By Anonymous · Sept. 26, 2001 · 0 comments
I guess it all started back in high school. In an attempt to stay awake during my various classes, I would doodle little designs on my notebook. Keep in mind, I'm not an artist, so most of these drawings were pretty simple. One design that kept showing up over and over was a small sun consisting of a circle with 8 cresent shaped rays around it. It was my senior year and I had a few piercings and was very interested in body modifications. Somehow, I got the idea to have my little design branded on the inside of my ...
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By Anonymous · Sept. 26, 2001 · 0 comments
I have wanted a tattoo ever since i found out that they existed. I've always thought that they were the coolest things ever, and the most unique form of self expression. But my mom would never let me gat a tattoo. Since I was only fifteen at the time, there were no tattoo artists who I would have trusted if they tattooed an underage person, and my mom wouldn't let me get one, I was stuck with not having a tattoo. I first got the idea of scarring myself as art when i heard someone say to me "Why would ...
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By Anonymous · Sept. 20, 2001 · 0 comments
if your reading this and you dont have any Scarification get of ur pc and get cutting now kid!! i was 14 when i did my 1st Scarification i dont know why i did it. i was in bed 1 night doin art home work so i had a penicl in my hand when i started rubbing my skin away with it i did a H then a A, T, E it was bleeding when i had done but i loved it. the next day at school all my class were like " why did u do it jess bla ...
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By Anonymous · Sept. 16, 2001 · 0 comments
I was visiting San Diego for the weekend and found myself, more than a bit tipsy from the effects of alcohol, at Superfly Tattoo on Broadway. The guy I was with, idiot, said "Hey, Let's go get tattoos." (Translation: "Surely you'll sleep with me if I get a tattoo because then I'll be cool.") I went in with him and helped him pick out a stupid little flash tattoo *snicker* (hey! he was a jerk!) having no intention myself of getting any work done there because I have a good tattoo artist at home who I trust and all my ...
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By Anonymous · Sept. 16, 2001 · 0 comments
I read a lot of articles in BME about scarification and I have read a ot about cutting and branding. However, I never came across an article about burning with direct flame. I would like to share my experience with all the members. My experience is rather unique as I am very fond of FIRE. I am not really into branding, but more on BURNING, ie applying flame to my skin. My favourite place is my buttocks since I think that is the least painful of all other places, and easy to conceal. That is actually the main reason since ...
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By Anonymous · Sept. 16, 2001 · 0 comments
First I will tell you about myself. I am just a 14-year-old girl. Living in a "suburb-like town" in my upstairs apartment with my mom and her boyfriend. I love body modification, everything from piercing, to tattoos, to stretching, and mainly to scarification. It all began with my first ear piercing at a year or two old, because my mom thought it was "cute". Those turned out lopsided, but that's beside the point. Then at eleven years old, I got my first cartilage; it healed well. At twelve I decided I wanted more and got my second and third ear ...
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By Anonymous · Sept. 16, 2001 · 0 comments
For a very long time I have wanted to have a scar on my chin, right from the bottom of my lip to just above the dimply raised part. It's not that much distance, actually, but since it's on my face I figure size isn't as important as satisfaction. Actually, I'd imagine that goes for any mod, but a facial mod is of course more "extreme" since it's more noticable and people can descriminate against it much easier. At any rate, I was very happy to obtain a scalpel, some latex gloves, a disposable camera (I should scan those pictures ...
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By Anonymous · Sept. 04, 2001 · 0 comments
Ok, this is an experience I had while attending the Fakir Intensives Basic Branding course. Don't expect any "special secrets" or anything. First, that's not how reality works, and second, this is about my experience, not the course. Let me start by saying what an incredible class this is. I highly recommend taking it if you are interested in branding. While I was in the class, I became friends with another girl named Amee. We also attended the Basic Piercing class together afterwards. During the branding class, we decided we would brand each other. Since Amee was the one I ...
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By Anonymous · Sept. 04, 2001 · 0 comments
Body Modification is a whole facet of life that has intrigued me for years. My brothers both have tattoos and piercings and many friends do as well. I'm one of those kids that never did much in school and nobody really remembers. I'm kind of a recluse and enjoy freakin out the preppies that live around me. While I'm not really the strangest lookin guy, I have one of those auras people don't like I guess. I'm into heavy metal and just go around wearin t-shirts that people don't like or whatever. Bod-Mod seems like the one part of me ...
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By Anonymous · Sept. 04, 2001 · 0 comments
I started cutting when I was 14 or 15, and for all the wrong reasons. I was frustrated with myself, the world, and life in general, so I'd open my arm and let the pain bleed out. I never really thought twice about this it seemed the natural thing to do. I preferred cutting to letting my anger out in any other way, because I would only hurt myself through cutting, as opposed to blowing up at someone and risk hurting him or her. This went on for some time (about a year and a half), until my parents ...
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