Thanks to IAM:HollywoodPiercer for sending in this picture of a twelve year old child who walked into his studio — her older sister had pierced her lip using an ear piercing gun and stud. In addition to obvious contamination risks if the gun had been used on other people, the lip would very likely swell over the stud and engulf it, necessitating professional intervention.
Most of the pictures on BME of piercings are relatively documentary in nature — they’re shots of the piercing, rather than the person bearing it. But still, every once in a while folks send me photos that are more portraits of them than portraits of their body modifications. Here’s a few recent examples:
From left to right, here are the credits: 1. “Sensual Sorcery’s” piercings by Nick at Tribal Urge in Southsea, 2. Adry in Hungary’s navel piercing, 3. “Acid Angel” from Poland’s navel piercing, and 4. “Super Kug” in Germany also has a navel piercing.
This is a very funny nipple piercing photo, and could probably use a caption.
Check out this neat piercing done by Steve Filpansick over at Consolidated Ink and Steel in Flint, Michigan. As I’ve mentioned before, I am always very happy to see people with atypical bodies go out and customize them even more than biology already did for them!
Tina Maria just joined IAM so I thought it might be a good time to mention her amateur site babeink.com. Check her out either there or on BME (the first link). You can never have enough tattooed and pierced pinups!
Assuming the picture is what I think it is (a crucifixion style hand piercing going from the back of the hand all the way through to the palm), this is a pretty over the top intense modification. Thanks to Genio at Dildo Body Piercing (yes) in Greece for sending it our way.
I hate writing bad stuff about photos I receive because I feel like I’m betraying the person who submitted them (thus when I do it, it’s anonymous), but the problem you see in this photo is one that I see far too often and makes me rather sad. It’s a lobe being punched out using an 8mm dermal punch in order to install large initial jewelry (ie. 50mm2 of lobe gone).
The problem with this in my opinion is that by removing such a large quantity of soft tissue, stretching will be made more difficult because there’s less tissue to work with — so while it will get them to 7/16″ quite quickly, it will make it harder for them to make it to 2″. In addition, if the person changes their mind and takes out the jewelry (even without subsequent stretching), the hole is far less likely to close. It’s just a bad idea all around in my opinion and I wish I didn’t see it so regularly.
Dermal punches of all sizes are a wonderful tool for cartilage (arguably the best tool), but I really strongly encourage people not to use punches larger than a 4mm on a lobe or other soft tissue (and personally I wouldn’t use one that’s that large).
You may have seen one of them on the cover of BME, but because they’re so intense I wanted to share a few more of these Psycho Cyborgs performance photos care of IAM:madmax. They were taken by Regis Hertrich at Torture Garden in London, UK.
This odd inner conch surface piercing is by Jason at Schmatta in Saskatoon, SK (IAM:piercedoff). It’s been too rare that I’ve said, “wow, I haven’t seen that before” over the last few years, but this is an example of a time I got to say it.
You know, I’ve never had a food fetish. The idea of putting whip cream on someone doesn’t turn me on, it makes me feel queazy. But I think I may be in the minority if porn is an accurate guide, so I share with you this picture care of IAM:Rhapsody on a windy night.
