babylovedoll. sends in these photos of her nostril, bridge and lip piercings. They were done at Palinoptika Studios.

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JesseV hit me up on IAM to let me know he’d just uploaded a photo of his latest scarification.I know I said I was going to fill up the rest of the day with pretty girls but I figured why not post a big cutting by a long time contributor to BME?

“This latest cutting of roses and an hour glass took approximately 6 hours in total on Jason Cain’s ribs. The original design was drawn by one of our tattoo artists here at Thrive Studios, Travis McGregor. It was a real fun piece to do!”

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Now to contrast with the prior post, I’ve got the lily white Coffin’ Jane from France with photography by Lycan. All of these septum posts have me wanting to re-pierce my septum. I’ve never had any luck getting one to heal though so maybe I’ll keep on dreaming. Jane here can join me in my dreams any time.

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I think the rest of the day may just be filled with lovely ladies of BME. The first one that’s sitting in my inbox is of a pretty lady in the woods with microdermals by Sean Dee of Primal Expressions in Bethlehem, PA. I’m really happy with the recent influx of other elasticities on BME. I remember the old days when BME was primarily a sausage fest. According to the demogrpahics, BME is frequented by 52% females. It’s no longer the white man’s sausage fest of old. The ladies are becoming a force to be reckoned with and coming in waves of all shapes, sizes and colors.

See more in “Dermal Anchoring“ (Pocketing and Stapling)

SugarNSpice send in a photo of her getting both legs tattooed in tandem as well as both of her arms getting tandem corsets as well. The work was done by Kaz, Amanda, Bert and Kaelyn at Stiletto Haus in Grand Rapids, MI. BME isn’t here to judge but we are here to document what’s going on in the world of Body Modification. I’m not sure why she wanted to do all of these things at once but I hope that everything heals up well.

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I hope you all had as fabulous of a weekend as I did. Let’s start off this calm and beautiful morning with a simple scarification on Sarasil by John Joyce of Scarab Body Arts in Syracuse, NY. As if John needs any kind of introduction. He’s a BME legend much like Brian Decker and Ron Garza.

Norm and I took a day trip to the Big Island of Hawaii to take a helicopter tour of th active volcano areas. There wasn’t as much active lava flow as we thought there would be but during the tour there were spots that would break open and expose the molten lava but by the time we’d swing around to take another photo, it would get hit with rain and cool down an turn black in seconds. It was amazing.

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I forgot to post about this on BME. CanvasLA is closing it’s doors after an amazing 2 year run. We were the only dedicated Tattoo Fine Art Gallery and Clothing Boutique in the world. Unfortunately it’s a very small market and we weren’t able to make ends meet so we decided it was better to go out with a bang while we had built a wonderful name for ourselves in the community.

We have tons of t-shirts and other tattoo related art for sale. All of the tshirts have been marked down to $20 dollars. We have lines like Rebel8, Me Against The World, The Seventh Letter and many more. All of the clothing is either designed by or made by Tattooers from around the world so please take advantage of the savings and stock up on shirts!

Thanks again for making CanvasLA what it became. We’re thrilled with everything we have been able to do over the years, like Bob Robert’s Solo show and the Horiyoshi III show that we were able to present to the community. I’m hoping that another gallery will be able to fill the shoes that CanvasLA left behind and give Tattooers a place to showcase their art beyond the skin. Thanks again for all of your support!

Click here for huge savings and visit our webstore!

I don’t remember exactly what day it was this week but Norm and I decided to drive from Kehei to Paia. Once we got there we thought we’d drive to the first roadside waterfall that we could find. At each waterfall we decided to go to the next one until we were finally in Hana. One blink and you could have missed the town entirely. We refilled the gas tank and decided to be adventurous and take the road that the maps said were dangerous. It ended up being an amazing one lane unpaved road heading the opposite way back around the island that we’d come from. I’ve been to Maui several times and had not taken the drive out to Hana. The scenery alone was worth the 3-4 hour drive. If you have a reason to come out to Hawaii, I suggest you do!

Norm was surprised to find that his septum was still at least a 00ga. Click through to see more photos from our trip and the rest of this amazing tree.

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I’m still in beautiful Hawai’i for another couple of days. Some of you may have noticed that our billing is down. Someone has been successful in getting all of BME’s merchant accounts deactivated and I’m working to resolve the situation. While this happened on Wednesday, it’s now the weekend so it most likely won’t be resolved until after the Thanksgiving holiday. I’m not going to let anyone’s accounts expire. If your IAM page comes up for renewal, please email Jen at Support@BMEzine.com and she will add more time. BME accounts will not expire so enjoy the free time you’ll be getting with your account until we get the billing issues resolved. BMEshop won’t be able to accept any orders during this time either. I was planning on having a huge Black Friday sale so hopefully we’ll be back up and running by then so you can enjoy the holiday savings and stock up for Christmas.

I’ll be getting a couple posts up over the weekend but don’t forget to take a look at this weeks video interview with Henning Jorgensen which is the third episode in BME’s new video interview series. I can’t wait to get back home and work on the rest of the videos we have in the queue. There should be a ton of photos from my trip with my traveling companion and tattooer extraordinaire Norm which I’ll post over the weekend once I’ve got them all prepped. For now, here’s a quick shot from in the pool. I blow pretty sweet bubbles out of my nose.