This great tattoo was done by “W” of Yao Zhan Tattoo (”Cut Waist Tattoo” — a kind of execution in China) in Bai Huai, Xiao Zhai, Xi’an, Shanxi, China.

Steve Truitt at Stay Gold Tattoo and Body Modification in Albuquerque did this piercing back in May (it’s fresh in these pictures) using an in and out barbell (like a surface staple bar but with a few extra bends) so that the customer could attach his pendant to the centre of his chest.

I’ve been saving this photo to use to promote Professor Booty when it finally relaunches (don’t ask as what; I don’t know yet), but enough time has passed that I think it’s time to take this tattoo by Dusty Donnay off the shelf and post it.

• 2006-12-06: United States: Body Piercing in Perspective [by deadly pale]
• 2006-12-06: MA: The tattoo man [by deadly pale]
• 2006-12-06: CT: Complaint against Norwalk police officer revisited [by deadly pale]
• 2006-12-06: Germany: Theologians Battle Female Circumcision [by StiggytheDickens]
• 2006-12-06: VA: The price of piercing [by StiggytheDickens]
• 2006-12-06: OH: Tattoo focus of Hyde Park murder case [by StiggytheDickens]
• 2006-12-06: hi: Celebrity tattoo artist Carey Hart opens shop in Waikiki [by KIVAKA]
• 2006-12-06: tn: Prison tattoo records help Hawkins sheriff ID body found burning in Hawkins [by KIVAKA]
• 2006-12-06: can: Feds stick it to prison tattoo pilot program [by KIVAKA]
• 2006-12-06: bc: TV Review: Robin Hood - ‘Tattoo? What Tattoo?’ [by KIVAKA]
• 2006-12-06: bbc: Book reviews for October 5, 2006: ‘The Grave Tattoo,’ Val McDermid; ‘Vanishing Point,’ Marcia Muller; ‘Messenger of Truth,’ Jacqueline Winspear; ‘Snow Blind,’ P.J. Tracy [by KIVAKA]
• 2006-12-06: tn: Body in Hawkins Co. identified from prison records [by KIVAKA]
• 2006-12-06: wi: Motorcycles, crafts to be featured in fair Satuday [by KIVAKA]
• 2006-12-06: us: Tatoo artist to cease workingus [by KIVAKA]
• 2006-12-06: USA: Gen Y makes a mark and their imprint is entrepreneurship [by deadly pale]

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I’ve posted quite a few fingerstaches and variations on the theme before (1 2 3 4 5 6 6 6), but perhaps this is the first one that also includes a goatee? I’m sure there are others but it’s the first I can remember anyway.

Don on Dan by Bry Simms at Thrive Studios in Cambridge, ON, Canada.

Medusa and vertical labret by Alex at Red Rocket Tattoo in New York City. I don’t know why, but I really like this photo. I think it reminds me of good times back when I worked in a studio or something…

You can see the full detail pictures on BME and on Mouthsores‘ page, but Mana’s chest piece by Travis Bracht at Spirit Garden Too in Northfield, MN is a coffin that says, “If you don’t live for something, You die for nothing”. I don’t know if that’s true or not (although especially in tattoos I hear it a lot); some people have suggested that the exact opposite is closer to the right way to think of life.

Here’s a couple shots of Melissa’s two-point chest suspension with Freedom Suspension Group. I think the one photo may have been a BME cover? I hope she doens’t have me TOS’d for taking this picture from her page, but click here to see her supercool car. Sorry, I like cars almost as much as body modification and I just thought it was such a nice picture of her I wanted to make sure people had a chance to see it.

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See also: Cats in sinks

This is what has become of a formerly underground artform. Somewhere a prison tattoo scratcher is rolling over in his unmarked grave from shame. Ha… Just kidding! Thanks to Amber and Jackie for sending their matching “livin’ on the edge” tattoos by Valerie Tate in Dalton, GA.