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Which they say couldnt be further from the truth. both have serious boyfriends and their favorite activity is to have pajama parties where the two friends pore over, get this, crate and barrel catalogs. theyre just two normal gals, they say, in search of a post office on a cold winter day. it just happens theyre pierced, stretched, tattooed, modified and into getting pierced with hooks. >> we went down too far. >> yeah, i think -- >> weve got to go this way. i dont know where were at. we have to...

>> what used to be easy when meg was young and impulsive is more difficult now that she says shes old and cranky. within an hour she calls it quits. quits. >> im done. >> she wants to be done. >> oh, you -- ah! >> it just feels too gross. i dont want to throw up. >> okay, okay. >> im not in the mood to puke today. >> fine. >> it went as expected. the tattoo turned out good. its done. yeah. when we return, whats it like living in their skin? the prejudice tattooed women say they face on a daily...

Personality. nothing of that nature. thats not the case. im visibly tattooed and im heavily tattooed in places where people see because i like to see them. >> by definition, if its an unconscious, they have no consciousness of it. if you bring it to their attention, theyll say no, youre absolutely wrong. but they can never win that argument because in your unconscious, you dont know, but im the expert, and, therefore, i say its in your unconscious, so you cant win. >> megs dinner guests tonight ...

At the new york city shop where megan barbour works, she and her friend say having their bodies modified has given them spiritual sustenance. some of them have gone way beyond tattoos. meg has several piercings. she had her ear lobes stretched to what some might consider formed and shes into something else, called pulling. >> essentially you have hooks in your skin and you are tied against someone else who has hooks in them and you pull against one another. for me, its a huge emotional release. ...

Work done. that means getting a tattoo cut into her body with a scalpel. >> ive got peony blossoms. up here on my shoulder. a big hot rod here. up here on the neckline. when its finished, it ill actually go like along my jawline. >> at the same time meg has found religion, not just any religion but one in which getting a tattoo is strictly taboo. >> everything closing early because of sabbath. >> meg lives in crown heights, brooklyn, one of the most religious jewish enclaves in america. >> i liv...

But facial tattoos, ear lobe stretching and ritual scarification. what would make someone go this far? dr. armando favazza has never met or treated meg but says there are common reasons people do this. >> for example, rebellion and anger, especially towards people in the past who may have harmed you or people who have let you down. >> dr. armando favazza is author of "bodies under siege," considered to be the seminal book on self-mutilation. hes also a practicing psychiatrist. >> and what happen...

Back to be more observant in order to speed the coming of the messiah. im by no means an orthodox jew. im a religious person. im a respectful person, and that gets me a long way in this neighborhood. >> meg is striving for acceptance in the community. and shes finding it, to a point. she covers up out of respect, but its hard for her to hide everything. as a result, even a routine trip to the grocery store can be an adventure. >> generally nobody really says anything. you know, the other day som...

Let us walk through. it was very range. i get a lot of curious looks, i think would be the best way to describe it. >> meg started getting tattooed when she was 18. first one, then six months later another. >> then from there i started getting other tattoos. by then i had gotten an apprenticeship body piercing. so i was working in a studio with tattoo artists. the accessibility to get tattooed was there on a greater level. so, it just started happening. thats my tribute to cincinnati. thats the ...

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