Extreme – Beautifaire

22 Dec

Split tongues & nipple removal: the grey area of

For Steve Haworth, body modification artist and the inventor of subdermal and transdermal implants, accessing body modification is as necessary to private alternative as having the liberty to style your individual hair. Yet, modifications corresponding to sensory magnet implants, ear pointing, shaped punches, and extreme plastic surgeries corresponding to having ribs removed, all have various degrees of mental and physical health risks that the patient is willingly undertaking. Earlier this 12 months, Brendan McCarthy, a tattooist referred to as Dr Evil, was sentenced to 40 months in jail for performing consensual body modifications, including ear removal, nipple removal, and the splitting of a tongue. Then there’s Robert Smith, a former surgeon who performed voluntary amputations on patients that were later found to be...

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19 Dec

How Fakir Musafar made a few of history’s most

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How Fakir Musafar made a few of history’s most

Extreme types of beauty are among the most beautiful manifestations of humanity's obsession with pain and pushing the boundaries of the human form. Beauty is Pain is a latest Dazed Beauty series by author Lexi Manatakis that traces the history of the world's most extreme body modifications while being an overarching interrogation of the philosophy of human pain and its link to beauty. “Physical difference frightens people in our culture greater than the rest. You'll be able to be aberrant as hell mentally, politically, socially, but do one little thing physically – put a bone in your nose – and boy, you are in trouble!” For extreme body modification artist Fakir Musafar, physical beauty is the last word type of taboo. From...

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27 Sep

Exploring the intense paths some men go right down

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Exploring the intense paths some men go right down

Perhaps it’s because Burger King wasn’t a thing back then, but in Michelangelo’s historical depictions of man, everybody looked as if it would have a very fire bod. In his sculptures and illustrations, a bloke’s pectoral muscles, topped with tweakable nipples, protrude out over a wash-rack torso; their knife-sharp V-lines pointing down towards to their bits. It’s a picture that has, for therefore long, dominated Western culture’s perception of archetypal masculinity and male beauty: the final word, almost unattainable look. And yet some 500 years on, we’re still obsessing over it. Now though, it manifests less within the art world – where frailer frames usually tend to be fetishised – and more on our TV screens every summer, as we tune in...

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20 Sep

Lifting the lid on essentially the most extreme body

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Lifting the lid on essentially the most extreme body

For those without experience or knowledge of body modification, the mere mention of the term could well ignite a sense of fear or dread. Yet in its simplest terms, body modification literally just means altering one’s outward appearance – so whether you wear studs in your ears or not, the term spans the whole lot from the universal procedures of tattooing and ear piercings, through to a variety of much more more extreme, esoteric procedures, for which the resulting aesthetic is commonly considered to be outside of the socially constructed, standardised ‘norms’ of beauty (by narrow-minded folk). For some, body modification is solely a tool through which to disrupt their appearance, or a vehicle through which to face out, while for...

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