Until the 1870s, Maori men of New Zealand etched deep tattoos over their entire faces. Patterns were chiseled into the skin to create parallel ridges and grooves, much like designs cut into wood. This ...

Scarification is a form of body modification. The scarification process involves someone purposefully cutting into the skin to create scars in specific designs, patterns, or markings. Many indigenous ...

Are you interested in body branding? You’re not alone. Many people are intentionally burning their skin to create artistic scars. But while you might consider these burns an alternative to tattoos, ...

Cultures around the world still honor ancient traditional practices of body modification, or the intentional and often irreversible alteration of the skin. For many practitioners, body modifications ...

Scarification—intentional cuts or burns that heal into raised patterns—has been practiced across many African cultures for centuries. These markings were never random; they acted as identity, beauty, ...

Harmony Dixon's box jellyfish sting was excruciatingly painful, but one year on she's considering permanent scarification to retain the wound that could have ended her life. Harmony Dixon says when ...

IMAGINE having a stranger cut or burn your skin with the hope to leave a permanent disfigurement that will remain visible on your body for the rest of your natural life. It might sound like a horrid ...

DETROIT (WWJ) - Inside one local Detroit tattoo and piercing parlor there is new insight into the oddities that are gaining popularity. WWJ's Kathryn Larson spoke with owner of Detroit's Custom 5150 ...

Many countries are now becoming keenly aware that the creation of a vaccine to help control the spread of virulent respiratory infections like COVID-19 is only half the battle. Easy and effective ...