Steve Truitt at Stay Gold Tattoo and Body Modification in Albuquerque did this piercing back in May (it’s fresh in these pictures) using an in and out barbell (like a surface staple bar but with a few extra bends) so that the customer could attach his pendant to the centre of his chest.
I’ve been saving this photo to use to promote Professor Booty when it finally relaunches (don’t ask as what; I don’t know yet), but enough time has passed that I think it’s time to take this tattoo by Dusty Donnay off the shelf and post it.
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Medusa and vertical labret by Alex at Red Rocket Tattoo in New York City. I don’t know why, but I really like this photo. I think it reminds me of good times back when I worked in a studio or something…
You can see the full detail pictures on BME and on Mouthsores‘ page, but Mana’s chest piece by Travis Bracht at Spirit Garden Too in Northfield, MN is a coffin that says, “If you don’t live for something, You die for nothing”. I don’t know if that’s true or not (although especially in tattoos I hear it a lot); some people have suggested that the exact opposite is closer to the right way to think of life.
Here’s a couple shots of Melissa‘s two-point chest suspension with Freedom Suspension Group. I think the one photo may have been a BME cover? I hope she doens’t have me TOS’d for taking this picture from her page, but click here to see her supercool car. Sorry, I like cars almost as much as body modification and I just thought it was such a nice picture of her I wanted to make sure people had a chance to see it.
This is what has become of a formerly underground artform. Somewhere a prison tattoo scratcher is rolling over in his unmarked grave from shame. Ha… Just kidding! Thanks to Amber and Jackie for sending their matching “livin’ on the edge” tattoos by Valerie Tate in Dalton, GA.
It’s “just” a table spoon in this picture set, but I did get sent a full-sized vibrator docking video a while back that’s really something. I’m almost 99% sure it’s stolen so I probably shouldn’t post it, but part of me really wants to because it’s amazing… Anyway, I like where Splitcox is going with his very rare superincision.
