Tired of tattoos and body piercing? Try "body jewelry," I dare you

wild.

Cool. But I wouldn't do it.
I think...

Tumors are sexy! But how can you get that "end stage" look without giving yourself cancer? Thailand has the answer!

Ha ha! This seems like a bad idea. Mike Tyson facial tattoo level of bad idea.

Ouch, separating layers of skin? No wonder it hurts, they're literally ripping you apart and then stuffing the resulting hole with, well stuffing. Overall though cool cool to the people that get it done, way to be unique and not another douche bag with a tribal. Oh, one more thing the dudes thinking about AMPUTATING HIS PINKY??!! Whatever floats your severed finger I guess.

I wonder how long it would take to come states side.

somewhat cool but I would NEVER do that to myself

Pretty soon people won't have to do anything - just having 'non-art' skin will be a unique look.

It's like having hives that never go away--- how chic! Pretty soon people will be implanting spare tires around their waistlines... I mean... uh...

LOL.... I was just thinking that Patsart.

People are trying so hard to stand out and be unique that eventually being non-pierced, non-tatted, and non-um...-implanted will be the rebellious thing. (says the girl with a back piece. LOL)

Even now I am more stunned by a person wearing all white then those who are in all black with Gothic or emo inspired makeup.

All I see is bubble wrap... and I'm getting very anxious!

In my opinion it just looks like it would hurt all the time.

'It's NOT a tumor!" I worked for a cancer doctor tha people there would see that and dial 911!

Oh my that’s weird. Then again its kinda lazy. Wow you got a series of bumps! I want to see the guy who has the faces of animals and or people poking out from his stomach. Now that’s a freaky idea.

what if you fell or something on it? wouldn't they get jabbed farther in your skin?

Although I'm sure it's not constantly painful (I hope), that's all I can think it would feel like. And now that damartin90 gave me that awful mental image of someone falling and jabbing these into places they should not go, I will never ever get these...They also creep me out a little bit.

ouch!!!

This isn't surprising at all...today's values are getting more and more skewed. We live in a superficial, warped world in which, for many, money and sex are the prevailing aims and pop culture consists of drugs and denigrating-towards-women lyrics...in which it's beautiful to have no fat on your body and advertisers strive to make today's children obese by selling them sugary cereals and processed snacks devoid of any nutrition...in which, on the other side of the world, people are dying of hunger and thirst and we're not doing anything about it...in which expensive cars and bags are valued more than a moral soul, and now, incisions under the skin and silicone insertions are considered "cool" and pretty.

It's up to us to change all this, my fellow Current-ers. And what better way than to reach the world than through the media?

i love superficiality - i can't begin to imagine a world without it - a world without superficiality ( broadening the definition of superficiality to include any kind of personal adornment - including clothes ) would be a state very similar to death .

I'm not talking about superficiality in that sense - I love clothes, I love pretty jewelry, etc. What I'm talking about is superficiality in values: like, a crude example would be The Real World...those on the show have very superficial values.

"superficial " according to you - beware of fascism .

This is so stupid.

Sky I’m sorry I have to disagree with you. I don’t think this movement has anything to do with what you mentioned. Body modification has always been in our culture. It is a positive declaration of many things: social status, individualism, religious beliefs and so on. The same people who are dying of hunger and thirst practice the same sort of body modifications. In reality body modification is much older than your belief structure, and more importantly it only conflicts when you are ignorant to what it truly represents.

I have seen something similar, the outcome was horns impersonating the devils nubs... the only difference is the use of coral for the horns, which the body would envelope as natural bone... this is barbaric, ridiculous, and above all, idiotic... Machismo at work...

I fucking hurled. I don't get this, nor would I want to. Kind of like herpes.

What are all you people talking about, barbaric? superficial? denigrating-towards-women? (wtf on the last one). When I read this story I thought it was about a man expressing his individuality. The people condemning this story are the ones that are superficial. This is a real PERSON who is molding and shaping his body to HIS LIKING, and not to the ideals or tastes of some other superficial pricks that think THEY KNOW what is beautiful or right. Get off the soap box, it's not a good look for you lol.

i don't know if this was mentioned or not , but this kinda thing started with the "Yakuza" in Japan - a guy would have one pearl sub-cutaneously inserted into his penis for every year he served in prison , given that you weren't a lifer ....