DULUTH — Black Label Tattoo and Piercing welcomed a special guest recently. Famous body modification artist Steve Haworth visited the shop Aug. 1-5, taking several appointments for extreme services ...

Researchers have shed fascinating new light on the unusual practice of permanent body modification during the Viking Age, which in some cases, may have been practiced as a "rite of initiation". It was ...

Keith aspires to look like a walking piece of art with tattoos covering his almost all of his skin, including his eyeballs. Find out why he was rejected on "Botched" ...

How do the Baule see scarification and body ornamentation? Vogel explores these phenomenon with respect to Baule aesthetics and society as a whole rather than as differentiating "marks of civilization ...

Extracted from: Hemispheres: studies on cultures and societies (Warsaw) 7, 1992, pages 115-119. The Somba (Betammaribe, Tamberma) of northern Bénin still practice scarification of the face and torso, ...

Cicatrices often manifesting as facial marks; scarification; and tattoo represent a symbol of specific identification and beautification among the South western Yoruba. The historical practice marks a ...