Tattoo and some other body modification practices are ages old and are quite prevalent today as well. Body modifications like the elongated neck and ear stretching are pretty old, as numerous tribes worldwide have been doing that since ages. However, the body modifications that the present generation goes in for is extreme. It really needs guts and a very special frame of mind to get some extreme and bizarre body piercings and modifications. Click through to see some of the craziest and scariest body modifications:
Skin Peeling or Scarification
Scarification is a body tattoo art that requires no ink but the peeling of skin. It sounds scary in descriptio, let alone getting one done. Still, this body art is gaining tremendous popularity with the youth. Methods like branding and cutting create a raised scar on the skin that gives the tattoo more depth and a three-dimensional appearance. Getting this type of tattoo means to pay someone for peeling your skin.
Tongue Splitting
Body modifications like tongue splitting requires a great deal of pain tolerance. The tongue is split from the tip through a surgery, laser treatment, or through the process of tightening nylon bindings onto the tongue. The last method is the most painful and takes long to split the tongue. The tongue bifurcation used to be a practice adopted by ancient yoga practitioners but today it is just a crazy trend with the body modification freaks.
Subdermal Implants
Subdermal implants are like body jewelry that is underneath the skin. Again a painful procedure, as it requires one to cut a hole wherever you want, usually it is on the forehead, and insert some silicon between the skin and bones. They look like the horns on the forehead.
The Sclera Tattoo
Sclera tattoo is for you if you want to get a perfect devilish look with dilated eyes. Sclera is the white part of the eye, and sclera tattoo is all about coloring that white part. This form of tattooing is the most dangerous, as it can make one blind and once done, they can never be covered up.
Tooth Filing
Tooth filing is quite an old procedure of tooth modification, wherein dentists file shapeless teeth to give them a normal shape. However, today tooth filing has become popular with the body modification freaks, who file their teeth to get crazy shapes like that of vampire teeth.
Summary
Body modification process is nothing new, as it is being practiced since ages in different cultures of the world. What has changed in the process is the intensity of body modifications, as today it is extreme.