Here’s some BME boy appreciation for you. I love when people submit portraits of themselves to BME. TheTrueStasis sent us the following portrait. I’m not sure, but I think this might be “Blue Steel”.
I like the choices and placement of his piercings, they have a certain flow about them.
Send in portrait shots of you and your body modification! Remember, there are two ways to submit, either by uploading photos to BME directly through your BME account or via email.
Speaking of Yann Brënyàk of Body Temple (londonbodytemple.com), another in his growing arsenal of modifications is this scar on his leg, totally self performed, which is always very impressive to me even though there’s no shortage of self-blading in this world. The core swastika heart design is great, and I like the way that he’s mixed heavy bands of skin peeling with find detail scarwork with the swastika geometry background pattern. Another nice touch is the random slashing around the border, which if you know Yann’s facial tattooing, is a motif that is echoed across his identity.
Those with long memories may recall way, way, way back in 2007 Hugh Mattay, now modifying people at 119 Tattoo (oneonenine.com.au) in Sydney, had his batwing eyebrow tattoos posted here. Since then he’s had a lot of tattooing added to his forehead, with the stripes exploding out over his temples being perhaps my favorite of the bunch. But he’s also been piercing himself this week, adding first the medusa piercing, and now a pair of cheek piercings. I’m always impressed when people do their own labrets or medusas because it’s so hard to judge one’s own facial symmetry, and it only takes being off my a millimeter to look wrong.
Here’s Kristie California for your Friday BMEGirl ogling.
Tattoos are credited to Anthony Stith, Rick Anders & Kevin Kowalski, from both DV8 Tattoo & Leviathan in Roseville & Rocklin Ca. Photo by Savir Photography, Hair by Laura Milo, and Makeup by Jen Siqueiros.
And just because I can, here she is in a vinyl pencil skirt. (Photo by Rodney San Photography)
Help out the youngest member of the BME family. Get a limited edition 2012 BME Classic Logo t-shirt. Read all the details here.
The BMEShop has another new shirt ready to go. This one was designed by Kenneth Botsford Jr. who some of you may know as IAM:Zeus. This isn’t the first t-shirt design created by a member of the community, and it certainly won’t be the last. So to all those artists out there who have a great idea for a BME shirt, just send an e-mail to [email protected] with your design and your shirt could be the next one printed up.
And just because I can, here’s IAM:Gisella_Rose showing off her own medusa, as well as the rest of her.
Photography: J. Isobel De Lisle
Designer: ALLOY Latex
Tattoo: Ryan Bolton
Here’s a little more eye-candy for your post-holiday Monday.
If you want to see the rest, you know what to do.
It’s the gorgeous Psylocke wearing an X-man uniform that didn’t quite make it past the comics code board.
I am alone. They have gone into the house for breakfast, and I am left standing by the wall among the flowers. It is very early, before lessons. Flower after flower is specked on the depths of green. The petals are harlequins. Stalks rise from the black hollows beneath. The flowers swim like fish made of light upon the dark, green waters. I hold a stalk in my hand. I am the stalk. My roots go down to the depths of the world, through earth dry with brick, and damp earth, through veins of lead and silver. I am all fibre. All tremors shake me, and the weight of the earth is pressed to my ribs. Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing. I am a boy in grey flannels with a belt fastened by a brass snake up here. Down there my eyes are the lidless eyes of a stone figure in a desert by the Nile. I see women passing with red pitchers to the river; I see camels swaying and men in turbans. I hear tramplings, tremblings, stirrings round me.
-Virginia Woolf: The Waves
It’s been a while since we last saw a photo of ilovehanson, and this Kansas beauty is looking as stunning as ever. You can see the other new photo of her in the BMEGirls Gallery.
Photo by Jen Young from Atomic Photography, Lawrence KS.
Well for some odd reason, there aren’t any heavily modified babies to have as the BME New Year’s baby, so you’ll have to do with a BMEBoy instead. Now, as the baby is normally portrayed pushing aside an old man with a beard, it’ll be only fitting if Evan here were to start growing his beard again for the new year. Who knows, maybe by this time next year he’ll have himself a nice epic beard to help usher in a new BMEBoy for 2012.
Among Evan’s many piercings are his stretched lobes, a few nostril piercings, a medusa, a large gauge cartilage piercing, and while you can’t see it, he’s also got himself a fairly large septum.
Does there really need to be a reason to make a BMEGirl post? I didn’t think so. This photo of the lovely Nix was sent in by Yourladyfriend. It has pretty much everything you could want in a BMEGirl, glasses, dreads, and pierced nipples. Oh, what’s that? You can’t see the nipple piercings? You better keep reading then to see the full photo.
According to Yourladyfriend, the piercers are as follows: ”Horizontal nipples by Jay at Ace of Spades Medusa by Penelope at Lucky’s”.
