January 2013
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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...
