…when you go to have blood taken, and they can’t find your vein so they just keep poking you over and over? And then the dumb nurse cracks some offensive joke like “you have so many piercings, you must like pain — I bet you’re enjoying this”.
Photo: kaosgabe
This tattoo is by Mike Haines at Scarab Body Arts in Syracuse, and is one of the nicer “Semper Fi” themed tattoos I’ve received. He also has a mini-portfolio on BME that you can check out.
And you can never go wrong with a partially de-clothed Marine, right?
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I’m a big fan of the band Godspeed You Black Emperor, so it was pretty cool to see this tattoo done by Ryan Zachary in Portland, OR. That reminds me — for fans of the band, check out Archive.org‘s selection of live concerts they’ve done!
Ultravixen IAM:sky_doll has consistently submitted alluring photos to BME!
(Double nape, nipple piercing, and ear piercing if you’re blind or distracted).
I think IAM:48×16 (good numbers: username improved from the original) has a great chestpiece (or at least a hilarious one, and I figure that’s a good thing). It’s designed and executed by Nate Hough of House of Poncho’s in Edgewood, Maine, and he implores you, “Do not take my design!”
Zoom in if you would like.
I’ve featured work by Lionel (Out of Step, France) here before, but I really liked the way this full-black forearm was capped off. I think I’d like it better though if the hand was fully black as well, as if he’d fallen into a barrel of black ink or something. But black hands are pretty weird looking I guess and would move the tattoo into a very different visual space.
Here’s a very unusual horizontal lip piercing done in the upper lip (usually they’re lower lip with a surface bar, not that even that placement is common) by the good folks at California Tattoo in Sacramento. If I had to guess I’d say it wasn’t kept that long, although you never know — but I think with this jewelry and placement rejection will be very likely (and speedy).
That said, you never know, and I’ve seen far less stable things heal.