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  • Well Healed Oldschool Surface Piercing

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    Shannon Larratt

    There was some heated discussion a while back about doing surface piercings with a CBR, which is widely acknowledged as not the most ideal way to go about things… Anyway, Roo fixed the RAID array in my one of our archive boxes so I was able to retrieve this picture of a Madison piercing that I took at six years old, done with a circular barbell and looking perfectly healthy. I don’t have any reason to believe that it’s rejected since — if the wearer kept it, it would now be sixteen years old.

    Either way, it certainly had no difficulties healing. I’m definitely not recommending rings — I feel strongly that surface bars are the way to go — but I did just want to say that just about everything can and does heal on someone. While risk of failure does increase dramatically when one chooses less than ideal jewelry, it absolutely does not guarantee failure…

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  • Monarch Butterfly Tattoo

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    Shannon Larratt

    This is Tobii’s first legal tattoo (a coverup — which is part of the reason you should wait until you’re legal so you can go to a quality artist), a set of Monarch butterfly wings on each ankle (half on each ankle that is). This photo was taken with one of the butterflies from the first batch she raised — both the tattoo obsession and the butterfly raising obsession were inheritted from her father, making it very significant to her. The tattoos was done by Jeanine at Valle’s Tattoo in Danbury, CT.

  • Non-Temporary Corset Piercing

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    Shannon Larratt

    Cat had this great permanent (click for a shot showing that; it’s now four months old and doing well with no signs of rejection) corset piercing done by Jason AKA Rip who works at Addiction NYC. The piercings were done with eight surface bars using CBR beads for the lacing in photoshoots and flatback beads for day-to-day wear.

  • Caught in an intense windstorm

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    Shannon Larratt

    Is it true that if you split your tongue it loses some strength and you can no longer stick it straight into the wind? Tongue splitting by Filipe Berndt Julio with pictures by Débora Catarina in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (And be sure to note the BME Kids Club neck tattoo!)

  • Tribal Penis Tattoo

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    Shannon Larratt

    Charles’s tattoo was done at Empire Tattoo in South Africa, and his piercings (an ampallang and a reverse PA in this photo) were done by Eddie Graham — he’s one of the first people Eddie (one of South Africa’s most established piercers) has worked on as far as I know.

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