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Joy are so heavily modified, people assume they're wild, which they say couldn't 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. they're just two normal gals, they say, in search of a post office on a cold winter day. it just happens they're pierced, stretched, tattooed, modified and into getting pierced with hooks. >> we went down too far. >> yeah, i think -- >> we've got to go this way. i don't know where we're at. we have to find the post office. am i going to ...

It was very strange. 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. that's my tribute to cincinnati. that's the area code. pull my bangs back over, my forehead tattooed. and i've got little stars on both of my sideburn areas.

I think dan will like this. >> meg still plans on dodd more body modification. even though it is against her religion. her boyfriend dan sees how much extra work it takes for them to be accepted. while meg is confident it will eventually happen, dan isn't so hopeful. >> i don't think we'll ever be really accepted in the hasidic community just because of the fact that she is so heavily modified and that kind of thing. but it really isn't that much of a conflict for me. [ speaking hebrew ] ♪ >> the poet ralph waldo emerson once said, "make your own bible." that's exactly what meg and company a...

Them, being lifted off the ground and hanging from your flesh. >> it's not as bad as it sounds. >> it sounds bad. >> it sounds terrible but it's not that bad. >> it's really not. >> if you do it from one or two or three hooks, then the pressure is really intense. and this is part of native american, like the sundance ritual. they only did it from two hooks in their chest and that, that's -- but that was tied into a whole religious ethos and the whole culture was involved. and so, people are playing around with this sort of thing now and they're mimicking things without having the true religion...

They can get that final tattoo that somehow gives them some peace with themselves. but for a lot, it's a never-ending process. and if they don't come to some self-realization or some self-peace, then they have to move on. and from tattooing, you go on to branding and from branding you go on to putting implants in your skull and in your skin, and then from there it can really start to escalate into uncontrollable body modification. >> in fact, meg is planning to take her modification further. today she is having a tattoo blacked over by her best friend, brooklyn tattoo artist joyra moore. >> i'...