beautiful. simply... wow. i love it.

I'm getting all tingly looking at this, I love it. Endlessly. Oh lord.

It's pretty ugly. Even nice looking pieces are ugly. It's just...as nice as it can look for being so ugly.

I think there's probably something mentally wrong with you if you do that to yourself. That's way beyond a piercing or a tattoo.

Stupid.

Fully healed pictures?

not really my favorite kind of mod, but to each their own man.

kinda gross. must really hurt.

Stupid and fairly ugly.

I gots me an idea.

>>3521169
Most dedicated cosplay ever.

holy ass crackers....the idea is making my skin crawl. The pictures are no help either, but hey whatever floats your boat.....just please, Don't show me your pile of skin *gag*

I love it and wish wayde dun would swing past SA long enough for me to get something done.

That...

... Ow....

>captcha: dumples Shgetef-the-Fool

I think scars are really sexy, but not when self-inflicted.

And because I work at a hospital, the potential of infection freaks me out.

so /cgl/, would you ever consider doing it?

>>3521180
Fuck no.

>>3521181
GO TO SLEEP OR THE GHETTO WILL GET YOU

Gotta agree with >>3521153. I have to assume there's some kind of neurosis driving the desire to do something like this to your body.

Or, perhaps I'm just totally out of touch with this generation, I'd believe either one. Do whatever you want, it's your body, but I reserve the right to be horrified by the result.

"Self-Definition dichelic"- Captcha took the words right out of my mouth.

I wanted to when I was younger, but my skin doesn't scar very noticably so it would have been a waste of time.
It looks really good on people with darker skin.

Oh dear lord. No. No way. Not in a million years. I'll get a million tattoos and piercing before doing something like that.

>>3521183

The art is fucking beautiful, but shits so scary.....

>>3521180
I refuse to even get any piercings, this is totally out of the question (ironically I have considered getting a tattoo, still on the fence though).

shit is stupid and dangerous. the amount of pain could cause your body to go into shock. they can't give you any pain relievers or anesthesia, because it isn't surgery or a hostpital. you can't get drunk and do it becuase that thins your blood and you could lose a lot of blood . shit is fucking stupid

I wouldn't get something artistic done... I would get myself some fucking scars... Maybe one down the front of my left eye, so i can say "You should see the other guy". Or maybe like, Kenshin scars...

>>3521194

>>3521207

I must say it looks quite cool.


But I'd be a too much of a wuss to do it. For pain, fear of infection, too much bleeding, and general people thinking I'd be crazy.

>>3521205
>Maybe one down the front of my left eye, so i can say "You should see the other guy".

Don't do shit like this. Scars are earned. Scars tell stories. Deliberately scarring yourself and bragging about it as if you got it in a fight is like going to the thrift store and buying someone's old golf trophy and using it to brag about how you're the next Tiger Woods.

>>3521208

>>3521218
Slenderman?

>>3521220
mhm

We dont have much creepy shit in san diego. Bahhh I want ghosties.

>>3521231
Whaley house? Other than that, I dunno. I went there once and didn't experience anything, not that I was really expecting to.

>>3521232
I ran around there late at night with a friend and banged on windows, Nothin ;| Maybe ill try proctor valley rd

>>3521234
I thought that was just an urban legend?

>>3521237
Probably. THIS CITY SUCKS FOR PARANORMAL SHIT.BAWWWW

OW! What the shit?!

>>3521173
Not a big fan of the first design, but this one is amazing. I am fascinated by this always have been. I just prefer my Ink.

>>3521244
We do have some good places for urban exploration, though. Isn't there a tunnel system under one of the colleges? (Can't recall which one.)

>>3521147

Thanks for the nightmares OP.

Am I the only one who looks at this and thinks "OH GOD, THE CHANCE OF INFECTION, FUCKKKKKKK"?

>>3521250
UCSD has some tunnels, Never been though. I should check it out since I live minutes away.
Seems interestin..

>>3521257
I've always wanted to. But no one else I know really likes doing that sort of thing. I'm going to sleep now.

>>3521244
Come to LA. Lot's of run down asylums ect.

>>3521269
I was supposed to do that with some friends for ax... never happend.

>>3521278
There's a good run down one in Downey.
Last time I was there almost walked into the cop's waiting in they're car. we left after that. Really been wanting to go back.

>>3521147
Anyone that has that done, or does that to someone needs to be put in a mental institution.

I think ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH sums up my opinion quite well.

>>3521173
THE PINK

IS HER BLEEDING

OPEN

SKIN

HOLY FUCK

NO

AHHHHH

This is my new phobia. Thanks, dickwad.

I didn't think body carving was this extreme. Honestly, I think it's disturbing as with most body mods out there but this seems more extreme. If this is your thing, please, get your head checked.

Ugh, no.

This is one of the hottest pictures I have ever.

I'd love to do it (I love the look of bodymod stuff that's more...natural. Looks like it's part of you.), but like someone above, I don't scar for long or that noticeably. :(

>>3521147
I bet she thinks she is hardcore. All the bitch is and ever will be is stupid.

Also extra weeaboo points for PRETTY BAMBOO DESU

>>3521849
>bamboo
>weeaboo
>referencing japan instead of china
oh you retard - at most, yellow fever

it's generally called scarification (with or without skin removal), not 'body carving', what the hell. there's branding, also.
i don't see how getting it done indicates neurosis more than having your baby daughter's ear pierced with a gun or getting a boob job...
i personally love it in theory. then again i find scars in general fascinating.
the issue is rather the unpredictability of the result. chances are the scars will be uneven, obscuring/blurring the motif, or you might even suffer from keloids. some people want keloids, but they're pretty much impossible to control. some people have to get surgery to remove them cause they can impair movement depending on their size & placement...
so yeah. lovely idea, difficult to put into effect nicely.

what does this have to do with cosplay/lolita again?

>>3521173
This is beautiful, and nightmare inducing all at once.

What retards, at least you can get rid of tattoos. :\
Those'll look even worse than tattoos when they get older.

I thought about getting a brand done. I still do. I got my first tattoo a few weeks ago and I still would get a brand. Maybe not scarification though.

>>3521217

Okay, how about this...

I get surgical style scars over my heart, and say that was from when I had it removed... Or two scars on my shoulderblades, so I can tell all the christians about how God ripped off my wings and cast me into their mortal purgatory...

ew, strips of fatty tissue! can you imagine that shit getting infected? oozing puss all over your matress at night, rotting tissue? aw, sick!

Fuck yeah, scarification!

>>3521180

Fuck yes I would.

Looks brutal the results can looka and feel really good

>>3523570
I have some scarification

>>3523296

Because body mod is a really good way to stick it to those darn christians.

This grosses me out just as much as period paintings.

>>3523557

You can also have the skin burned away instead of cut away. Pic related was done by burning.

>>3523580

Pics?/Do tell!

>>3523573
>the results can looka and feel really good

THIS. Texture, motherfuckers, HNNG-

The thing about scarification is, though, that now kids are becoming more aware of it and thinks it's cute to carve sketchy looking roses and hearts and razor blade shapes and shit into their hips/hands/legs, and it just ends up fading to something damn near invisible because all they did was scratch just enough to see red.

On another note, I think something like this would be cute. Who says all scarification has to be like OP?

captcha: modded 15

This appeals to my masochistic side...too bad that side is fairly small, but this is still interesting.

>>3523587
It's a spider web about eh size of a cd on my right shoulder blade one of the few times pain really turned me on, no pics I'm afraid I'n not very photogenic

>>3523609
DO WANT

<- Blade scarification.

I think it's pretty cool. imo it looks more awesome fresh, because the red is so striking against the skin.

>>3521147
>>3521148
>>3521149
>>3521150
>>3521173
>>3521844
>>3523584
>>3523587
>>3523626

I just want to upend bottles of Everclear onto all of these, but especially on >>3521173

>>3523621

Kinda like this?

>>3523634
daintier as it was just a cutting no skin removal. it's prominent but white and soft

>>3523587

He's gonna regret that one.

>>3523650

Nice.

That's all I have on my computer. Let's see what dA turn up.

>>3523651

Worlds largest violin.

FUCKING RIGHT IN MY FACE WHEN I OPEN THE PAGE, GODDAMN IT CGL

>>3523655

>>3523617

...Woah. I just want to run a marker over those lines to highlight the design~

>>3523651

I would do this with white on my back. c:

>>3523656

Cello.

I just can't wait for the day when one of those crazy BJD people has BJD "joint lines" carved into their skin.

>>3523603

Much like this.

>>3523678

and this.

Interesting concept, "meh" execution.

DO WANT Sacrifice symbol from Berserk on the back of my fuckin' neck.

>>3523693

Ewww!

i love it aaaahdgsfhjg
i think scarification is a lot prettier than tattoos! i would get one done if i had a set idea of what i wanted. i don't though so i just stare and admire from afar. it's so cool

>>3523701

I love scarification with tattoo coloring/shading done. Like Anon said, texture, HNNG-

Lovin the pictures.
I can't wait for mine (well, I can, because it's expensive and not a good time for it right now). I think scarification is beautiful.

>>3523710

I wish I had more healed pictures :(
I know bmezine wants to do a regular feature of fresh vs healed scars, so I hope that happens.

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GH
HGGHHGHGHG
GHGHGH

HNNNNNGH

HNGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

HNGHNHGNHGNHGN

>>3523719
That's gonna look stupid against the old scars once it heals.

>>3523617
This is beautiful, my god.

I think scarfication is utterly disgusting in concept, but it can turn out nicely, like pic above.
I would never get it myself though. Tattoo'ing is one thing, but this? No thanks.

>>3523708
do you have any pictures? i've never seen that! it sounds beautiful

I like the ones that look like stitches

but this is insane

insane in the membrane

This thread is making me HNNNG all over the place <3

I find it absolutely beautiful.
It looks painful, but I would do it anyways.

holy shit this is stupid
tattoos are bad enough, now people are shaving off their skin too?

why
the
fuck

gif is my face as i scrolled through this

>>3523742

No, no pics, but I saw a girl with a rose scar on her hip colored red with tattooing it was amazinggg

>>3523721
YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LIZAAAAA-----
I MEAN WHOEVER IS RIPPING FLESH OFF OF MY BODY
SO I CAN HAVE A PERMANENT SCAR OF SOMETHING I WILL REGRET FOREVER LATER IN LIFEEE

Reminds me of Suicide Club :C

I don't know guys, tattoos and piercings are so passé.

This, on the other hand, is...cutting edge.

Looks needlessly painful and permanent and really kinda dumb.

>>3523785
YOU'RE LYING. I NEVER HIT YOU.

>>3523719
I love how this loser has emo cutting scars too.

>this whole thread

Looks awesome but I do NOT want to imagine the amount to pain that would have been felt during.. And how the fuck do they look after it afterwards? Imagine trying to have a bathh?? Or washing your hair and shampoo running down your back???

Jinkies!
I've gotten jabs like that before (thank you block printing, thank you tiredness) and I can't imagine doing that to your entire back. I could stand like, maybe a a 3x3 square inch hole in my back since I'm a little masochistic but fssf dsjfk skdjfks three feet of flesh? I doubt local anesthetics effect deep enough for these and people who get them probably aren't the type to care much for sweet anesthesia...

I personally like scarification. I would like to do more than I have but my body doesn't scar very well so it probably won't show very well.

That being said >>3521844 is hot as all fuck

>>3521147
>>3521148
>>3521150

I am having something similar to this done. I can't wait. I agree that it's an uncomfortable concept, and I am scared, but I feel it's a rite of passage and I want to have the bravery to go through it.

idiot

Jesus christ that's horrifying.
The infections my god.

>>3524770
Infections? Why? If you know what you are doing and pratice good aftercare you won't get infections. I used to be very active in the bod mod community and had everything from full-sleeve tattoos, dozens of piercings, few brandings and scarification. Nevr got an infection from them. Only infection I ever got? When I was a teen and got my ears pierced at a jewellery shop with one of these criminal piercing guns (cause my mom didn't trust pro piercers, as the jewellery shop looked had a posher and "cleaner" image, ugh). Looking back obviously, their suggested aftercare was guaranteed to give me an infection.

If you want to get mutilated, enlist then get your ass to Afghanistan.

>>3523886
This! How... how the hell do you take care of it afterward? Fuck. Now I have to google this shit or it's going to bother me forever. The concept grosses me out... but I am morbidly intrigued.

I would love to get soe faux suicide scars on my wrists dangerous territory though

>>3524816
if you want to get mutilated come visit me

> this thread

>load thread
>ctrl+f infection
>9 results

i guess thats enough information to know what /cgl/ thinks about it.

Personally, I believe scars are only awesome/cool/sexy if there's a real tale behind them.

Most of these carvings really don't look like there's an awesome story behind them, as in, most just look like "ir get pretty bcause of scaring".

My respect for the human body far exceeds my respect for bodymods, so to say.

>>3521147

>wake up
>go on /cgl/
>see this thread
>my face

The healed pictures look pretty, but the fresh ones are making me nauseous. I can never imagine doing this to myself, I'm such a pussy. Fuck, they take your skin off. THEY TAKE YOUR SKIN OFF!!!

>culture dripper

>>3524972
it's ok you can feel my scars

>>3521844
>>3521191
oh come on, you people actually want to scar easily? If you'd actually do you'd know that it's not something fun. I scar really easily and my entire arms are full of them (no, not from self-harm derpderp) People always ask me what happened and people who don't, usually assume I'm a goddamn junkie D:

>>3525046
This and on top of that rather deep ones that make me immediately seem like a creepy person from when I was at my lowest. I didn't think I'd be around to face any consequenced. I also have a nervous habit of scratching at myself and a lot of subtle scars from that don't look quite sexy but not that noticable. I wish there was a way to erase that shit.

It's really cool but I'd refuse to do it without painkillers

Yo, I'm actually looking to get some scarification work done. Anyone know a good shop to go to in the New England area?

>>3524791
Okay, curiousity is killing me.

Can you tell out of your own experience how you took care of the scarification afterwards? I mean that's an open wound. How did you shower? Etc.

I fond scars attractive, but only if they have some meaning behind them. This I got my skin cut off so it would scar up and look cool shit is disgusting and disgraceful.

>>3521147
Disinfection, lots of polysporin and covering it up with a gigantic bandage thing sounds right.

>>3525114
I'm a tattoo artist and have been for 17 years in the NY area. I agree with your post. Everyone does have their own device of self expression but this.... I just don't know about this.

>>3523719
I have cutting scars, but I'm tattooing over them. Its slightly more acceptable then scarification

>>3525102
I have a cutting not skin removal. Taking car of it was easy soaked the scab off in the bath every day for as long as I could disinfected it with peroxide solution and wacked dressing to stop blood getting on my clothes. Got it re-cut when it healed over treated it the same again.
most of the aftercare for cuttings is to slow the healing process

>>3525114

what makes you think people only do it to "look cool"? everyone has their own reasons.
as with any body modification, it can be anything from rite of passage, spiritual experience, remembrance/hommage, self realization, aesthetic preference...
a willingly induced scar can be just as meaningful as an accidental one.

DEAR GOD WHY? OH MY GOD WHAT THE FLYING FLIPPITY FUCK MONKEY BULLSPIT?!

Pretty though.

My back itches.

>>3525284 I'm a tattoo artist and have been for 17 years in the NY area. I agree with your post. Everyone does have their own device of self expression but this.... I just don't know about this.

Not to knock you or anything. But you do realize people said and STILL say the same thing about tattoos?

Not talking about you but why in the heck would anyone want to put INK in their body. Draw a picture and frame it on your wall if you freaking like it so much.
Want to express yourself? There are these things called words. Although you do have to be smart enough to convey what you mean to say. Which might be the connection between tattoos and the people who get them.

>>3525284
So do you work out of a shop or anything? I get mine at 3 Kings in Brooklyn but might change if I new there was a seagull nearby.

>>3525284
>this form of self-expression is weird
-a tattoo artist

Good times.

>>3526061
How did you become a tattoo artist?
I really want to become one, but I'm not sure how to get training?

>>3526209

You have to practice on yourself and submit your body as your portfolio to a committee of tattoo artists in San Francisco. If approved they will give you a location to start your business or will send you to a trade school for tattoo artistry in Canada, Ontario to be specific.

>>3526242
notsureifserious.jpg

Oh my god, this is disgusting. I mean seriously, won't that shit get infected? Aughdaslfkdsalfjdsklfd

>>3526249
not serious.

Most people would submit a portfolio of shit they draw, then you get an aprenticship, then you practice on a subsitute skin like pig skin, then you get you first client.

this process can take about 4 years till they'll let you go near the needle

>>3527264
it is and can
but they burn the carved skin which seals it, not taking care of the burn can get you a mega infection

>>3523886
>pain

Globs of benzocaine ointment while carving and lidoderm patch for while it heals solves that little bit quite nicely, I'd imagine.

>>3527272
...brb portfolio starting...
I've been curious as to how to go about getting into the tattooing business but everyone around here only goes as far as saying "lolbeanapprentice". ._.

Must suck to scratch.

>>3527311

Oh god, just thinking of the scabs that would form is making me salivate.

>>3527311
oh god it'd feel so good to scratch.

>>3527313

>this thread.

>>3527314

What? Scabs ARE the best part of the healing process. Superior even to plain skin, since you can enjoy scabs.

>>3523645

LOL I know that guy! He has carvings of a lock on the back of his neck too. Oh the la fet scene lol

>>3527272
How would you go about asking a tattoo artist to train you? Any reccomendations of particular subjects or styles to add to your portfolio?

I currently have some portraits (realistic), and drawings of flowers and stuff(semi-realistic)

I'd need to be on drugs in order to do something like this. A lot of them.

There's something like this except where they burn the skin and it leaves a raised scar - so its just about the same. They put a small piece of metal under your skin and heat it up, producing the line. Either ways are risky, since no one is ever sure how the skin is going to "take" the scar. It could end up horrendous, it could end up pretty...I don't think its truly worth it, but whatever floats your boat.

It makes me wonder. I was planning a whole tattoo sleeve for my left arm, but what are the views of cosplayers with such things? I mean, it'd be hard to cover up the whole arm, and not every character has long sleeves.
Whatevs. Just more nerd points I guess.

yea... I'm super accident prone, so I once leaned against a frying pan while it was cooking something and didn't notice.... until part of the skin on my elbow came off. The healing process on that one was horrible seeing as how I was in school at the time and everyone would knock into my arm going from class to class. How you can avoid the pain of everything while it's healing is insane... D:


don't get me wrong... some of these are amazing and make me want one, but ho God. Infection, removal of skin that deep....

I bet all of these people are American.
Just another reason to be ashamed.

I'm so glad you people love your bodies enough to carve em up. WHAT ARE YOU GONNA TELL YOUR KIDS?

"Mommy had a man cut her up so she could look neat!"?

buncha retardation these days. You kids are unappreciative, lemme tell you.