A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

Eyelid Scarification

I think this is the first intentional cutting that traverses the full eyelid that I’ve seen, or at least that my jumbled memory recalls. Viper‘s wife did this cutting on him with a knife at their home in Scotland. You know, now that I re-read the email it doesn’t actually say “intentional”… Viper, if you need me to call the domestic abuse services to keep you safe, let me know. 😉

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144 responses to “Eyelid Scarification”

  1. lilish Avatar
    lilish

    I like the picture. It’s like ti was taken from the inside of a crystal.

  2. lilish Avatar
    lilish

    I like the picture. It’s like ti was taken from the inside of a crystal.

  3. Spacelab Avatar
    Spacelab

    This is a terrible idea! Waaay too risky and difficult to heal.
    He’s going to end up with a lazy, drooping eye.

    Seriously — wtf.

  4. Spacelab Avatar
    Spacelab

    This is a terrible idea! Waaay too risky and difficult to heal.
    He’s going to end up with a lazy, drooping eye.

    Seriously — wtf.

  5. Spacelab Avatar
    Spacelab

    This is a terrible idea! Waaay too risky and difficult to heal.
    He’s going to end up with a lazy, drooping eye.

    Seriously — wtf.

  6. Spacelab Avatar
    Spacelab

    This is a terrible idea! Waaay too risky and difficult to heal.
    He’s going to end up with a lazy, drooping eye.

    Seriously — wtf.

  7. Spacelab Avatar
    Spacelab

    This is a terrible idea! Waaay too risky and difficult to heal.
    He’s going to end up with a lazy, drooping eye.

    Seriously — wtf.

  8. Spacelab Avatar
    Spacelab

    This is a terrible idea! Waaay too risky and difficult to heal.
    He’s going to end up with a lazy, drooping eye.

    Seriously — wtf.

  9. painted lady Avatar

    aren’t eyelids really thin? that would scare me… what if you cut one part thinner than the rest and it tore or something? eek.

  10. painted lady Avatar

    aren’t eyelids really thin? that would scare me… what if you cut one part thinner than the rest and it tore or something? eek.

  11. painted lady Avatar

    aren’t eyelids really thin? that would scare me… what if you cut one part thinner than the rest and it tore or something? eek.

  12. painted lady Avatar

    aren’t eyelids really thin? that would scare me… what if you cut one part thinner than the rest and it tore or something? eek.

  13. painted lady Avatar

    aren’t eyelids really thin? that would scare me… what if you cut one part thinner than the rest and it tore or something? eek.

  14. painted lady Avatar

    aren’t eyelids really thin? that would scare me… what if you cut one part thinner than the rest and it tore or something? eek.

  15. stormy Avatar

    This is a little scary, what if the the scar gets all crazy when it heals…hurty..

  16. stormy Avatar

    This is a little scary, what if the the scar gets all crazy when it heals…hurty..

  17. stormy Avatar

    This is a little scary, what if the the scar gets all crazy when it heals…hurty..

  18. stormy Avatar

    This is a little scary, what if the the scar gets all crazy when it heals…hurty..

  19. stormy Avatar

    This is a little scary, what if the the scar gets all crazy when it heals…hurty..

  20. stormy Avatar

    This is a little scary, what if the the scar gets all crazy when it heals…hurty..

  21. Noadi Avatar

    Thin tissue heals differently than thicker skin so I unless he scars oddly in general I doubt it’ll cause serious problems because it isn’t particularly wide. My dad plays basketball every sunday night with a bunch of guys that on average are about 20 years younger than he is and they are brutal. Several times he’s come home with areas of his eyelid gouged out because someone’s hit him in the face and caused his glasses to cut him pretty badly. Now my dad is tougher than anyone should be and won’t get stitches unless it’s practically life or death and none of these cuts have ever scarred badly (explains me and my brother’s penchant for doing stuff that gets us injured). Now everyone heals in different ways and if he forms keloids easily then this maybe wasn’t a good idea but if he doesn’t then it’ll probably be fine.

  22. Noadi Avatar

    Thin tissue heals differently than thicker skin so I unless he scars oddly in general I doubt it’ll cause serious problems because it isn’t particularly wide. My dad plays basketball every sunday night with a bunch of guys that on average are about 20 years younger than he is and they are brutal. Several times he’s come home with areas of his eyelid gouged out because someone’s hit him in the face and caused his glasses to cut him pretty badly. Now my dad is tougher than anyone should be and won’t get stitches unless it’s practically life or death and none of these cuts have ever scarred badly (explains me and my brother’s penchant for doing stuff that gets us injured). Now everyone heals in different ways and if he forms keloids easily then this maybe wasn’t a good idea but if he doesn’t then it’ll probably be fine.

  23. Noadi Avatar

    Thin tissue heals differently than thicker skin so I unless he scars oddly in general I doubt it’ll cause serious problems because it isn’t particularly wide. My dad plays basketball every sunday night with a bunch of guys that on average are about 20 years younger than he is and they are brutal. Several times he’s come home with areas of his eyelid gouged out because someone’s hit him in the face and caused his glasses to cut him pretty badly. Now my dad is tougher than anyone should be and won’t get stitches unless it’s practically life or death and none of these cuts have ever scarred badly (explains me and my brother’s penchant for doing stuff that gets us injured). Now everyone heals in different ways and if he forms keloids easily then this maybe wasn’t a good idea but if he doesn’t then it’ll probably be fine.

  24. Noadi Avatar

    Thin tissue heals differently than thicker skin so I unless he scars oddly in general I doubt it’ll cause serious problems because it isn’t particularly wide. My dad plays basketball every sunday night with a bunch of guys that on average are about 20 years younger than he is and they are brutal. Several times he’s come home with areas of his eyelid gouged out because someone’s hit him in the face and caused his glasses to cut him pretty badly. Now my dad is tougher than anyone should be and won’t get stitches unless it’s practically life or death and none of these cuts have ever scarred badly (explains me and my brother’s penchant for doing stuff that gets us injured). Now everyone heals in different ways and if he forms keloids easily then this maybe wasn’t a good idea but if he doesn’t then it’ll probably be fine.

  25. Noadi Avatar

    Thin tissue heals differently than thicker skin so I unless he scars oddly in general I doubt it’ll cause serious problems because it isn’t particularly wide. My dad plays basketball every sunday night with a bunch of guys that on average are about 20 years younger than he is and they are brutal. Several times he’s come home with areas of his eyelid gouged out because someone’s hit him in the face and caused his glasses to cut him pretty badly. Now my dad is tougher than anyone should be and won’t get stitches unless it’s practically life or death and none of these cuts have ever scarred badly (explains me and my brother’s penchant for doing stuff that gets us injured). Now everyone heals in different ways and if he forms keloids easily then this maybe wasn’t a good idea but if he doesn’t then it’ll probably be fine.

  26. Noadi Avatar

    Thin tissue heals differently than thicker skin so I unless he scars oddly in general I doubt it’ll cause serious problems because it isn’t particularly wide. My dad plays basketball every sunday night with a bunch of guys that on average are about 20 years younger than he is and they are brutal. Several times he’s come home with areas of his eyelid gouged out because someone’s hit him in the face and caused his glasses to cut him pretty badly. Now my dad is tougher than anyone should be and won’t get stitches unless it’s practically life or death and none of these cuts have ever scarred badly (explains me and my brother’s penchant for doing stuff that gets us injured). Now everyone heals in different ways and if he forms keloids easily then this maybe wasn’t a good idea but if he doesn’t then it’ll probably be fine.

  27. CreativeNonFiction Avatar

    The big difference with that, Noadi, is that with scarification, you want it to scar noticably. So while you’re dad doesn’t get stitches, he’s still taking care of himself, not irritating it on purpose. So the fine line here is getting it to be noticable, without causing any impairments.

  28. CreativeNonFiction Avatar

    The big difference with that, Noadi, is that with scarification, you want it to scar noticably. So while you’re dad doesn’t get stitches, he’s still taking care of himself, not irritating it on purpose. So the fine line here is getting it to be noticable, without causing any impairments.

  29. CreativeNonFiction Avatar

    The big difference with that, Noadi, is that with scarification, you want it to scar noticably. So while you’re dad doesn’t get stitches, he’s still taking care of himself, not irritating it on purpose. So the fine line here is getting it to be noticable, without causing any impairments.

  30. CreativeNonFiction Avatar

    The big difference with that, Noadi, is that with scarification, you want it to scar noticably. So while you’re dad doesn’t get stitches, he’s still taking care of himself, not irritating it on purpose. So the fine line here is getting it to be noticable, without causing any impairments.

  31. CreativeNonFiction Avatar

    The big difference with that, Noadi, is that with scarification, you want it to scar noticably. So while you’re dad doesn’t get stitches, he’s still taking care of himself, not irritating it on purpose. So the fine line here is getting it to be noticable, without causing any impairments.

  32. CreativeNonFiction Avatar

    The big difference with that, Noadi, is that with scarification, you want it to scar noticably. So while you’re dad doesn’t get stitches, he’s still taking care of himself, not irritating it on purpose. So the fine line here is getting it to be noticable, without causing any impairments.

  33. Noadi Avatar

    Of course, but what I was trying to point out is that healing the eyelid isn’t exactly difficult and taking common sense measures should minimize the risk of complications. It’s not like this is something doomed to failure unless he does something pretty stupid.

  34. Noadi Avatar

    Of course, but what I was trying to point out is that healing the eyelid isn’t exactly difficult and taking common sense measures should minimize the risk of complications. It’s not like this is something doomed to failure unless he does something pretty stupid.

  35. Noadi Avatar

    Of course, but what I was trying to point out is that healing the eyelid isn’t exactly difficult and taking common sense measures should minimize the risk of complications. It’s not like this is something doomed to failure unless he does something pretty stupid.

  36. Noadi Avatar

    Of course, but what I was trying to point out is that healing the eyelid isn’t exactly difficult and taking common sense measures should minimize the risk of complications. It’s not like this is something doomed to failure unless he does something pretty stupid.

  37. Noadi Avatar

    Of course, but what I was trying to point out is that healing the eyelid isn’t exactly difficult and taking common sense measures should minimize the risk of complications. It’s not like this is something doomed to failure unless he does something pretty stupid.

  38. Noadi Avatar

    Of course, but what I was trying to point out is that healing the eyelid isn’t exactly difficult and taking common sense measures should minimize the risk of complications. It’s not like this is something doomed to failure unless he does something pretty stupid.

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