Tattoo, Piercing, and Body Modification News, Events, and Culture
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Taking a quick look below, you can see the arms. Vincent Hocquet is the man. The man has a BME portfolio gallery that is filled with incredible geometric tattoos.
The fact that it’s all dotwork was enough to fry my brain. I can barely draw a straight line. Imagine creating these intricate figures using dots!
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Now if you thought that the chin scarification from yesterday was bloody. Just think how much blood was shed in this massive undertaking.
This big ol’ scar piece was done across the pond by Ricki Duncan from Bridgend Tattoo Studio, conveniently located in the town of Bridgend, UK.
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It seems like this week has been pretty good for BMEGirl submissions so let’s have another one today. Pincusion Princess here always manages to send in fantastic pictures and this week she sent in quite a few. Below are just two of the ones you can find in the BMEGirls Gallery.
To see the other one, you’re going to have to do some clicking…
Here’s the rundown on some of her modifications.
Tattoos by Ryan Bolton, hand implant by Steve Truitt, and her piercings are from her lucky husband, Dominick269.
As an extra little treat, check out her four month old ear implants that were put in by Dom.
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The post below this is one about today being Self-Injury Awareness Day. That is why I am posting this now rather than tomorrow, even though today’s modblog plate has already been filled up. The words self-injury in this context brings up one of the oldest arguments in the body modification world which is modification vs. mutilation. Obviously, a lot of the deciding factor is in the eye of the beholder. Seriously, ask around enough and you will find plenty of people who think that a standard navel piercing is a mutilation. However, I think most modblog readers, even those that are not fans of navel piercings, would never consider one to be a mutilation. However, there are some other modification we cover on BME are not so black and white.
No one modification is responsible for more modification vs. mutilation arguments then the voluntary amputation of healthy and viable body parts. That is why I couldn’t overlook the coincidence of a photo submission of a finger amputation (amputation submissions in general are extremely rare) on Self-Injury Awareness day.
In my many years of involvement in this community, I have met and talked to a lot of amputees. Some of whom had the most sane justifications for their choice to amputate a part of themselves. So justified, in fact, that there was no question it was a modification and a sane decision for them. Others I met were a little bit more questionable in their level of mental stability, but still managed to make me feel like this modification was the right choice for them.
Then there is a small minority, people who I might dare call insane, who hate themselves and are slowly cutting away bits of them selves in a hateful fashion. Those people obviously fall into the mutilation category.
So to me, amputation and pretty much any body mod for that matter is neither modification nor mutilation 100% of the time. It is the owner of these mods and their decision making process that, to me, determine whether something is a modification or a mutilation, or to keep with the theme of the day, a modification or a self-injury.
So I ask you, the modblog readers, where do you draw the line between modification and mutilation? To answer that question, see unwrapped photos of this amputation and learn what other non-major (but far sweeter) holiday today is, keep on keeping on.
These photos were submitted by Devo238, for whom I could not find any contact info on. If Devo238 sees this and wants to provide me some information on it, please shoot me an email.
So what do you guys think, modification or mutilation? Share your thoughts in the comments section, I like hearing where everyone stands.
PS: Besides being Self-Injury Awareness Day today is also (in the states at least) National Pancake Day, so when your done reading modblog why not head over to IHOP and get some free pancakes?
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For those that may not know, today is Self-injury Awareness Day.
Self-injury Awareness Day (SIAD) is a grassroots annual global awareness event / campaign on March 1, where on this day, and in the weeks leading up to it, some people choose to be more open about their own self-harm, and awareness organizations make special efforts to raise awareness about self-harm and self-injury. Some people wear an orange awareness ribbon, wristband or beaded bracelet to encourage awareness of self-harm. The goal of the people who observe SIAD is to break down the common stereotypes surrounding self harm and to educate medical professionals about the condition.
You’ll note at the end that today isn’t about passing judgment on others, but to just encourage awareness about the truths behind self-harm. As such, I’ve selected a photo from the ritual cutting gallery to share with you. As we do with all ritual cutting photos, it will be behind a clickthrough so those who choose not to view it have that choice.
Of the many photos in the cutting gallery, this one seems well suited for today.
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A few weeks back at the Philly Tattoo Convention I had the chance to take some photos for Mandic of his chin scarification piece. This cutting by Brian was a pretty bloody affair.
Oh, you want to see the pictures of the cutting? Just keep on reading.
This is about three quarters of the way through the cutting, and also the time that the bleeding was at its worst. The top and bottom parts of the scar and had already been peeled away, and what remained was a stretch of skin right along the tip of his chin.
The tiny hands (well, tinier than Brian’s) belong to Dyscordic, who was assisting.
Finally, here’s how the scar looked just before it was wrapped up.
You can see even more photos of this cutting in the skin removal scarification gallery.
Oh, and you can definitely expect to see this as a follow-up post once it has healed a little more.
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This memorial portrait by Luca Natalini from Transcend Tattoo in Branford, CT is of a woman’s mother when she was a child.
Portrait tattoos can be hit or miss, and this one is definitely a hit.
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Never fear, the Guess What post is here!
This week’s image is I think one of my favorite ones to date. It’s a delightfully creative use of jewelry.
So, think you know what it is? Make your guess and keep on reading.
This ladies and gentlemen is a combination of a pair of transscotals and a full subincision.
By taking a look over in the transscrotal gallery, you can see that most of the parts are there (I couldn’t tell the status of his testicles from the images).
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I don’t care what anyone else says, Canadian girls are the hottest in the world. Take a look at miss 441am, isn’t she beautiful?
Those roses you see were done by Tiffany Thornton from Planet Ink in Ottawa, ON (Fun Fact: I worked there a long, long time ago).
You can see some more shots of 441am in the floral tattoo gallery.
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If you recall, we kicked off this year with a post featuring subboez‘s DIY circumcision. Well, it’s been a while, so let’s check in and see how things are healing up. But before we get to the healed picture, here is his foreskin which he kept by drying it out in a tube.
To see the healed photo, you’ll have to keep on reading.
You can check out more photos, including procedural shots in the male circumcision gallery.
