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Tag: Stretched Piercings

  • The King of All Navels?

    Written by

    Coyote Black

    My friend Steve has probably the most impressive navel I’ve personally seen. With his permission I’ll share the glory with all of you.

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    31mm of pure glory.

    A navel this size also has its uses, especially during suspensions.

    Steve3doneIf you were wondering what this looks like with no jewelry in, have a look.

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  • The King of All Navels?

    Written by

    Coyote Black

    My friend Steve has probably the most impressive navel I’ve personally seen. With his permission I’ll share the glory with all of you.

    Steve1done

    Steve2done

    31mm of pure glory.

    A navel this size also has its uses, especially during suspensions.

    Steve3doneIf you were wondering what this looks like with no jewelry in, have a look.

    Steve4done

  • While You Carve Turkey We Carve…

    Written by

    Coyote Black

    Faces!

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    Self done facial cutting by Clairet Christophe in Strasbourg France

    Happy Thanksgiving to our United States readers!

    Click through for another shot of Clairet’s facial scars and a look at his awesome tongue piercings!

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    Gene Simmons has nothing on this tongue

  • King of all Erls

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    I posted Eric Stango’s bridge piercing a little while back when he was at a measly 00ga (you may also remember him from a couple neat piercing projects — a set of “whiskers” and an anthropomorphic ear piercing). Since then he’s pushed it up to accept an impressive 12mm tunnel, just a sliver away from being an epic 1/2″ Erl. Here he is showing it off with some assistance of one of his four young apprentices (find Eric at Lifestyles and Krazy Eric’s in Connecticut).

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  • Two Mouths, One Tongue

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    In the depraved theme of the previous post, I caption this picture of Diego and his massive stretched piercings and eyeball tattoos: “Don’t you hate it when you stick your tongue in the wrong hole by accident?”

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  • Mustache Piercing

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    If it were not for his very modern looking glasses, I might be doing my best right now to convince you that Peter Csirmaz got his piercings in the late 1800s or something. Unfortunately I’m just not that good at photoshopping… Zoom in if you can’t tell by the pixels.

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  • See an ophthalmologist already!

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    Jeez, twenty years later and Adam Richins (Warlocks Tattoo in Raleigh, NC) has blown every penny on tattoos and piercings and having things shoved through his scrotum, and has nothing left to go see the eye doctor about that unfortunate twitchy squint thing… someone help the guy out.

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  • The Platypus speaks

    Written by

    Sean Philips

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    Jenya is no stranger to Modblog. In fact long term readers have watched him evolve into the modern modded man he is today. Fortunately, he was nice enough to chat with me on Skype a while back to answer some questions about him and his mods. His native tongue is Russian, so I had to clean up the grammar on his answers a bit to make it easily understandable, but I did my best not to change the context whatsoever.

    For the interview and a few pictures documenting his evolution, keep on keeping on.

    Sean Philips: So why don’t you give me some basic info to start; age, sexual preference, location and career.

    Jenya: My name is Jenya. I am russian, 23 year old on the 28 january will be 24 years old. I am heterosexual. I was born in and live in Perm city, but I to want live in St. Petersburg and  in the spring I’m going to leave this city (Perm). I make teflon body jewelry (in white, black and blue colors).
    Sean Philips: Wow, only 23, you have quite the collections of body mods for such a young guy. How did you get started on that path?
    Jenya: I was 18 when I pierced my lobes for their further stretching.

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    Sean Philips: So right off the bat you knew you wanted stretched lobes, what lead to that decision?

    Jenya: In the past I have seen many pictures on BMEzine. I was delighted by such body modification and I really wanted to do the same. I wanted something  that I could see in real life when I looked  in the mirror and something I could experience for myself.
    Sean Philips: Very cool. So what inspired you to start stretching your lip piercing for the lip plate?
    Jenya: I saw it on BMEzine as well. I saw it on a few IAM members; Raur,  pharmacist and some other people as well. I really wanted to try it. I like how it looks, but when I increased the size of the hole in my lip, then I wanted more and more. My motivation came primarily from MobyK. He helped me to understand that the more – the better. When I saw pictures of different tribes people with large lip plates I would wonder as to how much is practical? How do they eat, communicate, and  live with such large lips?  I wanted to find the answer to these questions within myself. Many of these questions I have since found answers to through the stages of my lip getting bigger. Now I’m wondering how it will be to have a  50mm or 100mm medusa and if I can live with a 200 x 100 mm lip plate.

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    Jenya: Sorry for my english 🙂

    Sean Philips: No problem it’s far better than my Russian.

    Jenya: (hehe)
    Sean Philips: So how is it living with the lip plate in your daily life?
    Jenya: This is very interesting. Before I asked the same question, but now I can honestly  say I love eating with my big lips. This modification did not cause any inconvenience to my regular activities. I still eat, drink, sleep, talk. I also really love this big smile. When I smile looking in the mirror, it improves mood, I get a positive on the whole day! I have only positive thoughts. thereby I attract only good things in my way.
    Sean Philips: That’s an awesome outlook, I like that a lot.  So you love your mods, but how does the general public deal with your mods, I am sure you get a lot of attention? Also, what about your family, do they support your choices?
    Jenya: Yes, I get A LOT of attention. The reactions are  always different. When I am walking down the street with an open face, I notice some people’s  reaction. I often can hear the enthusiasm or hatred directed at me. I can see through to almost everyone. From how they treat me I can assume how they were brought up. I do love it when people like how I look. I give them my smile and they return a smile for me. I think it’s great. When I encounter  people who scream negative things at me, I do not pay attention to it, I move on. I think they are just uneducated people. To me they are very sad. My family is very fond of me, despite my appearance. My mom does not like how I look, but she does not tell me this, so I think all is well!
    Sean Philips:That’s great. We can’t expect everyone to love our decisions but so long as they can love us in spite of them, it’s a good thing. So what’s next? Any major mod plans lie ahead for you?
    Jenya: I really want to stretch my lips bigger.  I don’t know how practical it will be, but I love the look of them at the size of 200 by 100mm. I also love big septums. I really want to have a really big septum, but it is very difficult for me, because sometimes I have problems with keloids.
    Sean Philips: 200×100mm, that is certainly ambitious as far as lip stretching goes, I hope it goes well for you. So the human platypus thing, could you explain that?

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    Jenya: The platypus has a large bill which is very similar in appearance to the large stretched lips for human. Also, I really like the sound of the word “platypus” in English.

    Sean Philips: Is this a theme you plan to carryon further, like how the Lizardman  transforms himself more and more to continue the lizard theme, or is this more of a nickname?
    Jenya: It’s more of a nickname, I think the name “platypus” may be suitable for all people with big lips.
    Sean Philips: Fair enough. So to anyone planning who may plan on taking their mods to the same extreme as you, do you have any words of wisdom to share?
    Jenya: For these people? Yes. Never be in a hurry for a stretch. If you want big lips – you’ll have it, but after some time. The slower you go the bigger you can get…………..and good luck!

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    So what do you guys think, could these two be brothers or what?

  • It’s not the body mods that make the bad guy, it’s the overalls.

    Written by

    Sean Philips

    A while back my old friend Josh (yes, “That Guy” from the 9:30 club in DC) has been featured on modblog a few times previously for pictures similar to these. It seems he has a thing for playing the villain, when truth be told he is a gentle giant of a man.

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    For another shot and a little backstory on this project from Josh, keep on keeping on.

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    My buddy Dave and I started doing some horror themed photo shoots as a promotional campaign for a haunted hayride a few years back.  That project went away, but we kept shooting.  Dave is a huge old horror movie buff, and he started toying around with making movie posters out of the shots complete with titles, taglines, and credits.  That gave birth to the “movies that don’t exist” concept.  As we kept shooting, we started to realize that it would be fun to make a trailer for the movie that doesn’t exist.  we’ve started working on the story, and shooting video along with the stills.

    The photos have received a wide range of responses, from people that absolutely get the homage to the slasher flick angle to being called poorly edited misogynistic crap.  We realize that the subject matter is not for everyone, and the fact that it elicits any response at all is a good sign.  If you don’t get a response, you’re not doing it right.  We also haven’t tipped all of our cards just yet.  There is more to the story than what appears at first glance.

    Our number one priority when shooting is that none of the girls get hurt (only I am allowed to injure myself for a shoot).  The shoots are all done in fun, and we often ruin shots because one of us can’t keep a straight face from joking around so much.  This made us realize that we need to show that side of the process as well, so we’ve started shooting some “behind the screams” video to show the lighter side of the project.

    The current plan is to put together a multimedia package .  There will be a book including the stills, some bios, peeks behind the scenes, and some story elements.  Then there will be the video portion which includes the trailer, outtake video, and some interviews.  The project keeps evolving, so there may be even more to come in the future.

    All of the work can be seen on the 13th Hour Photography’s facebook page.

  • Worst case scenario

    Written by

    Rob

    The often quoted Murphy’s Law says something along the lines of “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong”.  When it comes to modifications, we always hope that nothing will go wrong with anything we get.  Now I’m not talking about the procedure, more along the lines of what can happen down the road.  You could be getting dressed for work when you suddenly snag a microdermal and tear it.  You could be riding a bike down a moutainside when you fall and scrape up your arm so badly it ruins one of your tattoos.

    In the case of Nikita IAM: 9sbg-av4372071, he got into a fight a little while ago and ended up tearing open his medusa stretching project.  If he looks familiar to you, that’s because he was the young man who attempted the single point elbow suspension that ended in a nasty tear.

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    Here’s how it looked last year when he had it up to 24mm.  There are other images of it in the lip plate gallery.

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    Prior to the fight Nikita’s had stretched his medusa all the way up to 27mm.  If you head over to his IAM page, you can see pictures of how it looked before he lost it.

    Hopefully Nikita continues to upload images of how he’s fixing it to the lip disc reversal gallery.  And let’s hope he manages to go a long time before anything else traumatic happens to him or any of his modifications.

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