This lovely lass is Katesprout, she sent in quite a few photos over the weekend, but this one stood out the most. There’s just something almost pastoral about it, as if she belongs out in that field, rather than in a building somewhere.
Sometimes a job calls on you to go above and beyond your normal routine. For a model, this can happen quite often. In the case of IAM: Rachietartz, her latest photoshoot pushed her to the brink of consciousness. Using a tie to cut off her airway, Rachie was on the verge of passing out when this photo was snapped. You can see just how intense this was not only by the look in her eyes, but also by how red her face got while she was straining for air.
Photo credit: JL Joseph Beaulieu
Jenya is no stranger to Modblog. In fact long term readers have watched him evolve into the modern modded man he is today. Fortunately, he was nice enough to chat with me on Skype a while back to answer some questions about him and his mods. His native tongue is Russian, so I had to clean up the grammar on his answers a bit to make it easily understandable, but I did my best not to change the context whatsoever.
Sean Philips: So why don’t you give me some basic info to start; age, sexual preference, location and career.
Sean Philips: So right off the bat you knew you wanted stretched lobes, what lead to that decision?
Sean Philips: No problem it’s far better than my Russian.
Jenya: The platypus has a large bill which is very similar in appearance to the large stretched lips for human. Also, I really like the sound of the word “platypus” in English.
Well for some odd reason, there aren’t any heavily modified babies to have as the BME New Year’s baby, so you’ll have to do with a BMEBoy instead. Now, as the baby is normally portrayed pushing aside an old man with a beard, it’ll be only fitting if Evan here were to start growing his beard again for the new year. Who knows, maybe by this time next year he’ll have himself a nice epic beard to help usher in a new BMEBoy for 2012.
Among Evan’s many piercings are his stretched lobes, a few nostril piercings, a medusa, a large gauge cartilage piercing, and while you can’t see it, he’s also got himself a fairly large septum.
No sliced open genitalia, no comedic tattoos, just a pretty lady, with a pretty smile.
Landycandy is from Taipei, Taiwan, and had her septum done there by an artist named Lingo.
Many of you will remember Darah from the BME World Tour where she was part of the team that went to Australia and New Zealand. What you may not know is this beauty hails from the wilds of Southwestern Ontario, where she runs wild and free through the forest. When not stalking her prey in the moonlight, she scours the underbrush pulling forth the spirits of the earth and succumbing to their powers. Through this divine communion she becomes more wolf than woman, forever bound to the world of the wilds. It is only in fleeting moments that she can be captured on film where we can see not only her marks and holes that define her exterior, but also catching a glimpse into her eyes, seeing the power and beauty that she manifests. The pelts she wears are not only there to protect her from the cold of the winter, but also to protect the winter from the fire inside her.
Well if nobody did, too bad, you’re getting more anyway! This time we’ve got two beautiful BMEGirls to close out the week.
First up is Shanna, who we first saw a couple of weeks ago. This time around she’s showing off her kitty, as well as giving us another great look at her tattoos and piercings.
Next up is a photo sent in by justaburde, crediting Kevin Kusulas as the artist for what I’m assuming is the shoulder tattoos.
Enemy sent in this photo of himself. From what I gather, the piercings were all completely self done. His lobes are at 7/8 and his septum is at 7/16. I wanted to post the photo because high nostrils don’t come in very often. I want to say this is still a fairly uncommon piercing but given where I live, I’m not sure if that’s accurate or simply my perception. What about you, ModBloggers? Would you say this is uncommon or do you see high nostrils with some frequency where you live?
I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that he doesn’t normally wear what appears to be a piece of pipe a sharpie in his septum and that this was just for the photo.
With all the BMEGirls posted today, it’s only fair we end the day with a superb shot of Pasha and his piercings. This BMEBoy even caught the attention of Jen, who e-mailed me to let me know about him. I can’t say I blame her. It’s a fantastic shot, hauntingly beautiful, and it shows off not only his impressive lobes, but also his stretched septum. Ok, enough with the talk, enjoy the photo.
When getting ready to head out for an evening of fun with some friends, there are a few things a person needs to do to get ready. Shower, pick out clothes, possibly put on makeup, get a corset piercing, make sure your accessories match, etc. While some people may not include one or two of these examples, it seems these ladies have made sure to include “get a corset” on their list of things to do.
For some reason, when I see this picture, all I can think about is what the reactions of my classmates would have been if my date showed up for prom with a corset. Granted back then, a lot of people would have had no clue what they were looking at. The same could be said for a lot of the newer styles of modifications. So while back then this would have been shocking, today it may only turn some heads. Does this mean that the mainstream world is becoming more accepting?
IAM:Candace posed this question on her blog today, “Do you think heavier mods (implants, removals, scarification, etc) will ever be accepted among society? Why?” If history is any indicator, there may come a day when what we consider heavy today, becomes something as normal as a stretched septum or lobe. What are your thoughts on this? Are we headed down the road towards the mainstream, or will the modified community continue to skirt the fringes of “normalcy”.
A big thank you to BME user ajulietgrey for sharing this picture with us. There are several more images of these corseted ladies up in the corset piercing gallery.