Thanks to Off for helping keep things in Austin Powers territory. If you’re wondering about the motivator, it’s frosting. If you’re wondering about the strange perspective, it’s a loft bed. They’re not in a strange custom made box.
Surface pierced beautification by Juan Manuel Burgos at Face Tattoo in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I recently posted a historical article mentioning that in Ethiopia, mostly women get tattoos. John Durante sends in this photo of him and an Ethiopian client of his at Laughing Buddha in Seattle, Washington. I thought I’d posted it in the past, but I couldn’t find it — my apologies if this is a repeat.
Timo’s scarification by Velma_Kelly in NYC. I “hope” he doesn’t read ModBlog because he might be a little freaked out about skin removal given the recent post on a keloid growing out of control!
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Personally, I was going to caption the photo “take a picture, it’ll last longer”. But feel free to stare because that’s not the caption Newbliz chose. Fuji film on the left cheek, Kodak on the right cheek, tattooed by Brady Willmott at Funhouse in San Diego.
Thanks to Ewan for sending in these great shots from Hack Suspension Team in Newcastle doing some not-entirely-legal suspensions… I think in most activities, the more excuses the police have to arrest you, the more fun it is, right?
“Actually, it’s a fashion statement,” says The Skeletal Capt in Montreal. I really like it, it’s quite clever!
I am a big fan of Trisha‘s stars, by Albenis at Tattoo Gallery in Venezuela.
Update: First, the person in this procedure healed fine and is very happy. Second, I want to make it clear that while this procedure looks very intense, it’s probably less intense as a procedure than some large skin removal work, transscrotal piercings, implants, tongue splitting, and all the other procedures generally accepted by the body modification community.
Ok, this is a pretty gory entry. I apologize for that. But I think it’s important to emphasize that when you do large scale scarification (or sometimes small scale), sometimes the keloid grows out of control and starts getting very uncomfortable, restricting mobility, and so on. This piece was only about a month old in the photos below (it was done by a “well known body modification artist” who’s gonna stay unnamed because that’s not the point of the entry) and the customer was quite unhappy and wanted it dealt with.
Samppa Von Cyborg and Lukas Zpira got together to help him as much as they could. They felt that all of it was cut too deep, and did their best to excise the tissue, although the centre keloid was not removed (I’m assuming it was adhered right to the cartilage at bottom of the sternum). Starting with some exploratory cuts:
Mostly off and looking very gory:
As you can see, quite a chasm of tissue was removed! Check out the fatty tissue below:
Once stitched up, I can’t imagine how relived and happy the customer must have been. It’s a pretty intense removal, and a lot to go through, but Lukas and Samppa did a nice job restoring him… Hopefully the removal doesn’t have similar keloiding issues (sometimes it’s a problem that snowballs).
Finally, the gross out shot of the removed tissue:
Please take scarification seriously!!!