BME: Body Modification Ezine

A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

Tattoo, Piercing, and Body Modification News, Events, and Culture

  • Bicycle races are coming your way

    Written by

    Rob

    I want to ride my bicycle
    I want to ride my bike
    I want to ride my bicycle
    I want to ride it where I like

    You say black I say white
    You say bark I say bite
    You say shark I say hey man
    Jaws was never my scene
    And I don’t like Star Wars
    You say Rolls I say Royce
    You say God give me a choice
    You say Lord I say Christ
    I don’t believe in Peter Pan
    Frankenstein or Superman
    All I wanna do is
    Bicycle bicycle bicycle

    -Queen – “Bicycle Race”

    Knee suspension facilitated by #Leeds Airlines from St. Petersburg, Russia.

  • The First Cut is the Hardest

    Written by

    Rob

    Whenever I post something about IAM:Nilrym, it always turns into an interesting story.  This time around Nilrym was experimenting with doing some DIY scarification.  Now, going by the photos in the gallery, as well as his comments, I don’t doubt that he took proper precautions when attempting this, but as always, if you attempt to do something like this, make sure you’ve done your homework.

    That all said, here’s what Nilrym had to say about his experience.

    At first I didnt plan to remove any skin. I just wanted to experience much pressure was needed to cut through the skin for when I wanted to do a removal. I made a single cut to start in the middle of my music line, which I knew would eventually be removed. I then decided to remove a piece as a trial. Unfortunately the initial cut I made, actually made it challenging for my inexperience to create the border cuts because they were so close and allowed the skin to move.

    Finished and cleaned up. It was a good experience. Trial and error. Got to feel how tough the leg skin is. I was gauging the depth based on scarification I have had but I found it difficult to know if I was deep enough or too deep. It seems most scalpel blades dont list how high quality they are, but I should try to get better ones if possible because I found it difficult to make fine slices near already cut lines to correct any imperfections even after I warmed up to everything and was giving good pressure.

    You can check out the rest of the photos in the scarification galleries.

  • A portrait of the artist

    Written by

    Rob

    Arseniy is no stranger to ModBlog, but it’s been a while since we last looked at just him.  Gone are his long golden locks, and unless I’m mistaken, there appears to be a beard under that mask.  For a guy who spends most of his time off camera behind the scenes, he does look like he belongs in front of one.

    The forearm implants were put in by Arseniy himself and the photographer is Ivan Zakharchenko.

  • Shouldering the Abstract

    Written by

    Rob

    It almost looks like a dragonfly wing wrapped around his shoulder.

    Tattoo by Gisha Maslov.

  • King of the Scarification Jungle

    Written by

    Rob

    In the jungle, the mighty jungle, Brian sleeps tonight.

  • Haunted

    Written by

    Rob

    According to Arseniy, this was called the flying ghost suspension.  Now I’m not sure if it’s because of the 5pt hook arrangement or because that was the title for this #Leeds Airlines photoshoot.

  • Fun with Flesh

    Written by

    Rob

    Joeltron sent in this adorable photo of the remains of an earlobe reconstruction.

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    BMEtv – Crystal Morey

    Written by

    Rob

    This week’s BME World Tour video is takes to to Japan where the World Tour crew got a chance to speak with Crystal Morey from Gominekobooks.com.  Gomineko Books is an online store dedicated to Japanese tattoo art and design books.  Crystal talks about how she first came to Japan, and what led her from teaching English to opening up her book store.

    To check out the video, you’ll have to keep on reading.

    If you’ve missed any of the videos so far, you can check out the rest of them in the BME World Tour Video Gallery

  • Guess What?

    Written by

    Rob

    Last week’s was pretty easy, and I think this one may be as well.

    Please note, the image is cropped and zoomed in, so that may affect your guesses.  With that said, what do you think it is?

    Read on to see if you’re right.

    It’s a transscrotal!  Obviously that isn’t standard jewelry, but when you’ve got a hole through your scrotum, you might as well put whatever you want into it.

  • Innies to outies

    Written by

    Lexci Million

    I regularly pierce clients who have inverted or slightly inverted nipples. Although it’s way more common than they’d think, most of them feel very self conscious about them and what they don’t realize is that in most cases, inverted nipples may be “corrected” by piercing.

    This is a photo log of a client of mine who had severely inverted nipples and wanted to have them pierced in hopes of correcting them. She agreed to help me keep track of the healing progress by coming back once a week for updated photos.

    To see the entire process, keep on reading.

    Her nipples were so tightly inverted they couldn’t even be coaxed out for marking and I certainly had to get creative for the actual piercing procedure and placement.

    before1 before2
    mark1piercing1piercing2

    The initial piercings went smoothly and the weeks following the client came in for weekly follow-ups with no issues. After six weeks with no incident, we decided that this was definitely a successful correction. I’m glad to have helped her out to take away her self-consciousness in regards to her nipples! LOVE thy nipples.

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