Boff did these two hand tattoos by hand. Because of the thicker skin, hand tattoos are particularly suited to hand poking which gives often better results in these cases than can be achieved with a machine (especially on the palms and sides of the hands).
Ed. note: The user featured in this posting has requested his/her photos be removed.
Joy writes,
I’ve enclosed a few photos of a piece I did on Jeff Rondina a couple days ago. This is the beginning of a rib panel. We were calling this a “self-portrait” of jeff. It is a combination of the eyeball monster featured briefly in “Bride of the Re-Animator” and Jeff’s own hand — the features of the original monster have been altered with the tattoos on jeffs fingers, his eye color, and his amputated middle finger.
He was in an accident at work a couple years ago. Due to the accident and the many subsequent surgical and physically therapeutic alterations made to his hand (all very painful and frustrating), his finger was eventually amputated. This wasn’t an elective amputation in the sense that is often used on BME. I know that many people commented on how “cool” it was that he had his finger amputated without even thinking that it may have been something he didn’t want to have done, but rather the lesser of the evils presented to him as a long-term option.
He’s obviously doing much better now and is getting on with his life as the lawsuit bullshit comes to a close with his former employers. I just find it interesting and amazing how he’s taken something that was a horrible accident, toughed through it, has accepted it, laughed at it, and immortalized the transformation on himself permanently.
Pete in Australia (The Piercing Urge) wrote me about a silly experiment he did on William, a client of his that always wants the most outrageous piercing possible… Neither of them really expect this to last* (I assume William has facial expressions — I suppose this is most suited to someone with Bell’s Palsy), but it does look kind of funny for now.
All piercings except the bridge are by Pete.
* To be clear, this is basically a play piercing!
Marc at Swastika Freakshop in Radolfzell, Germany did this tattoo on his girlfriend. If you visit his page (or the star tattoo galleries I think) you can see a closeup — it’s all done with dotwork.
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I think the first photo is by Perk900 and the second is I think by Phil — as always, click through if you prefer less clothing. Please send naked-guy compliments and offers of intimacy to iam:fallingseraphim.
OK, not really… Enthean is actually wearing this 8ga ring through a 0ga tunnel (originally pierced by Erin at Adrenaline in Vancouver BC, but self stretched).
