Extreme Body Modification | Body Suspension

Extreme Body Modification

Body suspension has become one of the more extreme forms of body modification, and it hurts just to look at it.

There are tons of reasons given as to why someone would participate in this, reasons like meditation to gain a higher level of spiritual awareness, or to celebrate a major event to turning point in their lives.

I don't know though. They may be the stated reasons, but because they allow themselves to be photographed, it may be nothing other than getting attention or someone that wants to hurt themselves; a common response to pain.

Either way, this is a growing phenomenon that is definitely here to stay.

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Extreme Piercing | Corset Piercing on Neck

Extreme Piercing

This corset piercing on this guys' neck is a little too much for me. While I know these are usually done for the sake of a photo and then the ribbons or cords are removed, but even so, having something like that on my throat would be very uncomfortable. Talk about a tickle on your throat.

Another thing I don't like is doing the ear stretching thing. The corset piercing, while uncomfortable, in general, once removed, is pretty much gone, maybe other than small and hard to notice little marks. With the ear stretching though, that's one that will really cause permanent body modification, and the ear is right there to see at all times.

Someone doing this must be making a lifelong commitment to wearing it in their ear, as the ear would look horrible just dangling from the stretching.

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Extreme Piercings | Woman Pierces Face to Beyond Recognition

Extreme Piercings

A lot of people have probably seen this photo of this woman who is pierced everywhere on her face, but it never ceases to amaze me how radically she did it.

Think of a blind date and you wonder what she's going to look like, and you find this, and you still wonder what she looks like.

What I would like to see is what she looks like after she removes all the studs and objects and see if there is scarring of any type, or permanent little holes.

Imagine turning over in bed and always pressing into those things.

Assuming she takes them out every night, that alone would take a lot of time. Evidently she sleeps on her back, or has an awful lot of time to insert and remove her piercings.

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Extreme PIercings with Hoops on Man's Face

Extreme Piercings

I found this photo of an extremely pierce man was hilarious when taken with I spotted it a forum on finding information on "moving to, living in and life in Finland."

Imagine that being the first impression of what you new life would be like when you arrive.

As far as the piercings themselves, they're really wild, and I wonder what the guy looks like when he takes them out and has all those little holed in his face.

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Piercings | Woman's Piercings Attach Metal To Her Back

Piercings

Many piercings, especially extreme piercings aren't very flattering at minimum, and most are made to shock.

While the metal piercings done on the back of this woman definitely qualify for extreme, there is also an aesthetic side that is pleasing to look at.

If you were to look close up, the metal is actually bolted to the back of the woman in pieces.

This body modification I would really call art, but I do wonder what happens is she sits down and leans back against a chair, or forgets and presses her back against a wall.

Now this would be a good image to include in a character in a film or TV show. I especially like the 3-D look in the middle of her back.

If you want to see a few more pics of her, go here. Caution: frontal nudity on some.

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Weird Piercings | Wei Sheng - Guinness World Record Holder for Piercing

Weird Piercings

This photo of Wei Sheng is actually a wimpy one in comparison to the time he held the world record for being pierced with 1790 needles. In the photo, he only has 800 acupuncture needles in his head, making his other piercings look awesome.

As acupuncture needles are usually used in connection to health-related issues, this guy must have had a heck of a headache to need those 800 needles.

In celebration of the Olympics in China in 2008, Wei Sheng also pierced his body with 2008 needles as a gift to the Olympic games in Beijing.

According to Wei Jing, the reason he practices and promotes piercing his body with so many acupuncture needles is to keep the traditional practice of acupuncture in the public eye in China.

Wei Jing is a doctor. I could imagine going to his office with a migraine headache and being told the remedy is 500 needles in the head. Ouch!

Anyway, just another person practicing strange piercings for their own reasons.

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Extreme Body Modificaton | Wolverine Wannabee - This is Not Our Idea of Hugh Jackman

Extreme Body Modification

In one of the more bizarre body modifications I've seen, this looks like a Hugh Jackman, Wolverine wannabee.

The least the guy could have done would have been to have put his hair in the style Wolverine wears. At minimum that would have added a cool element to it.

Also, if he tried swiping those things at anybody, his hands would suffer more damage than those he would have tried to scar up.

Sorry, this just doesn't do it for me. Retract the claws. Whatever you were attempting to say or do by doing this to yourself, it doesn't seemed to have worked.

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Extreme Body Modification | Ritual Suspension and Stretching the Boundaries

Extreme Body Modification

This is close to getting as extreme as you can get, and an increasing number of people are entering into "hanging" around, saying it somehow is a purifying experience.

I'm not too sure about that. What is being purified and how?

To each his own I guess. But this has a lot of things that could go wrong, and it could mess up some things permanently, especially with those that enter into suspensions that are very risky.

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Weird Piercings | Corset Piercing on a Beautiful Woman

Weird Piercings

This type of piercing is just a little much for me.

It's hard to imagine a woman of her obvious beauty having to do anything like this to draw attention to herself. But there it is.

Do you wake up one day and ask yourself something like, "I think I'll go down and get corset-pierced on my back.

"Oh, and when I'm done there, I've got to go pick up groceries for dinner."

Definitely an extreme body modification trend.

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