Advice needed on painting branded skin!

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by vincegamer
The implants is why I made the comment about Star Trek fans. I could really see someone getting a Klingon brow ridge implanted.

The think I always wonder with extreme body modification is: how do you get a job?
Limited options for some I guess. Extreme Entertainment areas spring to mind.

Oh, and I see very little difference between scarification and tattooing. One does minor damage to surface nerves but that\'s it as far as I can see.
I\'m probably wrong here but can\'t Tattoo\'s can be removed by laser surgery. (Expensive) Whether that leaves a scar I don\'t know.

 

[penguin]

There is DEFINITELY something very very wrong with genital piercing :no: Check out the delightful bmezine to see what I mean (only if you have a VERY strong stomach) :|~:|~:|~:|~:|~:|~

 

[james sequeira]

genital piercing makes me feel the pain thinking about it

 

[penguin]

Slightly masochistic too I think It would make certain things impossible, or impossibly agonising :|~

 

[james sequeira]

certain make certain things impossible lol not good

one swif catch in the zip or a kick and your life is over :~(

 

[skarekrow]

the modified reply

regarding the nauceous part:
we are all individuals and not everyone likes the sight of certain things, others do, not everyone likes britney spears and she still gets to make records, see my point?

regarding jobs:
most heavily modified people work in the business rthey love, but not all. every modified person does however think that appearances should not matter, experience and education should.


and keloided is a great word in scrabble :d

 

[penguin]

Hey, I\'m not campaigning against it, or indeed opposing it at all. I\'m just expressing my own viewpoint (I find the idea of genital piercing disgusting), and I think it\'s up to you to decide what to do to your body and to have your own viewpoint on it, and I respect that

I don\'t like Britney Spears, but I\'m not boycotting sales of her music

 

[DaN]

Returning back to the question:
If you want the skin to look slightly textured (Like it has been blistered or something) you could try using an extremely thing layer of GS over the area and texturing it with a brush - as most scar tissue is raised anyway.

 

[vincegamer]

Originally posted by skarekrow every modified person does however think that appearances should not matter, experience and education should.

worded too strongly. Obviously every \"modified person\" (great term) thinks appearance matters immensely. They are willing to suffer expense, pain, and often the disapproval of their moms to alter their appearance. I suppose you meant they think it should not be a criteria for obtaining a job, but should and is are very different things, and in many jobs appearance does matter.

Funny story. I had a friend with a wild orange mohawk. He had a normal clerical job, necktie and all. He tucked his hair under a baseball cap for the interview and never took it off. He always wears it to work. Baseball caps are accepted so much that no one has ever said anything to him. Yet he\'d have never gotten the job with a 10 inch tall orange mohawk.

 

[penguin]

I\'ll repost this guy:

I just cannot imagine him in a clerical job, somehow...

 

[vincegamer]

I just want to know how he manages to shave his head around those bumps.

 

[Swordwind]

Bill Bailey said it best
\"People just get bored and pierce themselves these days. When does it stop? You\'ll be walking down the street one day and you\'ll see a bloke with an anvil hanging off his ear. You can tell the ones that havent checked themselves in the mirror before they went out because they have fridge magnets stuck to thier face\" lol

 

[penguin]

Originally posted by vincegamer
I just want to know how he manages to shave his head around those bumps.

Exactly! Apparently, it is a Double Steel Mohawk. Those things through his nose must have hurt. And those bobbly implants... :|~ The thing I find strange is, someone might think even a small tattoo looks cool when they\'re young, and it might look cool on them - to the next extreme is these implanty, face-branding types - but then will they feel the same way in a few years? Imagine the above dude at 50 years old. I doubt you can get those implants removed...

 

[vincegamer]

well of course you can get them removed. I wonder if you may HAVE to get them removed. They are hard silicone so may not leach into the body systems like liquid silicone, the stuff of breast implants. Keep in mind, breast implants almost always must be removed/replaced in 10 years. Then there\'s the health risk that pops up now and then for debate. I wonder if these things have been adequately tested. Did they get FDA approval? I\'m going to ask my wife to see what she can find out.

 

[skarekrow]

Originally posted by vincegamer
well of course you can get them removed. I wonder if you may HAVE to get them removed. They are hard silicone so may not leach into the body systems like liquid silicone, the stuff of breast implants. Keep in mind, breast implants almost always must be removed/replaced in 10 years. Then there\'s the health risk that pops up now and then for debate. I wonder if these things have been adequately tested. Did they get FDA approval? I\'m going to ask my wife to see what she can find out.

on a silicone note theres been alot of discussions, the serious practiotioners like Steve Haworth use medical grade silicone used in implants (not boobjobs though since it would make them very hard) within the surgical comunity (this is where i spin off to find a link: http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Implant_Biocompatibility )

most of the stuff the bodmod comunity use are medical grade things, and most if not all are researched thouroughly by scientists and doctors.


talking about clerics:
this is me and my friend Bena at the Stockholm international tattoo convention a couple of years ago, he works as a personal assisstant to a handicapped old lady.

 

[OrkyDave]

Regarding to shaving round the implants on his head- they are actually on his forehead, and if anyone has a hairy forehead I would be extremley worried!

(anyway Bill, at 13 I\'m suprised your even worried about shaving yet!lol lol lol)

I met a very old guy down Camden market a year or two back. he got bored of his job as a bank manager, quit and now just hangs around getting his face tattoed and pierced- he has over 80 piercings!

Have later seen him in Biziarre magazine too.

 

[demonherald]

The fact tht we\'re discussing it here sort of explains why people do this sort of thing.
Not for me so you won\'t see any pics turning up for discussion on random internet threads.

 

[vincegamer]

Okay, the bumps do appear to be below his hairline. There are spikes up there on the crown though, and he looks young for that much natural hair loss.

As to the implants/surgical grade material. I did ask my wife about it. She said as long as they use materials that have been approved for other implant uses, they don\'t have to be tested for this. (I don\'t know if I mentioned this but my wife is an engineer who reviews implantable medical device applications for the Food and Drug Administration).
So, the material he uses is probably the same stuff they use in various forms of traditional plastic or reconstructive surgery. Knee replacements for example, or chin implants etc. If the material is already approved for implanting then you can put it wherever and in whatever shape you want.

p.s. There was this guy in my highschool who was probably ahead of his time (it being the mid 1980s) and I\'ve never seen anyone else do this: He had an earring connected to a nose ring by a chain. But the chain went from his ear, through a hole in his cheek, out the corner of his mouth to his nose.

 

[penguin]

I thought ye were talkin\' \'boot the metal \'uns! Anyway, I don\'t think you have to get the implants removed.

http://www.stevehaworth.com/stevecbr.htm