Bagelheads

People who inject saline into their foreheads to create bagel-shaped lumps.

Bizarremag reported recently on an extreme body-modification fad sweeping the Japanese club scene, wherein people inject their foreheads with saline solution – causing bagel-shaped swellings:

They look like alien abductees, fresh from invasive research by their interplanetary masters. But these are Japanese club kids, otherwise known as bagelheads, deliberately disfiguring themselves by experimenting with saline inflations.

These self-inflicted saline swellings last approximately 24 hours, and can be molded into shapes and colored with food dyes.

Bizarremag attributed the emergence of the bagelhead trend to the 2002 publication of Shannon Larratt’s book, “ModCon: The Secret World Of Extreme Body Modification”:

The cover showed performance artist Jerome Abramovitch looking like the devil, with what looked like a bagel wedged under his skin on his forehead. … The pictures captured the imaginations of fetish clubbers worldwide and the art of skin inflating looked set to rise (and rise).

Non-squeamish readers may wish to peruse Bizarremag’s gallery ofbagelheads, or not.