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””
Was it a catch and release senario? If not, I hope he got to eat that mighty fine fish! I think I know what I am having for supper tomorrow! Fishing rocks! XD
Here’s a photo that needs to be done: Someone with *ginormosly* stretched ears needs to set a kitten/puppy on their shoulder and have them walk through it. That would be cool!
very pretty hypo corn 😀
I’m not a huge fan of the really big labrets, but that goofy smile is fun!
What’s that fish? It looks remarkably like what we in Australia call a Mangrove Jack and, judging from the background, it’s been caught in the mangroves. If it is, it’s both a fine fighting sport fish and goes great in the kitchen too.
still not a fan of labrets that big but I like all his other piercings, especially the double bridge.
hahah the smile made me smile so i showed other people and they smiled i love it
when labrets are stretched that big, it makes me kinda sad inside because it conceals/morphs their smile. haha, does that make sense? 🙁
i reallly really like his lip plate this man is efffiiiiin good lookin ! + cute smile ! jhaha
well done dude
What smile?
Can’t help but smile at that. 8)
I don’t like big labrets, he wasted his ability to smile in a normal way … I don’t get how this can be practical.
Yeah, I agree xchristinex
I’m sure he had an awesome smile without it but I still think he has a good smile with it, plus landing a fish that big and that nice would put a smile on most anyones face (sorry vegans)
o_o wouldnt that be a great way to catch salmonella…..
I can’t wait to see the 36mm wood piece that iam:redneckzombi made for him in his lip.
awww, jub jub the snake. that picture is cute
*eccos hedning*
I am just in admiration of the journey that G.C. has to have endured to get there.
Yeah he has a bigger labret than Franck Zappa
(okay, okay, =>[] )
G.C.
As you already know… I love your lip plate!
I, too, can’t wait to see the 36mm wood piece that redneckzombi made for you in your beautifully stretched lip. A solid plug should help with the saliva problem.
AND I’m sick to death, hearing about your smile from small lipped/small minded naysayers. Mursi, Surma, Kayapo, Suya and Sara tribespeople have the best, biggest and broadest smiles on the planet.
G.C. what is your goal diameter? 4 to 5 inches would be awsome. Any thoughts about an upper lip plate? Jub Jub would have a blast!
Keep on stretching!
Your friend,
Eric
Omolp
(Lip Plates Group)
PS: Feel free to upload some non-BME photos of yourself to Omolp so we can put you on the front page!
personally i think a labret this big is ridiculously silly. i just don’t like mods that IMO take away from something. they are supossed to adorn, not take center stage.
obviuosly others dig the mod and he does too. it just seems like there has been an arms race of sorts in the mod world where everyone thinks bigger = better
hell, what do i know. it worked for Picaso on canvas. distort your faces!
the thing is he isnt distorting his face, though that would be your opinion of it
well i guess i cant speack for him but when i get a modification and well expand it, i am moving to the image i have in my head of how i believe i am suppose to look
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
thats how i see it anyway
anyhow, love GC lip is looking amazing
and cant wait to see the wood one in
A transexual isn’t distorting their body when they have a sex change operation – and that change is really obvious & takes centre stage.
It’s true that bigger isn’t always better, but in this particular case it is!
Corn snakes are my favourite animal, there’s no competition.
It definitely sucks, but it’s definitely cool.
I think it looks so cute.
For a community so ‘open’ sometimes its so ‘closed’.
I love it, he looks happy and that fish looks damn good. Makes me want to go get fish for lunch….
#23 just because someone added ink, steel or whatever to his/her body, it doesn’t include a growth of braincells. I think a lot of people here are desperately in need of a brain implantation. sad but true. (and sorry for the bad english)
he looks so happy.
Re: Tarsick’s “mods are supposed to” claim — I was unaware that there were rules.
I’m curious to how a labret this big looks without jewellery.
its more of a grimace really, hehe.
i imagine at that size it would effect speech?! am i wrong?
and also would it effect the teeth at all? i dunno, im just curious…
i have total respect for this guy, its a lifestyle choice ultimately and its nice to see people pushing boundaries.
I love G.C.’s lip
right now mines at 22mm, so not anywhere near his size but to all of you saying how it must distort his speech are very wrong. You adjust to it, if youve ever had a tooth knocked out you know that you might talk with a lisp for a bit. After a few days though, you adjust and begin to move your tongue different to talk without a lisp. thats how i adjust to a bigger labret to talk without a lisp…and i cant talk for gc but im willing to bet that thats how he adjusts with talking or something similar
sure there aren’t any rules.
i thought i made it clear enough that i was only expressing personal opinions and not stating things as fact
different people find different things pleasing. i apollogize if anyone was put off by my comments
“I don’t get how this can be practical.” — I can’t see how any mod is practical, just beautiful.
Unless it becomes a can opener of course…. ;P
His cornsnake is red like his hair/beard!
Really cute pics!
It’s adorable, but I think once facial piercings get to a certain size, they hinder a lot of expressions…
This made me smile ^___^
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this.
But then again, my “thing” is big labrets. Something draws me to them. My lip is small in comparison but I’m working on getting up there… not sure if i’ll take it this big but goddamn this is awesome.
I love his smile with it and the boy is gorgeous anyway!
NICELY DONE!!!!
and bonus points for cute corn snakeys!
it looks so great
Am I the only one who, when scrolling down, thought that was a pretzel through his lip?
He looks great I reckon, really funky. I love it when people are confident enough to do something really drastic to their appearance; I wish I was that gutsy!
Maybe when I’m an old man…
I think his lip looks great.
I totally understand that it’s not for everyone, and the more daring you are with your mods, the harder it’s going to be for culturally constrained people to understand as well. But other than the occasional idiot that feels it contributes to the discussion to whine that they are unable to understand other people’s aesthetics, I think we’re seeing more and more positive responses to extreme mods overall.
Trust Chris to piss of people on modblog for the second time running… nice one =p
Why is a big lip plate so much different in peoples eyes than facial tattoos?
Both stand out and forever change the way you, yourself, and others view you (and view your outher beauty).
Are so many agains’t it here because they still aren’t used to seeing such big lip plates, but are, by now, very use to seeing facial tattoos?
I think the owner of this glorious (And quite honestly, hard to obtain) mod looks happy with how he looks now and isn’t that all that matters in the end?
I think he knows alot of people wont understand the if’s and why’s when they see the mod, but that is no reason to try and hack him and his choices in beauty down, simply bewcause you don’t understand them.
I don’t dream of a world where everyone is happy for everyone else, or love to see someone bring their inner beauty out to shine via mods or whatever, no, I just dream of the day when people see something like this and just shrug if they don’t understand it and then move on..
From now on I’ll call this big mod for a snake hook!
wow. Aesthetically, I’m not sure about lip plates yet. But after scanning this guy’s IAM page, I’m in love. He hates Bono and loves The Simpsons. What more could you ask for in a human being? I’m a little irrked about a snake being called Jub Jub though. It’s clearly more suitable for an iguana.
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I don’t really like stretched piercings at all, but I do like his bridge piercings (:
Can you kiss with that?
I really love GCs lip. It looks simply great even if I don’t really like the white tuflon plugs.
I wish I could have it for just one day. Only for shocking some people, see how they react. But in normal life I think it’s really brave to wear it all the time and everywhere cause everybody, I say EVERYBODY looks at it! I know this feeling and I only have 32mm lobes.
GC, go on with that!
I personally love big labret/lip plate smiles. Plus, it’s fun watching people talk with their mouths closed.
if someone had a very large stretched Medusa would it be a constant smile?
>>Mursi, Surma, Kayapo, Suya and Sara tribespeople have the best, biggest and broadest smiles on the planet.
Not really.
In fact a recent documentary showed overwhelming evidence that many of the tribeswomen from Mursi and Surma were rebelling against wearing the lip plate because of the physical restrictions that it placed on such things as smiling, eating etc etc. They were increasingly fed up with being made to wear them to prove they were beautiful.
Also there really is nothing wrong with people on the list having their own personal barriers and standards in regards to the lengths/widths/gauges they find acceptable, in some ways it shows a discipline that is often missing in those that go for the biggest, longest, widest, most etc.
Modifying the body is not a competition as to who can achieve the biggest or best or even about pushing barriers of taste and decency. It’s about decorating your body in a way in which you feel comfortable.
For me a well placed, perfectly drawn, coin sized tattoo can be much more subversive and boundary pushing than 3 inch nostrils or 2 inch lip plates. It is all about the context in which they sit.
People like Paully etc sit on the boundaries where subversion and acceptability are less likely to occur than someone sat in an office with a tiny microdermal on show.
About the lip plate, it really doesn’t matter what I think, what’s important is that I respect this guy’s choices and I’m happy for him that HE likes it and enjoys it. You know what they say, to each his own.
Having said that, I actually didn’t think smiling would be a problem for people with lip plates. The first thing that comes to my mind is can they kiss ? and how?? it looks quite difficult…. experiences, anyone?