BME: Body Modification Ezine

A tattooed person suspends from hooks, laying flat, one leg higher than the other. Their head is back, and they seem to be smiling, dark hair dangling like an anime character.

Celebrating body modification culture since 1994.

Category: ModBlog

  • IAM Member Missing

    Written by

    BME


    Good news! Lavina is accounted for and safe and sound.

    We really hate having to relay messages like this, but we’ve received word that Lavina is missing. The details we have are as follows:

    – She came up to Los Angeles to get some work done with her boyfriend on Sept. 17.

    – She went with her boyfriend to San Diego (where he lives) and stayed with him for a few days.

    – After a few days, she left for Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet up with a friend there who none of her friends or family knew. She apparently got there Tuesday, Sept. 22 and made a short phone call to her boyfriend. That was the last anybody has heard from her. The number from which she made the phone call was disconnected the next day.

    – She was expected back in West Covina, California, on Thursday, Sept. 24, but nobody there has seen or heard from her.

    – She’s 19 years old, about 4’9″ tall and about 115 lbs. She has long, dark brown hair and brown eyes.

    – She has several tattoos on both arms, including a large octopus on her stomach, as well as one two-and-a-half-inch inch stretched lobe and a split tongue.

    The Albuquerque sheriff’s department phone number is (505) 468-7100‎.

    Any help whatsoever is welcome, of course. We’ll keep you all updated.

  • 80 Needles, One Breast

    Written by

    Jordan Ginsberg


    Eighty is a rough estimate, of course, but however many it is, we are thoroughly impressed with this play piercing set featuring Bittra! Working the needles is Dau of Sundbyberg, Sweden’s Pain Division, who was apparently called in for this “spontaneous” session. Resourceful! More shots, including one in glorious full color, after the jump.

    See more in “Female Torture Play“ (members only)

  • Tattoo Removal: Knuckle Edition

    Written by

    Jordan Ginsberg


    Hoo boy, and here is some tattoo removal for you, gentle readers, just in time for your company-mandated lunching hour. A little grisly, right? This photo, two days after the appointment, comes to us from a client of the Tattoo Laser Removal Clinic in sunny San Diego, California, but removal aside, we can neither confirm nor deny whether the person featured above still does, in fact, love life. We, of course, hope they do. But really, those blisters form mighty quick—after the jump, the first shot is another close-up from day two, and the final shot is from day one, before these suckers puffed right up.

    ***

    Before we jump across…the jump, though, we figure this is as good a time as any to mention that friend of BME Allen Falkner, who many of you know is also in the tattoo removal business with his company, Fade Fast, has just published an article that we think is worth taking a look at. In it, Allen summarizes and explains the results of a study he recently conducted to “determine how different laser wavelengths interact with particular ink colors, and more specifically, with different brands of tattoo inks.” Give it a read, and if you’re planning on being in Las Vegas this weekend, Allen will be giving a lecture about his findings as well.

    **NOTE: Just to clarify, Allen Falkner did not do the removal procedure pictured here.**

    See more in “Tattoo Removal“ (Tattoos)

  • The Most Eloquent Silence

    Written by

    Jordan Ginsberg


    Good morning, folks! Let’s begin our dreary Tuesday with the decidedly non-dreary Marina, coming to us from Antwerp, Belgium via Germany, and sporting a 7 mm. philtrum to go along with her 44 mm. (formerly 50 mm.) lobes and those old-soul eyes. Let her sly grin be your umbrella today, ModBloggers. Unless, you know, it’s raining really hard. Then a real umbrella would probably be a better choice.

    Tuesday? Tuesday. Monday.

    See more in “Scalpelled and other large gauge lip procedures“ (Lip Piercing)

  • The Youth of a Sparrow

    Written by

    Jordan Ginsberg


    And here we have Duncan, checking in with some fine old school work courtesy of Shaun Bushnell (Glenn’s Tattoo Service), Joe Almquist and Scott Denhalter (Cape Fear Tattoo) and Brian Leebrick (Port City Tattoo), to say nothing of some fancy ear jewelry and a generally winsome demeanor. And hey, this photo also commemorates his one-year anniversary at the aforementioned Cape Fear Tattoo in Greenville, North Carolina, so congratulations for that! Upon hearing about the milestone and seeing the nice bold old school pieces, Bob Roberts showed up at his house, beat him senseless, gave him a cigar and then bought him whiskey and steak all night. True story.*

    *Not a true story by any means.

    See more in “Old School (and Old) Tattoos“ (Tattoos)

Latest Tattoo, Piercing, and Body Modification News