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  • Ear Pointing and Ultrablack Eyes

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    Shannon Larratt

    In my recent post about Samppa’s ear pointing technique, I commented that his style is nice because it’s so stable — the ear isn’t healing under pressure or tension, so the healed result pretty much looks like the ear fresh in terms of shape. The more traditional method, at least in cases where more radical results are desired, changes a great deal during its healing period. However, these changes — the way it stretches the tissue into a new shape — allow for results that are unique to that procedure, so I don’t see the technique being superseded any time soon. These examples on a customer of Moscow based Pavel Chernishov (vk.com/pavel_keek, ANGEL studio) show just how much things can adapt in the healing process.

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    Speaking of Pavel’s work, this picture of a customer whose tongue he split and eyes tattooed has to be one of the blackest-of-black eye tattoos I’ve ever seen done. I actually lightened up the picture like crazy to see if it had been photoshopped, but no, it’s really this wild looking.

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  • I’m With Stumpy

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    Shannon Larratt

    I absolutely love tattoos with a sense of humor, and it seems like amputees really have what it takes to sell a good joke tattoo. In this case, as featured on the US Marine Corps flikr page, ‘U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Redmond Ramos, a corpsman, displays a tattoo that reads “I’m with Stumpy” showing his sense of humor Nov. 14, 2012, during the first Wounded Warrior Pacific Trials at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Honolulu, Hawaii. Ramos deployed with 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, to Sangin, Afghanistan in 2011 where he stepped on an IED, resulting in the loss of his leg. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth)’

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  • Yellow Ink and White Ink Facial Tattoo

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    Shannon Larratt

    I’ve been posting pictures of Aaron Foster every few years since the start of ModBlog, most recently with a few other friends with white-striped faces. Since then he’s had Jason Maybruck add a burst of yellow to the white ink tattoo work that’s already there, a unique combination that I don’t think I’ve seen before, whether on a face or anywhere else on the body. Definitely very effective in continuing his sort of superhero theme! Watch out this summer by the way for a reality show tentatively titled “Unique Passions”, who filmed the tattoo.

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  • Yumyum

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    Shannon Larratt

    Skin removal scarification is the next step up from eating scabs and boogers. They’re like gateway drugs…

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    But seriously, while I like this scar on Joe by Iestyn a lot, something about it really reminds me of a cartoon face. Click the picture to see what I mean, assuming it doesn’t jump out at you already…

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  • Best way to cover scars? MORE SCARS!

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    Shannon Larratt

    I had a bridge piercing for all of, oh a month or two almost twenty years ago, and still have very prominent piercing scars at the entrance and exit points, so I can relate to this. If I’m reading his tags right, Dylan, their new tattoo artist at First Blood had some horrible bridge scars, and, well, add Howie (lunacobra.net) to the equation and what’s the easiest way to cover up a scar? A bigger scar! Knowing the way mods progress, should I worry myself with how this has the potential to snowball? It’s like the old lady who swallowed a fly!

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