January 2013
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SUBMITTER’S COMMENT: Saw this scrolling though the “plugs” tag on tumblr. They also had other tags such as “stretching”.
WHAT’S AWFUL: They stretched their ears with silicone, it’s obviously very angry and inflamed. The caption said it had been like this for 6 HOURS!
HOW IT CAN BE FIXED: Take it out! Never stretch with silicone at all!!!
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The Independent - Tattoos: Marked For Life?
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/tattoos-marked-for-life-2235121.html
SUBMITTER’S COMMENT: thought this was worthy of sharing, it’s not an awful modification per se. but awful public attitudes to them.
This came up on my Facebook news feed, it’s a nice thing that there’s a charity helping people remove hideous tattoos that they regret...
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SUBMITTER’S COMMENT: this appeared on my facebook newsfeed, and i’m not an expert at tattoos but this didn’t look right to me
WHAT’S AWFUL: it might be me being picky but some of the wording looks wonky e.g. where is says ‘your arms around’ the letters look different shapes, it might just be the style of the text though
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Submitters Comment: I was scrolling down my facebook news feed and suddenly this appeared. I was shocked. The poor girl is so proud of it.
What’s Awful: The bar is far too long, leaving it prone to getting caught on clothing/hair. Also, as far as I know, the bar itself is wrong and should not be used on a nape piercing. It will almost definitely reject.
How it can be fixed:...
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666 Being Tattooed on Baby
Hey guys, a lot of you have submitted the video of a mother allowing her young child to be held down and tattooed. Shannon Larratt has brought up an interesting point in an article on Modblog regarding the legality of this and mentions, “If I had to guess, I would say these people are followers of Jose Luis de Jesus of Growing in Grace. Followers of this fringe religion often get 666...
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SUBMITTER’S COMMENT: Found while browsing my facebook feed. I feel slightly bad about posting it since I know the person and I understand why they got it, but wow.
WHAT’S AWFUL: Everything. The hearts are wonky & uneven. The letters look like they were done by two completely different artists and aren’t centered in the hearts at all. The shading is some kind of special....
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Bloody Accidents
After reading the recent submission about Body Accents down in Joplin, Missouri, I feel I need to add to the severity of that horrible situation. I won’t name the person I’m going to mention, because he’s a very close friend of mine, and I feel sorry for his bad luck in this.
A few years ago, “J”, as we’ll call him, called me up and said he was going to get a...
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This is more for the first time body modders
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SUBMITTER’S COMMENT: When people ask me ‘why did you pay so much??’ or ‘my jewelry was way cheaper, you got ripped off’ I show them this. Quality over quantity. Jewelry that’s made out of implant grade materials, that you know what metals they are made from, and that are made just for you beat any $10 cbr or curved barbell bought from the mall. If...
Household pins.
Submitter comment: I found this picture online of bacteria on the point of a household pin. Notice how blunt the tip is also. Wanna shove something like that through your skin? Yeah, I doubt it. Maybe this can convince some people not to self pierce.
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Mod comment: Well. I’m thoroughly grossed out. I’m sure there are far dirtier things around the house but…yuck.
-Kat
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Submitter comment: i found this on my newsfeed, this girl has been wanting a tattoo and shes been really excited about it. when i found out she got it done, i was expecting.. not this.
What’s awful: this girl is 15 or 16, the lettering is really inconsistent. some lines are really thick then really thin. really shaky lines as well
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Ariel the not so pretty mermaid.
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SUBMITTER’S COMMENT: I saw this in my Tumblr feed earlier this afternoon, it’s on a friend of mine. It mit just be me but it looks kind of faded and splotchy, also her hand is a bit disfigured. Again it mit just be me or the way the picture was taken. WHAT’S AWFUL: It seems poorly done, at least by what i can tell in the picture. Her tail is splotchy and her hand is a bit...
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SUMBITTER’S COMMENT:-This is my first tattoo I got, I went to a licensed tattoo artist and I’d seen some of his other work and thought he was good so I did do my research. For some reason it didn’t turn out how I wanted even though I gave him a very detailed picture and explained what I wanted but he did it wrong :/ My other tattoos are much better.
WHAT’S AWFUL: I...
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Submitter Comment: I wore these for about 2 weeks in 2011. It was almost a year before my lobes were healthy enough to stretch again, and even now I’m only able to stretch about a mm per year. I can still feel the difference between the piercing that had the bottom plug (exposed to mystery metal) and the one with the top plug (only exposed to mystery coating).
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COMMENT: linework looks poor, general appearance isnt great!
WHATS AWFUL: if this is done by a professional i question their qualifications.
HOW TO FIX IT: go talk to a profession tattooist, with a good reputation!
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AWFUL MODS: As an employee of Hot Topic in... →
tobiasxva:
awfulmodifications:
As an employee of Hot Topic in Virginia, I would like to point out that our body jewelry is tested to be nickel free. Also, the wonderful man who does all my piercings (20+ years experience in the best shop in my town, the owner, Joe Hagerty, shits awards for his tattooing) agrees with me, that…
All stainless steel jewelry contains nickel. Even ASTM F-138...
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SOURCE: MTV’s Teen Mom 2 SUBMITTER COMMENT: I like to watch trash TV and so, when MTV had a new episode of Teen Mom 2 last night, I tuned in. At one point in the show, Adam, one of the principal girls’ on-again-off-again boyfriends, goes into a house and what appears to be an upstairs bedroom to be tattooed. Nothing was said about the procedure being unsafe and actually, it was sort of...
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I never thought I would have an awful mod, seeing as how I ALWAYS have mine professionally done, research my mods months before, and follow the aftercare instructions completley. But I want to submit myself. In August, I was pierced at Body Accents in Joplin, MO. I had wanted a dimple piercing since I was 16. I waited until I was 18 because my mom is against modifications. I went in and filled out...
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I was getting a tattoo yesterday and there was an Australian guy sitting next to me also getting one. From what he said, I assume he was on a cruise ship and had stopped off in Auckland briefly where he had decided to get a tattoo. There’s nothing wrong with that, he picked a very reputable shop and it turned out well, but it was the stories he was telling of his previous two tattoos that...
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SAFE PIERCING: The risks of "snake eye" piercings →
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Q: “No search results for snake eyes”
A: I’m positive we’ve answered questions about them before, but it may have been before we were tagging posts. Since it’s not coming up in your search I’ll give you a little info about horizontal tongue piercings, sometimes called “snake eyes”.
Every few…
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This is my own story about how stumbling across your page saved me from my own ignorance. I was stretching at the time and by stretching, I mean shoving acrylic tapers in my ears that were two sizes too big. Eventually the inevitable happened; one of my ears got a nasty blowout. I quickly took them out and looked online for modification sites for help. I stumbled across Awful Mods and read through...
foundatseaa asked: I've found that a lot of health care practitioners (at least in my area) are extremely judgmental. I have visited one in the past for an extremely infected piercing and was treated like absolute shit. The doctor was condescending, rough and very rude about people with mods. Although they usually do know best, I find they jump to, "Take it out, take these meds and never get another...
icomefromdownworld asked: The other day at the doctor's office some woman comes up to me questioning if she should get her baby's ears gunned. So I explained all the potential dangers and why its wrong to modify a child's body. "BUT SHES A BABY GIRL HER EARS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PEIRCED" "she can choose that when she gets older" "ITLL HURT WHEN SHES OLDER" "all my piercings...
silverscaled asked: I was reading the post about the piercer with blowouts, so I went and found the original post. Someone had reblogged it or replied to it and said "if you are under the age of 20 and/or do not have stretched ears above 1/2 inch i find it hard to take your criticism of other peoples stretched ears seriously". That is the most horrible argument I have ever heard or will continue to hear....
reeshardzeekay asked: Hi there. I just wanted to say something that's on my mind. If something goes wrong, your piercing gets infected, you have a nasty blowout, whatever the problem may be, sometimes seeing your piercer isn't enough. You can follow all their advice (which is definitely helpful) but sometimes it just doesn't cut it. Don't be embarrassed to go see your doctor. They WILL help. Some of...
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As an employee of Hot Topic in Virginia, I would like to point out that our body jewelry is tested to be nickel free. Also, the wonderful man who does all my piercings (20+ years experience in the best shop in my town, the owner, Joe Hagerty, shits awards for his tattooing) agrees with me, that aside from our acrylic, our jewelry is very decent, more so than Spencer’s (Who have REALLY fucked...
thechatterpie asked: In regards to lame tattooist excuses: When getting my first tattoo done by an artist at an apparently reputable shop, the guy doing it asked if I was a 'stealth red head'. He said I had really difficult skin to tattoo on, insinuating that A. People with red hair have different skin to the rest of us and B. That I was making his job difficult, when in fact he was doing a shit job in the...
ssketches asked: Despite having absolutely zero intentions on doing any kind of modification on myself (beyond my basic single lobe piercings), this is an informative and nauseating resource to look at. I must hate myself because I can't stop looking for really bad entries to show other friends. It's beyond me why people continue to perform such unsafe practices just to save a few bucks/other reasons. If...
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This is a girl I used to know. She did a lot of drugs and thought she was so bad ass. her brother stole her a machine. She tatoos herself and others.
It’s terrible, lines are wonky, under age, unsanitary.
She needs to stop, wait untill she’s of age. Do it right.
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Actually it’s pretty common now. Iirc, they’re easier to insert, the ends are easier to change, and they’re less irritating and less easy to rip out of your nose by accident. They’ve pretty much become the standard jewelry for that…
Just because it’s called a “labret” stud doesn’t mean that’s its only use. They’re frequently used...
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Do not buy body jewelry from Hot Topic!
I just want to second the other post about not buying Hot Topic body jewelry…I bought some “6g” pinchers and couldn’t get them in my ear; they were too big. I’d been stretched to 6g for months, so there shouldn’t have been a problem, unless of course they mislabeled their body jewelry. I tried to return/exchange them and they refused to take them back even...
vixenvi asked: I think it depends where the blue banana is. I didn't know much about modifications, but the place I went to pierced all of my piercings with needles. I also had a second assistant in the room to monitor that the piercing was going correctly, and they both second opinion the positions to make sure they matched up. The only issue I had was that the exit wounds on my nipples were at a slightly...
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About the lobe of the APP piercer
So forgive me for not doing this in “ask” form, but I apparently can’t submit a question without first joining tumblr, and I’m not doing that just to ask one question to one blog.
Anyway, I’m the one who uploaded the picture of that lobe that I *THINK* belongs to an APP piercer (I am literally not able to confirm whether he is or not, however). Blowouts are bad....
manvanindustries asked: How much does a pirate charge for piercings? ... A Buccaneer! Smile some ya mook
trembleinmywake asked: Is it me, or does everyone who gets a bad tattoo from a scratcher use 'I moved allot' as a excuse for the terrible line work?
sp4cekid asked: It amazes me that people that get pierced unprofessionally still bitch about pain. Well yeah, if someone that doesn't know what they're doing is jamming a frayed germ covered needle that's been 'sterilized' with rubbig alcohol and a lighter, it's going to fucking hurt, significantly more than a professional one.
milkplus-synthemesc asked: You can actually request a needle to be used at blue banana, I had my nose pierced there and it was all very proffessional, pierced with a 1.2mm titanium labret :) not all blue banana's are awful, thought I will say I wouldn't go there for a more complex piercing.
