# Is that a Bagel in your Forehead, or are you just happy to see me? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 27, 2012, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997 "2012-09-27T11:54:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/1 "2012-09-27T11:54:47Z")
I’ve been seeing this for the past couple of days, but now it’s apparently everywhere: > [@](#): > > It’s schmear insanity! > > Bored with tattoos and piercings, body art fans in Japan are getting their kicks from “bagel-heading,” according to a show. > > The bizarre look is achieved by pumping saline into the forehead until a large welt forms. > > The practitioner then presses a finger in the lump, giving it a bagel-like hole. > Read more: [‘Bagel head’ saline injections are new body art fad – New York Daily News](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/bagel-head-saline-injections-new-body-art-fad-article-1.1168711#ixzz27fcaw6pR) > **[‘Bagel head’ saline injections are new body art fad](https://www.nydailynews.com/2012/09/26/bagel-head-saline-injections-are-new-body-art-fad/)** > > It’s schmear insanity! Bored with tattoos and piercings, body art fans in Japan are getting their kicks from “bagel-heading,” according to a show. The bizarre look is achieved by … [http://jezebel.com/5945856/the-latest-beauty-trend-bagel-head](http://jezebel.com/5945856/the-latest-beauty-trend-bagel-head) ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/2 "2012-09-27T13:01:16Z")
I’m sure I won’t be the first to point out that absent an actual (and probably fatal) hole in the head, what they’ve got there are forehead bialys, not bagels. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/3 "2012-09-27T13:05:31Z")
_“Coffee, tea or my forehead?”_ Boy, I need one of those like I need a… oh, nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/4 "2012-09-27T13:23:49Z")
I can’t tell you how much I wish I’d never seen that. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/5 "2012-09-27T13:30:53Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > . . . what they’ve got there are forehead bialys, not bagels. This. All they need is a little minced onion. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/6 "2012-09-27T13:38:38Z")
> [@velvetjones](#): > > I can’t tell you how much I wish I’d never seen that. Me, too. That there is one gross, disturbing fashion trend. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/7 "2012-09-27T13:52:23Z")
I want to pop it. With a big knife. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/8 "2012-09-27T14:04:05Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I want to pop it. With a big knife. New: OXY-500…! Because you couldn’t drain that thing with an oil derrick, even if Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck were on board… ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/9 "2012-09-27T14:09:30Z")
Obviously a Klingon conspiracy- get their minions to accustom us to the forehead swellings, then soon, their masters will be able to sneak amongst us unnoticed… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/10 "2012-09-27T14:11:18Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I want to pop it. With a big knife. I gather that, before the administrator depresses the center with a thumb, producing the bagel “hole”, the thing is basically a big mound on the forehead, making it look as if you got whacked in the head with a baseball bat. Or had the World’s Largest Zit. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/11 "2012-09-27T14:11:31Z")
The one good thing is it isn’t permanent. Although I wonder how much the shops charge for a 100 cc of saline that will be absorbed in 24 hours? StG ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/12 "2012-09-27T14:14:02Z")
And then when they’re 50 their foreheads will be sagging over their eyes. I can already see the next step. Forehead molds. For that authentic Klingon look. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/13 "2012-09-27T14:18:10Z")
This isn’t the only place people get saline “implants” for a temporary embiggening, but it’s the first non-fetish use I’ve heard of. Apparently there’s a subculture of people who go in for scrotal enlargement this way. And it’s been done for female breasts as well (I’m surprised that isn’t more popular). It seems to me the potential is there for cellulitis, no matter which body part you’re inflating with salt water. Having had cellulitis\* and spent a couple of days in the hospital getting treated for it, I can definitely say it’s not a pleasant experience. \*Not for wantonly injecting saline into myself, but from a sinus infection. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/14 "2012-09-27T14:33:42Z")
No, no, it’s OK, **Cal**. We know it was from following a Japanese fad for young trendy people. You can be honest with us. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/15 "2012-09-27T14:44:40Z")
Sometimes, all you can say is “Japanese pop culture is kinda weird”. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/16 "2012-09-27T14:52:42Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Obviously a Klingon conspiracy It looks much more Cardassian than Klingon. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/17 "2012-09-27T17:54:16Z")
I’ll file this under, “Thing other people do to themselves on purpose that I would be terribly upset if it happened to me accidentally.” ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/18 "2012-09-27T18:02:41Z")
Sounds like a geat way to shave a few seconds off of your marathon time; no more slowing down to drink. Somebody tell Ryan. . . ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/19 "2012-09-27T18:18:45Z")
I want to stop the ones who want prosthetic foreheads on their heads. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997/20 "2012-09-27T18:34:49Z")
> [@velvetjones](#): > > I can’t tell you how much I wish I’d never seen that. Looks awful, donut? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-bagel-in-your-forehead-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/635997.md?page=2)