Body Art and Extreme Modification

Altered: the World of Modern Surgical Modification

Piercings, tattoos; that’s all old hat by now, right?  But what about permanent structural changes to the human body?  With advances constantly occurring in surgical modification, new and interesti...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

Life in Ink: From Inception to Impression

If you’ve ever contacted BodyCandy, you may have spoken to a woman who has one of the coolest tattoos on the planet without even realizing it.  I’m talking about our team member Nicole, and this, m...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

Masters of Body Modification: Pauly Unstoppable

Unstoppable is exactly the name that you might think of when you lay eyes on a guy like Pauly Unstoppable.  Even in the United States, it’s extremely rare to see someone who has multiple facial mod...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

Life in Ink: the Meaning of My Tattoos

Great American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters, compared to what lies within us.”  But what about what lies permanently engraved u...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

Extreme Modern Body Modification: Piercing and Suspension

For anyone who doesn’t know, “suspension” is the act of piercing various points in the skin with large hooks, and then using those piercings to hold the weight of the body as it is suspended or lif...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

Video: Interview – Nicole and Her Multiple Mods

Watch as we talk to our own BodyCandy team member, Nicole, and she gives us an insider look at some amazing tattoo art, one inch stretched ear lobes, and the scoop behind her very first body pierci...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

Only Human: Body Modification Across the Universe?

Body modification has existed on Earth for thousands of years, since the beginnings of recorded and discovered history, and perhaps for as long as the human species has been around.  But what about...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

Beauty and the Beasts: the Alternative Lifestyle of Pet Parents

As the social climate shifts to accept visible piercings and tattooing more readily across the board, more pet owners and pet caretakers than ever are structuring an alternative lifestyle around th...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

Moda Extrema: Body Modification Around the World

In the modern sense, many of us think of body modification as piercings and tattoos, but historically, true body mod has included so much more.  From foot binding in china, to corsetry in the UK, a...