Neck Tape Nation & Loving the Body We Have

If one of your goals for the new year or just life in general has been to whip out some tape, grab the back of your neck, and stick it on that spot in the name of improving your appearance, then this is quite the time to be alive. Or at least it is according to the folks behind Nexsey.

Thanks to the world of viral videos, I’ve recently learned about Nexsey, a strong tape designed to improve your looks. Quite simply, the tape strives to undo the horrific thing known as, well, looking your age.  Capitalizing on the widely-held notion that everyone is supposed to remain stuck in a time span in which their appearance should never exceed 25 years of their birth year, even while blowing out 30, 50, or 70-something birthday candles, Nexsey knows what they’re doing.

Is it no surprise that upon checking out their site (as of this writing), that the following statement appears?

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We’re a society fixated on appearance. We’re too thin, too fat. That person over there looks like a clown with that haircut, that person a few feet away thinks they’re all that wearing sunglasses indoors. Look how wrinkled she is. Look how bald he got. Wish I had his biceps. Wish I had her eye color. On and on it goes. We digitally change people in magazines, we acknowledge our supposed collective frustration about this, yet we often strive to look like the very illusions that blanket the majority of media imagery—even calling them “enhancements.”

In fact, illusion—you know, not real, fake—is at the very core of Nexsey. On their glorified Box O Tape are the words, “The Beauty of Illusion.” So ladies and gentlemen, give up your $19.99 for an illusion. And sadly, people have.

A Nexsey video that’s been circulating via Viral Thread (credit: Glamzilla) features women who happily stick this tape to the back of their neck. This particular video is laced with phrases such as: