Top 6 Bizarre Body Modifications and Plastic Surgeries
Just as sitting through an episode of 24 or catching up on the day’s TechCrunch posts is no longer enough to win the battle against boredom for today’s multi-taskers, getting a lift here, or a tuck there, in turn, now fails to offer the world’s body-conscious individuals an ounce of peace or satisfaction.
Though no one ever said the reptile look was going to snag any dates, it’s just one of the six most bizarre ways people are altering their appearance for better or worse… I’d say for worse.
6. Perma-Four Eyes. I’ve never had glasses, but I imagine it would be convenient to never have to search for them, to have them always be right where you left them. So did James Sooy.
If you’re not bothered by facial piercings and you’re sick of misplacing your glasses or replacing your contacts, James will permanently attach your spectacles to your face via a piercing across the nose. I actually don’t see how this is any worse than laser eye surgery or lens replacement.
5. Pointy Ears. I don’t know what kind of Orland Bloom obsession people have developed, but I hate to break it to them, no degree of ear pointiness is going to help them win him over; not only is Legolas a fictional character, he sails off to that magical elf land at the end of the last Lord of the Rings, and he’s not coming back.
Reported to improve music listening, this elfification procedure involves plastic surgeons making a slit in the top rounded edge of your ear. You’ll be stitched and bandaged up immediately, but nymph and nymphet wannabes be forewarned, you’re going to want to give yourself plenty of time to heal before flitting off to any “ring to rule them all parties.” The cut will need bandaging for weeks.
4. Eyeball Bedazzling. I haven’t quite figured out why people would ever want to risk compromising the integrity of their eyesight, but apparently for some, the dwindling power of that little glint from a nose stud or eye shadow glitter to attract attention is reason enough to do so now.
These little jewels are implanted into the eyeball using a procedure similar to eye lens replacement surgery. A flap of the first translucent layer of the eye is pulled back. Once the jewel is situated on the eye, the flap is then laid back into place.
3. Getting Horny. I used to think there was only one way for a guy to show a girl he was in the mood, but I’ve been fooled before.
In what’s sometimes referred to as transdermal modification, body art specialists place implants just under the skin. The implants typically heal just like a body piercings.
2. Get Your Snake On. In many ways I could see how having a tongue that splits at the end could come in handy. Oh wait, no, I got that confused with being able to read minds or shoot lasers out of my eyes at people who talk too loudly on their cell phones in public.
In a process called tongue bifurcation or tongue splitting, tongues can either be split the professional way, by using a splitting a laser, or the old-fashioned, by binding the hole of your tongue piercing with a piece of tight string around the front end of your tongue like this guy.
1. Feline For Life. While this guy violates all laws of nature, he follows almost all of the body alteration procedures on the list.
With the addition of full facial tattoos to stripe his skin like some kind of a tiger, piercings that are used for attaching whiskers, and teeth filing so he can more easily eat a diet of raw meat (yeah, that’s right), Dennis Avner is about as close to being Catman as you can get. True story… he actually holds down an office job.
As for the Feline: “Fat, tattooed and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
Comment by Gary — January 22, 2009 @ 11:52 pm
The last guy (# 1) will haunt me in nightmares.
Comment by domer — January 23, 2009 @ 4:45 am
there’s a thing called reality, you’re free to live in it or go off into your own will, but don’t expect other’s to follow.
Comment by jonnie boy — January 23, 2009 @ 4:50 am
freaks……what a bunch of dopes,i guess they think they look cool or something,theres obviously something more going on upstairs,like bats
Comment by metalzboy — January 23, 2009 @ 4:57 am
Iv’e know him for years.. he use to go to san diago comic con.
He’s cool…tho… body mods are not my thing.
Comment by zbeast — January 23, 2009 @ 5:01 am
At least this shit cant get passed through DNA
Comment by saneman — January 23, 2009 @ 5:33 am
Stuff like that freaks me out and makes me with I didnt click that link
Comment by Cheap — January 23, 2009 @ 6:25 am
Wow I thought these would be the typical ones that we have all seen before but only 2 of them I have seen. Some cool modifications I am too scared to think about that kind of thing.
Comment by Epic Fail — January 23, 2009 @ 6:41 am
I know normal is supposed to be relative… but these, esp No.1 are definitely abnormal.
Comment by somi — January 23, 2009 @ 9:03 am
OMG the cat guy…
And the most horrible thing: THIS HAS NOT EVEN BEGUN.
Comment by AAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!! — January 23, 2009 @ 9:15 am
Yiff in hell.
Comment by Fievel — January 23, 2009 @ 12:54 pm
Why does this article even exist, this is ridiculous. Modifying the body to suit an aesthetic has been around since man was banging rocks together and grunting. People get breast implants and have fat sucked out of their bodies and have parts of their face pulled and tucked, and you’re freaking out over this stuff? Double standard? High heels are an acceptably ethical equal to Chinese foot binding. Wearing makeup is changing the aesthetic of the face with the freedom to change it at will (or perhaps without the constitution to do it permanently). Breast implants are no different (other than much more unsafe) than getting implants done by a body modification artist, but they are socially acceptable because society is completely obsessed with a large bust. Any of these people pictured and millions of others in this world are far more concerned with being happy (and most likely ARE happier) in life and doing what THEY want to do to themselves than sitting in on plastic surgery seminars where crooks that call themselves doctors sell the fear of rejection and that “want” to fit into society’s little cookie cutter labels.
Comment by Jared — January 23, 2009 @ 2:29 pm
The top one, Perma-Four Eyes, is actually kind of fashionable, asuming the glasses come off the peircing befor one goes to sleep. Kind of Morpheus-like: http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Morpheus.
The fourth one, Eyeball Bedazzling, is a fashion i dont care to follow, its unnecessarily risky; i’d be too woried about an infection blinding me or something.
Comment by dan1ell — January 23, 2009 @ 4:16 pm
It should be mandatory to have those peeps diagnosed by some good psycology doctors, before they get through these procedures.
I’m sory but this is sick…
I understand if you get applications, that you can get off your body, but permanently…
Comment by umetnica — January 23, 2009 @ 4:28 pm
It’s bad enough that these misguided folks WANT to mutilate themselves, but what’s wrong with the doctors who will carry these plans through?!?!?!?!
Comment by Cheryl J — January 23, 2009 @ 4:58 pm
what about the two brothers that amputaed one’s arm, and then transplanted it on the other’s chttp://news.softpedia.com/news/Man-Carries-The-Amputated-Arm-of-his-Twin-Transplanted-on-His-Chest-62115.shtmlhest. Check this out
Comment by jlew — January 23, 2009 @ 5:24 pm
You totally left out lip plates, neck coils and feet binding.
Comment by DNA — January 23, 2009 @ 5:36 pm
This is just a more extreme side of stuff that happens everyday in our society. We are always trying to change our appearance to make different statements. Makeup, personal grooming, plastic surgery. It is extreme but the motivations are the same. There are lots of fake boobs out there and not one bats an eye.
Comment by Perry Crann — January 23, 2009 @ 5:45 pm
right on jared.
Comment by anon — January 23, 2009 @ 6:17 pm
see what Boredom does.
Please get those people a TV or something
Comment by RG — January 23, 2009 @ 8:34 pm
Freaks!!!!!!
Comment by bryan — January 23, 2009 @ 9:56 pm
Ah I see why there is so many terrible comments on this. Theres a bunch of /b/ tards here. You all hide behind your computers and insult others and call them “freaks” but how longs has it been since you acctually got out and DID something? Us freaks live while you people sit and judge. It’s pathetic.
Comment by chud — January 24, 2009 @ 12:18 am
These people are obviously traveling a different road than the majority. As such, the majority is repulsed with shock, threatened, or humored from such behavior. From a christian perspective, which these days is not the majority, I feel compassion for these lost souls. It is sinful to purposely and permanently deface the human body, but many do so to seek a way to assimilate themselves into our constrantly deteriorating culture which is turning further and further away from God each day. These “lost souls” are simply looking to “fit in” and are merely seeking acceptance from their peers.
Comment by Ray — January 24, 2009 @ 12:22 am
i’m gettin scared just by lookin at them …
Comment by Des — January 25, 2009 @ 4:58 am
Please get those people a TV or something..
Comment by Braza — January 25, 2009 @ 1:47 pm
ooooo I want my eye bedazzled!!
Comment by ashley — January 26, 2009 @ 4:24 pm
Why is it that most people on here think that people who get things like this done are freaks when the fact is that you are the freak esp comment 23 from Ray, you Ray are the only lost soul because if you needed an operation to save your life you would be purposely and permanently defacing your body, so does that mean YOU would go to hell.
Did GOD put you on this earth in clothes, NO, did he give you hair so you could cut it, NO, a beard so you could shave it, NO, but because these people choose to be different than you then they are freaks, think again. YOU put clothes on, YOU cut your hair, YOU shave your face, YOU ARE THE FREAK and because these people go a bit further than you like then they are wrong. If something make you feel good then I say go for it because life is to short and you only get one chance to show the world that you are not the same as every other freak out there.
Comment by bodymod — May 10, 2009 @ 12:40 am
That cat guy….
Meat eater indeed.
…I sure as hell wouldn’t put my meat in there!
Comment by Oh no you don't! — June 24, 2009 @ 3:50 am
Ooh,god—!
Comment by Sue — October 26, 2009 @ 9:31 am
I am a body modder Piercer and apprentice tattooist
i came across this on the internet and thought, after reading the comments, i would leave one myself.
Body mods are a way people find to express themselves, everyone finds different ways.
A LOT of body mods arent necessarily permanent, i.e. piercings, albeit mods like tattoos are.
It is everybody’s right to do what they wish with their bodies, but it is NOT everybodies right to call them a freak for it. AND, regarding comment 27 by bodymod- it is NOT helpful nor right to call them a freak back, thats just being small minded.
Some people can seem a little threatening when they have body mods, but chances are, they are just as friendly as most people you meet.
Plus, it is not just alternatives who get body mods, i see people everyday who are ‘normal’ people who come to get piercings or tattoos. Think to yourself, do you have an ear piercing? or a pretty little tattooed tattoo, even if unseen? if so, then you are among the so called ‘freaks’ arent you not. The only difference is us alternatives, since you seem to have to groups us, we go on step further sometimes, to try something new, or put a piercing or tattoo in a different place.
It is not fair to call people names, or shun them in public, we are still humans.
Minx
Comment by Minxie — October 29, 2009 @ 4:25 pm
I just got my elbows pierced on halloween and have found most of these body mods interesting whether or not they are for me. We all have a little freak in us and for those of you negative comment droppers that don’t believe that then just ask urselves what gave u the curiousity to review all of the stuff on this page in the 1st place.
Minx or anyone with positive feedback – I’m looking to be the 1st on a new body mod as far as my research has proven so far. I have been thinking about this for years and I’ve decided I want titanium teeth implanted or bridged replacing all the original teeth in my mouth. Not titanium implants that u already hear about from the dentists these days where the root is the only thing titanium. I’m talking about an entire mouth of grey/metal choppers with top and bottom fangs kinda like a bio/mecha vampire.
Or I could just get another eyebrow ring…
Bizzy pioneering in originality!!!
Comment by Bizzy — November 5, 2009 @ 10:46 am
Two words to all you nay-sayers: morphological freedom.
Comment by Rachael — February 10, 2010 @ 12:37 am
Alright, I know that this is late but I wish to spread my own words on this topic. See, here is the thing. I don’t have body modifications due to living under a roof with my parentals. It happens. Yet, all the piercings that I do have are for a reason. They are gauged for a reason. When I get tattoo’s and hell, I might think of something else nifty that will coaside with my life, it will be a part of me, expressing my personal being onto my body. Treat your body like a temple. Well, I do. I also like to redecorate. Also, my body is not whom I am personally – plain. Yet, if I want it to be more of myself than, WAH-LAH! It will now be how I see myself and it will be how I wish others to see what I am capable of. The Tiger man…he went through so much for his own life and all the pain…all the dedication, all the time and money. He is showing everyone in this world his power animal, his strength, dedication, outrageousness, and so on, just by what he has done with his body. Let it go. The glasses, I find that rather great. I would do that if I had the strength for it too. But, do not judge, simply learn and observe!
Comment by Erika — May 14, 2010 @ 6:08 pm