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Endorphins from cutting… literally

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Shannon Larratt

Prodigy got this very “appropriate to the artform” cutting — C158H251N39O46S — of the chemical formula for endorphins by CutThroat in Phoenex, AZ.

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72 responses to “Endorphins from cutting… literally”

  1. CutThroat Avatar
    CutThroat

    That’s actually a cell phone pic. I think? I can’t remember.

    I haven’t had a really good look at it since it was done. Just a peak under weird circumstances. Still legible.

    I’m 99% sure that as I suspected her wearing a bra is keeping it from raising, but her other scars aren’t really raised either. So I guess it’s not that much of an issue.

    She tried to get me to do that hexagon and lines representation of it (“it” is the human strand of beta-endorphin, btw), but it would have had to be like 6 feet long. Haha!

  2. CutThroat Avatar
    CutThroat

    That’s actually a cell phone pic. I think? I can’t remember.

    I haven’t had a really good look at it since it was done. Just a peak under weird circumstances. Still legible.

    I’m 99% sure that as I suspected her wearing a bra is keeping it from raising, but her other scars aren’t really raised either. So I guess it’s not that much of an issue.

    She tried to get me to do that hexagon and lines representation of it (“it” is the human strand of beta-endorphin, btw), but it would have had to be like 6 feet long. Haha!

  3. Max Brand Avatar
    Max Brand

    super cute little titties!….

  4. Max Brand Avatar
    Max Brand

    super cute little titties!….

  5. renegade5589 Avatar
    renegade5589

    love it

  6. renegade5589 Avatar
    renegade5589

    love it

  7. scharkan Avatar
    scharkan

    clever and lovely

  8. scharkan Avatar
    scharkan

    clever and lovely

  9. DMAN Avatar
    DMAN

    I would go under the knife with her anytime she wanted.

  10. DMAN Avatar
    DMAN

    I would go under the knife with her anytime she wanted.

  11. Proserpine Avatar
    Proserpine

    Very nice ;] LuV this pic ;*

  12. Proserpine Avatar
    Proserpine

    Very nice ;] LuV this pic ;*

  13. sarah Avatar
    sarah

    i love it!
    creative
    and i like the placement of it also 🙂

  14. sarah Avatar
    sarah

    i love it!
    creative
    and i like the placement of it also 🙂

  15. Angbandz Avatar
    Angbandz

    “How could it be so fine…?”

  16. Angbandz Avatar
    Angbandz

    “How could it be so fine…?”

  17. Anna Avatar
    Anna

    Hawt

  18. Anna Avatar
    Anna

    Hawt

  19. oppositronic Avatar
    oppositronic

    well actually wouldn’t the endorphins that are released into the body upon cutting be the “literal” endorphins from cutting, and the characters on her body a figurative representation thereof?

  20. oppositronic Avatar
    oppositronic

    well actually wouldn’t the endorphins that are released into the body upon cutting be the “literal” endorphins from cutting, and the characters on her body a figurative representation thereof?

  21. Samael Avatar
    Samael

    really petty face

    -hero

  22. Samael Avatar
    Samael

    really petty face

    -hero

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