You know I adore anatomical jewelry as much as the next gal (as seen here and here), but methinks Miley Cyrus went too far with her latest take on this type of accessory.
Need a closer look?
Yep, that’s a real animal skull.
I’m pretty sure it’s a raccoon skull, and I’m pretty sure I don’t love it. And this is coming from a girl who has the skeleton of the first bird she ever skinned and stuffed in a jar above her fireplace.
And a little warning to Miley: that skull is just waiting to have its nasal concha infested with beetle larvae. It’ll happen, because it always does. And then it’ll be gross.
This is how you do animal skull jewlery:
Moon Raven Designs
And if The Rocket Scientist is reading this, I would totally wear this bat skull. Just sayin’…
Swell. Will we be seeing cheap knock-offs at Wal-Mart?
Beetle Larve eeewww!
It is the sad and icky truth of skeletal collections. I can’t tell you how many skulls I’ve picked up, only to have larval casings fall out of the nose.
Mr. J’s sister has an old deer (?) skull, and when I first moved in here she decided to soak it in a bucket of bleach to pretty it up a bit.
I was AMAZED how much leftover tissue-y junk floated to the top of the bleach-water. She’s had that skull for over a decade. Guess it’s never too late to make head cheese.