This Week in BME

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

Good God, well, if this isn’t a fine way to wrap things up this week, I don’t know what is. Two of our returning champions, Heather (more) and Tracie (more, more), covered in blood (or a reasonable substitute), hanging out at the Baltimore Tattoo Convention, and conveniently captured sharing a tender moment by the good folks with Metal Disco Photography. Whew. Yeah. Well…yeah.

And that, friends, will be that for this week. What kinda good times did we have this time around?

– Cats vs. Bees: The Revengening.

– LA Ink made some unwise personnel decisions, but at least wang tattoos can save your ass.

– GAHHHHHH KILL IT KILL IT SEND IT TO HELL

– One of the finer silicone implants we’ve seen in a while. Ahoy.

– You’re not a man until you learn to tie a bow-tie.

– A children’s treasury of dead celebrity tattoos! We are going directly to hell.

– And finally, don’t steal money to fund your body modification procedures, you grinning douchebag.

We’ll make a casual appearance or two over the next couple days, but come Monday morning, this ship sails ahead at full speed. Sounds good? Sounds good. Until then, friends, enjoy yourselves, stay safe and, of course, thank you for your continued support of BME. We’ll see you soon.

Tattoo Hollywood, BME’s first tattoo convention, is coming to Los Angeles from August 21-23, featuring contests, prizes and some of the best artists from around the world! Click here for more information.

Strong as Death and Sweet as Love

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

Well hey, it’s BME’s resident knife-wielding maniac, Lunar, proving that, while he may not be the most efficient waiter ever, he suffers for his craft, man. Or, you know, is at least mildly inconvenienced. Also, he’s not actually a waiter. God, this story is full of holes. On the bright side? Those are some healthy looking one-inch lobes, and I get to break out the beloved “Hearty Beards” tag. Everybody wins!

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The Great Equalizer

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

You may not know it by looking at the picture, but this is, in fact, the very lovely Miss Duveaux (much more), letting her side-torso tattoo tell the tall tales of her supposed “trouble” for her. I mean, really—how much trouble could a girl who, I don’t know, covers her naked self in blood for Christmas really be? Exactly. One of the nicer (and definitely one of the more large-scale) script pieces we’ve seen in a while, unobscured by that pesky red sheer, after the jump.

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A Thousand Ships

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

And here we have Devigny, a graphic design student from scenic Quebec, making sweet love to the camera and showing off his 18 mm. lobes, plenty of fine tattoo work and, of course, ye olde sculpted pecs. Oh, you’d like more pictures, you say? We’ve got you covered.

See more in “Ear Stretching (past 1/2″)“ (Ear Piercing)

Grey Matter

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

Good morning, ModBloggers! Let’s start the day off with the lovely Finch (seen wearing substantially less clothing here) and this very pretty chest piece, featuring…huh, what is that? Some kinda falcon or something? I’m no ornithologist. If only there were some sort of indication of what kind of bird this is! Sigh. I guess some mysteries were never meant to be solved.

Whoa hey, and also, it’s Friday! We made it! Sometimes we’re so bad, we scares ourselves.

(Tattoo by Brian Hutflies at Warlock in San Francisco, California.)

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A Children’s Treasury of Bakery-Fresh Tattoos

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

Well, after last night’s exercise in grotesquerie, with all the dead famous folks, we figured some much-needed levity was the order of the day, and what better way to get our minds off of the tragedy of premature death than with sweet, delicious cupcakes? Miss Martin out of Shaman Modifications Tattoo & Piercing Studio in Austin, Texas, just sent in this series of cupcake (and other pastry-related) tattoos, because, hey, who doesn’t love cupcakes? Plenty more, after the jump.

See more in “The Miss Martin Tattoo Mini Porfolio“ (Tattoo Artist Portfolios)

Phlegmatic In Stature

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

Hey, it’s Anthony, the pride of Lompoc, California, hanging out on what appears to be the surface of the moon, smiling up at what must be some sort of high-tech space camera, showing off his 1 5/8″ lobes, eight-gauge labrets and microdermal philtrum, to say nothing of his fine old-school nautical forearm tattoo. Lookin’ good, fella.

BME Shop is holding a 20-percent-off sale on most items until midnight tonight! Click here for details.

See more in “Double and Multi-Labrets“ (Lip Piercing)

How Do You Turn A Phrase?

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

Hey hey, it’s our old pal Mandic, checking in to show off his bearded clam! Wait, what? Oh, ha, it’s just a tattoo, not the actual sea creature/crude term for delightful female genitalia. Phew! As you can see, it’s conveniently placed in his armpit, so as to allow for maximum hilarity when his normal human hair grows back in, thus extending the “beard” and warming the cockles of our hearts. Let’s remember, though, that this is the same traitor who hates cheese, so let’s not go congratulating and back-slapping each other on a well-executed joke just yet. Ye olde procedural shot, after the jump.

(Tattoo by Frankie G. at Tattoo Marks Studio I in Souderton, Pennsylvania.)

BME Shop is holding a 20-percent-off sale on most items until midnight tonight! Click here for details.

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Eternal Verities

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

Oh, hello! Welcome back, ModBloggers, on this fine Thursday. Let’s kick things off with our old friend, The Mighty Dannzilla, showing off some healed 12-gauge punched nostrils, a wry smile and that fancy Hyphy hat! There is literally nothing I am less qualified to discuss than Bay Area dance phenomena, so I will simply implore you all to get stupid and mercifully leave it at that.

The week is winding down, folks, and we’re moving in inches now.

(Nostril punches by Cyrus Rhine at Cold Steel America in San Francisco, California.)

BME Shop is holding a 20-percent-off sale on most items until midnight tonight! Click here for details.

See more in “Big Nostrils“ (Nose Piercing)

What Am I, A Farmer?

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Jordan Ginsberg

Look, all I’m saying is, I appreciate Fyrezice‘s commitment to time-honored sartorial traditions like the bow-tie and the mustache. Mix that with the cigarette, and this is truly the Mad Men of self-done penectomies. All that’s missing is an 11 a.m. glass of Scotch.

(Disclaimer: This, of course, is not to be glib or to make light of this experience, which was, to be sure, not an endeavor to be taken lightly at all. Lucky for us, he has written down, in great detail, the entire process from start to finish, including not just descriptions of what physically took place, but lengthy discussions of his motivations and his life following the procedure. This is a truly fascinating account—we’d love to interview him, if not for the fact that he’s already gone into so much detail about everything. Eh, maybe we’ll still try. As well, his BME/Hard gallery can be found here.)

BME Shop is holding a 20-percent-off sale on most items this week until midnight on Thursday, July 16! Click here for details.