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  • Venus by Maria Tash is Hiring!


    From their lips fingers to your ears eyes:

    Venus by Maria Tash is hiring!

    We are looking for experienced professional piercers to work in our busy, upscale Manhattan studio. You must have a portfolio, resume and references. We ask that you be clean, neat, drug free, and have the ability to handle our high profile clientele professionally and efficiently.

    If you are interested, please email your resume and references to Meg at [email protected] for consideration. Please include a headshot and short bio as well.

    (Microdermals on laowai4life by Meg.)

  • Night of a Few Dozen Scars


    Hey, look, it’s an article that combines some of my favorite things: Booze, random sex and scarification. But not in a good way! All Wayne Robinson, 24, of Fleetwood, Lancashire, wanted was a late-night drunken summer hook-up, like so many other 20-somethings. Unfortunately, he called up local idiot Dominique Fisher, who decided that once her suitor had nodded off for the night (with some help from noted sleeping aids vodka and Valium), she, uh, sliced him up for some reason? Seriously?

    Mr Robinson woke to find his body decorated with a star on his back, ‘Dominique’ written on his upper right arm, and numerous slash marks on his left arm and shoulder.

    […] he was not awake during the incident on the night of June 14 last year.

    Mr Robinson said he panicked when he woke up and took a taxi back to his home in Fleetwood, Lancashire.

    He said: ‘I went to her place for sex, not to be tattooed. I can’t believe she did this to me and I hate her.

    ‘When I woke I was covered in blood. Dominique was snoring. I just had to get out of there. I didn’t even wake her to ask what she’d done.’

    ‘I’m scarred for life,’ he told The Sun. ‘I wish I’d never met her.’

    Good grief. Look, everyone knows that it’s perfectly acceptable to tattoo people when they’re asleep — hilarious! — but this is really crossing a line. It’s a dangerous world out there, and really, if we can’t get shitfaced and pass out at the homes of strange ass, well, where can we take refuge?

    Fisher was convicted of unlawful wounding, which sounds slightly worse than a traffic violation, and will be sentenced at the end of February. The article did mention, however, that she perpetrated the attack with a Stanley knife, a.k.a a box-cutter, therefore, she is a terrorist, throw her in a secret C.I.A. prison, the end.

    One-night stand man wakes to find lover has carved her name into his arm [Daily Mail — more pictures here, too]

  • Set Phasers to Stun


    “Sometimes a lady has to get it done herself.” Tell me about it! Wait, what?

    (Tattoo by Kris Maron at No Regrets in Solomons, Maryland.)

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  • This Week in BME


    Oh holy shit, what is this? The actual Devil? It looks like some goddamn sea monster with a face that was created by letting one of those 1950s-era diving helmets soak in nuclear waste. I mean, it’s a great tattoo, but I don’t understand why c.A feels the need to haunt me by getting tattooed with Poseidon’s nightmares.

    (Tattoo by Kris Roberts at Shipwreck Tattoos in Corpus Christi, Texas.)

    And another week down. What happened this time around?

    A woman’s lovely tribute to her parents.

    A public service announcement … with GUITARRRRR

    We talked about adapting paintings into tattoos.

    Gothic Clark Kent showed up.

    We saw a brilliant Asian-inspired sleeve.

    Rat plugs? Rat plugs.

    Hey, zippers!

    Anyway, we’ll be around this weekend. We’ll even have a new interview up at some point! Good times. Whatever you do, be safe. Have a great weekend, ModBlog, and, as always, thank you for your continued support of BME.

  • Hands On


    Meltbanana sends in this wild skin-removal piece (of her husband’s hand-print) done by Lukas Zpira while he was at Officina Tattoo in Milan, Italy. I like the sentiment; it’s like a friskier take on a wedding/commitment tattoo or scar. Another shot, after the jump.

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