Bagelheads, Body Modification, without a Cutting Edge?
Yes, you are seeing it right. Women over 45 and (our younger friends), these fine upstanding youngsters pictured are fondly called Bagelheads. These uber-happening youths are part of a underground Body Modification scene (Body-Mod) that inject medical grade saline into their foreheads. The whole process can take up to two hours, with the bagel effect created by pressing your thumb into the mound of saline. GROSSED OUT YET????
WAIT THERE IS MORE….FREAK FOR A NIGHT
It only lasts one night…yeah that’s right. After that the saline absorbs back into the skin, usually by the next morning…kinda like a werewolf? Reportly, the forehead is not the only place that peole are injecting..but I can’t even go there, so just use your imagination…or don’t, I don’t blame you.
Bagelhead…Just what every Mommy wishes for..
But it’s harmless right? I mean it’s just saline and it absorbs by morning! People use saline for their contact lenses for goodness sake!
Top Plastic Surgeon comments on Bagelheads and Medical Concerns
Medically speaking Brian S. Glatt, MD, FACS, a renowned Board Certified Plastic Surgeon from New Jersey/New York City Area comments:
The procedure, of creating a “Bagelhead” is theoretically medically safe–providing that medical grade STERILE saline solution is utilized. But certain protocols must be followed and risks must always be considered.
- Sterile Medical grade saline is indeed a MUST. Really essential salt water, Saline is used in standard IV fluid as the most common element. You also will find, many people use Sterile Saline to wet their contact lense. It is a safe substance to inject into your skin but precautions are a must!
- Utilize Proper Injection Techniques. Anytime, a substance is injected into your body by a person with insufficient medical training their is always the risk of damage to the underlying skin structures. Medical injections should only be done by a medical professional. You must always consider if you are causing harm to the the blood vessels, nerves, and muscles when injecting ANYTHING into the skin. Improper injections can lead to dangerous injuries, infections or permanent damage.
- Long term effects of continued use: Overexpanding the skin to this extent, resulting in a Bagelhead, can lead irreparable harm to the forehed in the soft tissues and skin. It could result in sagging, loosening, and even thinning. The damage may not be readily apparent but long term effects might be seen years down the ROAD.
Okay, EWWWWWWW!
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What do you think of the BodyMod, Bagelhead movement?
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Never heard of it before and I’ll keep it that way.
I love piercings and tattoo but I would never do this and I hope when my kids get older they don’t either. This is one fad I don’t understand!
This is something I do not agree with, but it is their body. I just don’t get it, and don’t want to.
I see nothing attractive about this, but then again, is it any stranger than injecting a deadly poison (Botox) into the same area? If this became wildly popular, I might understand some people opting for it to disguise forehead wrinkles and feel like part of the young crowd. I’d totally wanna spread cream cheese on them, though, if only so I didn’t have to look at it.
As for other parts of the body, I’d never do that either because why risk infection or other damage? I was told by one woman who had it done, however, that the feeling was beyond intense and one of the best sensual experiences of her life. Bully for her, but I’m content with natural swelling, thanks.
I love tattoos (although not on my because I fear pain), and some piercings are pretty awesome (again, not on me!), but I draw the line at stuff like this. I’ve seen some freaky things online and in real life that make me wonder why on earth someone would do that to themselves. But hey, to each his or her own!
Why? Why, why, WHY? What the heck is attractive about that? EWWWW!!!!
What the heck? Is this supposed to be attractive?? Who woke up and said “Hey let’s inject saline in our heads so it looks like a bagel, that would be cool.” Yuck!!!! Their poor parents:)
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OMGosh – I was so stunned by the bagleheads, the I was unable to spell properly. EYESIGHT.
And somebody tell me – where do these kids get all the money to pay for all of this stuff – It can’t be cheap!
Please don’t tell my that mommy and daddy aren’t shoveling out the dough.
I pray that by the time all these kids with gauged ears, tattoos, multiple body piercings, etc. etc. are old enough to have their ear lobes hanging down to their shoulders, their tattoos faded, and their piercings pulled out by their babies and grand babies…that my site will be so poor, that I won’t be able to see it – YUCK!
Libby….so true. Age is the greatest Body-Mod that can ever happen to anyone! Ha. How little they know.
The Chief Blonde
That was disgusting. So disgusting, I’m going to have to share it. I will say that I have hope now that the young man I saw last year with what appeared to be horns on his head might not have been permanent. Saw that at the Tulsa State Fair. You see LOTS of weird things at the fair.
Jayne…I think this combined with horns would be the ultimate. I just wonder, when they look in the mirror, what is it that they think?
The Chief Blonde
I would be smacking my kids’ forehead until that chit got absorbed! I believe in self expression and I always let my kids experiment with hair..make up…piercing..but that is much to much. Eww I thot they were going for the Star Trek alien look lol!
I set and laughed and laughed when i read your comment Theresa. Smacking was my first reaction to, kinda looks like bubble wrap right?
The Chief Blonde
I just talked a friend out of even bigger boobs yesterday, she is already an E. The one thing that she kept saying was that she felt that everyone that was also getting their boobs done had already gone to an E as well and so it wasn’t enough, more had to be done– she compared it to education, like a H.S or Bachelors degree isn’t enough anymore, everyone needs to go one step further now. Insane
Sophie,
You did the right thing. I am a natural E and it sucks. I can’t imagine making them bigger, especially to keep up with the Jones’s. WHAT WAS she thinking?
The Chief Blonde
And they thought our generation was bad.
Yea Linda,
It’s so funny. I know that you are just a tiny bit older than me. But people just that much older than me were a much wilder crowd I think…the whole hippy, drug, LSD thing. I was talking to my husband last night about your comment, saying that he and I had actually witnessed something quite unique in human history. Where we were actually a more conservative group than those slightly older than us. Weird right?
The Chief Blonde
I’m a fan of body modifications, but that just looks stupid. To each their own I guess, as long as they are using sterile saline and sterile needles.
Hi Melissa,
As you say, they are only potentially harming themselves…maybe grossing us out, but really it is a personal thing. THanks.
The Chief Blonde
I just threw up on my keyboard. Happy?!?! Btw, my first thought was…holy crap! They’re about to morph into werewolves! Ew. Are people in-freaking-sane? Sheesh.
Hey Kristin,
I so hear ya. I just have to bring this stuff to the masses. Otherwise we’d assume that everyone was a productive human being..NOT!
The Chief BLonde
WOW. I AM SO, SO, SO GLAD I AM NOT BORN TO THIS GENERATION. REALLY. MY WAS BAD ENOUGH!
Angel,
HAHA, so true. When I see stuff like this (and I really don’t want to see it) I think, what a waste of a life. Instead of spending 2 hours getting their heads injected, why don’t they do something a little more productive?
The Chief Blonde
Really?! What will people come up with next!!!
Hi Cara, I know right? It seems the human mind can just never stop reaching new levels of yucky.
The Chief Blonde
Okay, so I’m assuming you aren’t going to be in line to get this done? Working in a large hospital we see some weird stuff. People go to a tattoo parlor and get some crazy stuff embedded under their skin (in some pretty amazing places). Dominos, marbles, screws, fish hooks, horns, 100’s of piercings, yep, this never ceases to amaze me.
Hi Diane, Amazing right? No I am not getting this done. Maybe you should write me a guest blog about the embedding..pictures too! THAT would be interesting…not sure we want to see it though!
The Chief Blonde