Bagelheads Invade Japan

By Adrienne Crezo in Body Modifications on Jun 21, 2011 at 9:11 pm

Extreme body modification has taken an interesting turn in Japan. These lovely people above have had saline pumped into their foreheads for about two hours, a process that creates a rather, um, well… it makes a lump. And if you press your thumb into your forehead while the saline is pumping in, it makes a bagel, which is awesome? I don’t get it. There’s an interview with the intrepid Ryoichi “Keroppy” Maeda, who introduced the technique to Japan over at Vice Style. Lots more pics, but probably NSF-the needle-sensitive. Link


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  1. vonskippy
    Jun 21st, 2011 at 10:21 pm

    Stop by the hospital, we’ll lance that up for you in no time.

  2. Rooboy
    Jun 21st, 2011 at 10:30 pm

    and the freaks get freakier… I wonder if they flip out when people stare… hehe

  3. Natey
    Jun 22nd, 2011 at 12:30 am

    It’s one thing to be into body modification in the U.S., but I imagine it takes a special kind of courage (or whatever you’d like to call it) to be into it in Japan. I mean, just showing a tattoo is banned in many Japanese public establishments.

    I doubt they’re thinking about what their foreheads will look like in the future, but whatever. It’s their bodies. People like this make the world more interesting.

  4. Squishy
    Jun 22nd, 2011 at 12:51 am

    One word….assface.

  5. John Farrier
    Jun 22nd, 2011 at 4:21 am

    Excellent find, Adrienne.

  6. Ratz
    Jun 22nd, 2011 at 5:11 am

    Presumably if it’s just saline it’ll be reabsorbed in due course?

  7. Ratz
    Jun 22nd, 2011 at 5:15 am

    Ah, it disappears within about 24 hours. Still.. YKINMK.

  9. Miss Cellania
    Jun 22nd, 2011 at 8:20 am

    Does the girl on the right have mismatched contact lenses (in addition to all that other stuff)?

  10. Adrienne Crezo
    Jun 22nd, 2011 at 8:21 am

    I think she’s wearing only one. But she has fangs, which sort of distracts from the fact that she lost a contact.

  11. Kalel
    Jun 22nd, 2011 at 9:29 am

    It kind of blurs the line between individuality and neurosis, doesn’t it?

  12. Ryan S
    Jun 22nd, 2011 at 9:55 am

    It looks like she is wearing a white contact, similar to what Marylin Manson wears in some of his stage shows.

    0 is trying to belong. Think of it in those terms.

  13. Chris B.
    Jun 22nd, 2011 at 10:18 am

    They remind me of the kids in school that would stick pencils up their nose to get attention.

  14. Egbert
    Jun 22nd, 2011 at 10:37 am

    Its their life…seems alien to me to deliberately go out of your way to look ugly though.

    Anyone remember Otto Sump’s ugly craze in 2000ad from like 1980 or something? Well, here it is…

  15. Frau
    Jun 22nd, 2011 at 1:31 pm

    The chick has two different lenses. The one on the left is ” blood red” which is something in between a regular lense and a sclera lense. The one on the right is ” white out”.
    I have sets of both for my zombie outfits.


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