The shot is of “Suits You Sir” Ian and Ray (who sent the photo), at this year’s Peterlee Tattoo Convention. You’ve got to click through for the full photo. The thumbnail is the center of the chestpiece, which isn’t what you’d expect from the teaser.
Donna from the UK shot this nice self portrait including her nine-year old tattoo (“a lot of people have thought I was a bean or a rock at first glance; that makes me chuckle!”) — she works as a mortgage advisor and writes, “you can’t judge someone by the clothes that they wear!”
PS. She also asks — “if anyone can recommend any really good tattoo artists/piercers in the north of England (round Manchester way!) i would be very grateful!” If you have a recommendation, feel free to post it in the comments.
Pretty_pantyhead in the midst of getting tattooed by Scott Campell at Atomic Zombie in Edmonton, Alberta… Freshly baked?
These two photos (click through for the second one) are both from a crucifixion performance that Ze did in Italy.
This looks amazing (procedure by the always border-smashing Howie aka LunaCobra), but I had two concerns about these photos. First, that enough structural damage has been done by cutting broadly across the anti-helix (ie. where you’d place a rook), that it wouldn’t take a lot for the ear to collapse — Howie emphasizes that he’s done a large number of these removals and that this person’s ear was robust and strong enough to heal successfully.
My other concern was that with a removal of this sort that crosses several very easy to penetrate (by bacteria) cartilage folds that by wearing the industrial bar across it during healing that there is a fairly high chance of post-procedural infection.
That said, if you want this particular hole, it’s not like there’s really a better way to do it! Some things simply involve risk, and you either accept them or you don’t do it… In any case, other than accidentally dropping a heavy weight on his ear three days into the healing (yowch!), he’s healing well.
What, you don’t remove your own tumors and useless hunks of flesh that sap the lifeblood from you? Click through if you want to know where it was removed from.
This alternative to a bathing suit (well, in my fantasy world anyway where clothing is replaced by at most skewered fragments of fabric) was pierced by Naomi Boscoe at Flesh Impressions in Broadbeach, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. The corset is three days old in this picture and the hip piercing is fresh.
Well, the tattoo isn’t animated but it’s Yoda from the animated Star Wars series (“which rocks by the way”) — done by Tattoo Make in Hämeenlinna, Finland: Do or do not, there is no try.
It’s actually a note-to-self warning: If you’ve been cooking with chili peppers, always, always, wash your hands before touching yourself.
