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In recent years, the splitting or bifurcation of the human tongue has become a popular body modification in many countries.  The reasons for this practice are widely varied, but in many cases, soci...

Cinco de Mayo is a holiday celebrated in both the United States and Mexico, primarily in the Mexican state of Puebla.  Contrary to popularized notions, Cinco de Mayo has nothing to do with Mexican ...

There are many schools of yoga, traditional Hatha, Yin, Kundalini, Ashtanga (just to name a few), but one of the common threads that connects yoginis both Eastern and Western is body mod.  Many pro...

Tomorrow, March twentieth, is the Vernal Equinox, or what most of us know as the first official day of Spring.  For thousands of years and across widely varied cultures, the beginning of the warm a...

The navel piercing is unique amongst modifications.  As a primarily modern piercing, first gaining popular momentum in the 1990s, it remains one of the only standard modifications to never be heavi...

Piercings of the lip have steadily grown in popularity over the past 50 years in Western culture, and today such modifications are common place.  Amongst those who are pierced, small groups, such a...

Tattooing has been around for thousands of years, but the art that we see today has evolved primarily within the last century.  The tattoo machine in fact, wasn’t invented until the late 1800s, wit...

Many cultures around the world celebrate the Autumnal equinox.  The phrase itself is taken from Latin and roughly translates to “equal night,” a reference to the near equality of the day and nightt...

Tired of applying your makeup every morning just to wash it off each night? Fed up with that time-consuming beauty routine? Sick of spending money on cosmetics? If so, permanent makeup may be the s...