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  • Winter in Japan

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    Shannon Larratt

    OK, I’m taking the day off tomorrow because my favorite girl in the world is going to be back after too much travelling for my lonesome self, being off to restore the BME servers to life and other adventures — like getting her throat tattooed by Jim Miner, which you might be able to watch live on her moblog later tonight. So anyway, here’s a picture to tide you over until Wednesday. If you like it and are a member, be sure to check out the Kitano* bonus gallery in BME/HARD.

    * And yes, even though there are a few crazy people on the Internet spreading the bizarro rumor that Eva doesn’t have any modification, she has plenty of piercings, cuttings, and more!

  • Superfluous Nipples?

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    Shannon Larratt

    Not that there’s anything wrong with unusual placements when it comes to surface piercings, but this breast surface piercing did strike me as a little odd. As a point of trivia, this was her first piercing (I think self-done) and is since retired.

  • Corsetry Sisterhood

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    Shannon Larratt

    One of the things I like about corsetry is that on the whole, even though it’s a totally hardcore and intense body modification activity, is that it often hits a radically different demographic than most of the things you’d find in BME/extreme.

  • Modified Couples

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    Shannon Larratt

    Nice portraits of IAM:andreas-anden and his girlfriend (PS. cute kid too).

  • Congratulations!

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    Shannon Larratt

    My friend Marisa (IAM:FREE) who you also know from the great tattoo couture blog Needled as well as her legal writing on BME is getting married — Vegas style — later today to another friend, the brilliant tattoo artist Daniel DiMattia at Calypso Tattoo (who also has a BME gallery).

    Best wishes to both of them and I’m sorry I couldn’t be there.

  • Flying 69

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    Shannon Larratt

    You know you’ve been watching too much porn if all you can think about when you’re hanging by your knees like this is whether the crowd is going to notice your boner — rather than worrying whether you’re about to experience a piledriver after the hooks tear out of your knees!

    Thanks (and apologies for the dirty comments) to Kat for sending in this picture of her getting picked up by James in Des Moines, Iowa.

  • I heart BME

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    Shannon Larratt

    It is so nice to have all the servers back online!

  • Bad-ass Brass Knuckle Implants

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    Shannon Larratt

    Earlier today I was looking at some fancy-pants Rhinestone brass knuckles on boingboing. If people think that’s cool, check out Krissy’s implanted silicone brass implants by Joe Amato in Florida. You may also remember Joe as one of the gonzo piercers who brought us eyelid piercing.

    The procedure took a few hours (after which Krissy went back to work the same day) with most of the time being spent laying anchor stitches to reduce shifting. Healing was uneventful with some bruising and swelling for the first week. Mederma treatment is starting soon to minimize the insertion scar.

  • Screw the mainstream!

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    Shannon Larratt

    Check out more fashion-ready photos of IAM:Reby on her page. The piercings you see were done by Alex at Triple X Tattoo in New York City, where Reby is currently apprenticing (and looking for volunteers) — before this she was a professional model, but as she says “my fixation with mods is probably going to get me kicked out of the mainstream.”

  • Screw Fashion

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    Shannon Larratt

    Sometimes people take odd or hammed-up pictures of themselves for BME.

    I’ll say I consider that a good thing.

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