BME: Body Modification Ezine

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  • More tattoos that I like

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    Kent Fazekas‘s parents just came to visit him from Indiana, and while in California not only did they each get a small tattoo, but he got their footprints tattooed (by JD at Outer Limits in Long Beach) on the bottom of his feet — “Hurt like none other, but I’d do it again”

    And I’ve seen lots of Orion tattoos and even piercings and scarifications before, but I kind of liked Bimbieus’s full body “anatomically correct” concept interpretation of the Orion constellation (done by Allen at Euphoria in Tallahassee, Florida) — although perhaps one could argue that the placement of Saiph and Rigel are too low (aren’t they — or at least Saiph — his knees)?

  • Youngest tattoo artist in the world?

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    Shannon Larratt

    OK, so he’s getting some help from his dad, but this is the youngest tattoo artist I’ve seen yet!

  • Always tip your artist.

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    From the “There has to be more to this story” department, several news sources have picked up on this sordid little nugget.

    A North Carolina resident was apparently scheduled to have a tattoo done by an acquaintance of his, yet inexplicably, a fight broke out between the two.

    This, however, was no ordinary donnybrook; the man seeking the tattoo ended up not only getting his ears cut off, but was also castrated with a butcher’s knife. Then, without even so much as an aftercare sheet, he was thrown into a car and instructed to leave.

    Thankfully, he’s recovering well in a Winston-Salem hospital, and his alleged attackers have since been charged.

    At press time, Mr. Blonde could not be reached for comment.

  • Sluts and nutters

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    Here’s a collection of just some of the inner lip tattoos that people have sent me over the years. Got an inner lip tattoo? Sent it to me at [email protected].

  • A safer form of genital beading?

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    Steve Haworth has been playing with a piercing-style method for implanting genital beads with a reduced level of trauma. Normally either a larger gauge incision has to be made and/or a taper has to be used to stretch the holes up to the size of the bead to place it under the skin. Using his “squishy” silicone beads, he reduces the incision size required to place a 1/4″ bead down to 8ga.


    The tools: A. a 1/4″ taper for comparison (this is what would normally be required to place the bead), B. a pusher rod which will later be used to push the bead into the skin, C. the bead reducer which will “inject” the bead, D. the 3/16 taper which leads the bead into the hole, and of course E. the silicone beads themselves.


    First the bead is placed in the reducer and then compressed down into its tip, squeezing it from round to a nearly cylindrical narrow form.


    The bead reducer is then attached to the 3/16 taper.


    The taper and reducer assembly is pushed into the fresh piercing (made with an 8ga needle for a 1/4″ bead, or a 10ga needle for a 3/16″ bead) behind the needle, and then release the taper, leaving the reducer in place.


    The pusher rod then pops the bead out of the reducer, leaving it under the skin and it expands to its normal 1/4″ form.

    Steve is talking about offering instruction in this method at his advanced beading seminars, and may be selling the tools and beads on his eBay store in the future. The only problem that I can foresee from this method is that so far silicone has had an unusually high materials reaction (ie. allergic response) in comparison to titanium, steel, and teflon beads. This reaction is not supported by the scientific literature on the subject, so it’s yet to be determined why silicone from Steve has seen these complications.

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