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Tag: Extreme

  • 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.

  • Urethral Illumination Games

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    Shannon Larratt

    Christmas lights aren’t just for decorating your home or trees… like just about any object out there, BME/HARD readers can come up with far more amusing uses.

    Click the picture to uncensor.

  • Tongue Splitting Before and After

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    Shannon Larratt

    This is a home job tongue split done in “the basement of pain”, but compare the expression on each photo. Definitely feeling better once the tongue is corrected! Of all the modifications out there, tongue splitting has one of the highest satisfaction rates, and I don’t think most people could even coherently explain why — it just feels “right”. I don’t know if it’s as simple as freedom maybe — after all, your tongue muscles are deeply restricted when attached together… More than anything, for me at least, it just feels good to be able to finally move.

    These days I actually feel a little sick when I look at an unsplit tongue, it just looks so “wrong” and unhealthy. On some gut level I think it looks like someone puking, but once the split is in place I don’t feel that way any more. I don’t know if that’s because I’m simply conditioned to prefer atypical bodies, or if it’s that I’ve gotten a glimpse at the truth and can’t keep looking at lies any more.

    More likely the first explanation, but I prefer the second so I’ll stick with that one.

  • Keloid Before and After

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    Shannon Larratt

    As you can see below, sometimes lobe piercings blow out with the most revolting of tumorous keloids. Here’s a before and after (or should I say more philosophically, after and before) of a correction done by Andre Fernandes at Tattoo You in Sao Paulo, Brasil.

    Oh, and if you really must see the little amputated ear buddy, click here.

  • Clean Finger Amputation

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    Shannon Larratt

    Last entry in today’s “catch up” set of posts…

    Usually when I see amateur or underground digit amputations, they’re just chisel jobs. Now, a chisel job can heal pretty nicely and without complications, but the risks are higher and you often won’t get an ideal end to the reshaped finger… so it was a pleasant surprise to get this very cleanly sutured stumping:

    That’s by a fairly well known practitioner that works out of South America and Europe. I’m not going to post the name here but if you’re looking for this procedure, drop me a line and I’ll put you in touch.

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