BAGELHEADS

I hardly know how to start this post... and yet I know that I want to do it, so I sat back, relaxed, inhaled deeply and left my fingers move and caress my keyboard, free to find the words to express myself... No inspiration so far!!!

The room is full of a soft golden light coming through my window, there is a nice classic music on my Spotify account and a stick of Nag Champa incense is perfuming my office.
As you can see I am surrounded by nice things that make me feel comfortable and at ease because as Karen Blixen used to say in "Out of Africa" I like my things.

But the purpose of the present post is not about beauty. In fact it is just about the contrary and the more I look at the picture the less I understand this phenomenon...

Can ugly things really look beautiful to some of us? Can some people find handsomeness in physical distortions to the point they want to reproduce them on their own bodies? So it seems!!!

And you know THAT really puzzles me and makes me wince with disgust, because "bagelheads" are one of the most hideous body horror you will ever see in your whole life.
Everybody knows what a bagel is, but fortunately, not everybody knows what "bagelheads" look like!

To make it short I will say that it is an horrible fashion trend from Japan, and this is what upsets me the most as how can a country like Japan with its famous geishas, its samurais, its bonsais, its Zen-gardens and its people - probably the most exquisite mannered people in the whole planet - follow such a freaky trend?


How can guys come to the point to inject a saline solution into their bodies - foreheads, arms, breasts and buttocks - to create a skin inflammation shaped like a bagel?
What is going on? What is going wrong? I have no answer to that.

I have no understanding of this stuff and I can't find any logical explanation either, all I know is that I am puzzled, horrified and worried because something is really going wrong!!! No doubt!

But have a look at the picture...

P.S. Those liquid bagels last 24 hours and are then reabsorbed by the poor bodies.