Body Modifications and Beauty

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Mursi lip plating is one of the most beloved outlines of body modification. Women of the Mursi tribe in Ethiopia penetrate their lips in anticipation of their wedding. The lip plates get more prominent and heavier over time. According to their ideas, the spread lips and ear lobes present women as more beautiful.

Kayan Neck Stretching

In Myanmar, the Kayan women follow this dangerous form of body modification by using big brass rings in their necks so that they enhance to be elongated over time. In actuality, the collarbone gets forced down by the weight of the brass coils commencing to the lengthening of the neck.

Scarification

This extreme idea of scaring one’s body is followed by the characters of Northeast Africa for interesting objects. These scars imply age, social status, and wealth. The scars are also thought to improve one’s sexual attraction. If people grasp this permanent scarring, it is understood that they will gain much honor in their community.

San Yak Tattoos

Getting a tattoo is one of the most exciting and preventative things these days, but the opinion of San Yak tattoos has been on this planetoid for thousands of years and over centuries. The tattoos are commonly Buddhist appeals, images, and spells that people from Thailand and Cambodia create on their bodies to keep off evil spirits.

Skull Binding

The long-gone custom of skull binding was drilled in Iraq around 45,000 BC, and in Peru 9,000 years ago. The idea of this work begins during childhood and remains till the skull gets fully matured. It was done to promote it to expand vertically.

Foot Binding

This one is not so problematic. The application of foot binding was prepared thousands of years ago in China but was outlawed in the 20th century for the negatives consequences it had. In this application, bandages were applied to join young girls’ feet to curl their toes. It was assumed that small feet imply wealth and social status.

Individuals Known for Extensive Body Modifications

Here is a list of people who were known all over the world for their extreme body modifications:

Cybernetic biohacking- Kevin Warwick

• • • Kevin Warwick, a specialist nicknamed “Captain Cyborg” by The Register, in 1998 became the first person to explore with an RFID transmitter implant. He understood that up in 2002 by begetting a 100 electrode array embedded in his nervous system. A more simplistic array was embedded into the arm of Warwick’s wife, with the terminal aim of one day building a form of telepathy or compassion using the Internet to transmit the signal over long distances. This investigation occurred in the first straight and completely automated interaction between the nervous systems of two humans.

Piercing- Elaine Davidson

• • • Elaine Davidson is the “Most Pierced Woman” according to the Guinness World Records. On 9 August 2001 when she was tested by a Guinness judge she was determined to have 720 piercings. She has proceeded to continue to her piercings and as of 2019 reports have a sum of 1103 piercings on her body.

Tattooing- Lucky Diamond Rich

• • Lucky Diamond Rich, contains the Guinness world record as “the world’s most tattooed person” as of 2006. He has endured the certified record since 2006, denoting 100 percent tattooed people in the world.