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Author: Shannon Larratt

  • Day 5 SkinTunnel Nape Healing Update

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    Shannon Larratt

    I wanted to post a quick update showing you how the SkinTunnel that Gabriele at MaxArt in Italy installed recently is doing. So far, so good! As you can see there is almost no irritation around the posts (which are made out of G23 titanium with an unpolished base design), and the skin is holding tight to the inside curve as well, so it seems like the design improvements may be successful. Now, this photo is five days, so it’s still early, but at the same time, that means it’s great how quickly things are healing.

    If you didn’t see my original post:
        www.bme.com/2012/08/12/skintunnel-take-two/

    skintunnel-5days

  • Yeah on Nostril Chains?

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    Shannon Larratt

    I don’t know about you, but I was very happy when beards came back in style.
    I will be even happier if nostril suits follow suit.

    nostrilchain

  • Blowing Smoke

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    Shannon Larratt

    I wish I could credit this photo and I hope I will be forgiven for posting a picture yanked from the bowels of the Internet, but got a kick out of this picture because it reminded me of one of those scenes in a cartoon when the person gets super mad and smoke shoots out of their ears (PS. did you know you can really do that — youtube.com/watch?v=RLETM9abj9Y?).

    allholessmokin

  • Devil’s Threeway: The Innards

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    Shannon Larratt

    Pauly Unstoppable just updated with a great “xray vision” photo showing exactly how his “Devil’s Threeway” nose-tip piercing that I posted about recently was done (making me feel a little sillier than I did before for initially thinking this was a microdermal project, not two mantis piercings and a septril).

    devils-threeway-closeup

  • Once you go blackwork…

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    Shannon Larratt

    Like the old saying goes, “once you go blackwork, you never go back to work”… err… something like that? Anyway, I want to share two great new pieces from two of the masters of geometric dotwork blackwork tattooing, with the top tattoo being done by Matt Black of Divine Canvas in London — I love the way he used multiple levels — and the bottom one, a beautiful swastika earburst, by Brian Gomes on Andre Cruz.

    blackwork1

    blackwork2

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