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Do you mind if I glomp onto your thread and ask if anyone here has scarification or scarification with a tattoo overlaid (or even if you have a tattoo that overlaps a natural scar)? And if they were happy with the result, how the healing process was for them. If the scars have thinned or faded over the years?

As for placement? This is one I love.

I've only ever had temporary home-made tattoos (Where you push the ink under a couple of layers of skin with a needle so it lasts for two-three months). But I want so badly. Getting a tattoo/scarification is probably one of the first things I'm going to do for myself when I'm on my own.

And I also feel like it's the appropriate thread to bring this up?
http://ineradicablestain.com/skin-quilt.html
"Shelley Jackson’s Skin project, a 2095-word story published exclusively in tattoos, one word each on as many willing volunteers, so it can never be read in its proper order, but just exists, pulsing, out in the world at all times."

I love the idea of scarification. I want to try it so badly but I'm really weird about letting other people cause pain (aka control freak). I've been reading up on it and thinking about trying it myself.

I'm jealous of your temporary home-made tattoos. Did you do them yourself?

Yup! But I'm pretty sure I wasn't doing it very safely and it wasn't a good idea. I didn't have training or the right equipment. I never had any infections or problems but I knew two other kids who did. Luckily I had enough sense not to do them on other kids or get mixed up in that.

They looked very cool for a while but they healed and flaked off at uneven rates and looked kinda funky for a while.

I experimented with some scarification/branding on myself but over the past couple of years they've faded to almost no visibility. Not sure if I did them incorrectly or if I just heal differently.

IDK how feasible it is but if you are serious about scarification but don't want someone else to do it you might find an artist/nurse who would be willing to teach/supervise you?

I know some tattoo artists who are familiar with it and I've been talking with them. I'm friends with a few body mod people also and been talking with them about various mods and techniques. It's one of those things I think would be super cool but probably won't ever get around to doing.

I do have a few itty bitty scars that I've made but like you said, they fade. I think I might heal a bit faster than average.

Oh that's cool! I wish I knew some people in my area so I could get some first-hand information and see some stuff up close. Even if you don't ever get around to having a body mod done it's still a very fascinating subject.

I've been reading about a method common in Africa called packing that involves placing a sterile material in the wound to irritate it and require the scar tissue to grow outwards to push the material out. It's supposed to have a high rate of exaggerating scars for people who don't normally retain them. But there's not a lot of reliable material about it and I keep reading something about different materials (clay, ash, etc.) causing different colorings in the scar tissue but don't have any citations or proof of that.

For me, I think picking or irritating the wound as it heals produces a more reliable scar. I definitely don't use honey as an antiseptic! That causes it to heal up so quickly and neatly.

I do have a tiny keloid from an accidental injury that gives me hope of creating a permanently noticeable scar but I have no idea what made that scar different from my others. It was from broken glass and has remained the same for something like six years but a pretty gruesome burn on my knee has healed so completely I can barely see it.

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I love body mods but I'm going to try and contain myself!

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