G.C. caught this fish in Africa (on a fishing trip in the Gambia) — so that’s what a lip-plate smile looks like! He points out that smiling is definitely still an option!
Now, I’m not convinced it’s the most obvious smile, but I love the monster labret, and Jub Jub the snake does’t seem to mind one bit.
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65 responses to ““See, you can smile with a huge labret””
One of the anthropology texts I read suggested that mouth rings are intentionally deforming/repulsive to make Mursi women ugly to everyone but Mursi men, so that they will be safe from cattle and women raiding expeditions of neighbouring tribes, which were historically quite frequent.
I’m pretty mod-positive though. It looks like G.C. is happy and if he can afford trips to The Gambia, it obviously isn’t causing him any financial/life problems. He’s doing better than I am.
Mursi women don’t have the choice. He has. And he has made up his mind. What’s the problem ?
i wanna know if he misses kissing at all.. i certainly would.
and what about other certain clandestine activities, dose it uh ya know get in the way?
Honestly, I really don’t like how lip plates and stretched nostril piercings look and I think the guy in the picture looks a bit silly. But you know what? He looks happy with himself. How he gets a job is his own business.
To sum it up, I’m happy with him being happy with himself, If you get my drift.
gah…why can’t you people just say it looks great on him whether you like it or not. He is obviously happy with it and anything that makes someone happy looks great on them at least to them so try to show support and not be an asshole. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and shit but if you have to be as rude as some of you have, it’s just not worth putting up for everyone to see it…keep it to yourself. I think it’s great. 🙂 good job.
im guessing im one of the rude ones.
personally, i don’t see anyone being rude. i see people expressing opinions and ideas. isn’t this an open forum for duscussing such things?
one thing that bothers me is this whole “don’t be judgemental” attitude. everyone makes judgements, for example: my rudeness. someone is judging me for being judgemental? judgments are an integral part of our thought processes, theres an actual, biological need for them and our brains do so without our thinking.
people find different things asthetically pleasing. congrats to this guy for following his vision
Lolita… who said you can’t kiss with your lip like that? so thus, why would he miss kissing?
“so with me NOT have the mod is distorting my face, or more so i was born with a distorted face and have now fixed it”
awesome, awesome qoute pauly
The only reason i can tell that the expression displayed is a smile is because of the ‘crinkling’ around the eyes, this is known as a ‘duchene smile’ and its how we can instinctively tell a genuine smile from a forced or fake one. The mouth looks like a grimace to me but its obvious that he’s happy, as long as he retains the musculature around his eyes the world will know when he’s happy.
But to me he just looks silly…
“everyone makes judgements, for example: my rudeness. someone is judging me for being judgemental?”
thats a classic sentence here on modblog haha.
G.C. is awesome and he doesnt like bono, end of story haha.
Is it just me or does it sorta look bigger in the bottom pics?
I know this has already been said but I always wonder if day to day life would be different with things like this. I know the body adapts and all that, but some things just seem like they would be a lot harder. Like drinking out of cups, but I am clumsy and have enough problems with that already.
I definitely respect this guy making the decision to do something like this and stick with it. I do see it as being in a realm similar to facial tattoos, putting yourself out there like that… mad props to people that have the confidence to do that.
haha. His shirt says “Dick”.
#61 it is bigger in the bottom pics haha:P
good for you.
im just wondering if he can controll his bottom lip when the jewlery is out and in like you know squeeze it or whatever pucker it up and everything like that
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