programme hosts say they notice a difference immediately. The woman who volunteered to have her face slapped suddenly looked brighter and bigger in the cheeks.

In the second video, Kemika took her volunteer behind a couch. The volunteer took off her top and lay down on the floor out of view of the cameras. Kemika poked her head above the couch so she could carry on chatting with the programme host, as she set about slapping the woman's breasts.

Tdop! Tdop! Tdop!

Breast-slapping, she says, is not something she can show on national television. After the demonstration, her volunteer, was who wearing dark glasses to disguise her identity, submitted her chest to the tape-measure test. Before being slapped, her chest measured 32 inches.

Afterwards, the tape measure had barely budged, but the host agreed that she had developed a pleasing mound.

Kemika, whose massage technique has made headlines internationally, can show students how it's done for B1000.

'If I showed viewers how to do it on television, my income would dry up in a flash,' she told her host.

Women who visit Kemika at home to get their breasts slapped would feel uncomfortable in the presence of men who come in search of the service, she said. For this reason, she has declared her home must remain a male-free zone.

Spotting a market opening, her apprentice Plernrasami says she decided to offer the face-slapping service to men herself. She believes the market for slapping men has the potential to expand as least as much as that for women, as this is the age of metrosexuality, when men care about how they look.

She slaps the face in a way that makes the skin pores rise. She says getting results from men's faces is easier, even though their skin is rougher than women's.

She uses the front, back and side of hand, depending on whether she wants to make skin tauter, and the flesh on the face rise, or diminish.

However, Plernrasami says she has to slap men hard, which can be shocking at first. One session lasts 15 minutes for each side of the face.

Her teacher Kemika, who has been slapping women's breasts for more than 10 years, had complimented her on her slapping technique. 'You have a gift,' she said.

Plernrasami says many years of cutting up meat in the market have given her a sense of timing and strength in her hands which she needs to make this unusual massage technique work.

Source: Excite Thailand.

Postscript: I do not have a contact number for her. Nor do I know how much she charges.