Saline forehead injections: what the kids are into nowadays

Ryoichi Keroppy Maeda/ Vice Magazine
Ryoichi Keroppy Maeda/ Vice Magazine

I feel old. 15 years ago, I thought my eyebrow pierce was pretty in your face.

Now super underground Japanese teens are injecting saline into their skulls to get the "bagelhead" look. It's completely outpaced my threshold for what doesn't freak me out.

Vice Magazine caught up with these 'kids tah-day' and published some of the most intense photos on record. As part of the "extreme body mod" scene, there's a lot of pressure to look freaky. So some people go to saline parties and get 2-hour drip injections that swell up their forehead like a puffed pastry. Then they push their thumbs into the center of the puff so their foreheads get nice round bagel shape.

According to the photographer who shot these amazing images of Japanese saline parties where bagelheads are born, it's only a temporary deformity. The morning after, your forehead returns to its usual taut texture.

It actually sounds a lot like a botox party on Real Housewives of Orange County, only with significantly younger people who probably hold their liquor better. Still, if tomorrow I inherited a teenager who happened to be going through a bagelhead phase, I'd totally ground her. When did I get so lame?


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