Celebrating body modification culture since 1994.
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So, if you have surface piercings on your forearms, and, like many surface piercings, they reject and leave you with scars that you’re no fan of, what do you do? They say fight fire with fire, so why not fight scars with scars? After all, tattoo cover-ups almost always turn out better than attempts at removal. Anyway, Ariel had a few piercing scars she didn’t like, so she had Brian at PURE/NYC convert them into hearts via skin removal. Click to zoom in.
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I thought I’d vaguely follow up on the many are chosen, few are pict tattoo with some tattoos from Boondock Saints, which we’ve been seeing more of lately (there are also some posted on the community site‘s “fan submission” section, although I can’t link to it directly due to their terrible flash interface) for some reason (be it simply that it’s a great movie, or perhaps a little clever marketing as well). In any case, here’s a very small assortment of them from the BME galleries…
“There are varying degrees of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth, not to push the bounds and cross over, in to true corruption, into our domain.
For if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three, and on that day you will repent.
And we will send you to whatever god you wish.“
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Some of you may be saying to yourselves, “I’m kind of pissed off that Shannon hasn’t bothered to post on ModBlog in a few days,” as if it’s actually an obligation that I have. In this case, as in all others, I will allow the prophet Bender to speak for me.
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This is from George in Buckie, Scotland, who had the tattoo done by Terry Ritchie at Thistle Tattoo Studio in Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland. Many are chosen, few are pict.
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It’s always interesting looking at modification-esque surgical procedures that have faded into obscurity as other techniques have replaced them. A good example is eyeball tattooing (yes, it’s safe) which fell out of fashion after corrective colored contact lenses were developed. Another example is cineplasty.
Muscle tunnel cineplasty is a procedure in which a tunnel (like a piercing hole) is formed through muscle and then lined with skin grafts. This allows you to form a permanent piercing through large muscle groups such as the bicep. In the past (and sometimes now) these were used to attach prosthetic limbs to the muscles remaining in the stump. Here’s a couple photos:
These days smaller externalizations of muscle are generally performed which then attach to various electrical controllers. For example, this short video (source), which you can download either as a Windows Media Video (1.36 meg) or as a QuickTime MP4 (0.98 meg meg).
In any case, these deep muscle piercings are certainly very plausible, although far outside of the realm of the average underground surgeon due to complicated steps such as the skin grafts.
