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Paranormal Kitsch: Ghosts and Demons in Modern Tattoo

Some tattoos are so evil that you’ll have to check under your bed and get a night light after you see them. For some tattoo enthusiasts, watching their favorite horror movie is just not enough. The...
Body Jewelry History

The Modern Modification Lifestyle: Halloween and the Samhuinn Festival

As the number of modified persons rises, a return to the roots of piercing and tattoo practices is all but an inevitability, and along with primitivism comes a cultural reawakening.  In recent year...
Halloween Jewelry

Jewelry Fashion Fix: Day of the Dead

Sugar Skulls Sugar skull artwork is actually based upon a staple of Day of the Dead foods: candy.  Tiny skulls made out of sugar dough or marzipan are regularly made for children to eat during Dia ...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

Wait Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes

It’s official; it is the creepiest time of the year. That means the celebration of the weird and horrific, the twisted and shocking. Typically this celebration only lasts a few nights around the da...
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Body Jewelry Update: Skeletal Love

Whoever said that skulls and bones are not romantic has never met a sonnet penned by Edgar Allan Poe.  There’s something darkly beautiful about a love that lasts forever, and in the mortal world th...
Holiday Jewelry

Happy Punk for a Day-Day!

  Do you identify as punk?  Like many things, the word punk has taken on a whole new meaning since the 1970s.  Punk used to refer to destructive and dangerously rebellious teenagers.  Now it’s so m...
Body Jewelry History

Body Jewelry History: Costumes and Pumpkin Carving

Most of us know the term “Jack o’ Lantern” to refer to a pumpkin that’s carved with a face, but did you ever wonder where pumpkin carving comes from?  We wear jewelry, clothing, and hair ornaments ...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

Quick Take: Dermal Jewelry Styles

For anyone who’s interested in getting dermal body art, or already has a dermal piece that they’re looking to purchase parts for, there’s a few key points that can make the experience a whole lot e...
Halloween Jewelry

Jewelry Fashion Fix: the World Through Halloween Colored Glasses

Orange Orange is our first stop on the Halloween color quadrangle, and it’s probably the most influential of All Hallow’s Eve tints.  Representing the pumpkin/jack o’ lantern, the colorful Autumn l...