[QUOTE=Miss Tiki;39887426][/QUOTE]
One question, how do you manage to soak it saline? Do you just dunk your head (or face) in salt water?
It looks great though, speedy healing!
On that note my ears still haven't healed properly, but I am wondering if that might be because of an irritation/metal allergy rather than an infection. There is no redness or proper swelling or constant pain (so no indication of an infectious process/inflammation, but I just realized that my lobe is quite flaky. I thought it might be because I didn't touch it and was very careful with it while healing so it just didn't have the natural sloughing but everything I've read sort of points to being sensitive to nickel or stainless steel. I ordered titanium studs and might go with them. If that fails too, I'm taking them out though this is way too much effort and I obsess over them way too much.
[QUOTE=Fetret;39897344]One question, how do you manage to soak it saline? Do you just dunk your head (or face) in salt water?
It looks great though, speedy healing!
On that note my ears still haven't healed properly, but I am wondering if that might be because of an irritation/metal allergy rather than an infection. There is no redness or proper swelling or constant pain (so no indication of an infectious process/inflammation, but I just realized that my lobe is quite flaky. I thought it might be because I didn't touch it and was very careful with it while healing so it just didn't have the natural sloughing but everything I've read sort of points to being sensitive to nickel or stainless steel. I ordered titanium studs and might go with them. If that fails too, I'm taking them out though this is way too much effort and I obsess over them way too much.[/QUOTE]
shot glass of saline man!
[QUOTE=Alec W;39898065]shot glass of saline man![/QUOTE]
That is genius!
Anybody else really like the look of Nordic patterns?
[IMG]http://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2012/286/4/3/nordic_wyrm_urnes_style_sleeve_by_meatshop_tattoo-d5hn5nx.jpg[/IMG]
I do.
Are we posting pictures of our piercings now? :L mine arent too impressive but I have two lobes, one is just a regular piercing and the other is a 3mm stretch, i have two pinna and one Daith, apparently daith are quite rare (Well not rare but you need a specific amount of ear space for it to work properly. And usually people dont have enough, at the moment its a bar until the swelling goes down for a ring.
My Daith + Lobe on my Right ear: [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/481101_482229115146422_861857574_n.jpg[/IMG]
My stretching ear and two pinna: [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/602203_492746670791181_1426145097_n.jpg[/IMG] (Excuse the unattractive nature and uglyness in this picture, 12 hour shifts arent fun.
Also yea, i decided i wanted my hair Lagoon Blue one day so that's my thing now i guess?
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Ey2MjjU.jpg[/t]
Well, this is how tattoo planning looks for me. Been working the past couple of days on this, and it is still far from finished (it's only to a rough design for the tattoo artist). Going to be a chest piece, most parts black except for the dotwork around the moth and maybe some highlights, don't know. Last year I had the idea of getting two roses on my chest, then I wanted a longhorn skull in the middle of them. But due to boobies, that wasn't possible. So I sticked to the idea of skulls, and this is what I have after a bit over half a year (didn't lost the idea on the roses, just moved them to my shoulders and to a future project).
[QUOTE=Miss Tiki;39912762][t]http://i.imgur.com/Ey2MjjU.jpg[/t]
Well, this is how tattoo planning looks for me. Been working the past couple of days on this, and it is still far from finished (it's only to a rough design for the tattoo artist). Going to be a chest piece, most parts black except for the dotwork around the moth and maybe some highlights, don't know. Last year I had the idea of getting two roses on my chest, then I wanted a longhorn skull in the middle of them. But due to boobies, that wasn't possible. So I sticked to the idea of skulls, and this is what I have after a bit over half a year (didn't lost the idea on the roses, just moved them to my shoulders and to a future project).[/QUOTE]
That longhorn skulls looks awesome, and the placement (middle of the chest) sounded amazing, but even with boobs wouldn't it be possible to have it so that the nose goes between them with horns going over the top? Although that might require too high a placement or something. Either way longhorn skull = amazing. With normal skulls I feel like they have been done to death. I really want to get some proper anatomical diagrams on me though with labels and everything from really old textbooks so that might be something to consider?
You know what makes me really, really fucking mad? Some 15-16 year old teens who think they are the big deal on facebook when they try to outplay each other with their "oh so awesome" mods. Like "hey look at my 50mm streched ear I made myself in about a month, the other side fell apart, but now I have a split lobe, so cool xD", and then they create groups with pictures of people like Pauly Unstoppable and they just write underneath "cool or crazy? xD" and have abso-fuckin-lutely NO IDEA about bodymodification at all, or how to do it right. Well lets just get a syringe and pierce ourself a few hundred times, because the more you have the cooler you are!
Fuck this youth, fuck those scene-kids. Really, they just disgust me, because they give the wide population the impression that everybody with a modification is as dumb as those fucks are. "Fuck school, yolo, and make out with everything that moves, so cool!" Fuck.
You guys on the other hand are pretty awesome, and I like our little thread and everything [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/heart.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Miss Tiki;39960656]You know what makes me really, really fucking mad? Some 15-16 year old teens who think they are the big deal on facebook when they try to outplay each other with their "oh so awesome" mods. Like "hey look at my 50mm streched ear I made myself in about a month, the other side fell apart, but now I have a split lobe, so cool xD", and then they create groups with pictures of people like Pauly Unstoppable and they just write underneath "cool or crazy? xD" and have abso-fuckin-lutely NO IDEA about bodymodification at all, or how to do it right. Well lets just get a syringe and pierce ourself a few hundred times, because the more you have the cooler you are!
Fuck this youth, fuck those scene-kids. Really, they just disgust me, because they give the wide population the impression that everybody with a modification is as dumb as those fucks are. "Fuck school, yolo, and make out with everything that moves, so cool!" Fuck.
You guys on the other hand are pretty awesome, and I like our little thread and everything [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/heart.png[/img][/QUOTE]
I agree with all that, however i used to pierce my own body and such, but this was during a stage in my life where... I wont discuss it, it'll just bring back shitty memorys.
I used to have Marlo Snellman like dreads and had snakebites, pierced lobes and scaffolds that i did entirely myself, they looked unprofessional and shit, but at that point in life i didnt care and such, like i said its personal but you'd understand if i told you
It wasnt a case of "haha im so cool swag swaaaag look at my piercings" i just felt at the time its how i wanted to work, id still look like that if it wasnt for the fact i couldnt find a fucking job anywhere :L
But yes, this thread is nice, its good to have expanded it onto piercings too.
[QUOTE=MxOAgentJohnson;39960947][/QUOTE]
I don't say anything against piercing yourself, it just depends why you do it. People do it to experience themselves, to modify their bodys and gain the experience in changing themselves the ways they want. And there are people like those kiddos who do this because they try to top themselves to look cool.
On a totally other note, I just read something that really, really shocked me and makes me so goddamn sad. I don't know if anybody of you ever heard of [b]Shannon Larratt[/b]. He is the founder of BME (a well known bodymodification blog/community), and he improved mods and the way other people see it immense, he is like the godfather of body modifications. He pushed himself and mods to an unknown dimension, teached a lot of people what a good modification and artist are, and that we basically have no limits in changing our body. Sadly, this absolutely great man passed away a few days ago. Needless to say that it is a great loss to the whole bodymod "scene", and the loss of a guy who always seemed pretty nice and chill to me. I'm really shocked, because he is one of the main reasons why I know so much about this theme, and why I'm so into it.
I honestly never felt so bad over the passing of someone I've never met or talked to. I am not heavily modified, probably never will be, but from the moment I discovered his works, long before I got my first tattoo, and what he has contributed to the world and culture of body modification I was instantly hooked. Ever since he posted that short notice on his Facebook page about being out for a while I felt dread and that morning I genuinely had to stop and just think for a while. I am not trying to dramatise anything, it was quite strange.
I simply hope he is resting in peace.
[editline]19th March 2013[/editline]
On the note of self modification, I feel there is nothing wrong with modifying yourself and making mistakes in the process as long as you are doing it for yourself and not for some stupid "bragging right" like those idiots do. I have tattooed myself (without much success I can tell you) with a ballpoint pen and gritting my teeth, not to brag but just to experience having something on myself, done by myself. That feeling alone is quite worth self modification I would say.
[editline]19th March 2013[/editline]
On a related note about those stupid facebook pages, I hate anyone who posts and agrees with that supposedly funny picture about "trolling" people with stretched lobes by putting a padlock through them and running away.
And on a final note, even with (and maybe because of) all our discussions and arguments I think this thread is awesome!
[QUOTE=Miss Tiki;39960656]You know what makes me really, really fucking mad? Some 15-16 year old teens who think they are the big deal on facebook when they try to outplay each other with their "oh so awesome" mods. Like "hey look at my 50mm streched ear I made myself in about a month, the other side fell apart, but now I have a split lobe, so cool xD", and then they create groups with pictures of people like Pauly Unstoppable and they just write underneath "cool or crazy? xD" and have abso-fuckin-lutely NO IDEA about bodymodification at all, or how to do it right. Well lets just get a syringe and pierce ourself a few hundred times, because the more you have the cooler you are!
Fuck this youth, fuck those scene-kids. Really, they just disgust me, because they give the wide population the impression that everybody with a modification is as dumb as those fucks are. "Fuck school, yolo, and make out with everything that moves, so cool!" Fuck.
You guys on the other hand are pretty awesome, and I like our little thread and everything [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/heart.png[/img][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Miss Tiki;39961140]I don't say anything against piercing yourself, it just depends why you do it. People do it to experience themselves, to modify their bodys and gain the experience in changing themselves the ways they want. And there are people like those kiddos who do this because they try to top themselves to look cool.[/QUOTE]
honestly, that's a really elitist attitude you have
sure, some might not know what they're talking about, but they're still fans of modifications and they're still satisfied with their own mods, and you have literally no right to tell them they shouldn't be
if you don't want them to represent the body mod culture as a whole, then you're going to have to try to represent it yourself, and if you don't, then you're essentially letting them do it (that goes to everyone)
at the end of the day, if they're interested in body modding, they're going to learn more and more about it
how did you act when you first learned about modding?
If I ever get a tattoo, I think something in the Baroness/Kylesa artwork style would be awesome.
Example:
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/Baroness_-_Blue_Record.jpg[/t]
To me, it just seems like something that would fit a tattoo really well.
[QUOTE=Lord of Ears;39965834]honestly, that's a really elitist attitude you have
sure, some might not know what they're talking about, but they're still fans of modifications and they're still satisfied with their own mods, and you have literally no right to tell them they shouldn't be
if you don't want them to represent the body mod culture as a whole, then you're going to have to try to represent it yourself, and if you don't, then you're essentially letting them do it (that goes to everyone)
at the end of the day, if they're interested in body modding, they're going to learn more and more about it
how did you act when you first learned about modding?[/QUOTE]
I get what you mean, but it is not the fact that they are trying stuff out (that is awesome) it is the image they present. Everyone experiments, tries shit out, makes mistakes and learn from that. It is true for body modification too.
I always thought, and still think, body modification for the sake of coolness is a perfectly valid reason, if you think something looks good, looks cool, and you would like that on yourself, more power to you. Not all tattoos and piercings and scars and brands and everything else has to have a deeper meaning. But the image these people present to the world is a problem. I guess the actual problem is with the world for taking these kids seriously and acting as if they represent the body modification culture as a whole and then make judgements based on that, but unfortunately that is the life we live in.
(I feel like I lost my thread of thought a bit... Anyway I'll try to pick it back up) It is not elitism or saying they should not do what they please with their bodies, it is just that I wish their stupid mistakes would only remain their stupid mistakes instead of travelling around the world. I mean as much as I hate stupid shaming Facebook pages like "the stupidest tattoos" etc... every picture on those pages were taken and uploaded by someone.
[editline]19th March 2013[/editline]
I guess the problem is, everyone is stupid, ignorant, naive and inexperienced at one point in their lives, like when starting out with body modification, and this point is where people generally screw up and make mistakes, which is perfectly understandable. The bit where it is not understandable is why would you want to make those mistakes public with no intention of learning from them. That is what I have an issue with.
Posting your horribly infected lobe on a modification forum or sending it to an expert for a review is one thing, posting it on Facebook to act tough is something else entirely.
I feel like I wasn't really too clear on my point (my brain is a bit slow today for some reason), and you are right on many levels. And in the end I do feel body modification should be one place where everyone is welcome.
I just say let people do what they want, if someone has half a braincell they wont catagorize everyone with a piercing or stretched ears a "Swagfag" like noone brands people who wear DcMartens skinheads anymore.
Meh, I just expressed myself wrong, sorry for that. Didn't mean to sound elitist, but it is part like Fetret already pointed out, they give the whole "body modification" a bad look, that it is just something for teens and such. That, of course, does not apply to everybody (wether these kids or the people without mods), but still a lot of people are narrowminded when it comes to modifications, especially older people or people in higher job positions (not all!).
And what makes me more sad instead of mad is that I get the feeling from a lot of these people that they don't have the heart when doing it. It just feels like they want it NOW, but they're too lazy or impatient to inform themselves about quality and risks, which is nowadays a thing of ten minutes with the internet. Back when I got interested in piercings and tattoos, that is about 8 years ago, there wasn't such a broad flow of information, wether from experience or medical point. And I always thought that when you really want something because you like it (like really, coming from your heart), than you have the time and the patience, and not risking your health. But in a lot of cases it just feels like they want to be a part of some scene (so they want it now before the fad is over).
Maybe that is just a feel that is left inside me from a time when removing a tattoo and stitching up ear wasn't a "normal" thing, and those things were more permanent then they're now.
Got my Cthulhu sleeve on the 2nd, plan sometime before October to get that headcrab turned into an entire valve sleeve.
Actually, speaking of Valve tattoo's, i had an idea for a long time if i ever had to not worry about tattoo placement (Neck, hands) at work and i had an awesome idea for a portal one.
It was basically Chell, on my neck with the portal gun, in the process (well, has placed) A portal on my shoulder so it looks 3D if you know what i mean, then on the other side of my neck id have a Companion cube on the neck and another portal on the shoulder, giving it that sort of, they are actually standing up perspective.
But obviously i have to consider work, real life etc. If i was an artist myself sure but concealing neck tattoos every day must be a pain for any other job
Nothing about stick-and-poke tattoos? Quite surprised.
I got my septum pierced! The pain wasn't nearly as bad as I expected, although it was still pretty stingy and it made my eyes water :v: Got a curved bar in it for the moment because I need to hide it some while it's still in healing.
Looks awesome! But all that shading must have been hell to sit through.
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;40141196]I like it, better picture please[/QUOTE]
If you buy me a better Camera, sure.
[QUOTE=Fetret;40141629]Looks awesome! But all that shading must have been hell to sit through.[/QUOTE]
5 Hours of pure agony, and it isnt even finished! its a full sleeve so i have the wings, ry'leh, waves of water and chants still planned.
So far it looks pretty nice, but as Mako already said, you should post a better picture (at least when it's healed, interested in how this'll come out).
Went to the tattoo studio last week to get a date vor my chestpiece, but the guys told me that it won't work out well. So guess I just have to completely redo this (and try to keep the meaning it had, which will be next to impossible for someone uncreative like me...), or last chance is to mail it to the artist who'd finally do this (wasn't there that day). God I hope he can do something nice with that.
On a more positive note, finally ordered 22mm plugs so I can go back to work in my ears again. SO CLOSE TO MY GOAL, hnnngggg :v:
e: Sorry, wrote this post way before you said that with your camera, just forgot to post it :v:
[QUOTE=MxOAgentJohnson;40144479]
5 Hours of pure agony, and it isnt even finished! its a full sleeve so i have the wings, ry'leh, waves of water and chants still planned.[/QUOTE]
When are you going to get it done? I've never had a multi part tattoo so I don't really know but how long are you supposed to wait in between sessions? Is it something like a week where once the tattoo stops peeling off you're good to go or a bit longer? Oh and the best of luck! It really looks like it is worth all the pain. One last question, it is brown tinged right and that is not the camera/light playing tricks?
On an unrelated note, my ears healed almost overnight once I identified my problem: Allergy to what I assume were stainless steel bars. Once I figured out that might be the case, I switched them out for titanium bars and the pain, slight discharge and discomfort went away almost immediately. I am taking my time obviously, but I feel so happy now that the 3 months of confusion and relative agony is gone.
[QUOTE=Fetret;40144678]When are you going to get it done? I've never had a multi part tattoo so I don't really know but how long are you supposed to wait in between sessions? Is it something like a week where once the tattoo stops peeling off you're good to go or a bit longer? Oh and the best of luck! It really looks like it is worth all the pain. One last question, it is brown tinged right and that is not the camera/light playing tricks?
On an unrelated note, my ears healed almost overnight once I identified my problem: Allergy to what I assume were stainless steel bars. Once I figured out that might be the case, I switched them out for titanium bars and the pain, slight discharge and discomfort went away almost immediately. I am taking my time obviously, but I feel so happy now that the 3 months of confusion and relative agony is gone.[/QUOTE]
Brown tints yes, and well pretty much what needs doing from now is Ry'leh in the background, crashing waves, rocks, the other arm grabbing onto a rock like hes pulling himself up, chants from the book, a lighthouse and just the wings and its all good.
Im going black and white/brown shading first before colour, cause maybe ill enjoy it in black and white more than colour, i originally planned for the head to be right up at my shoulder and just be a huge head and tetnacles all the way down, but really it'd look more like a squid.
I wasnt too sure on this iteration of cthulhu at first, mine was a more streamlined look rather than the bulky one here but i've grown to love it and gives offa strong powerful feel.
And yea a few weeks but i doubt ill get more done in a few weeks. maybe a month or two!
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