BME: Body Modification Ezine

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  • A Mask of Diamond Lines

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    What a knock-out piece this is, just boom, stamped on with such strong impact — interesting change from Freak Garcia’s (of Ink Karma Nation, inkarma.wordpress.com) normal undulating and flowing style that almost looks like the patterns on an oil slick turned into blackwork. Anyway, I especially like the treatment of the ear, both front and back — second time today I’m posting a facial tattoo that pulls onto the ears, to say nothing of how closely the linework style echoes Kike’s illusion skull from earlier today as well. I also like the way that it fades behind the preexisting tattoos, not just abruptly ending, but dithering to a lighter level. I’d love to see this piece extended in time, so that it wraps all the way around his head and is mirrored on the other side.

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  • She ain’t pretty

    Written by

    Rob

    This Haida style northern pike was tattooed by Gary Loco from Loco Tattoos in Kalispell, Montana.  While the pike seems pretty traditional, the daredevil lure attached certainly isn’t.

  • How now, spirit! whither wander you?

    Written by

    Rob

    There’s something about flying out of a tree while attached to a suspension rig that makes me think of Midsummer Night’s Dream.  Although when I think of Robin Goodfellow, IAM:Balthazar isn’t the first person to come to mind.

    Suspension facilitated by Bodyextremes Suspension Team.

  • Facial Linework Radiation

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    I really like the new linework that George Karakioulafis of Dildo Studio (dildostudio.gr) in Greece (who just sent me a super-cool package of swag from his shop, including some obscene shirts that I can just barely get away with wearing in public) just had done on his cheek, radiating out from his ear, as well as the lines that mark out across the geography of his ear itself.

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    PS. You may remember a while back there was a case of facial tattoo copying in which Morgan Dubois got his facial linework cloned almost exactly. I just wanted to point out that in George’s case, even though the tattoo is similar (and perhaps even inspired), it’s obviously a distinct design and sufficiently different that he can truly call it his own.

  • Tattooed Starfish Implant

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    A while back (in February) Kayla VanFleet had Shawn O’Hare implant one of Steve Haworth’s starfish-shaped implants in the top of her hand. Now that it’s well healed, she had it tattooed by Kenny Morris last week, and wow, that really tops it off beautifully. Of course some implants stand nicely on their own, but in a great many cases implants — and hands are a good example — can look like out-of-place lumps. Interesting and unique, certainly, but not particularly connected to the person’s overall anatomy. Kayla’s tattooed implant is a great example of using tattoo augmentation to make an implant so much more of a contributing part of the whole — compare the difference between how it looks now to how it looked before getting tattooed and I think you’ll agree what a good decision this was.

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