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  • Personal Evolution – Part III

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    I proudly present part three in a series of entries that at a glance shows individuals with significant facial mods from the beginning of (or before) their transformation to their current state. You can click the “evolution” tag to see the whole set. If you’d like to take part, please get in touch with me along with relevant images, via either email ([email protected]) or Facebook. Enjoy, and click to zoom in!

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    Adam Skipper

    evolution-3-cammy-stewart
    Cammy Stewart

    evolution-3-Erik-Kiviharju
    Erik Kiviharju

    evolution-3-Jol-EYezak-Dunl-op
    Jol EYezak Dunl Øp

    evolution-3-Kala-Kaiwi
    Kala Kaiwi

    evolution-3-pauly-unstoppable
    Pauly Unstoppable

    evolution-3-pip-snowie-green
    Pip ‘Snowie’ Green

    evolution-3-rafa-mendes
    Rafa Mendes

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    Ron Hanneman

    evolution-3-swirly-wanx-sinatra
    Swirly Wanx Sinatra

  • Dotwork Hand Outline

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    Hand tattoos more than almost any other body part allow the artist to create a tattoo that has movement and life that a static piece could never have. For me, this means that simple yet fluid designs can easily beat out photo realistic mastery dumped flat on the back of a hand, and this tattoo of dots tracing the “mold line” of the hand by Christian Bedics (of Germany’s Time Travelling Tattoo) is a great example. Like all of his tattoos, this dotwork piece is hand poked. I should also mention that Christian is probably better for his scarification work — he’s one of the scarmasters appearing at the First International ScarCon, taking place May 4th and 5th in London.

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    Speaking of movement in hand tattoos, here’s another, much more whimsical tattoo also by Christian Bedics. Sure beats a finger mustache!

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  • Anti-Tragus Removal… Trend?

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    Earlier today I was asked for a referral in the UK for an artist capable of doing an anti-tragus removal, and not much later got an unrelated message from John Durante in Seattle (who you may know better these days for the incredible jewelry he makes at Evolve) showing me the anti-tragus removal he just did on Francesca. For years I’ve been wondering if anti-tragus removal would follow ear stretching and large labrets and be dredged out of humanity’s tribal history and injected into modern culture… maybe that is finally about to happen?

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  • Personal Evolution – Part II

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    This entry continues in a series that shows the personal aesthetic evolution of people with facial modifications, tracking them from before they started (or as early as they can document) to where they are now, with a few steps in between. If you’d like to take part by the way, please drop me a line via email ([email protected] just for this project; please use the regular channels for normal BME submissions) or on my Facebook page, including at least three relevant photos. Enjoy!

    Oh, and an interesting side comment — for a lot of heavily modified individuals, I’ve noticed it’s hard for them to track down unmodified photos (or even sometimes “less modified” photos), as if they’re making efforts to erase any record of who they were before so that their current state can be eternal.

    Remember, you can click the “evolution” tag to see all entries of this type.

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    Anthony Green

    evolution-2-Hugh-Mattay
    Hugh Mattay

    evolution-2-John-Osborne
    John Osborne

    evolution-2-mechanical-demon
    Mechanical Demon

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    Mikel Monkeymeat

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    The Lizardman

  • White Ink Eyeball Tattoo Update

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    Pinhead in Florida (find him at Fat Mermaid in Fort Lauderdale) has done some more work on Dizzy’s white ink eyeball tattoo — something that I admit I didn’t initially think would work, but as you can see, wow, it works great and it makes him look like some sort of anime character. The look it produces is completely unreal — in Dizzy it looks cartoonish, especially with the other eye being bright blue, but I can imagine in someone else that it would make them look like an android, pushing them into the uncanny valley.

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