You know how it goes: you've got a drawer full of makeup and hair accessories, but you need a look that's really going to wow people. Well, worry not, beauty fans. New York Fashion Week [1] has the answer, and it's as weird and wacky [2] as ever: the vagina wig.

South Korean-born fashion designer Kaimin sent some of her models down the runway wearing merkins [3], which were part of a punk collection that was inspired by diversity and tolerance.

As startling as these looks are, merkins aren't a new invention. The vagina wigs are often used in Hollywood for sex scenes [4], and women in the 15th century wore merkins [5] after shaving their pubic hair to rid themselves of lice (this is getting sexier by the minute, I know). In the same era, sex workers sometimes turned to merkins to hide signs of sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis.

But this isn't even the weirdest thing we've seen lately: the blinking eyeball nails [6] and nostril hair extensions [7] are still giving us nightmares.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, the vagina wigs did have their own team of hairstylists [8].