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Ah, Japan, always at the forefront (or, shall we say, forehead) of cutting-edge new looks. The folks at Vice recently hooked up with photographer Ryoichi “Keroppy” Maeda to find out about Bagelheads—a new underground body-mod scene wherein people inject their foreheads with medical-grade saline solution (a process that takes two hours) and press their thumbs in the middle of the bubble that forms (are you grossed out yet?) to make a bagel/donut shape in the skin.

Vice interviews Maeda—we've excerpted a couple of extra-detailed lines from the Q&A after the jump—and asks all the important questions. Like: Is there post-deflation saggage?