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  • Chinese women sport all new face-kini for the beach.

  • Check out the face-kini. It's a mask Chinese women wear to help them keep

  • light complexion while they swim at the beach. The face-kini was invented by

  • Jiang-Sue-Fian.

  • It first attend to the market in 2004 and swiftly became a hit item at the beach

  • of a China's coastal city of Tsingtao.

  • However, young children at the beach complain that the Mama Jiang's face-kini

  • looked too scary.

  • So Jiang turn to Peking Opera for inspiration to enhance her designs.

  • Jiang says she never imagined the face-kini would become so popular.

  • Selling about 30,000 pieces last year.

  • The Internet has some comments on China's face-kini trend.

  • Twitter user Mark Atomos Pilon said he finds it so strange and out of place.

  • Pretty user Shelley Mantei said face-kini is just plan wrong.

  • Your thoughts?

Chinese women sport all new face-kini for the beach.

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