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Steve had his old face replaced by husband and wife team Colette and Rob Thompson — each did one side — at Holy Mother in Atlanta, Georgia.
This horrific ear cheese build up is from a customer of James Wisiewski at Body Electric in Hollywood, CA that really needs to pay a little more attention to cleanliness. Seriously, this is the most vomit-inducing picture I think I’ve posted. So gross.
EDIT/UPDATE: Highly recommended see also: Nasty, nasty clients
…and Vittar! (see also: 2005/10/31)
I really like these 20mm plugs that Joerg made for himself!
Sickgirl13 sends in this great photo of my friend La Negra suspending at Hanger 110 in Sao Paulo, Brasil. She just got forth generation horns by Emilio Gonzalez as well — you can see more pictures on BME and on her IAM page.
I’ll start with one that’s fairly standard in terms of jewelry for unusual industrials, other than the wonkiness of looping it through the piercings. This custom made piece was done by Oliver at Danse Sabbatique in Tecate, California.
These next three examples using very pretty custom jewelry are all by El Verno at Holy Macherel/Visual Addiction in St. Paul, MN. From left to right they’re a three way industrial with a trillion cut stone, a 6x6mm princess cut cubic zirconia in a vertical industrial, and finally a very cool six-point custom inner cage.
Nice color modulation — check out the alternating colors of the hubs. For those that aren’t into play piercing, the hub colors are indicators of the gauge of the needle, so Juan Manuel Burgos (Buenos Aires, Argentina) was alternating gauges as he facilitated this ritual.
I don’t know why Toadie titled this picture of her and Mimi “little chicken”. I assume that she can tell the difference between a chicken and a duck, so I’m thinking it must be the duck’s name. I say that because I can’t tell the difference between a duck and a goose, but that’s excusable I figure. Either that or it’s a hideously deformed chicken.
I’m assuming that this is on a personal trainer or weight training instructor (yeah, feel the force of my brilliant deductery) — it was done by Luka who tattoos in Banja, Bosnia which is not a place I regularly receive tattoos from.
