Time Is On His Side.

Posted on January 29, 2008 by RooRaaah Crumbs

Brian had a few hours to kill whilst in Toronto, so he gave Chris (who was apparently in a daze and feeling rather week throughout the entire procedure) the time of his life in the shape of this cutting.. If you’d like a copy of the minutes from their meeting let me know, I’ll have them to you within a month.

DivX download link for BME members: Extreme2 or Full members

Apparently there was enough skin left for seconds and everything’s healing like clockwork.

Tattoo removal, emphasis on “removal”?

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Shannon Larratt

More like tattoo replacement…? Or maybe this is one of those Merchant of Venice type removals where one has to debate exactly what’s getting removed to come up with a pound of flesh.

This customer of Shawn O’Hare‘s came into Fillmore Tattoo and Piercing not particularly liking his old cliché of a tribal tattoo, so Shawn replaced it with a nice hefty keloid version of itself that’s much nicer. They got almost all of the ink out, but it looks like a few specs stayed as a ghost.

LUST

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Shannon Larratt

Jannis’s scar was, appropriately, cut by his girlfriend…

Satanic Friends

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Shannon Larratt

On his own, he’s just a six, but when Brad and his friends get together, they do the devil’s work. Their brands are DIY pieces done with a coat hanger. Before you say anything, coat hangers actually work quite well for branding and are very capable, even in an inexperienced DIY context, of producing very nice results.

Self-Cutting Meets Self-Scarification

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Shannon Larratt

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So my first thought was, “wow, that’s a really great quality skin removal given that it’s DIY with a Swiss Army knife”… My second thought was, “YOU’RE CUTTING TOO DEEP! YOU’RE CUTTING TOO DEEP!”

Nomadic Modifications

Posted on January 18, 2008 by Shannon Larratt

Cat‘s mods, obtained on her various travels, include a seven month old belly scarification, a one month old arm scarification, various facial piercings, and four and a half year old sternum piercings. The piercings are all by Raphaelle of Magic Cirus in Paris (who’s since retired to the less invasive job of hair dresser), the belly scar is by Juan in Buenos Aires, and her arm was done by Miguel in Mexico City. She’s originally from France, now living in Buenos Aires, and as well as what you can see in the picture she has a couple tattoos that were done here in Canada. Of herarm scar she writes,

…it’s my Mayan kin of the Caminante del Cielo, the sky walker, the eternal wanderer.

Osiris Cutting by Russ Foxx

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Shannon Larratt

Ian recently got a large-scale skin removal of the God Osiris done by Russ Foxx at The Fall Tattooing. He’s definitely a braver guy than me as he managed to sit through the 12 1/2 hours it took to complete. 12 1/2 hours? That may seem like a long time, but keep in mind that Ian is forty foot tall giant. Photos of the procedure and finished piece continue after the break.

Jonathan’s Facial Cutting from Phuket

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Shannon Larratt

Along the same lines as the previous two entries is Jonathan‘s stunning facial cutting, another piece that just makes me so happy to see because it’s also so striking and beautiful.

Jonathan writes,

The design was an idea I’d had in mind for maybe 18 months to two years and was umming and ahhhing over whether to get it done or not. When I went out to Thailand I was lucky enough to get to hang out with John Durante and Ron Garza and had a chat with them about some possible work I’d been thinking about. Since I was in Phuket for the Vegetarian Festival which, essentially, is a festival celebrating blood rituals, I couldn’t think of a better time to get them done to go through my own blood ritual.

The initial plan was to get both sides of my head done in tandem, one side by Ron the other side by John but Ron had to leave before the festival ended so it was just John doing both sides. We spent about three hours lining them up, and then about half an hour cutting. I’m so glad I had them done. Even in a not so perfect environment he was excellent, hygienically, and professionally speaking and I’m happy to have met so many wonderful people including Ron and John on my journey

Joathan says there’s no specific meaning in the design, and that he just wanted something symmetrical that suited his face. Mission accomplished! Anyway, continue for more pictures.

The fresh photos are, of course, fresh, and the healing pictures are at about three weeks. Once our video facilities are back in full gear we’ll update this with a procedure video as well.

Good things come to those who wait…?

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Shannon Larratt

Yeah, that’s right — I’m finally updating under my own username! Much thanks to Roo for helping me get posts here until now, but, as much as that help was appreciated, I’m definitely relieved that era is over.

Just to keep everyone in the loop as to the update schedule that was hinted at elsewhere, I agree that main site updates can be expected very soon and am also very happy to see that happening. BMEvideo is nearly ready to be udpated and should have new content within a day or two, and the main BME site should be flooded with experiences and images early in the week, if not sooner, depending on when a small number of technical issues that are barring that update can be resolved. I’ve had a chance to skim through some of the content that’ll be going up over the next weeks and I’m very excited and pleased about it — giddy, really — and I think you will be as well.

Roo and I will need to focus primarily on getting the main sites caught up, so we may be a little slow here on ModBlog over the first week, but I do have a few things I want to post later today. Let me prelude to them by posting a couple pictures from one of my favorite anthropological photo books, Africa Adorned. On the left is a Murle woman from Sudan with decorative facial scarification, and in the middle and on the right a Dinka man and woman, also from Sudan, with forehead scarification.

Anyway, stay tuned later today for a few brief posts.

Gabor’s Hand Scar

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Shannon Larratt

When my friend Gabor from ~~Poland~~ Budapest, Hungary, originally did his DIY skin removal (the post was on BodyTwo — when I am able to move the content here you’ll be able to see it again), there was some debate on how it would heal. I’m happy to say that those who were concerned no longer need to worry as the keloid is beautifully even and consistent. Given that (a) it can’t be easy to cut your own hand, and (b) this is a high motion area, it really is a job very well done!