Meet The Bagelheads

Posted by ralph on July 24, 2009

BIZARRE (Text: Maki / Photos: John Stone):

Picture the scene: five people, each with hideously distorted heads, tubes sticking into their faces.

Reminiscent of a medical experiment gone hideously wrong, you’d be forgiven for thinking they had a gross infection or disease. They look like alien abductees, fresh from invasive research by their interplanetary masters. But these are Japanese club kids, otherwise known as bagelheads, deliberately disfiguring themselves by experimenting with saline inflations.

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