Anthony Loffredo, who calls himself the “black alien,” removed his ears, nostrils and even a few fingers; sharpened his teeth and dyed them purple; and covered his body in extreme tattoos. Now the ...

"I get a lot of scripts and offers where someone has to make mention of my body immediately," she said at Glamour's Powered by Women initiative panel at SXSW Kristen O'Brien is a writer-reporter for ...

Researchers have shed fascinating new light on the unusual practice of permanent body modification during the Viking Age, which in some cases, may have been practiced as a "rite of initiation". It was ...

From piercings, tattoos, and fillers, body modifications have become customary on social media. But what happens when this personal transformation becomes a public performance? Over drinks one night, ...

Here’s how to split your tongue in two. One: have it pierced. Two: put a piece of fishing line through the hole. Three: pull. That, at least, is how 20-year-old Dustin Allor of Menlo Park, California, ...