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  • More bad ideas

    Written by

    Sean Philips

    In keeping with the “bad ideas” theme, it amazes me the crap people put into their bodies in the name of body art.

    The old school implants that were made to resemble body jewelry started their life’s as regular titanium body jewelry, but then several steps went into making them suitable for long term implantation. First off the seam from where the ball threads in was plasma welded shut. Then the bottom side was made into a smooth, but flat surface so it wouldn’t create as much downwards pressure. I have a circular barbell implant of this style in my right hand, and nearly ten years later it is still happy and has caused me no (known) issues.

    Nowadays, those type of implants have been made obsolete by the molded or carved silicone implants. Yet for some reason, people still think it’s ok to put standard body jewelry (with no attempts at making it suitable from implantation) under the skin and call it an implant?

    This submission to BME came with no story, only artist credits. I am intentionally leaving off the artist credit, because I don’t know if the artist was the photographer, the implanter, the implant remover or what and I don’t want anyone jumping to conclusions without more information.

    Without any explanation, I do think the pictures here do a fine job of telling the horror story of poorly planned implants.

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  • Shelly’s 4-ever? It’s Angel’s now!

    Written by

    Sean Philips

    Digging through the images I have found for this week, I seem to be coming across a general theme……bad ideas. So I think I might be making this bad idea week on modblog and try and post at least one bad idea a week. Some are blatantly bad ideas and others, like the one in this post are more open to interpretation.

    Most people agree that getting your significant other’s name on you is generally considered a bad idea. In fact, I am sure lot’s of people thought that the gentleman getting Shelly’s 4-Ever tattooed on his penis was a bad idea. Hell, his now ex-wife Shelly even chimed in on this in the comments thread for that post.

    This is Shelly… Ya there is a reason 4 him doing it. No I did not tell him to do it, actually i told him he was crazy for doing it. It was his way to say he would never cheat again. Believe me girls could care less about the name there! Needless to say we r divorced now.

    Well Al Farber, the artist and wearer of that now infamous piece emailed me an update to the saga.

    Well I covered up my ex wife’s name with my new girl’s name, lol. I’ve been tattooing for 18 years and seen many names on people and I just thought it would look pretty cool there, lol . So I sat down one day and started tattooing my dick it took 13 hours and I broke it up into 3 parts 5 hours then 4 each time after that and I did it back in 2003 it’s never been recolored or touched up, so it stayed pretty good for all the wear and tear I’ve put it through all these years lol…. Well I gave  you two new picks of mine and one of my girls with my name on her, lol .
    For a picture of the new improved “Angel’s 4-ever” tattoo on Al and “Al’s kitty” on Angel, keep on keeping on.
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  • 2 is better than 1

    Written by

    Sean Philips

    firstluff submitted this picture of his impressive bisection. For people at work’s sake, I’ll put it behind a click through.

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  • You can never grow old and you can never die, but you must feed!

    Written by

    Jen Savage

    Before vampires sparkled, they were cool. They wore leather and rode motorcycles and lived in a place called Santa Carla! To the wearer of this tattoo, I salute you! This was my favourite movie when I was a kid and remains so to this day. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Max.

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    More after the jump.

    Rooster of Prick Tattoos in San Antonio, Texas sent these shots in. You can see a few more pieces in the portrait tattoo gallery on BME. Here are a couple more for you.

    Marco hanging upside down.

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    And I must end this post with the sexiest Lost Boy of them all, Dwayne.

    I didn’t see any shots of David (though they may have been submitted prior to this batch) but I’m hoping we get to see more of this piece and I’d love to hear from the wearer about why they decided to pay tribute in ink to the greatest vampire film of all time.

    Have a great weekend folks and hey, why not rent The Lost Boys (or if you own it like me pull it out of the dvd pile) for the sake of old times. Just don’t invite any vampires in to watch with you!

  • The simple things

    Written by

    Sean Philips

    HoodOrnament, originally got this punched out at 8 gauge and has managed to stretch it out to a 0 gauge.

    As most of you know stretching cartilage can be quite the challenge, and tragus piercing’s often prove even more problematic to stretch than other cartilage piercings. So when I see large gauge tragus, I am truly impressed.

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