Once in a while a post on Trend Hunter just makes me cringe imagining the pain and discomfort the latest crazes must inflict. We’ve seen trends featuring people who have gone to extremes with piercings, and other body altercations. There have been trends revealing painful, even torturous fashions. Then we have the ‘luxury’ spa treatments which people actually pay large sums of money to have various levels of pain inflicted on themselves in the name of beauty and vanity.

So here’s a collection of some of the most excruciating, wrenching and agonizing trends on Trend Hunter. They may not all actually inflict pain, but look like they have potential.