Bagelheads – Japanese Up Their Weirdo Cred With Latest Fad

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By Jeff Wysaski on June 30, 2009

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In their perpetual pursuit to “out-weird” the rest of the world, the Japanese have resorted to perhaps the stupidest body mod fad of all-time.

No, those kids up there in the photo aren’t suffering from progressed brain tumors. Rather, they are bagelheads: people who modify their body so that it looks like a giant bagel is growing out of their skin.

The look is accomplished through the use of a saline solution drip, which is injected at your local tattoo/piercing shop by a professional piercer. The injection causes massive swelling, which can then be molded and pressed into the shape of your choosing.

Naturally, the Japanese chose the logical shape of a bagel.

Apparently, if a skin-shaped bagel isn’t enough for you, you can add food dye to give color to your bump. So, with a few dots of black food coloring, I guess you could easily transform your plain old bagelhead into a much more delicious cinnamon raisin.

The fad isn’t relegated to just the face. Low-IQ Japanese in Tokyo and Osaka have also been injecting bagels into their boobs, arms and ass.

Thankfully, the bagels only last for one night before your body gobbles up the saline solution and your skin returns to normal. Still, possible side effects include headache, infection, stretched skin, the inability to wear a hat and getting laughed at by everyone who looks at you.

Reader Comments

  1. am June 30, 2009 - 10:52 pm

    So gross!

  2. Recon July 1, 2009 - 3:36 am

    Om nom nom

  3. ian July 1, 2009 - 4:19 am

    there’s always someone out there to do it…lol

  4. biz July 1, 2009 - 10:01 am

    Freaks try to be noticed. This is the only way to them to be noticed.

  5. Kosmo July 1, 2009 - 10:25 am

    well, you’re right. this is pretty weird.

  6. Amy July 1, 2009 - 2:03 pm

    By far the most retarded thing I’ve ever seen. Dumbasses.

  7. kanoe July 1, 2009 - 6:12 pm

    Why is this written as “The Japanese”? Sure, it’s strange but you see people doing stuff like this in the US and Canada all the time. Not like most or even many people in Japan think this is fashionable or normal.

  8. Cait July 2, 2009 - 11:33 am

    Are you kidding me? I totally want to grope that bagel! right. WTF. No one in their right mind and completely sober would ever get that done. Nasty.

  9. Kate July 3, 2009 - 7:53 am

    See the full story and pics at bizarremag.com http://www.bizarremag.com/weird-news/tattoos-body-art/7801/body_inflation.html

  10. Frito July 4, 2009 - 9:28 am

    Idiocracy

  11. j July 6, 2009 - 8:55 am

    People taking advange of lower level IQ people, who are in d e e p need for acceptance !

    the people appying the saline should be banned and fined !!

    If those r bagles, can they just finish it off and add some big slices of lox.
    Then maybe we can completly not see thier faces !!

    kind of makes u think, anyone even remotly good looking, would pass on this. a trend for the japanse ulgy.

  12. me July 6, 2009 - 11:54 pm

    i got my ear pierced!!! if you want to see a picture of it, just hit me up!

  13. Myself July 7, 2009 - 1:33 pm

    It’s more that STUPID…it’s an abomination!!

  14. Myself July 7, 2009 - 2:06 pm

    Hey! How about the ?Ubangi’s? of Africa with their large distorted lips, somewhere in ?central? Africa?

  15. jila July 8, 2009 - 4:25 pm

    I was in Japan shooting a fashion show for World Swimwear and I hve to say the club seen in Japan is pretty freaky. This bagelhead thing would be great in a Hollywood movie, or even on Halloween. These guys eyes are swollen! Looks gross and painful.

  16. arturo July 9, 2009 - 7:39 am

    can cream cheese and loxheads be far behind?

  17. arturo July 9, 2009 - 7:41 am

    can loxheads and cream cheeseheads be far behind?

  18. The Keitai Goddess July 17, 2009 - 5:17 am

    You really didn’t do your research very well before posting this story. Bagel heads was just a fun term made up by a person on a bulletin board called Fucked Gaijin when he first reported and cited the original story.

    The people who do this DO NOT call themselves bagel heads.

    I wish that journalists would actually do a bit more research before posting this sort of name as fact. It isn’t that hard to do. But I guess why let the truth get in the way of a good story.

  19. arturo July 19, 2009 - 2:55 pm

    Dear Goddess.
    Lighten up, lest I call you a lox-head.
    Yrs,
    Arturo

  20. Heather July 24, 2009 - 12:30 am

    damn asians. first pearl harbor, now this?

  21. jackie chan July 26, 2009 - 10:10 am

    mayamayamaybe we can find soolluution?

    WE DA POLEECE

    DA POLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEECE

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