1. Ear Arm
Moving on from tentacles there really is just no making up what some people will implant into their bodies. For performance artist Stelarc, born Stelios Arcadious, silicone tentacles just didn’t quite cut it. Instead, he searched, for a decade, to find a surgeon willing to implant an ear into his forearm, a legitimate human ear. Grown in a lab and finally implanted into the 61-year-old back in 2007, Stelarc has also held onto hope that he’ll one day have a microphone implanted into the ear in his forearm which he plans on connecting to a Bluetooth device in order for his audiences
2. Pointy Ears
New York plastic surgoen Dr. Lajos Nagy created a surgical procedure to make human ears pointed, like a mythological creature. According to the doc, "ears becoming pointed as a result of plastic surgery not only enhance the attractiveness of the face, but also improve the experience of listening to music."
NOTE: our reader Allie wrote us explaining the procedure itself is possible, but Dr. Nagy's services are a hoax.
3. Skull Spikes
Ever seen the film Hellraiser starring the nasty old Cenobite Pinhead? Well, some into the body modification scene have taken a page from his playbook and gone the body mod rout of implanting spikes into their head. Though none have gone to such extremes as Pinhead, they also don’t live in Clive Barker’s warped mind, though maybe they should. The trans dermal implants are, what else, implanted into the head to a degree, while the rest of the
4. Eyeball Tattoo
Talk about an extreme body mod. Corneal tattooing is not only possible, but it has been known and done now for over 2,000 years — it became almost commonplace in the late 19th century and into the 20th century to correct defects such as corneal scarring and leucomas. These days, it is done less often because contact lenses are very effective at covering these defects, and prosthetic technology is also more accessible. However, not everyone can wear contact lenses, and not everyone wants their eyeball popped out even if it is blind; hence cosmetic tattooing of the eye.
5. Labret Spacer
Labret piercings are very common form of body art, maybe not quite as much today as in years past, but nevertheless, if you head out into a crowded bar, club or concert, you’ll catch more than a few people sporting them. What isn’t quite so common is the labret spacer. Ear spacers are all the rage, but stretching out your labret enough to actually fit an giant spacer through the piercing is pretty extreme. While some with labret spacers merely push the envelope a little, others stretch the skin beneath their lip so wide and place a hollow spacer into the hole fully exposing their teeth and their gums. A little extreme, and a little confusing as to how, or even if, that skin ever returns to normal.
6. Most Tattooed Woman in the World
Born with a condition that continuously made her skin blister and subsequently scar, Julia Gnuse decided, once and for all, that she wanted to cover the scars, and she did so with tattoos. Known to some as the “Illustrated Lady,” Julia is the most tattooed woman on the planet. While her skin condition, known as Porphyria, didn’t develop until she was in her 30s, Gnuse wasted little time getting to work on her body modification, as today, at age 55 she has covered roughly 90 percent of her body in ink, including her face. Sadly, the tattoos didn’t make an impact on her skin condition; she still blisters as always, but now, the damage is covered by her tattoos.
7. Scarification
Scarification is the creative and artistic application of scars in a controlled manner to achieve an aesthetically or spiritually pleasing result. In the process of body scarification, scars are formed by cutting the skin. Even though many people hold that scarification is no more painful than tattooing, it is somehow more "intense" to most of them.
8. The Leopard Man
73-year-old Tom Leppard was once the most tattooed man on earth, thanks to the unmistakable spots tattooed all over his body. The former soldier living off the coast of Scotland dropped out of society years ago to live as the “Leopard” man, leaving his tiny shelter, with a roof made of plastic, a few times a month only to collect food and supplies and his military pension. Eventually, the hermit lifestyle in the wild caught up with Tom and in 2008, he left his home and reacquainted himself with electricity, and a bed, by moving into a retirement home.
9. Corset Piercings
One of the newest trends in body modification comes in the form of corset piercings. They are a series of surface piercings arranged up the back in two vertical columns. The piercing is located in the spot where the eyelets would be if one was wearing a corset. It is a symmetrical piercing with an equal number of holes on each side. As few as four holes can be used (two on each side) up to as many as the expanse of skin will allow.
10. 3D-Art Implant
A 3D-Art implant is any object implanted fully under the skin for the purpose of affecting a sculptural change of the surface. The "invention" and popularization of implants as 3D-Art is credited primarily to Steve Haworth. Implants can be stretched just like piercings. A good example of this are horn implants—they start as smaller implants, and are then taken out when healed and replaced with slightly larger ones. This process is repeated to achieve the final size. There are some risks of irritation to the skin above the implant if this process is pushed too fast, as with all stretching.
11. Branding
The Human Branding is, perhaps, the most painful of all body modifications. In full-scale branding, the iron is heated hot enough and applied long enough that the resulting wound is a third degree burn, which destroys the nerve. These third-degree burns never regain sensitivity. It will make a silver scarred area in the shape of the third degree burn, due to destruction of the entire dermis layer of the skin. The surrounding skin will eventually fill in areas that haven’t been severely damaged, which takes years.
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