Kim Kardashian shocks fans with wild SKIMS product that draws comparisons to Hannibal Lecter

Daily Mail​

2 days ago

Kim Kardashian has released a head-spinning new product from her shapewear line SKIMS, leaving fans with their mouths agape.
The item is a new headwrap called the 'Ultimate Face' and is billed on the brand's Instagram as 'our first-ever face innovation, made with signature sculpting fabric and infused with collagen yarns for ultra-soft jaw support.'
A photo announcing the Ultimate Face shows a woman wearing a skintight nude fabric hood that vaguely resembles a balaclava.
Social media users were incredulous, leaping into the comments with reactions like: 'Is it April Fools?' and: 'What in the Hannibal is this.'
'State of the world in shambles, people dying …,' wrote one commenter. 'Kim: New Hannibal Lector Nylon face wrap just dropped!!!'
The jibes were specifically referring to a scene from The Silence of the Lambs in which Anthony Hopkins ' cannibalistic serial killer is wheeled out for a meeting with a senator while strapped down, wearing a straitjacket and a muzzle.
'Can't tell if trolling,' 'Peak f***ery,' 'Can we agree to disagree,' and: 'What am I looking at here?' were among the other flabbergasted replies.
'There's a 16 year old girl out there thinking she needs to buy this crap :),' wrote one as another said: 'SKIMS : Making women feel bad about themselves since 2018.'
'How has it come to this?' wrote a third commenter while a fourth sniggered that the 'most insane morning sheds are about to begin.'
'Kim please people are dying!!!' joked one, in reference to a viral remark Kim's sister Kourtney Kardashian made to her while she panicked over a lost earring.
Although some observers were aghast at the product, many others were seized with excitement, to the point it sold out on the SKIMS website the day of its release.
One waggish Instagram commenter wrote, however: 'If this works so well, why didn't Kris Jenner use this instead of spending thousands of dollars on a face lift?'
Kris confirmed through a representative earlier this year that her newly smoothed-out complexion was the work of Dr. Steven M. Levine, known as the 'facelift maestro.'
Internet rumor-mongers claim his patients have included Lindsay Lohan, Demi Moore and Brad Pitt, none of whom has publicly commented on the speculation.
Kim's new product launch comes after she was roundly mocked for her awkward runway walk, with fans sniggering that she looked 'drunk' or 'like a tired toddler.'
Kris proudly posted a video of Kim on the catwalk for Balenciaga at Paris Fashion Week - the brand's final show under designer Demna Gvasalia.
But although her supermodel sister Kendall Jenner is an expert at working the runway, Kim's performance left viewers falling over themselves with laughter.
One fan leapt into the comments and tagged Kendall, asking: 'can you help your sister' as another giggled: 'Go kim give us nothing.'
'This is how I walk after having 2 margaritas and I'm trying to be inconspicuous when I'm actually intoxicated,' cracked one Instagram user of Kim.
'Walking discreetly to the bathroom after eating Taco Bell,' quipped another, as another compared her to 'Me sleepwalking from the potty back to my bed at 4am.'