Yes, this person is being pierced and tattooed at the same time. Thanks to IAM:ToxicSkin (the piercer in the photo) from Original Skin Tattoo in Belvidere, Illinois for sending in this picture.
Tag: Body Modification
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Heart-Shaped Daith
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Check out this very nice custom-jewelry daith piercing (in 16ga) by the very talented John Lopez at Slave to the Needle in Seattle. Oh, and if you don’t know about the naming of the daith piercing (pronounced “doth”), click here, because it’s an interesting story.
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I AM
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I’ve written about tattooed Christians in the past, and there are many of them on BME’s community site as well — some very Conservative and born-again, and of course many more free thinking ones as well (and plenty who’ve lost their faith). One of my favorites is IAM:GotPriapus who has a great “matching tattoo” with Jesus that I quite like conceptually.
Tattoo by Chris C. (after Stephen Sawyer) at American Tattoo in Pittsburgh.
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Desi’s New Lips
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You know all about gag tattoos like the tattooed finger mustaches that I post semi-regularly… but how about gag piercings? Check out Desi‘s new lips, care of a play stapling on IAM:railville. Not that I’m not 100% in support of any possible prank, especially ones that involve body modification, but methinks people may have a little too much time on their hands — and that’s a good thing!
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Upside-down Hooks
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It doesn’t matter who this is a picture of (and I think it’s actually an old picture anyway), but I always cringe when I see this particular hook placement for pulling — and I see it very regularly. When someone pulls, they never lean backwards (since humans tend to fall over when they do that), but pullers almost always do lean forward… Think about the way the hooks will rotate when the body leans that way, and you’ll see that they can easily either rotate out completely, or rotate just part of the way, hooking and piercing the inside of the hook channel. Ouch!
