Chest Scarification

One of my favorite portfolio pictures of one of my favorite clients.

2004 ACCM Body art project Montreal

This was a body art safety pamphlet that I was involved with back in 2004. This body art project was sponsored by ACCM and I was proud to have been invited to participate. The focus of the project was to disseminate health and safety information to help future clients know what to look for in a tattoo/piercing studio.

 

 

 

Gift

For a special friend.

 

What is the sound…..

Of one hand clapping?????

memories

5 years ago the crew at Tatooatouage all got down and inked each other with a symbolic lightning bolt tattoo to capture the energy we shared as a team and with our guest artist from france the one an only ”Sailor Bruno Kea”. What a night that was!

Adorable magazine ”scarification” article nov,2005

Suspension article in Green Thumb magazine,

ELLE Quebec article,2005

Pic’s from the shop portfolio

These are some  pictures from my portfolio I keep in the shop.

Healed Fore-helix to Rook Orbital piercing.

Yes you can pierce an outie! just be careful

I’ve only ever done two of these piercings and as you can see in the picture, they can and have healed perfectly. This particular outie had just the right amount of skin to pierce and have the jewelry rest without any added stress from the underlying umbilicus tissue.

I’ve seen some strange reactions to this piercing when people look through my portfolio and comments such as “that’s gross“ or some judgemental reactions, All I can say is that before you feel compelled to judge and criticize something that is different to you, why not ask yourself why it is so strange and why you are so inherently so quick to judge?

Healed double septum piercings.

This is one of my all time favourite secret piercings. The jewelry is a segment ring with a T-Bar post that connects to the ring the same way as a bead does only the post runs through the piercing to hold the jewelry in place. Very cool and innovative jewelry.

This client came to me with his old tongue barbell and wanted to see what we could do with it so I came up with this, a helix to rook industrial. It took awhile to heal but worked out nice. This is it fully healed.

This was one of the most tricky Orbital Conch piercings I’ve ever done, super tricky to get that CBR closed but it turned out mint. I really love the look of this piercing.

Borneo Ampallang tool

This is a really unique and innovative piercing tool from Borneo. This tool is used to pierce an Ampallang, which for those who don’t know what that is, it is a piercing that runs horizontally through the glans of the penis ( the head).

The penis is placed in between the long ends with the hole which acts like a pair of forceps and is lined up for jewelry placement. A wooden needle is then inserted through the hole and pulled through leaving a wooden or bone taper like in the penis.

A very similar technique is that of a cannula needle which is commonly used all over Europe. The difference with a cannula needle is that once the initial piercing is made, the needle is withdrawn from the plastic sheath which is left in the new hole to allow jewelry insertion. I’ve experimented with these needles in the past and do not find them better than the ones I’ve used for the past 18 years. I find they cause more discomfort and they do not work well in cartilidge piercings, but hey that’s my opinion.