SuicideGirls has launched the first issue of their "virgin" magazine Papercuts. For those of you who don't know, the SuicideGirls is an edgy website with a growing community of alternative girls. The SuicideGirls community caters and endorses a more alternative form of beauty, which includes everything alternative from tattoos and body piercings to gravity-defying hairstyles.
The magazine price is pretty steep at $20 but the company has made it ad-free and features 72 pages of the infamous pin-up girls from their website. Trendy and boudoir-chic, a mag like this one makes it easy to tell all your friends you "only read it for the articles".
SuicideGirls Launch Magazine 'Papercuts'
SuicideGirls Launch Magazine 'Papercuts'
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