According to Bizarre magazine, some members of the body mod community in Japan is really enjoying the practice of inflating body parts through saline injections:

For people keen to experience the inflating world for themselves, Keroppy advises a trip to Tokyo’s Department H. It’s a long-running club with an ‘anything goes’ policy, and Japan’s monthly pansexual gathering of drag queens, latex lovers, furries, freaks, goths, BDSM aficionados – plus the world’s top body mod experts. A quick scout around and you’ll find lines of experimentalists getting injected in their foreheads, arms and hands and waiting for the effects to take hold. “It takes about two hours to inflate, and then takes about a night to diffuse,” Keroppy explains. “It appears prominently in some areas and in others it gets absorbed. In the forehead it’s easy to see, whereas the arm absorbs it quite quickly.”

Other sites have looked at the photographs of two Japanese men with injections on their foreheads, proclaimed that the men deliberately wanted to create Bagel shapes, and conluded that there is now a Bagelhead beauty “trend” in Japan.

[via FG]

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