Thanks to implant work by Howie (lunacobra.net), Pauly is now crying hearts (a week old in that photo, so it’s a little bruised), and Little John is hearing hearts. Implants on the surface of the ear are about as rare as they come, due I’m sure in no small part to the potential of both immediate complications, and future risks (don’t take up boxing, John!) because of the sensitivity of the tissue to damage.
Urea and his friends get more intense all the time…. This customer (who’s had his first set for I believe over two years now) has six subclavical piercings (last featured here with four of them)… Very extreme — even though I’ve now seen lots of people get and keep them, I don’t think I could ever work up the courage to do it myself… Past my peronal danger line (and remember, I’m the guy who’s tattooing his eyeballs). I really love that Urea is using his arm with those huge implants as a “signature” in photos — it reminds me of Maori chiefs who signed contracts by drawing out their mokos.
Patrick from Denmark has some of the most intense facial mods — tons of piercings, transdermals, and subdermals — of anyone I know, and it’s been fascinating, because he’s been a BME contributor now for quite some time, I’ve been watching it evolve, get sort of chaotic and off balance for a while (sorry), and now come back into focus in what I think is becoming a really mature and great looking set of mods.
This is Iguana Mike, a client of Shawn O’Hare‘s at Charlies House of Tattoos and Body Piercing in Ventura County, CA. What interests me the most about Mike’s (intense) modifications is the asymmetry — I think he’s one of the only people I can think of with such large changes where literal reflective balance has not been an issue.
Wow, Urea‘s intense scarification work coupled with the massive implants he has under them (all self done by the way!) is really something, I mean, to the point where I would think people with zero experience with body modification must really be totally freaked out and not understand what they’re seeing! Urea works at Urea Body Piercing in Joao Pessoa PB Brazil, and has been featured a number of times here on ModBlog before: scalpel scar, money keloid, ubersuggestive skull, giant taper, and huge hand implants. Intense guy, very hardcore about body modification…
Luckily I have no worries about Urea being able to get them removed if it comes to that — implants done by Rotty at Urea Body Piercing in Joao Pessoa PB Brazil… Those are pretty intense for the top of the hand!
…and more importantly, how you’ll handle them. Because if you don’t think you have the resources to deal with potential problems, you should strongly consider whether those risks are worth it.
Although the experience of having magnetic implants is remarkable — you can literally reach out and “feel” power running through cables, engines spinning inside harddrives, power leaks in the surface of electric stoves, and much more, all without physical contact — the experience of having to remove the implants is all too common and extremely unpleasant.
The majority of silicone dipped mangetic implants (which as far as I know are no longer being made) installed so far have ruptured and broken down (which happens within a week of the shell opening), and removal requires a large flap and the excision of some tissue because of how dramatically the magnetic disintegrates — as you can see it’s essentially a powder.
This magnet was installed by Steve Haworth (to be very clear I understood the risks and removal procedure and have no hard feelings toward anyone about how it turned out) and removed from my finger by Tom Brazda. For me the experience, while rather unpleasant at the end, has definitely been worth it.
See also: Initial BME article on magnetic implants, my magnetic implants (getting them), and the removal of my first magnets.
Newaddict sends in this photo of Swirly Wanx Sinatra‘s unusual anatomy.
Andyroo and Blair as photographed by Lane Jensen at Dragon FX Kingsway in Edmonton, Alberta.
