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  • The Friday Follow-up

    Written by

    Rob

    For this next follow-up we leave the cold winter weather of the northeast, and head even further north to Guelph, ON where a scarification artist from the sunny southwest created this triskelion for Huxley.  We first saw this scar right here, back in July of last year.

    Seven months down the road, here is what the scar looks like.

    This Steve Haworth creation is looking great.  The lines are well defined and the it looks like most of the redness has faded to the point where the scar colour nearly matches her skin tone.

  • The Friday Follow-up

    Written by

    Rob

    For this next scarification, we head back to Brooklyn, NYC where Brian Decker created this beautiful snail cutting/branding combo for IAM: Polareyez, which was featured back in October.

    Here’s how it looks today.

    As you can see, it’s much lighter than the scar I posted earlier today.  While it’s located on the lower abdomen, and it was cut by Brian, that’s where the similarities stop.  Genetics, skin type, aftercare, and many other factors can change how a scar forms on a person.

    One of the main reasons I started up the Friday Follow-up posts was to showcase just how varied scars can heal, in addition to showcasing the many talented scarification artists out there.  To date there have been over 60 follow-up posts, and I hope to continue the tradition as long as I can.  So artists, and those of you with scars, send in your photos to BME (both fresh and healed) so we can keep the Friday Follow-up going for another 60 weeks.

  • The Friday Follow-up

    Written by

    Rob

    So it just dawned on me that I haven’t posted a Friday Follow-up in a while.  To make up for lost time, today is going to be made up entirely of scarification follow-up photos.  We’ve got scars from three different artists, and two of the scars are by the same artist, but show just how different scars can heal from person to person.

    To kick things off today we’ve got a lower abdomen scar from Brian Decker.  What’s interesting to note is just how pronounced the keloiding has made the scar.  The reason I’m bringing this up is because the next post today will be another abdomen scar by Brian.

    If you look close you can see that Brian used a scalpel for most of it, but then switched to branding to shade it.

    As I said, this is only the first of many follow-up posts today.  Come on back in a little bit to see the rest of them.

  • Flying Zombies

    Written by

    Rob

    That’s it.  I can deal with normal zombies.  Heck I’ve even prepared for those fast moving “zombies” that have been plaguing movie theatres.  But if zombies can fly, I might as well just give up now.

    Suspension facilitated by #Leeds Airlines.

  • Send me an angel

    Written by

    Rob

    Right now.

    Read on for more of the angel (suspension)…

    Rigging by Russ Foxx.  Photography by Vince Hemingson.

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