BME: Body Modification Ezine

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  • A Wizardess’s Body Modification

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    I wanted to share this great skin peel scarification by Howie (LunaCobra.net) — I just love the magical design, an absolutely beautiful aesthetic that I can’t wait to see healed. This my favorite facial scar in quite some time — and I see a lot of great work so that’s saying something big! I keep looking back at the picture as I write this, I’m completely sold on it.

    Now I also wanted to do some teasing and say that Howie may be in Toronto at the end of this month (October). It’s not confirmed yet, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed. If you’d like procedures by him — be it scarification like you see here, ear pointing, implants, and much more, contact him via the normal channels. I’ll also say that I really think that if you’re considering eye tattoos, my strong advice is that if Howie is available to you, that’s who you go to. He’s been doing eye tattoos longer than anyone else out there and has more experience with this still highly experimental and arguably risky procedure. To be honest, it’s a little worrying how quickly this still experimental procedure has burst out onto the public — in some ways it would have been better if only Howie had done the procedure until it was “stable” and well understood. But we don’t live in a perfect world, and the more you tell someone to be patient, the more they want something.

    Anyway, Howie is currently touring, and like I said, I’m hoping we’ll see him here in Toronto soon, so get in touch via the web at Lunacobra.net, facebook at facebook.com/luna.cobra, or email [email protected]. Or get your procedures done by your prison cellmate. They’re your eyeballs to gamble after all!

  • Ana’s Permanent Puppets

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    Speaking of whacky finger gag tattoos, you may remember all these viral pictures of people drawing little cartoon puppet characters on their fingers doing various acts — Ana Laco had Brane Doricic at Inkconnection Tattoo Parlour in Rijeka, Croatia tattoo this finger mugging on her. In addition to laughing, I’m actually quite in awe at how well the tattoo has held — on the left is the tattoo fresh, one hit, and on the right is the tattoo healed. As anyone that’s tattooed their fingertips knows, it is beyond impressive to get this much ink to stay on the first try!!!

  • White and Black Tattooing over Healed Blackwork

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    When I saw the healed tattoo on the right in the picture below, I actually thought it was fresh and commented on how much fresh white ink with black over blackwork looks “unreal”, like a sticker or a piece of body painting. To my surprise, the wearer informed me that it was not in fact fresh, but actually a week healed after being done by Gerhard Wiesbeck (timetravellingtattoo.com). You can see how much the colors have settled by comparing the fresh tattoo on the left — it’s more obvious in the white than in the black of course. In time the tones will lose a bit more contrast, but they won’t disappear — the biggest change happens in the first week.

    Check out ModBlog’s previous entries on this subject by following the “Tattooing Over Blackwork” tag — we’ve been showing you this technique for over five years now — and of course click the picture to zoom in and take a closer look.

  • The Secret Piercing Code

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    Getting a tear-shaped microdermal means you killed a guy in a piercing studio.

    The question is, and the one the FBI keeps asking, is did it happen at the same place as the procedure? In this case, the microdermal was done by Wayne Fredrickson at Fastlane Tattoo in Corona, California.

  • Facial Scarification Plus Facial Tattooing

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    Two examples of tattoos and scarification dancing on a face in one day!!! You may recall this facial scarification by Iestyn Flye because I included it in the images in the entry about his recent scarification seminar. Since then, Damien Voodoo, also of London’s Divine Canvas (divine-canvas.com), has added a series of chin tattoo lines that echo the scars higher up on the face. I especially enjoy how the tattoo extends up onto the lower lip. I think if it was me, I would have drawn the lines right over the tattoos already on the neck, but that’s a highly personal decision where I think it’s quite fair for ones history to outweigh graphic design. Speaking of graphic design, looking at this tattoo from multiple angles shows how incredibly challenging it is to create parallel geometric work on a surface as topographically complex as a face!!! Either way, I think the two of them have fused their work successfully to create a striking and unique facial project.

    So… How about some nice thing implanted forehead ridges for the trifecta?

    Click to zoom in a bit of course.

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