I would not be surprised if there were some obscure Star Trek race that looked like this, from like 1 issue of an 80s comic.
And amateurs.
This needs to be restated: Japan is weird.
Are you thinking really hard? Because I see ripples on your pond.
This, only I was thinking with my knitting needle.
They’re still years behind the US prison community.
But can we agree that everybody wants a rock to wind a piece of string around?
I was just thinking that a Qadgop reference is conspicuously missing.
Dear Japan,
WTF?
Sincerely,
The Rest Of The World
XOXO
Which layers of skin is it injected in? Is it just above the bone? Why doesn’t it flow away?
That’s a good thing? Really?
I kind of wish it was permanent. That way we could tell who the idiot hipsters are among us.
Son, you got a tsunami on your head.
And now I’ve gotta go watch Raising Arizona again. 
BTW, I remember seeing these pics, or ones like them, at least a couple-few years ago. I was HOPING it’d just die away; wonder wth brought it out into daylight again?
At least they’re not wearing grills. (Link to Wiki page.)
Bagels? Grills? I’m sensing a theme here.
There’s a thin layer of muscle and fatty tissue in the forehead that is infused with saline. Think of it as a sponge soaking up water. It isn’t just an open pocket of fluid there. Then it is absorbed into the bloodstream and carried away over about 24 hours.
I really can’t see it not having some deleterious effect for someone who does it frequently over an extended period of time.
I used to have a cat in chronic renal failure. Part of her treatment was to have 200 CC of subcutaneous saline administered about every 3 days. She’d get a large lump in her side after I gave the saline (which she was fine about - never minded the needle or the fluids). In about 12 hours, the fluids had been absorbed. She never had any side effects. It’s just sterile fluid.
I’ve seen programs where they insert balloons and expand them with fluid to stretch skin if they’re going to need to do skin grafts. That would be very different, though.
StG
There’s no link to the source, but the pictures look like stills from one of those 3:00 in the morning type shows that have a budget funded by pocket change and feature seriously odd shit in an attempt to capture the attention of a minuscule insomniac audience. And by seriously odd, I mean odd by Japanese standards.
Believe me, I’m one of the first to point and laugh at Japanese weirdness, and I sometimes get first dibs since I live here, but this “trend” is about as mainstream as the stuff you see on BME. (VERY NSFW, even with Safe Search on.)
Ok, I thought it was like a blister or something. Also, wouldn’t the indentation fill out quite fast, like in a few seconds?
This is non-fetish? Does there have to be handcuffs or flogging to make it fetish?
Og knows what’s being stuck into those holes while they last.
While I’ll grant that damned near anything can be made the object of a fetish or used for sexual purposes, or viewed in a sexual way, it would be an uphill battle to convince me that forehead modification of this sort falls into that category. Whereas it’s hard to see the temporary breast augmentation or scrotum inflation in any other way. The Forehead Bagel is too obvious, too public, and too far removed from what most people consider sexual to be an obvious candidate for this. It’s more likr Temporary Tattoos for the not-quite-Body Mod crowd.
Wouldn’t surprise me to see some Trekkies going Klingon with this at a convention, though.
I can’t believe that no one in this thread has brought up this Funny or Die routine…