Celebrating body modification culture since 1994.
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One of the nice things about Canada is that it’s perfectly legal for women to be topless in any public space where it is also legal for men. Nice because all people should have a right to show off their mods equally — so that of course also applied to BMEfest 2006. Thanks to Jezebel (who had a pretty crazy experience) for this melon photo (scarification by Blair).
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First scars, by Paul at Body Manipulations (of America, not the Netherlands) — it reminds me of the recently posted black square tattoos:
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Lexci sends in these shots of some of the remnants of a skin removal done by Dirk Sullivan at Dragon FX Kingsway in Edmonton, AB.
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Cutting work by Matte at Il Settimo Cerchio Body Modification in Bologna, Italy.
See also: Dueling Scar
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This is by John Joyce and Brian, and is about four months old in this photo… It’ll go down in time, but these raised keloids are gorgeous — I’d say given time, this is an ideal candidate for scar tattooing (which I predict will become increasingly common).
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The coolest thing about this cutting and skin removal is that it’s actually completely symmetrical (she has the same piece on each side). I don’t know… maybe I’ve just read Crash (as in JG Ballard) too many times, but I love it.
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I was asked to post a frontal shot of Essie’s great tattoo by Needles from Last Rites (and scarification by Keith Alexander and Erik Sprague, and others). Anyway, here you go!
PS. I was a bit surprised how few people grokked the scar.
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Essie’s tattoo work is by Needles of Last Rights, and the stunning scarification is by a variety of people including Keith Alexander and Erik Sprague. The scar really makes it just stunning…
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These circle scars on andshewas by Lukas Zpira are 14 months old now.
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I’ll post more later today but let me start off the day by sharing this awesome one-year old @-sign scarification by Manny at Corazon Salvaje in Buenos Aries, Argentina. Looks amazing!
This was done using skin removal scarification. You can see a fresh picture of this piece here and here, and here it is again at 19 days — you’d never have guessed back then it would raise so wonderfully!). If it heals like most scars it will probably settle a little over the next year but remain raised indefinitely.
See also: Geek Tattoos
