Thursday November 30th, 2006 @ 9:04 PM
Wow. This doesn’t even look real it’s so unusual (and wonderful) looking. Done by the consistently sexy -MFT- in Moscow, Russia. Lots more high res photos of this will be posted in Monday’s tattoo galleries of Olga’s white/negative tribal tattoo.

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Thursday November 30th, 2006 @ 8:25 PM
From their official forum:
You don’t need anesthetic, you need MANesthetic. Suck it up, complete the list. Be a man. Lets face it, it is a competition. How it works: ten man points for each of the following, and more than 90 points makes you an official man.
- large gauge non-lobe piercing
- Red Wings
- Your lifestyle must result in at least one animal death per day
- Interest in at least one of the following: fish hooking, gas masks, blood play, tromboning, tampon removal with teeth.
- Genital Piercings
- Face, hand or neck tattoos
- Strong dislike of emos
- Enjoys Vaginal suffication
- Has had a piercing with a gun
- HAS ONLY EVER SHED A SINGLE TEAR (man tear)
- Displaying the man core forum button
- surgical mods
- Surgical mods you did yourself
Bonuses and curses:
- Vegitarian, Vegan: -20 Main Points
- Play piercing gluttony (30+ per session): Chadam award
- So drunk you got lost on the way home: Toast award

God I love microcults. Black toe forever. Mancore forever. Actually, I only scored a ninety, so I’m apparently just barely a man so maybe I should be offended. Death to Mancore! Anyway, the left photo (assuming I didn’t get the two mixed up) is on littlejohn and the other is on evilpixie by Metalurgey in Dundee, Scotland.
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Thursday November 30th, 2006 @ 7:55 PM
Seriously Pastille, you should keep at modelling (see the previous post). This photo was taken by Santos R. Photography in Brussels, Belgium.

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Thursday November 30th, 2006 @ 7:25 PM
Don’t think I’m hitting on you Pastille, but I’d say you did a great job. Photo © by DG Photography in Belgium. I can’t get their site going because I use Flash 7 (damn linux), but if you wanted prints or anything like that, that’s who you should contact.

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Thursday November 30th, 2006 @ 6:59 PM
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Thursday November 30th, 2006 @ 6:55 PM
Let me make up for linking DerKaiser wrong last time by posting this great photo of a 22ga neck play piercing he recently did in Germany. That reminds me, I’ve slowly started speaking German to Nefarious (my daughter) because right now she’s a total sponge for language and I only have to say something once for her to pick it up. Four languages seems like a good number.

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Thursday November 30th, 2006 @ 6:25 PM
Care of Mr_Hyde, I like this balanced out blackwork tattooing versus cutting outline calf sleeve… The two techniques work very nicely together. Done by Pialla at La Vecchia Bezzy in Barcelona.

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Thursday November 30th, 2006 @ 5:55 PM
I’m talking about the chest cutting — smooth curves like this sankofa design can be a challenge. This was done by Brian at Pure Body Arts in Brooklyn, NY. I wanted to mention again that because there are so few advanced and experienced practitioners in this world that if you live in an area where there isn’t anyone, you can organize a tour… In general, all you have to do is get a small number of people together that guarantee enough appointments to make the tour possible — convince your friends/customers!

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Thursday November 30th, 2006 @ 5:27 PM
Jon Durante, who’s been doing an amazing around the world journey with friends (featured here previously: mexico, phuket, borneo, etc), documented this anti-Bush protest/riot while in Bogor, Java, Indonesia. I know it’s not really “ModBlog” related but I hope people would find it interesting nonetheless.

Anyway, I’ve been feeling under the weather and some mornings have trouble getting through the work, so today I’m going to try preposting a bunch of updates. If I do it right, you’ll probably see one appear an hour or something like that, rather than them all posting at once. Hope it works!
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Wednesday November 29th, 2006 @ 3:21 PM
These beautiful sleeves enjoying the beach are by Vincent Hocquet at Beautiful Freak in St. Idesbald, Belgium. Anyway, I hope today’s updates are alright — I think I’m on day five of basically no sleep, and yesterday my doctor upped a bunch of stuff to try and help me sleep, but all it’s done so far is make me feel dopey during the day, ha… grr… I’d much rather be hanging out on the beach with this guy.

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Wednesday November 29th, 2006 @ 3:18 PM
This was done by Tina V at Red Sky Studio in Tucson, AZ. If a tattooed teardrop means you killed someone in prison (or something like that), I wonder what a bling teardrop means…

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Wednesday November 29th, 2006 @ 3:17 PM
I like Enrikay’s forehead implants — they’re both very subtle and very striking at the same time. These were done using silicone half domes by Tony in Las Vegas.

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Wednesday November 29th, 2006 @ 3:16 PM
And I do love getting high…
I realized that I haven’t posted a play piercing photo in a while, so when we got this photo from one of my favorite play piercers (ennui zero — I’m a sucker for her photos: 1 2 3 4) I agreed that it ought to be posted. She tells me she was being a baby that night and just did a few 25 gauge needles but I still like the photo.

PS. It’s covered in this photo but she has a really great lower lip bling that you can check out on her page.
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Wednesday November 29th, 2006 @ 3:14 PM
As I turn up the collar on my favorite winter coat
This wind is blowin’ my mind
I see the kids in the street, with not enough to eat
Who am I, to be blind? Pretending not to see their needs
A summer’s disregard, a broken bottle top
And a one man’s soul
They follow each other on the wind ya’ know
‘Cause they got nowhere to go
That’s why I want you to know

Tattoos by Sam Parker at Graveside Tattooing in Atlanta on biochemistry student Hollywood Johnstone (brains and brawn, girls).
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Wednesday November 29th, 2006 @ 3:12 PM
Because this is such an unusual piercing, the vertical nasal tip piercing has a myriad of names all over the world. In Rancagua, Chile (where this was done by Zham at Peke House), it’s being called a “rhino”. Piercings like this (along with septrils and other unusual nose piercings) are in the nose related piercings gallery on BME.

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Wednesday November 29th, 2006 @ 3:11 PM
I just realized that think I’ve seen this guy around town (his IP address implies that he lives just down the street from me). Next time I will have an excuse to say hello!

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Wednesday November 29th, 2006 @ 3:02 AM
Sorry for not posting over the past “few” days. Let’s see if I can manage more than today’s sporadic post this week… This tattoo is by Sandi C, currently at Twisted Sol in Denver, Colorado.

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Wednesday November 29th, 2006 @ 3:01 AM
MacabreBetty and Matt, photo by Daithan in Edmonton, Alberta.

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Wednesday November 29th, 2006 @ 3:00 AM
From Geshem, a pair of young girls in northern Thailand with stretched lobes (and a kid in the background perhaps fantasizing about a facial tattoo!).

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Wednesday November 29th, 2006 @ 2:58 AM
This graphic procedural photo is from a 4ga CBR piercing (placed through the shaft, behind a split glans) being expanded to hold a 3/8″ surgical tube, using a sterilized blade with an anti-bacterial lubricant. The full set will be in this weekend’s update for those who want more views.

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Wednesday November 29th, 2006 @ 2:56 AM
“KISS HER WHERE SHE PEES”, as tattooed by King Ron at Halo Tattoo.

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Wednesday November 29th, 2006 @ 2:55 AM
A pair (and note the removed and repierced one on her left side) of horizontal surface piercings by Andres Gomez at Tattoo 4 Life in Santiago, Chile. Fingers crossed for attempt number two!

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Wednesday November 29th, 2006 @ 2:54 AM

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