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Ear pointing pictures; before and after

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While it was originally pioneered by Steve Haworth, a number of artists have worked hard to push ear shaping procedures in more radical directions. I’ve mentioned here in the past the work of the Finnish artist Samppa and nomadic Howie, but I felt that the procedures of South American (BS AS; Rata-Bodyart) artist Matias Tafel should be shown as well — here’s some before-and-after pictures of his work on Bubu.

I see a lot of nice work coming out of South America, both in terms of tattoos, piercings, and heavy modifications, and in terms of the body modification media as well. 

Implant Removal Photos

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The last cover article posted to BME, Non-Medical Silicone Implants For Dummies v1.0, discusses the pros and cons of silicone, including some of the issues in its removal when things go wrong. I thought I ought to emphasize how serious removal is with a few gory photos — the more difficult a modification is to reverse, the more seriously it should be debated prior to getting it done!

       

With as many as 10% of people estimated to eventually remove their implant (and that number may well rise in the future), be prepared to go through a removal that, as with tattoos, can be more of an ordeal than getting it in the first place. Live for today but plan for tomorrow, right?

“Eye Boogie”

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It’s not often these days that I get to post what I consider to be an entirely “new” piercing, but thanks to Ben Trigg at House of Color in Colorado Springs, I’ve got one for you today. I’ll post more on it later, but here’s what he calls an “eye boogie” (if I’m reading what I’m seeing right, it’s closer to a single-point pocketing or a transdermal than an eyelid piercing by the way)…

Take one for the team.

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If there’s one practice associated with the body modification community that enrages and disgusts the general publicand truthfully, many within the community itself it’s voluntary amputation.

To be wary of it is one thing: Amputation certainly carries with it not only a sense of permanence far surpassing many other modifications, but also generally causes a major upheaval in the way one will live his or her life from that point on, with most people on the sidelines assuming the life of the amputee will be far more difficult and unhappyno matter how many stories there are to the contrary [MORE, MORE, MORE].

While many find it comfortable to write off those with these desires as lunatics who just havent found the right cocktail of medication to correct whatever mental illness is plaguing them, the psychological conditions that may cause such desiressuch as Body Integrity Identity Disorder and Apotemnophiliaare absolutely real and based solidly in fact. These conditions even made it to prime time last year when a story of voluntary amputation became the premise of a very special episode of CSI: New York.

As with most things though, peoples opinions tend to shift dramatically when the reasoning behind the act becomes something that is more favorable to the public at large.

Be it for love:

For God:

Or in this case, for the love of the game:

Brent Blackwell, an Australian rugby player who had broken his finger three years ago and has felt considerable pain ever since, was given two options: Fuse the bones together and give up his sporting livelihood to allow for proper healing, or lop the bastard off and continue playing.

Normally the sort of situation where a coach may ask a player to just sit this one out, Blackwell went the amputation route, losing the ring finger on his left hand, and resumed his professional career no worse for wear.

Admitting that it was a bit drastic, he added: I love my footy and love playing sport and if that’s going to help me to succeed at this level then it’s something you’ve just got to do.

This scenario is not unheard of though: In the final game of the 1985 season for the NFLs San Francisco 49ers, safety Ronnie Lott got his pinky finger stuck in the facemask of an opposing player. Forced to sit out the rest of the game, he was given the similar options of reconstructive surgery and a term on the disabled list or amputation of the top segment of his finger, chose the latter option, and was back with his team in time for the playoffs.

For these two athletes, amputation was nothing short of a heroic move. I guess its not gross if its good game.

(Blackwell and Lott links via BoingBoing.)

It’s like an anatomy lesson

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Most of the time genital bisections have enough scarring and inaccurate cutting to hide the original underlying anatomy, but sometimes I see split penises that are so cleanly done that they might as well be part of an anatomy text. In the one below you can see exactly where the urethra once was, as well as all of the internal functional elements. Click the picture to unpixelate it.

A safer form of genital beading?

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Steve Haworth has been playing with a piercing-style method for implanting genital beads with a reduced level of trauma. Normally either a larger gauge incision has to be made and/or a taper has to be used to stretch the holes up to the size of the bead to place it under the skin. Using his “squishy” silicone beads, he reduces the incision size required to place a 1/4″ bead down to 8ga.


The tools: A. a 1/4″ taper for comparison (this is what would normally be required to place the bead), B. a pusher rod which will later be used to push the bead into the skin, C. the bead reducer which will “inject” the bead, D. the 3/16 taper which leads the bead into the hole, and of course E. the silicone beads themselves.


First the bead is placed in the reducer and then compressed down into its tip, squeezing it from round to a nearly cylindrical narrow form.


The bead reducer is then attached to the 3/16 taper.


The taper and reducer assembly is pushed into the fresh piercing (made with an 8ga needle for a 1/4″ bead, or a 10ga needle for a 3/16″ bead) behind the needle, and then release the taper, leaving the reducer in place.


The pusher rod then pops the bead out of the reducer, leaving it under the skin and it expands to its normal 1/4″ form.

Steve is talking about offering instruction in this method at his advanced beading seminars, and may be selling the tools and beads on his eBay store in the future. The only problem that I can foresee from this method is that so far silicone has had an unusually high materials reaction (ie. allergic response) in comparison to titanium, steel, and teflon beads. This reaction is not supported by the scientific literature on the subject, so it’s yet to be determined why silicone from Steve has seen these complications.

Awww, isn’t that sweet!

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As you probably know I have magnets inside my fingers, implanted courtesy of Steve Haworth (made by Jesse Jarrell and previously covered on BME). My magnets are mostly intended to be functional, to give me “magnetic vision“, but Steve and his partner Cookie recently opted for something far more romantic.

Each one got two magnet implants done; one in the fingertip, and the other behind the knuckle, positioned so that if they are holding hands, the magnets draw toward each other, linking them. It’s yet to be determined whether there will be a noticeable sensation or not (the magnets are very small), but on a purely symbolic level I really love it!

If you’re interested in something like this (or are an implant artist looking for silicone coated magnets), you can contact Steve via his website at stevehaworth.com.

Nose King?

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I really think that Pierced is probably the undisputed king of extreme nose work. Not only does he have a massive inch-plus septum piercing, but also 000ga nostrils (which he can wear a huge nasallang barbell through), and now he’s added an incredibly high 4ga nasallang as well.

Check out his page for more.

Oh, and if you’re wondering, he’s a software engineer and his piercings are self-done.