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Bagelheads Become the New Trend in Japanese Body Modification (VIDEO)
Global Post ^ | September 26, 2012 | Alexander Besant

Posted on 09/27/2012 12:02:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The Japanese have added another to their list of bizarre cultural phenomena: bagelheads.

"Bagelhead" is a form of extreme body modification that sees saline injected into the forehead causing swelling, after finally being pushed in the middle to form the shape of a bagel (see video below).

The Daily Mail said the process takes two hours and the bagel remains indented on the forehead for nearly a day.

The body eventually absorbs the saline and the forehead goes back to normal.

One client of a Tokyo body modification clinic told the Sun after having a giant needle plunged into her forehead that “It’s a relaxing sensation."

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“It’s kind of tingly and a building pressure that feels like it’s sending me to sleep.”

Vice said that the practice came to Japan around 2007.

However, the magazine said, it is actually one of the less extreme body modification practices taking place in Japan.

Things like amputation, ear pointing, and navel removal are also popular.

Despite the popularity of having a bagel on the forehead, other parts of the body can also have saline injections to hilarious effect.

The Sun reported that people even have "scrotal infusions."


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bagelhead; bagelheads; bagels; bodymodification; japan
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To: Charles Martel

That guy looks like a butt head.


21 posted on 09/27/2012 12:37:28 PM PDT by Busywhiskers ("Once you have wrestled, everything else in life is easy" -Dan Gable)
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To: GeronL

22 posted on 09/27/2012 12:40:19 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: Charles Martel

Butt implants, yerdoinitwrongz.

23 posted on 09/27/2012 12:43:34 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: nickcarraway

I saw something exactly like that, saw a guy miss a knuckleball playing catch. His turned a pretty purple eventually.

Freegards


24 posted on 09/27/2012 12:46:46 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: nickcarraway

They look like romulans.


25 posted on 09/27/2012 12:51:34 PM PDT by Ellendra (http://www.ustrendy.com/ellendra-nauriel/portfolio/18423/concealed-couture/)
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To: Olog-hai
. . . and this is supposed to be attractive?

Just trying to make it look like there's something up there.
26 posted on 09/27/2012 12:54:04 PM PDT by aruanan
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27 posted on 09/27/2012 12:57:50 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: nickcarraway

Some people know no bounds when it comes to attracting attention to themselves.

I think the common terminology is, “Attention W****”.


28 posted on 09/27/2012 1:02:34 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (I wanna start a Seniors' Motor Scooter Gang. Wanna join?)
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To: a fool in paradise; martin_fierro

NOT kosher!


29 posted on 09/27/2012 1:03:58 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Busywhiskers
That guy looks like a butt head.

Or a Talosian walking backwards.

;-)

Actually, the goth chick with the surgically forked tongue is far more creepy. Looks like this isn't just occurring in Japan.

30 posted on 09/27/2012 1:11:02 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: nickcarraway
I.

LOVE.

JAPAN.

31 posted on 09/27/2012 1:14:14 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The American news media, the 'Pravda Press', is fully Soviet-ized.)
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To: nickcarraway
Now that Honey Boo Boo has made it to the *bigtime* ...she may be suing for copyright infringement...she also rights to *owns all *f@rts* and *belches*.


32 posted on 09/27/2012 1:15:58 PM PDT by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
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To: nickcarraway

Must make it hard to use all those cameras......just sayin’


33 posted on 09/27/2012 1:16:56 PM PDT by DainBramage
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To: nickcarraway
WHY did I click on this thread ??

< slaps self silly >


34 posted on 09/27/2012 1:19:25 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: nickcarraway

Klingons?


35 posted on 09/27/2012 1:20:36 PM PDT by zeugma (Rid the world of those savages. - Dorothy Woods, widow of a Navy Seal, AMEN!)
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To: nickcarraway

The ultimate in attention whorism! “Hey everybody! Look at me! I have a bagel head!”


36 posted on 09/27/2012 1:44:58 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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Not Klingons. Cardassians.


37 posted on 09/27/2012 1:49:20 PM PDT by real saxophonist
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To: nickcarraway

I used to work for a company that made boro-silicate tiles for the Space Shuttle. We discovered that the material is totally bio-compatible and that bone readily grows into it.

At the time, one of my customers was Special Ops Command. I told a Ranger Colonel, “I can make your head bulletproof. You may look a little funny, but you will not need kevlar anymore.”


38 posted on 09/27/2012 2:44:47 PM PDT by darth
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To: Olog-hai

Yes.

To Klingons.


39 posted on 09/27/2012 3:06:42 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: real saxophonist
Hmm, ya think?


40 posted on 09/27/2012 3:10:52 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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