Face Art Piercing Japan

Face Art Piercing Japan

Art Piercings Japanese

Art Piercings Japanese

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Extreme Vegetarian Oral Piercing

Extreme Vegetarian Piercing

Extreme Vegetarian Piercing

Extreme Vegetarian Piercing

Extreme Vegetarian Piercing

Extreme Vegetarian Oral Piercing

Body Piercing No Longer A Taboo

Body art, including body piercing has become immensely popular in the past few years. A body piercing, as the name suggest, is a puncture made on the surface of the skin in order to wear one or multiple ornaments. People across the world get various parts of their body pierced in order to make a fashion statement, uniquely define themselves or for the experience.

(An example showing ear, nose and lip piercings)

The lips, the ears, the tongue, cheeks, belly buttons, eyebrows are amongst those parts that are the most commonly pierced. The most popularly body parts that are pierced for ornamental purposes are the belly button, the ears and the nostrils. When thinking on the lines of getting a body piercing done, various questions including the safety of the procedure arise in an individual’s mind. An appropriate answer to all such related questions could be found with great ease by doing minimal research on the Internet.

Despite the fact that body art and body piercing are fairly common these days, there still are some places across the world that do not permit people under the age of 18 to get a body piercing. This is done keeping the various safety standards in mind. In such places, people under the age of 18 are however allowed to get their body pierced after a written consent from wither or both of the parents.

Before opting for the body piercing procedure, an individual should always make sure that he or she does some research on the procedure as it is of vital importance that the individual realizes the possible health risks that he might face. An individual should realize that the risks attached with the procedure vary depending upon the part of the body being pierced.

For instance, it should be known and understood that piercing of the nose and the buccal cavity (mouth) often lead to certain complications and slight health risks owing to the vast number of present bacteria. It should also be known that piercing of the tongue; lips and cheeks can lead to various gum problems while a tongue piercing may lead to weaker teeth.

Various kinds of ornaments are worn in the pie

(Exteme body piercing showing how flexible the skin is)

rced parts of the body. The nose rings and diamonds are perhaps the best examples of the jewelry. A large number of females and males across the world also have gotten their nipples pierced and then set with suitable ornamentation.

The practice of piercing the body is an ancient art and was then used for religious and spiritual reasons. However, in the modern day and age, a body piercing is done in order to amplify the looks of an individual to the maximum possible extent. The piercing of the body is still considered taboo in some sections of the society but the younger generation can always vouch for its beauty.

Full Piercing On Face Men

How Much Piercing On This Face Men

Full Piercing On Face Men

Full Piercing On Face Men

Full Piercing On Face Men

Full Piercing On Face Men

Full Piercing On Face Men

Body piercing is something of a modern fad amongst youngsters (and some oldsters). It involves inserting metal objects in to places in the body that really don’t need to have metalv

Corset Piercing On Back Body Girls

Corset Piercing On Back Body Girls

Corset Piercing On Back Body Girls

Corset Piercing On Back Body Girls

Corset Piercing On Back Body Girls

Corset Piercing On Back Body Girls

This is a corset piercing all the way down her back, this is not a permanent piercing, usually corsets are pierced for shows and special occasions because they do not last long.

Full Piercing On Face Girls

Full Piercing On Face Girls

Full Piercing On Face Girls

Full Piercing On Face Girls

Full Piercing On Face Girls

Extreme Sick Piercings Revisited

These are some sick piercings, just sick shit for sure!

Those are some giant hooks pierced through that fools mouth… WOW.

This extreme and yes, sick piercing looks a bit painful. this is some gross shit. It almost looks like a scarification on the girls back, not really sure.

Feathered back piercing, these cats are stringing feathers through this fools skin. Extreme piercing, hope they cleaned the pigeon feathers before they stuck them onto the end of the piercings.

Coke can piercing gone wrong? this is a very bad scar as a result of an ear piercing. Luckily this type of reaction is very rare.

Extreme Weird Piercing Collection

Extreme Weird Piercing Collection

Extreme Weird Piercing Collection

Extreme Weird Piercing Collection

Body Piercings Art

Body Piercings Art

Mother of All Body Piercings

Mother of All Body Piercings

Japanese Girl With Tongue Piercing

Japanese gyaru with a rare tongue piercing. Would you approve of piercings on your Japanese girlfriend?

You Can Go Stick That Needle Right In Your

Tattoos. Piercings. You see them more and more in Japan these days. As an individual with both of these body modifications, myself, I thought it would be interesting to explore them within the cultural context of Japan.

Unfortunately, this didn't turn out to be as easy as I thought. I found that I ran into severe ethical issues when trying to gather material, and subsequently had to resort to collecting some of these pictures from other sources, instead of taking them myself. I've given credit where credit is due, whenever I could actually find the origins of a photo.

I also found out that I am hopeless when it comes to embedding images; try as I might, I couldn't figure out how to keep blogger from cutting some of them off. If you click on them, it'll bring you to the photobucket account that holds all the images, and you can see the entire things. I've been posting, deleting, re-working and posting again for the better part of a week, now, and haven't found a way around this problem. Sorry!

Anyway, on with the show!

A friend of mine from KGU, Yusuke, who I bribed into allowing me to take his picture by buying him ice cream. We met last semester in the smoking area, and struck up a conversation because of our piercings. The global body modification culture is such that two people from two completely different cultures can still connect on the common ground of our piercings and tattoos.

Here is a prime example of my biggest challenge concerning this project - my inexplicable inability to approach Japanese people and take their pictures. Whenever I had a translator with me, I had no material to shoot. Whenever I was on my own, body-mod kids came out of the woodwork. I managed to snap this picture in the Hirakata train station, by skittering up to this girl and asking her as politely if I could take her photograph. She was a bit confused by my explanation, but she humored me nevertheless.

A dear friend of mine, "Claire", poses for an impromptu photo - when I first met her, she was thrilled by my lip ring, but confused as to why it was on the "wrong side"; later, I learned that by "wrong", she meant "not-on-the-same-side-as-our-favorite-music-artist's". My experience is that Visual Kei fans here in Japan tend to get the same piercings and tattoos as their idols, instead of for the sake of individuality.

This is the abovementioned artist - Miyavi - who is a prime example of how tattoos have evolved in Japan; he's got quite a few of them, and they're all done in the western style. However, he claims that many people on the streets are still wary of him, convinced that he's Yakuza; the stigma attached to tattoos here in Japan may be fading a just a bit with the younger generation, but they're still widely associated with gang activity. (Photo courtesy of PSCompany)

You've seen the piercings - now here's the tattoos. Please note that, while many of them are kanji, they're done in a distinctly western style, and do not include the colorful artwork of traditional Japanese tattoos. (Photo courtesy of PSCompany)

This Buddhist sutra on Miyavi's back took twelve hours at the hands of two tattoo artists working simultaneously. As a Visual Kei artist, Miyavi is nearly expected to have tattoos and piercings. (Photo courtesy of PSCompany)

Aoi, a member of another Visual Kei band on the same label; he lists Miyavi as one of his idols, and (surprise) has his lip pierced in precisely the same place. Apparantly, emulation is not limited to the fans alone - artists will copy other artist's body modifications as well. (Photo courtesy of PSCompany)

Another example of piercings in the Visual Kei world.

Another prime example of some pretty extreme facial piercings on a Visual Kei artist; apparently, the genre has roots in Kabuki theater, and I think it's fairly easy to see the influence of Kabuki in the dramatic makeup of this photograph.... (Photo courtesy of Nippon Crown)

...and in this one, as well.