Creating our Uniqueness (Body Modifications)

There are all sorts of various types of body modification. Anything that you do to your body to change the way that it naturally appears is a body adjustment, so it consists of body building, hair dye, and plastic surgery. More "punk" or alternative ways of changing one's body; tattoos, piercings, scarification, different implants, ear shaping, etc., are all considered body modifications.

Tattoos

Few art kinds have been around for as long as tattooing-- in fact, some anthropologists claim that the history of tattoos might go back as long as 15,000 years! Certainly, we understand that a lot of the ancient civilizations, consisting of the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, used tattooing strategies.

Throughout history, tattoos have been utilized as:

Indications of status and place in society.
Wonderful amulets against evil.
Punishment.
Suggestions of religious belief.
Accessories for the sake of appeal.

Extended ears/Piercings

Expanded ear piercings or more typically described as extended earlobes is a custom that has lived for centuries - especially those of the earlobes and lower lip. For much of the world's people, it is even a vital body modification. Having emerged separately in such diverse places as The United States and Canada, The Amazon, Asia, Africa, Polynesia and New Zealand.

The oldest bodies found with extended ear lobes were Egyptian. They likewise loved to adorn themselves elaborately as well as restricted particular types of body piercings to the royal household. A fascinating truth is that just the pharaoh was permitted to have his navel pierced, and anybody else who did so would be executed. Egyptians used earrings to display their wealth and portray their charm.

Tongue splitting

The first recorded procedure was performed in Italy around 1994, but it wasn't up until 2 body modification stars-- Dustin Allor and Erik Sprague (aka "The Lizardman")-- had the procedure done a couple of years later that tongue splitting started to attract attention.

Scarification

Branding, Scarification though practiced thoroughly by numerous ancient cultures is still discovered to be more unaccepted in todays world. Branding and scarification practices came from among people along the equator whose darker skins, due to greater quantities of melanin produced in their bodies, discovered tattooing to be harder and more inefficient leading to adornment practices that could be shown more quickly amongst their skin.

Branding can be defined as the act of burning into the skin. Scarification incorporates the term Branding as Scarification is the practice of scratching, cutting, burning, or etching the skin with designs, words, or images. When healed, the result is a scar, however a scar that has visual, spiritual and symbolic meaning. Though not too understood or popular as other forms of body modification, branding and scarification have actually been discovered throughout history to be unique and lovely.

Implants

It has been 56 years given that the very first breast augmentation using breast implant. Today it ranks as the second-most popular kind of cosmetic surgery worldwide, undergone by 1.5 million ladies in one year.
A lady had actually been to the healthcare facility to obtain a tattoo eliminated from her breasts, and it was then that medical professionals asked if she would consider offering for this first-of-its-kind operation.
Now it has become a popular thing to put different shaped implants into various parts of the body to show emphasis or shape of something they want. Horns on the forehead, X's on the tops of hands, rib cage forms on calves and arms. Anything you want you can get!

Who here has some modifications they want to share in the comments below?

I have my ears stretched to a 00 and both sides of my nose pierced also another ear piercing. No tattoos yet. I do consider my hair to be something I modify too.