By Anonymous · June 29, 2000 · 0 comments
ryone! For as long as I remember, I have always wanted to get tattooed and pierced in various spots over my body. I had decided on an armband tattoo of all the nordic runes and a snake biting its own tail (the symbol of rebirth). What I didn't consider was my age. As I'm underage, I either needed parental consent (which I wasn't going to get!) or to wait a couple of years, which I wasn't prepared to do. I had no idea what I was going to do! I wanted these symbols on my body, but I obviously couldn't ...
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By Anonymous · June 21, 2000 · 0 comments
hing can lead to scars I guess I should start at the beginning of my fascination with cutting, and scares, and the whole deal. It was a handful of years ago,at high school, when I first got a taste of the excitement (and to a degree, self fulfilment) that came with showing off scars. Alright then, first off some vital status. I was never one of the popular kids, and I was never one of the geeks. Reason being , none of them excepted me. I had no real friends, or any friends aside from morons that would say "hi" ...
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By Anonymous · June 16, 2000 · 0 comments
le background information: I'm an 18 year old white female, i live in Salem mass (the witch city) I am ChaosSatanic, and very proud of it, i have another post here, its about my septum, which by the way healed wonderfully, and my parents still haven't noticed (insert evil laugh here), now I love my boyfriend, but he is SO against body modifiations its absurd, I think he would look damn sexy with an eyebrow or a labret piercing, but he says 'If God wanted you to have holes in your body, he would have put them there' but If ...
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By TheOnlyNeffie · June 16, 2000 · 0 comments
always considered getting angel wings tattooed on my shoulder blades, but the thought just became cliché and tedious the more I thought about it... and the more gothy-goths I saw with it already done. So, one random night, sitting around with a good friend, who had done some cuttings before, I asked her to carve me a set of wings. At first she was pretty much against the idea, worried about blood loss, or not being able to duplicate the pattern I had sketched onto the back of my notebook, but I eventually persuaded her into it. I'm good like ...
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By Anonymous · June 08, 2000 · 0 comments
Self-Mutilator Finds Cure At A Glance Author No longer innocent Contact No longer innocent@bme.anon Artist me Well here I am. I just burned myself again. This time was different. I am twenty years old. I have self mutilated for roughly the past twelve years. It started with picking at scabs and light cuttings. It moved on to larger cutting and scraping. When I was 13 I started smoking cigarettes. One time while sneeking a smoke in the garage, I wondered how bad burning myself would be. I put out my cigarette on the top of my left thigh. Every since ...
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By Anonymous · June 08, 2000 · 0 comments
last 6 years I've had a total of 10 ear piercings, a navel piercing, a nose piercing and a tongue piercing. The ears and nose I did myself, but the navel and tongue I had dnoe in a studio. I also have three tattoos and a myriad of cutting-and-burning scars, some done for self-destructive head-fuck reasons and other done for creative reasons. I really don't want to link branding to self-injury in the depression-and-mental-illness sense, because it's not a connection that's relevant to everyone. The only reason it's relevant to me, was that self-injury was how I found out that ...
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By Anonymous · May 11, 2000 · 0 comments
Scarification, Is it just and art form? At A Glance Author anonymous Contact hardcore7779@hotmail.com The experience that I can remember to be my first with scarification occurred in my grade 8 music class. I was sitting at my desk bored out of my mind and I found an old, rusty nail that had fallen on the floor. I picked it up, examined it, caressed it, then used it. I began to stroke it up and down my forearm watching it dance amongst the hair. Then I began to press a little harder and harder and harder until the girl sitting ...
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By Anonymous · May 10, 2000 · 0 comments
branding advice At A Glance Author matt + jo Contact primaryone@hotmail.com Artist myself I will summarise first so if you just want our advice from experience you don't need to read the whole thing. - YOU WILL FLINCH. Be prepared for it to ensure a clean strike. - If you can, do it yourself. Many people will disagree but there you go. (The exception to this may be if there is someone genuinely experienced with a good track record in your area, who you trust.) - This goes hand in hand with the second point, but it is not as ...
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By Anonymous · May 07, 2000 · 0 comments
ore you read this please let me note, that I am not a proffesional, and that my methods are my personal beliefs, and do not represent a "right" way of doing things*** This "experience" is slightly different than most. In this experience I did not recieve a cutting, or branding, but I preformed a ritualistic branding on someone who was refered to me by a friend. I met this person, who I'll call Crystal, at my friends work. She explained exactley what she wanted to me, which was a fairly large sun-type design on her lower back. Apparently this symbol ...
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By Anonymous · May 07, 2000 · 0 comments
st experience with "so-called" self-mutilation began when I was the age of 13.I had been going through way too much with family among other things and decided to take away the pain with a trusted friend; cigarettes and a knife. I induced enormous,soothing pain that day which left me with 13 burns(or 4 single and 3 clusters). It gave me great emotional release for the time being and reminded me how cruel that pain can be without a method of release. I accomplished this release again when I was 15 after being abused again and this time left 9 more ...
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