Chuck Shepherd never fails with his “News of the Weird” to be just that. It’s one of the first features I turn to in the morning paper. (Yes, Virginia, newspapers still do exist.)
He reports that the latest trend in Tokyo is something called “bagel head.”
Okay, just try to imagine what that could mean. I’ll wait…
No matter what you came up with, I’m betting it’s not as weird as the truth.
Apparently there are people out there injecting saline under the skin of their foreheads causing said foreheads to swell, at which point they apply pressure to the middle to create a bagel-like hole, hence “bagel head.”
I told you it was weird.
If your curiosity gets the best of you, you can read more about this odd beauty trend at Huffington Post.
I shared this story with my students a while back. It’s always a pleasure to share the weird with a new generation