THE LATEST FAD IN JAPAN IS BECOMING A BAGEL HEAD?

A friend of mine posted this on Facebook yesterday, and at first, I thought that it was a Photoshop joke. Then, this morning I see it in the newspaper as the latest fad to hit Japan. Apparently, the body art fanatics in Japan are bored of getting tattoos and piercings, so now, the kids are getting their kicks from what they call "bagel-heading"! Say it with me now, "What the F**k?" 

This new trend and bizarre look is achieved by pumping saline into the forehead until a large welt forms. How is this good for your body? Then again, is putting ink into your skin exactly healthy? Anyway, the practitioner then presses a finger in the lump, giving it a shape that looks like a bagel. Anyone hungry?

 A segment on a TV show called Taboo on the National Geographic Channel showed one brave young trio giving the procedure a shot in a Tokyo clinic. One of the participants said that it felt like something was dripping down his head as a thin tube of nearly 400 cc's of saline is pumped into his face. Two hours after the gloved practitioner set their thumb into the swollen saline bubble, the young man grabs for a mirror, and after looking at himself, stated "I look delicious!"

According to one website, the procedure is not permanent and the bagel bump usually deflates in about a day as the body absorbs the saline. One magazine said that saline injections and bagel-heading was created out of the extreme body modification scene and first came to Tokyo in 2007. I thought that I've seen it all, but this tops off the cake for me! These people look like aliens! As if being Asian, like myself, wasn't alien-looking enough, they had to come up with this body modification? Why not bagel-penising or something like that? This way you don't have to walk around looking like you belong on Star Trek and the only person who sees your bagel penis is the person you're with! If they wanted to say that it looked delicious, then even better! Bagel-heading? No, thank you!