Raldy and Bia at Raldy Mods in Sao Paulo, Brazil, had a big keloid on the back on an inner conch to deal with, and decided, reasonably enough, to punch it out at a quite large 14mm. It looks great and turned out quite nicely, but… (continued inside the entry).
I have no particular problem with autocannibalism, but I have to admit that I don’t really want to eat a big fat keloid. I have this notion that it probably has a texture and flavor somewhere between old leather and old, used bubble gum. Admittedly he does not look that gleeful about it either!
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haha eeeew (good solution though!)
Cool and elegant solution that seems to work quite nicely with what mods he already has. But seriously, I’m with Shannon, eating a keloid, even if it was my own, would probably make me ill.
I can understand the motivations behind this and appreciate the logic but I can’t imagine keloid to be much of a delicacy!
hmmm i find the pink elastic much more disturbing, it defintely is not his colour.
the thought of kissing that guy really grosses me out. but his ear looks cool.
I did the exact same procedure about a month ago on a clients lobe scar tissue. They’re healing beautifully thus far.
blood is fantastic!
at first i thought he had also keloided on his tongue piercings! though i’ve never seen those kinds on the tongue before..
best solution everr!!!
and mmmm conch
that makes me so grossed out.
If he’s prone to keloiding, won’t they just come back, but bigger? If not, why?
He definitely has a “I am just doing this for the picture, take it so I can get them out of my mouth damn it” look on his face. o.o
Big conches win! I just stretched mine to 5/8″ Waiting to do the other one so I can have a good side to sleep on
here this a small video of one of the procedures…not this very good one more of the to see some thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emtKIIBt0gs
actually this work was to totally be sutured the extremities….gnome wanted a pulg in the hole…
yea, I’m cool with him punching out the keloids, but don’t put that shit in your mouth.
I really hope this works for him. We did the same procedure on a client’s lobes with keloids about twice as big as those on the front and back, and all was well for about 6 months until they came right back. According to my research since then, causing more trauma to an already keloid prone area of the body, only begets more keloiding. “Classic” methods of treatment are met with moderate success, while localized steroid injections have consistently shown the ability to suspend the growth of keloids if not reverse the process to a degree. Still, good luck to this guy. Keloids suck.
I’m confused about his other ear?
his other ear was made the same procedure the only difference and that not other ear didn’t have nor a keloid….
I was slightly tempted to eat my chunks of cartilage after I had my outer conches punched, but I reckoned it should taste about the same as gristle in pork or chicken meat, so thanks but no thanks. I burnt them instead 🙂
The ears however do look very nice! Great way to get rid of the keloid and get a set of nice mods instead.
nice tattoos too!!
I’m sure if you fried it up right…
English is definitely not RALDYBLUE’s first language.
I know a former piercer who used to like to wow people by eating the bits that came out when he pierced someone. Never anything like this though! Just standard 14-16ga range bits.
Also, this is going to affect his hearing. The ear is shaped to funnel sound into it, so this mod takes that away. Which is his decision, of course, but it’s something worth considering for anyone considering major modifications to their concha (and pinna overall, really).
Do they even make biopsy punches in those sizes? I thought they only made them up to 8mm, but if there is a company who manufactures a larger diameter, hook me up! And as for the auto-cannibalism part, c’mon who really hasn’t kinda considered it?