IAM: Pincushion_Princess and IAM: Dominick269, that’s who!
They got married back in August and uploaded a couple of pictures from their wedding day a few days ago. I don’t know the couple personally, but from the pictures it’s easy to see how much these two care about each other. So from all of us at BME: Congratulations and we wish you all the best!
Over in the BME Culture gallery there are more images from the wedding, in addition to the ones they have on their IAM pages.
The gang from Kipod Tattoo Studio in Tel Aviv have done it again. Last time we saw something from them it was a large bio-mech peice. This time we’ve got a pretty big tribal-ish snake that looks a little angry.
Now I know what you’re thinking, “big deal, he’s got a snake on his ribs and chest, I’ve seen bigger snakes than that in my backyard.” Well you honestly don’t think this is the entire snake do you? Keep on reading to see just how big this cobra is.
I’m not sure exactly which artist did this particular piece, as they’ve got a bunch of excellent artists there. They’ve all been busy the past couple of weeks as well, as they’ve uploaded a significant number of images recently. You can check out the rest of their latest tattoos over in the Kipod Tattoo Portfolio.
Well, finding the solution to the equation is simple. Just take a quick look at the new skool tattoo gallery and you’ll find that the answer is Madison of course.
Now this isn’t the first time we’ve seen Madison on ModBlog. Last year she was seen twice, here and here. This year she’s back showing off her ship sleeve by Scott Forbes from Oceanic Art in Dartmouth, NS, as well as showing off something a little new that you can see by reading on.
Did I say “pretty” earlier? I think I meant gorgeous.
Either way, it’s good to see her back on ModBlog with something new. Hopefully the next time she sends something in we’ll get a better look at the heart piece she has.
Now here’s something you don’t see every day, it’s a vertical piercing from inside the upper lip to the inside of the nostril. It’s like a reverse vertical lowbret…..no that would be a “Nick piercing“, but what would we call this? I do feel like I have seen this piercing done at least once before, but I couldn’t seem to find it on BME.
As a piercer I can’t say I am a big fan of this type of piercing and I certainly can’t recommend people getting or doing these. However, as a blogger I can’t help but appreciate the rarity of this sort of piercing, which is why I feel obliged to share it here.
It’s been a busy week in the world of modified news, with a lot of old stories getting followed up on, as well as people losing jobs the believe it or not, are tied to tattoos and piercings, but not in the ways you may think. Of course, the week wouldn’t be complete with some celebrity-type news, however, most of it isn’t just gossip about some celebutant’s new tattoo.
Well, lets get things started off with a little good clean fun.
You may have heard in the news that a police officer was fired for posting a picture on his facebook account of his patrol car being washed at a bikini car wash. Well it turns out, it wasn’t just any ordinary bikini car wash. The event was being put on by a South Carolina tattoo studio, which called the car wash, “Tits for Tats”. Classy, I know. The money was going to charity, so we can let the name slide. As the story goes, the male officer took a picture of four of the ladies washing the cruiser. When it was discovered online, the officer lost his job as it was against policy to allow a scantily clad woman to pose next to an official vehicle (even if the officer was off-duty). Now here’s where the story gets interesting.
A female Berkeley County, S.C., sheriff’s deputy was not disciplined, despite the fact that she was actually in a bikini participating in the scrubbing of cars. Apparently, police departments don’t have similar policies concerning their female employees moonlighting as the center of attention in bikini events.
So with that in mind, which of these young ladies do you think is the off-duty officer? If it helps, the event was co-hosted by a strip club, but only one of the dancers were participating. The rest were management and friends of the tattoo studio.
Keep on reading to find out who else had job problems, as well as some follow ups to past stories, and a picture that may make you think twice about ever having plastic surgery.
So while the officer in South Carolina was fired not as a direct result from anything modification related, a woman in England found out that people who are supposed to help others find jobs, can be exceedingly biased towards someone with piercings and tattoos.
Hayley O’Neil, 23, – who also has 20 body piercings – says was also advised to ”stand behind a wall” when she asked a job centre official what post she could apply for. She eventually left the Job centre plus centre in Blackburn Lancs in tear without any interviewers lined up after the advisor concluded: ”Who would hire you looking like that?”. Miss O’Neil, who got her first tattoo from her mother as an 18th birthday present said: ”I just felt so humiliated. I couldn’t believe what this guy was saying. ”I said I could take the the piercings out but they look a lot worse when they are out.”
“The guy said: ‘on first impressions do you think anyone would hire you?’ He said: ‘look at it this way if you were to stand behind a wall – or put a paper bag over your face do you think you would have a better chance?’
Well that’s a good piece of advice to follow. If there is the possibility that you may not get a job based on your personal appearance, it’s best to put a bag over your head. Seriously though, while some places of employment may not exactly be accepting of facial piercings, to tell someone to stick a bag on their head to get a job is a little harsh. Especially considering there are a lot of people out there who are much more heavily modified than her that are holding down jobs without issue.
Of course, not everyone has this difficulty when it comes to their workplace. In fact, in the case of Billy Gibby (now known as Hostgator Dotcom), he makes his living by getting tattooed.
Gibby’s face now features color tattoos for adult websites PornHub, Cam4, HotMovies, plus HipHopBling and several others. Three Anchorage companies have ponied up cash to advertise on Gibby—Liberty Tax Service, Chilkoot Charlie’s, and Gunrunners. And he’s been featured in magazines like Rebel Ink and Bizarre. (Gibby uses a sort of tattoo-covering makeup when he has to go to, say, parent-teacher conferences at his kids’ school.)
It didn’t end there though: About a month ago Billy Gibby legally changed his name to Hostgator Dotcom, for a fee of course. “The judge asked me if I was changing my name to avoid debts,” Hostgator says. “I said, no judge, I’m doing this to pay off my debts.”
To be fair Hostgator is also an amateur boxer, so he has that to fall back on when he runs out of room.
In other news, you might recall the story that circulated this summer about the group of boys that bullied a 14-year-old to get tattooed. Since this past summer the boys have been placed on trial, and the jury has rendered a verdict in the case of the ringleader of the group.
The ringleader of teens who bullied a 14-year-old boy into being tattooed on his butt was sentenced this morning to six months in jail.
Blake Vannest, 18, of 233 Garvins Falls Road, apologized to the victim’s family prior to being sentenced in Merrimack County Superior Court. The boy, who must undergo five laser treatments to remove the lewd tattoo, did not attend the sentencing. Vannest, dressed in orange jail wear and his brushed blond hair in need of a cut, pleaded guilty to simple assault and endangering the welfare of a child. A felony charge of criminal restraint was dropped.
The boy who got tattooed will still have to undergo a few more sessions of laser treatment to remove the tattoo, but it’s good to know that this type of thing didn’t go unpunished.
As a quick follow-up to last week’s story about the young girl being suspended for having her nostril pierced, it seems that the Church of Body Modification is still not being recognized by the principal. An offer was put forward to the girl, and I think you’ll probably understand why she refused it.
School policy says the rule can be waived for a student’s “sincerely held religious belief.” The compromise offered by school leaders this week said Ariana could return to Clayton High School if she covers the piercing with a bandage until she graduates four years from now, said Katy Parker, an attorney for the ACLU, which has taken on the case. ”We don’t think she has an obligation to do it,” Parker said. “We think it’s unreasonable to ask a student to wear a Band-Aid on her face for the next four years.”
I tend to agree with the ACLU on this one. Its interesting to think what would have happened if the girl belonged to another religion where nostril piercings are standard practice. But because the principal doesn’t believe she holds her religious beliefs seriously, the girl is now facing expulsion.
A similar story also popped up this week from Florida, where a girl was suspended from school and forced to change to an alternative learning center because an administrator thought that her tattoo was gang related, even though the girl claims the smiling/crying drama masks are representative of her twin sisters. The girl previously attended the school without hassle even while sporting tattoos dedicated to her parents.
In convention news, the International London Tattoo Convention started up today and will continue all weekend long. Taking place at The Tattoo Dock, ticket prices range from £20-25, and the convention is open from noon until 2am on Saturday, and noon to 7:30pm Sunday.
Before we get to the celebrity news, I found this interesting article from Helium.com that discusses the usage of tattoos and piercings in the bible, and how many people have taken some of the quotes out of context in order to discourage others from getting modified. It’s definitely worth a quick read, especially if you’ve ever been faced with someone who believes your choices will make you “spend an eternity in hell”. My favorite part was where the author points out that if you trim your beard, you’ll suffer worse than if you got a tattoo.
So, it’s finally time for the celebrity “news”. This week, we’ll start off with singer Lily Allen. It seems that after listening to the radio one day, she got infuriated with what she heard, and decided to tweet about it.
Lily, 25, tweeted: ‘Listening to lots of small minded people on radio 2 slagging off people with tattoos.
‘Get a life you silly curtain twitching snobs.’
Can someone please explain the proper usage of “silly curtain twitching snobs” as I’d love to be able to use it in an argument one day.
If you went out to see the new Ben Affleck directed film “The Town” you may notice that one of the tough guys in the film is sporting a distinct tattoo.
McLaughlin, a 6-foot-2, 300-pound, fourth-generation longshoreman from the square mile, plays Rusty, henchman to actor Pete Postlethwaite’s (“In the Name of the Father”) villain Fergus Colm. Intimidating stature aside, McLaughlin said it was his unique tattoo that caught Affleck’s eye.
An outline of the commonwealth of Massachusetts – filled in with the colors of the Irish flag and Charlestown’s zip code – covers McLaughlin’s right forearm. According to McLaughlin, Affleck loved the tat so much, the studio flew the Townie out to Los Angeles for a close-up of the ink job.
Well, this should give some hope to the woman from the earlier story. Mr.McLaughlin was able to get a good job because of his tattoo, so I’m sure she’ll be able to get a job without having to put a paper bag over her head.
I mentioned earlier about a story that will make you reconsider plastic surgery, well this is it. You may remember Pete Burns from the 80s band Dead or Alive, famous for the song You Spin Me Round (YouTube link here for the earworm). Well Pete recently won a settlement in a case against his plastic surgeon for a horribly botched procedure. Last week, Pete was out on the town showing off his newest modifications, a series of microdermals along his eyebrows and cheekbones. If you don’t remember what Pete looked like before, the article has a nice side-by-side comparison for you.
A year ago Pete won £450,000 in damages from his cosmetic surgeon Dr Maurizio Viel who the singer claimed left him ‘suicidal’ after several botched lip implants between 2000 and 2004. ‘As I looked in the mirror it felt like everything I had worked for was ruined due to the disabling injuries I suffered caused by Dr Maurizio Viel,’ Burns said in September last year. ’I am just glad the case is now over.’ ’It is a terrible experience living with the trauma and worry of injury and disability and to have to re-live and recount the details and circumstances of how your injuries happened for the purposes of evidence for the court.’ He added: ‘It has taken away my life and my career. I saw doctors in London who said the only option was to amputate my lips. I was suicidal.’
Thankfully Pete is still with us, and has a single coming out sometime soon. And it’s good to see that he’s moved forward with his life and is continuing to get modified (albeit in a much less drastic manner).
So that’s it for this week. I hope you all have a great weekend, and I’ll see everyone back here Monday.
Oh, and if you come across a news story you think should be in next week’s news round-up, just click here to submit the link.
The last time a lip corset was shown on ModBlog was back in 2007. There may have been one since then, and I’m sure if there has someone will find it, but it definitely seems to be a rare type of corsetry. BME user DivaPayyne sent in this image of her lip corset recently. Stylistically, the pink ribbon combined with the pink hair gives her an almost doll-like quality.
The different types of interpretations that a lip corset can bring about are interesting. Historically, the corset was used by women to force their bodies into a desired shape in order to satisfy the societal demands that were imposed on them. Nowadays corsets are used for a variety of different uses, some stylistically, some for fetishists, others for practical use, and so on. When it comes to corset piercings, the aesthetic of the corset is combined with the classical usage of a corset. The idea of binding. Now of course this doesn’t apply to all corset piercings, but there are some that do emphasize the constricting nature of a corset. When this is applied to the lips, you get a sense that the woman’s lips are binded in a way to prevent her from speaking out past what is expected of her.
One of the most important aspects of a corset piercings is the process, putting in the piercings, stringing them together, and the eventual release and removal of the corset. So while from an outsiders point of view we see the mid point of the process, the corset in place, for the people getting them it is much more than that. Looking back on this individual image, DivaPayyne’s lips are bound together, but at some point, with the tug of a string, she will be free of her bindings and able to speak again.
As always you can check out more corset piercings in the corset gallery, where in addition to this particular lip corset, there are a great deal more images that show just how creative people can be when it comes to creating a corset.
A couple of weeks ago, Jason and the rest of the ihung crew were in Columbus, Ohio to facilitate a number of suspensions. Among those who suspended was the beautiful Kelsie, who you may remember from her resurrection suspension earlier in the summer.
Jason wrote up about the day over at ihung.org, and here’s what he had to say about Kelsie’s suspension in particular.
Next up was Kelsie, who was super excited to hang from her knees again as it had been a while. She was also concerned with comfort and skin tearing, so to minimize the chances of tearing and maximize her comfort, we went with six hooks, three per knee. My usual placement for these is two alongside the kneecap in a V shape, and one horizontally above the kneecap. This distributes the person’s weight across all six points fairly well, although care must be taken to not overload the top hooks before they go up as the tension on that one will increase more than the others.
They used the same park as they did the last time she suspended, but only in a different location. Thankfully someone was on hand with a camera which allowed Kelsie to upload the pictures from her experience.
It’s images like these that capture the powerful feelings that arise from a suspension. In this particular case, the blur of the trees and how her body is positioned really show off how freeing the experience can be. The world has faded away and she’s free to fly wherever she wishes, releasing all the weight the world has on her. No matter what has come before or what will come after, in this moment, there is just her, being free.
The rest of the images from Kelsie’s suspension can be found in the ihung.org gallery, including a close-up of the positioning Jason talked about, as well as other images from when she was in the air.
Well, for those of us on the top half of the planet, summer is officially over as of yesterday. To those down under, spring should be underway, with summer only a few short months ahead. With autumn having started, it’s nice to think back to just a few short weeks ago, when the days were long and weeks were spent looking forwards to weekends at the cottage, or some other relaxing spot. Of course summer always is thought of as the domain of the young, with school out it certainly can seem that way, but for adults summer is also a time for fun.
BME user CutieKimmi sent in this photo of her enjoying the summer sun. I had to shrink the image a little, but if you look close you can see that she has a series of microdermals down her spine. You can see the larger photo in the microdermal gallery.
Looking back on the past is a great way to look ahead to the future. So while summer may be gone for this year, we still have a lot to look forward to, well until 2012 if you believe the conspiracy theorists. So how was your summer? Did you do anything special this year, or did you just want to get it over with because you’re a huge fan of the fall or winter?
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.
The “Dogs Playing Poker” series of images were originally a series of oil paintings designed to sell cigars. Somehow these images transcended their initial meaning and have turned into a staple of American kitsch. Pool halls and rec rooms all over North America have at least one of these famous paintings, or ones that have been inspired by them.
At the same time C. M. Coolidge sat down to paint these images, another American legacy was being formed in the tattoo studios of New York City. Fast forward almost 100 years later and the two have finally come together in this back piece by Jeff Houston from Under the Needle Tattoo in Seattle, WA.
A larger version of the picture can be found in the cartoon tattoo gallery, where you can see these dogs in all their poker playing glory.
For those curious, the actual title of this particular painting is “A friend in need”, referring to the ace being passed under the table. Now I’m not sure, but I think the English bulldog is passing a card to a pug. Which goes to show, pugs can the the sneakiest dogs around. So take care the next time you’re playing poker with a bunch of dogs, the ones with the crazy eyes tend to be the cheats.
