Oh the possibilities. Oh the WTF!!! Oh the Huge Manatees!!!! Does she realize somebody has put a huge gaping hole in the middle of her face?
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January 27th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
This is fake.
January 27th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
i wonder if she ever gets asked out….
January 27th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
looks ’shopped
January 27th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
where are the cheek maggots?
January 27th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Imagine when she eats.
January 27th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
She should do porn, it’d be interesting to see BJs
January 27th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
The adams apple and superorbital ridge say this is a dude not a girl.
January 27th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
idiot
January 27th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
fake. the upper teeth are waaaay lower than where they are supposed to be!
January 27th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
fake:
the image looks like a picture of the reflection from a dentist mirror. also the line of upper teeth don’t fit with the level of the persons cheeks/upper lip.
also circumstantially, wouldn’t we imagine some salive, trace cells, or fog if such a piece of glass were lodged in someones face?
January 27th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
This is indeed fake. The giveaway is that her/his teeth are positioned too low.
January 27th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Of course it’s shopped.
How many people’s top teeth extend beyond their bottom lip? Or have teeth that long?
January 27th, 2010 at 11:01 pm
I’m not sure it’s fake. Her teeth look low, but her mouth is being pushed up by the device, and some people have low teeth anyway (surely you’ve seen people with a very gummy smile).
You can see a similar piercing here: http://www.bmezine.com/pierce/05-lips/A40410/high/iam00023009.jpg
January 27th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Are the top teeth really too low? When my mouth is closed, my top teeth extend below the bottom of the vermilion border of my bottom lip. Plus, the lens appears to push the bottom lip up higher than normal.
There’s also a reddish, inflamed-looking ring around it. Not saying it’s not photoshopped. I’m just not totally convinced that it is.
January 27th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
it’s not fake.close your mouth and you’ll see your teeth meet a little below your bottom lip. also the top arc of the ring is pushing her lower lip up, so that is why the teeth appear way lower than normal. also the bottom teeth are lined up exactly where they should be.
January 27th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
Fake, yes. But the level of the upper teeth is correct for the expression… go ahead and make that face and feel for your teeth. The true giveaway is the lighting (as usual), the tight expression mismatched to the separation of the teeth, and the fact that the lens would be touching with enough force to press the lower gums and flesh into the glass. That would make it flatten… try it on something clear and look in the mirror. Nice try though.
January 28th, 2010 at 12:20 am
NASTY.
January 28th, 2010 at 2:11 am
I’m pretty sure this is just a metal ring, not a lense. Why would someone put glass in their head? Most body mod jewelry is open in the center on purpose. Also, not shopped. The iritation around the (freshly?) stretched hole is evident. Hard to shop if you ask me.
January 28th, 2010 at 2:11 am
@me She only appears to have a ‘tight expression’ because her lips are being pushed together by the device. That purple L-shaped line on the left looks like it could be something being pressed against glass, but then who said there’s glass there anyway? It could just be a grommet.
January 28th, 2010 at 3:43 am
RAD!
January 28th, 2010 at 5:00 am
This is obscene self-mutilation.
I am disgusted, but also fascinated.
January 28th, 2010 at 5:49 am
photoshop
January 28th, 2010 at 6:06 am
there is no reflection on glass whatsoever… so photoshop
January 28th, 2010 at 7:25 am
I’d go with fake, not least because the link at the bottom (http://www.bodmodlab.com/) doesn’t seem to exist.
January 28th, 2010 at 9:32 am
this is absolutely not fake !!!!!!!! this thing really exists
January 28th, 2010 at 9:44 am
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/extreme-body-art-photography-new-exhibition-celebrates-etienne-dumonts-tatt
January 28th, 2010 at 10:11 am
I love all the people saying that it’s real, but it’s not glass. Every shirt this dude owns would have a permanent drool streak if that were the case.
January 28th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
I love the fact that you are all sceptical about a seemingly random interweb photo. You’ve all learned your lesson. So in an effort not to be taken as idiots, you show off complete ignorance. If this was real. How would it look?
January 28th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Of course it’s not glass. If it’s real, it’s plastic.
January 28th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Odd. Because of the way the brain works [perpetual attempts at self-healing and reality cleansing] I have to actively force myself to recognise the hole even being there. Otherwise I automatically ignore it. If I was to speak to this man, I probably wouldn’t notice the plate at all.
January 29th, 2010 at 12:13 am
this is anatomically impossible. it looks like the person who handled that typography also edited the photo itself.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:08 am
I went and took a look around bmezine. This is a “common” mod called a large gauge labret. This girl appears to have a 3/4″ labret, but has put an ear plug in her lip. It’s legit, and there are several shot of people gauged out like this, but with solid plugs in, instead of a hoop.
There’s only 252 PAGES of people with crazy lip piercings/stretchings like this in their Scalpelled and Other Large Gauge Lip Procedures section.
February 5th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
That is just plain crazy! I hope the kids don’t take to this.