I miss Africa so much… This great scar of the outline of the African continent — one day old in the photo — was done by Mark Trudelle at Louis-Riel in Ottawa, Canada using electrocautery.
Tag: Scarification
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Cross-hatch Scarring
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You may have seen this on the cover of BME recently, or in the scarification galleries, but I wanted to give some extra attention to this nice scar (hopefully we’ll get to see the healed texture in the future) from Horinaka at AcidCrue in Singapore (iam:incisionglory).
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Dali Elephant Cutting
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This great cutting (ink rubbing, actually, although there’s no ink in these pictures) of a Dali elephant (click through to get a closeup of the cuts) was done on Obbe by Christiane of Pinpoint in Oslo, Norway.
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More great tattoos from St. Petersburg (6/7)
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It’s not the best quality work at the convention on a technical level, but his knuckle tattoos (these links are zoom-ins) are great, and assuming it’s intentional I like that big brutal forehead cross scar quite a lot (one of the first facial scars I remember seeing was Glen Benton‘s inverted cross on his forehead).
(Thanks again to tan0k for all the pictures from the St. Petersburg Tattoo Convention)
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Scars to cover up scars!
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I’ve seen a number of scarifications done to cover up scars from [self] cutting. Here’s one that Blair (byBlair.com) did to cover up scars from surface piercing while he was working in England.
