Twilight Fans Flock For Vampire Fangs

Sky News Online ^ | Tuesday July 13, 2010 | Lorna Blount

[a fool in paradise]

Twilight fans are sinking their teeth into vampire culture by paying cosmetic surgeons to give them fangs.

In most cases the young fans are willing to spend around $200 (about £132) of their - or their parents’ - money on temporary vampire veneers.

Taylor Wilkins, 16, had the sharp fangs installed at the Houston office of Floss Dental.

...In the clinic Dr Clint Herzog applied a tooth-coloured resin to Taylor's canines then shaped the composite into gently-sloped fangs.

"It's similar to the material that we use to bond braces on the teeth," Dr Herzog explains.

"So it can be put on and taken off very easily with no damage to the teeth."

The dentist, who operates five offices in Texas, says vampire veneers are in demand, especially in suburbia.

...After a 15-minute procedure, Taylor sported a subtle but distinctive set of fangs.

"I was really excited to get them," she said. "It didn't hurt at all."

But the true test was to come later, when her mother delivered her judgement

...her mum was quick to stress that her vampire life will be short-lived and the fangs would be coming off before school starts.

[camle]

wow! who’d a thunk they wuz the same person? /sarcasm

[PowderMonkey]

Mommy and Daddy were obviously Trekkies...

"It's life, Jim! Just not as we know it."

Vampires suck.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

[a fool in paradise]

That looks like a Medusa.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

[mlizzy]

Michael D. O'Brien has his take on "Twilight" here.

[Slings and Arrows]

It’s Link!

[Slings and Arrows]

That's one of the reasons why I like Jim Butcher's Dresden Files - his vampires are monsters, not whiny emo-kids.

[chae]

I’m more of a Buffy fan. The vampires in that show are people who have had their souls sucked out and are now demons. Angelus was an evil S.O.B. who would totally kill every single character in Twilight just for funsies.

[Slings and Arrows]

o/~ Fangs for the memories... o/~

[Slings and Arrows]

I’m more of a Buffy fan. The vampires in that show are people who have had their souls sucked out and are now demons. Angelus was an evil S.O.B. who would totally kill every single character in Twilight just for funsies.

Go for it!

Incidentally, in the Dresden-verse Dracula and Buffy were secretly published by vampires of the White Court to teach humans how to kill vampires of the Black and Red Courts, respectively. White Court vampires don't like competition.

[chae]

Lol, really? I have couple friends who’ve really been on me to read and/or watch the Dresden Files. Since it’s on Netflix instant, I think I might give it a try. Thanks for the tip.

[Slings and Arrows]

You’re very welcome. I haven’t seen the TV series, BTW - just the books.

[BibChr]

He was every bit of that. The ep called “Passion” — br-r-r-r-r.

[metmom]

What goes around, comes around.

This obsession with the occult is going to ruin these kids some day.

They seriously do not know what they are dabbling in. Satan likes to make the occult seem like it’s all fun and games and it’s not.

There’s real power there and getting sucked into it through seemingly innocuous ways is just as dangerous as joining a coven and becoming a Satanist. There are two books which deal with the occult and getting involved with it.

One is The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, which is fiction, and the other is The Beautiful Side of Evil by Johanna Michaelsen, which is still in print and available online. It is an autobiography of her journey in the occult and how Satan uses seemingly good things to suck people in. I read it years ago and it is a fascinating, enlightening, and very alarming book.

[wagglebee]

There are two books which deal with the occult and getting involved with it.

It's also pretty well covered in the third chapter of Genesis.

[TheOldLady]

Well, everybody knows that it's just a bunch of superstitious nonsense. I mean, in real life, do you think that vampires would react that way to these things? Why, for example, would a reanimated corpse not cast a reflection? It's not physically possible. As far as religious symbols, again, everyone knows that vampires can be nice people too, right? Maybe they aren't God forsaken after all.

All the undead prejudice on this site is disturbing. Rilly. I'm series.

</sarc>

[TheOldLady]

Twilight? Not so much. We’re buying True Blood as each season comes out on DVD. The stories are sort of close to the books, which Hubby and I both read as they’re released, and we’re really enjoying the series.

[WKB]

Baptist ping

[martin_fierro]

*kife!* I’ve been looking for that comic for ages!