Here I am again, bringing you body modification news from around the globe.  I want to thank Sean for his hard work, it’s been a long week for me.  Now, on with the news!

USA Today wants to see your pop culture tattoos!

The Lancaster Eagle Gazette has a profile piece up about tattoo artist Maxx Huddy, discussing his 31 years of experience.

From the Niles Daily Star comes a story about breaking down stereotypes, one tattoo at a time.

In Pittsburgh, a laser center helps young gang members by offering tattoo removal for free.

For your viewing pleasure, Fox 6 Now has a photo gallery up of girls with tattoos.

Apparently, more than 50% of people who have tattoos now regret them.  In other news, 97.3% of all statistics are made up.

Out of Colorado, the Today’s News Herald has a story about the Enigma visiting Lake Havasu City’s newest tattoo studio.

There is a very short story out of Stratford, about a man who was arrested after tattooing brass knuckles on the back of a 16 year old girl.

The Daily Toreador has a story about students (of the college sort) who have gotten tattooed.  The comments following the article are… typical.

Finally, in celebrity news, I bring you stories of regret as Amy Winehouse wants her “Blake” tattoo covered up, Helen Mirren is completely disgusted by drunken decision to get tattooed (because tattoos have become too mainstream!!!!) and Stephen Baldwin says he regrets his Miley Cyrus tattoo.  No really.

It’s been a slow week for interesting body modification related stories.  As always, you can send in any stories you think we might find interesting.  Enjoy your weekend, I hope yours is less snow-filled than mine!

Right now Sailor Matt Clark, his girlfriend Robin and several other BME people are in a Philadelphia  strip club trying to find the elusive,  labia and hood piercings that glow under black light. Since you guys aren’t with them, I will help you find some after the break.

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For those of you interested in seeing this batch of girls who submitted their pictures for  possible use in the upcoming BME Girls Calendar, keep on reading. If this isn’t your thing, come back later for other types of modblog post.

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Normally, a urethral reroute requires a surgical procedure, yet this BME contributor has figured out a way to do a different type of reroute with a deep pa and the homemade  Princes wand you see here.

For 3 more pictures of this wand in place, keep on keeping on.

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No, that wasn’t an actual quote from BlackVirus about his self done transfinger piercing, but it is certainly what this picture said to me.

This piercing was a fairly crude DIY piercing (pictures of the procedure on his IAM page) and the jewelry is definitely  longer than needed, plus there is a random o-ring on it which I can’t figure out,  yet here it is looking ok at 4 months old.

No piercings on the hand are a particularly good idea because of the use and abuse that a hand gets on a daily basis. However, transfinger piercings have a fairly remarkable chance of healing if the subject leads a fairly gentle life. Obviously, for the best chance of getting any piercing to heal, you should seek out an experienced piercer who uses proper jewelry and has an understanding of why something may or may not work out. Nonetheless, once in a while some “crazy kid” does a DIY piercing that shouldn’t last more than a week and yet for some reason it does.

I am not big on posting  tattoos in progress, but this tattoo is just too bad ass not to post. Also, I am hoping if the wearer or the artist, Jesse Estrada, sees this posted, maybe they will submit some more pictures when it is finished.

You know what else is cool? That ear lobe tattoo. I am sure this guy wasn’t the first person to tattoo a stretched lobe like that, but he is the first I have seen and I love the way it looks!

I have a beautiful example of pulling a facial tattoo onto the ear and integrating it beautifully. Honestly, I do not find most heavy facial tattoos to be aesthetically pleasing. Don’t get me wrong, I have much respect for anyone taking on such a project, it’s just not something that usually appeals to me visually.

But Andrew here, sporting his latest facial tattooing being done by Andreas ‘Curly’ Moore, is certainly an exception. The tattoo just becomes a part of him and looks so natural on his face, I was immediately drawn to this picture when scrolling through the galleries.

Don’t worry guys I won’t have my son with me tomorrow and I can try and dig up some entries with a  little more variety to hold you over until the BME Girls Calendar entry.

This is one awful looking blowout, to see it magically disappear , keep on keeping on.

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Well it’s pointed, but not in the same way we typically see ears  pointed. I am not sure quite what the client was going for with this, whether it is indeed a different take on ear pointing, or maybe a faux battle scar,  but whatever the goal was the end result is quite striking.

This cartilage removal was donre by Martin Page of Amazing Colors Tattoo in Berlin.

For a healed picture, keep on keeping on.

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Well, it is as far as my modblog post for the day. Why make Thursday January 28th ear mod day? Simple, because I have my son with me at work and he’s being a little too needy for me to go searching for pics and it just so happens, I have some cool ear stuff in a folder ready to go.

To start off ear mod day I have a cool bent bar industrial by Vern K. who works at Steve’s shop Ascension Body Modifications in New Mexico.