article_snippet.sent: Abi Gordon-Cody Instagram posts of severed fingers, rotting flesh and impaled limbs may seem like the work of an extremely violent (or extremely clumsy) person but Abi's injuries are, in fact, all a clever illusion.
article_snippet.sent: Abi, 26, from Droitwich, Worcestershire, works as a special effects make-up artist with the daily challenge of trying to find ways of slicing off fingers and impaling bodies in a completely pain-free way.
article_snippet.sent: Abi Gordon-Cody Abi Gordon-Cody creates gruesome injuries using special effects .
article_snippet.sent: Abi often stars in Abi own pictures, taking selfies of a bloody pencil seemingly impaled through Abi nostril and emerging from the bridge of Abi nose, or a shot of a foot that has trodden on a long rusty nail.
article_snippet.sent: In one picture, Abi toes appear to have been chopped off, while in another, a bloody ear has teeth marks where skin should be and in another, Abi forearm is covered in a huge iron 'burn'.
article_snippet.sent: Abi titled this post 'day-dreaming nightmare' as Abi replicates a finger being severed by a potato peeler .
article_snippet.sent: Abi uses prosthetics to create convincing injuries such as these severed toes .
highlights_snippet.sent: Abi Gordon-Cody creates gruesome injuries using special effects make-up .
  