This looks soooo amazing! 
Where did you get it done?
And how annoying are the sutures?
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I had it done by a local body mod artist, who prefers to stay anonymous.
The sutures were the worst part for a while, with stray bits just destroying my gums… now that the frontmost ones are falling out, it’s been much nicer.
No problem - it’s legally grey even in Germany, and straight illegal in lots of other countries… 
But it looks really good! Curious to see how it looks in a few weeks, months or years 
And I can only imagine how annoying the sutures must have been… I hate sutures with a passion, and those in the mouth are by far worst. You say they’re falling out - did your artist use self-dissolving threads or is it just because the tongue behaves differently and kinda spits them out by itself?
Thanks; I’m so excited to play with it :>
Not self-dissolving; more the latter—the mouth heals quickly; they’re just kinda “rejecting”.
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I can imagine 
But I guess it still takes some time until you can fully use it
Ah okay, so tongues are indeed a bit special - just had some sutures in my gums, and getting them out was really… ugh. Not nice at all.
So it’s pretty cool that those sutures are rejected, because this won’t happen until you don’t need them any more, plus you don’t have to pull them out. Damn. Another plus for the split tongue, and I’m pondering on getting it for years now
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So they have been falling out on their own, but I am getting the rest of them removed manually later this week. I’ve heard some horror stories about the tongue healing over them, and I’m super paranoid of the possibility.
I think this is one of the most amazing body mods ever. Congratulations on taking the plunge, best wishes on continued healing, and enjoy your new capabilities!
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Now you’re making me curious. I’ve had the thought of getting some of the biomech “wire” or threads in the back of my mind for a long time but never really committed to it.
Yeah, that’s kinda what I was going for. More of a “hand was reattached” kind of look specifically. Kinda like the included picture.
Anyways, here’s my arm. It’s the first of a bunch I’m gonna have done to the arm. Gonna get the rest of my upper arm done with a similar design, as well as something around the knuckles I think. Not the best pictures. Sunburn’s still hanging around:P
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hells smells, i love that!
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i heard with laser it is getting much much cleaner
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Okay, I’m nearly inactive here currently (my fingers even lost the password muscle memory…), but I guess I might say something about that.
Laser branding is almost never cleaner than a scalpel scarification. It tends to stretch and blur a lot, and the scars I have seen from laser branding are usually not hypertrophic. I’ve seen a laser branding done by Steve Haworth (not on the web, but on a friend of mine), and it had a different skin texture, but no raised scars at all. And I saw pictures from the day it was done, and it was obvious that it stretched a bit compared to the original design (I guess that’s due to the heat and due to skin healing a burn in a different way compared to a cut).
How clean a scalpelwork looks depends on tons of things as well (how even the cuts were, depth-wise, aftercare, skin movement and lots of other stuff), but usually, the scars remain more even and in every case I know, they raise “better”.
So, this is an example of what a scalpelwork can look like - it’s really detailed, and you can see a nice three-dimensional effect as well:
It’s a bit harder to find good pictures of healed (!) laser scarifications, I found this one here, though - it’s pretty well done, I think, but you can clearly see that the scars remain flat:
So about the picture in the comment above - I don’t know if it is fake, but it’s definitely a very unusual look for a laser scar. I immediately thought it was scalpelwork, but it looks… slightly strange. Can’t really put my finger on it… but for a laser branding, it’s just REALLY unusual.
I think for a laser branding to become that hypertrophic, you’d need to go pretty deep (like, scars from accidental burns can become hypertrophic…), and that would lead to a lot of blurring… just my educated guess, though…
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It seems as though the results from lasering are closer to branding than scarification with a scalpel. Would you say that’s accurate?
That’s pretty accurate, because it is a branding
In earlier times, bodmod-brandings were actually done with heated iron parts, similar to animal branding (so-called “strike branding”). It was hard to create fine details, and the curvature of body parts vs. the straight iron tools were a problem as well, so there are few really good strike brandings.
Now, most artists use electric cautery, and that’s what people usually refer to as “laser”, even though it’s absolutely not a laser (working with light), but just some sort of “electric branding”.
While it is technically possible to use an actual laser for creating some sort of branding, I don’t really know if any serious artists do this… but I might not be totally up to date on that thing, because I prefer scalpels anyway
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Dropping by to share what’s new with me. It’s been a bit over two months, and I’m slowly working out how to control two tongues separately. Even flicking them over each other is sort of taxing!
I’m definitely ‘left-tongue dominant’ heh.
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…and I got my implants inked around to accent them!
Didn’t want to risk tattooing over them, so I went around and played with negative space. Nothing fancy!
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@coma is going to love those mods
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