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Tattoo Ideas: Wedding Ring Tattoos

When my ex-girlfriend and I started dating, she had a tiny black and red tattoo that haunted my days, though I'd try to convince myself otherwise. It was a tattoo of the letter "N", and it was the first initial of her previous girlfriend. Likewise,...

45 comments    love relationships arts
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Pictures of Microdermal Implants

Microdermal implants are becoming very popular, as they are more permanent than a piercing, and to many they are just different. Recently, I saw a woman at Dunkin' Donuts with a sternum implant, and the entire concept amazed my dad, who was with...

3 comments    body mod microdermal pictures
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Surface Piercings

When you get a piercing, it is nothing more than a foreign object through your skin. Many times, your body will treat the jewelry like a splinter and try to push it out. Surface piercings are different than most piercings. A proper surface...

755 comments    body art piercing piercings
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Extreme Body Mod: Sternum Chest Piercings

I should have just titled this hub "An Illustrated Guide to Boobs", because at first glance, that's what it appears to be. I assure you, however, that it is not all about cleavage, although it is about a piercing that is generally placed in or...

21 comments    piercings body modification
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Tattoo Ideas: New Jersey Pride

Ah, New Jersey. The land of all night diners and grease trucks, the Turnpike, the Parkway and I-295, where we enthusiastically pump our fists, not our gas. Mistakenly identified by the rest of the world as...

3 comments    tattoos new jersey tattoo ideas
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Getting Your First Tattoo

This past weekend I had the honor of taking my best friend to get her first tattoo. I planned on taking her and her girlfriend (who was going to be getting her second tat) to my favorite parlor, "Il Bacio" in Trenton, NJ. I'm not sure if most...

61 comments    love advice how to
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The Art of Body Writing: Words on Skin

It was Peter Greenaway's 1996 bestseller "The Pillow Book" that first sparked my interest in body writing. I'm not sure if ‘body writing' is the correct term, or if it's even a real definition, but it is the phrase I use to describe the art...

7 comments    arts tattoos body art
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Scarification as Body Art

Scarification is not a new form of body modification. In primitive societies, members would scar their bodies to note great defeats and hunts. Among most of the body modifications that took place in primitive societies, scars were used to mark...

18 comments    tattoos branding body art
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Tips for Ear Piercings

Ear piercing is the oldest form of body modification with references dating into the early history of mankind. Carvings from various parts of the Persian Empire displayed soldiers wearing ear rings. Tribes will perform ear piercings, among other...

212 comments    jewelry tattoos body art
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Illustrated Guide to Neck and Nape Piercings

An ex-girlfriend of mine decided to get the back of her neck pierced in 2003. It was a spur of the moment decision, made mostly because she already had jewelery in her tongue and lip, and multiple piercings in...

6 comments    piercings body modification
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