I could never see this happening in the US, but French lawmakers have a crazy new idea to combat body image issues: require disclaimers on Photoshopped or otherwise “enhanced” images of people.

The required warning would be needed in newspaper and magazine advertising, press photos, product packaging, political campaigns and art photography, according to the Telegraph. The language will reportedly be: “Retouched photograph aimed at changing a person’s physical appearance.” Read the rest of this entry

Apparently saline can be used to inflate anything from breasts to foreheads. A bizarre new trend is hitting the body mod community of Japan right now called saline inflation. Saline inflation involves injecting a saline solution under the skin which causes it to seemingly inflate like a balloon. Bagelheads, a nickname they give themselves, inject saline into their their forehead then manipulate the mass with their fingers to resemble a bagel.

This type of body modification dates back to the early 90′s, but is ballooning, pun intended, in Japan at this time. Jerome Abramovitch, a performance artist, brought this into popularity with his cover shot on the 2002 book “ModCon: The Secret World Of Extreme Body Modification” by Shannon Larratt. Abramovitch is photographed looking like the devil with what looks like a bagel stuffed under his forehead skin.

Saline inflation seemingly has gained popularity because it is not permanent like other body mods such as tattoos and earlobe stretching. The bagels created with the saline only last about a day before the solution dissipates into the body; that’s 24 hours too long for me.

I’ve never had the urge to mod my body with any sort of hardware; there was that one time someone pierced my ear while I was passed out. I do understand these people feel liberated by being able to express themselves this way, but I think there has to be a better way.  This definitely goes into my WTF file.

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