We Regret to Inform You That There's a Bagelhead Documentary Airing Tonight

Racked is no longer publishing. Thank you to everyone who read our work over the years. The archives will remain available here; for new stories, head over to Vox.com, where our staff is covering consumer culture for The Goods by Vox. You can also see what we’re up to by signing up here.

It is with great sadness that we make this known: The Geographic Channel's Taboo is airing a documentary on bagelheads, a Japanese subculture trend (of course) in which practitioners secrete saline into their foreheads before pushing the middle in with a finger. Voila! Face bagel magic. Photographer Ryoichi "Keroppy" Maeda introduced the practice because—we guess—he wasn't content just sitting by and documenting all the strange alterations that some Japanese people make to their bodies. The good(ish) news for bagelheads everywhere? The bulbous donuts last only a night before the body absorbs the solution. The bad news for everyone else? Nightmares. So many nightmares.

Should you rather wrap up your night with some easy-going boob tubage, consider catching Sarah Jessica Parker as Vogue.com's editor-in-chief on Glee, where the most body alteration that happens is maybe when Lea Michele wears a body-con dress while considering a nose job before accepting herself for who she is.
· Taboo: Bagel Heads [Taboo, via The Cut]
· Would You Inject Saline into Your Forehead to Get the "Bagel" Look? [Racked]