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WTF! THE JAPANESE ARE BAGEL HEADS!

Bored with tattoos and piercings, body art fans in Japan are getting their kicks from “bagel-heading,” according to a show.

The bizarre look is achieved by pumping saline into the forehead until a large welt forms.

The practitioner then presses a finger in the lump, giving it a bagel-like hole.

A segment from the National Geographic Channel show "Taboo" posted on Jezebel and other websites showed one brave young trio giving the procedure a go in a Tokyo clinic.

"It almost feels like something's dripping down my head. Is there something dripping down my head?" one man asks, as a thin tube pumps nearly 400 cc's of saline into his face.

Some two hours later, after the gloved artist has pressed a gloved thumb into the swollen saline bubble, the man grabs mirror.

"I look delicious," he quips.

The procedure isn't permanent, and the bagel bump usually deflates in about a day as the body absorbs the saline, Jezebel reports.

According to a report in Vice Magazine last year, saline injections and bagel-heading grew out of the extreme body modification scene and first came to Tokyo in 2007.