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You can thank Darren Millar from Good Times Tattoo Belfast in N. Ireland for this nightmare inducing tattoo. The fact that it’s fresh and pink around the edges really adds to the depth that the shadows give off. Plus it looks like the spider is biting him, causing the irritation.
Twisted_box sent in these photos of her unique ear jewelry. At first glance they may appear to be simple hoops, they’re actually a single custom bar passing through several holes.
In the case of the top photo the bar is passing through 7 different piercings. It just goes to show that the ear piercing gallery can still come up with surprises after all these years.
In a piece reminiscent of Banksy’s works, Jon Goad from Alter Ego Tattoo in Knoxville, TN tattooed this unorthodox design on “abiftw”’s hand. With the majority of palm tattoos being a design centralized in the middle of the palm, the off center phone booth, combined with the unique placements of the birds really make this a piece of art.
There are a few more photos of this lovely young woman and her hand in the hand tattoo gallery.
Not to be outdone, Anders the Piercing Guy, also known as Alienboy over on IAM, also submitted some interesting scars over the weekend. This one in particular caught my eye as hand scars are always a little tricky to pull off.
Thanks to Anders’ skill this cutting turned out great. If you want to see how the scar came into being, there are quite a few procedural shots up in his BME portfolio gallery.
We’re kicking off this week with a milestone. This post marks the 30th time Mr. Efix Roy has been featured on ModBlog. I was hoping to save his 30th post making him a BME Boy, but the stars didn’t align in time and he managed to pull off a fantastic peacock feather scarification in just 2 hours.
So while Efix celebrates his 30th post, why don’t you head on over to his BME gallery and check out all the other works that have earned him this distinction.
Another week has come and gone, which means it’s time to check in with the rest of the world to see what their take on modified culture has been like.
To kick things off, we’ve got a story out of Broward County Florida. Like many other police units, the higher-ups have made a ruling that bans officers from having visible tattoos. Now their focus is mostly on officers with sleeves, but they’re also cracking down on officers with gold teeth. The tooth thing is probably an easy fix, although never having my grill done in gold I can’t say for certain, but the the officers with sleeves? Well, they’re facing a slight problem. You can see the problem in the photo below that shows off the standard Brower County uniform.
Gold or platinum veneers for decorative reasons are strictly not allowed under the new rules, but officers who can prove they have caps or fillings for dental purposes will be permitted to keep them. Deputies with large tattoos on their arms will struggle to keep them hidden since the standard issue uniform involves a short sleeve shirt. Small tattoos on the forearm, however, have been given the OK.
I guess those tattoo armor sleeves will be a big seller for some of the officers.
There’s lots more news to come today, including a celebrity tattoo story you might just “LIKE”.
While it’s true that there are often a lot of tattoos inspired by Salvador Dali’s art, there are also a good deal of portraits of Dali floating around out there. With a mustache as distinctive of his art, it’s no wonder he makes for such a good portrait.
This colourful portrait of Dali was done by Keith Nellins from Nautica Tattoo in Carrickfergus, N. Ireland. Keith’s been sending in a lot of his works lately, so it’s worth a trip over to the portrait gallery to check out some of the other works he’s done.
While the crew was in New Zealand, they also had the opportunity to sit down with Erin Chance from Sacred Tattoo in Auckland.
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This week’s follow-up marks a couple of milestones. For starters it is the first one to feature a collaborative project. It also marks the first time both Efix and Six have been featured in the Follow-up. This particular scar was done during the same week that gave us this scar back in November.
Without further ado, here’s the boys hard at work on IAM: LossIsYou’s leg.
We’ve been doing this for a few months now, you should know what to do.
BMEtv is back with another video from the BME World Tour. This time around the crew stopped in to visit Steve Wood about tattooing in New Zealand and his private shop, Ronin Tattoo.
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