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Body Modifications: Bagel Heads

Posted by caffeinedreams3 on

Let’s shed some light on a terrifying extreme body modification: Bagel Heads.

The world of body modifications is practically endless, almost anything is possible….if you’re into that. With this particular body mod, a needle is placed into the forehead while saline slowly flows into the forehead. A reservoir of saline is created and the practitioner places their thumb in the middle to create the “bagel” or “doughnut” shape.

 

In all it takes about two hours from when the needle is placed into the forehead until the final indentation is made. Thankfully this is a body mod that is only temporary. Your body will actually absorb the saline and within 24 the swelling will have gone down and you will like as you did before the procedure.

 

This trend was actually started in Canada, and was then brought to Japan by Keroppy Maeda. National Geographic did a special about this body mod for their Taboo series.

*IMPORTANT NOTE* IF YOU ARE SQUEEMISH ABOUT NEEDLES YOU MAY NOT WANT TO WATCH THE VIDEO THIS IS RATHER UNSETTLING CONTENT SO VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED 


Video from Youtube yverdonke2 18 September 2012

This video really explains a lot about how the body modification is performed. Just note that contrary of what some think, this is not all that common among Japanese Culture. In fact, a lot of Japanese don’t know about it, as well as you probably didn’t know about it until now.

I’m not really sure what would make someone want to go through with this kind of procedure. I know that the closest I would ever want to come to doing something like this would be putting a bagel on my forehead.

xo, B