Aug. 22 (UPI) --A Connecticut woman earned two Guinness World Records by covering 99.98% of her body in tattoos and having 89 body modifications. Esperance Lumineska Fuerzina, 36, of Bridgeport, was ...

Months after garnering online buzz over her finger piercing in September, the 12-year-old daughter of Kim Kardashian and ...

Six jailed members of a lucrative “human butchery” enterprise can challenge the length of their sentences, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Mastermind Marius Gustavson and his acolytes carried out male ...

A Connecticut Army vet has taken home two Guinness World Records after inking and modifying 99.98% of her body — and is still carving out space for more. Esperance Lumineska Fuerzina officially became ...

Boy" De Souza Ribeiro, a tattoo and body modification fanatic, revealed his endearing love story – and it's more than just ...

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 ...

"To be the most tattooed woman and to have the most body modifications feels a little crazy, I am grateful and excited for the future – and of course I am not done," said Fuerzina in a news release.

Body modifications and piercings have been a part of human culture for millennia, serving as rites of passage, symbols of status, or expressions of identity. Piercings hold a special place, with roots ...