Jewelry Fashion

Piercing Fashion Flash: the Beauty of Pirate Booty

Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day, and in honor of this fun pseudo-holiday, we’re breaking out the best in sparkling blingy booty.  First up is the one thing that every girl needs to be buccaneer bea...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

Modification Around the World: Horimono Tattoo in Japan

Like many of its fellow eastern lands, tattoo art in Japan has a rich and far reaching history.  Although it has never been proven conclusively, it’s believed that the art of placing permanent mark...
Jewelry Fashion

The Modern Modification Lifestyle: Retro Hair Tutorial

Fun retro looks are a huge part of many modified subcultures, including tattooed pinup, 50s glamour, rockabilly, and pierced punkabilly style sets.  There’s a way for anybody to rock a little touch...
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Quick Take: Plug Sizing – US and UK

With stretching coming back into prominence as both a cultural practice and a fashion statement, most western countries follow very similar guidelines concerning the sizing of plugs, tunnels, and t...
Jewelry Fashion

Body Jewelry Update: Tough Girls and Teddybears

Nowadays most of us ladies are pretty tough.  We’re strong, independent, we run marathons, build stellar careers, and helm flourishing modern families.  Even the toughest of femme fatales and super...
Body Jewelry History

Body Modification and Superstition: Friday the Thirteenth

Friday the 13th has a stigma and flurry of superstitions behind it that go beyond the popular horror movie series.  Superstition is a pseudoscience, and is justified based on the power you give it ...
Jewelry Fashion

Piercing Fashion Flash: Coming Up Roses

It seems like roses are everywhere lately.  They’re woven into hairdos, embroidered onto vintage cardigans, painted on manicured fingernails, and inked across countless skinscapes.  It’s easy to se...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

The Modern Modification Lifestyle: Animal Magnetism

Tattooing and piercing go through trends as fast as fashion, with multiple styles, materials, and motifs in a constant state of popularity flux.  There are some emerging trends though that seem to ...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

Modification Around the World: Maori Tattooing Then and Now

Chances are you’ve seen a Maori style tribal tattoo on somebody before, maybe even one of your friends or family members, but many people aren’t aware of what that might entail.  The Maori are an i...