July 29, 2009 - Covering up the memory of self-harming action can be a way of showing how one has moved on with their life. These branding and scarification creations show how people have covered up their old scars with these new designs.

June 29, 2009 - In terms of flaunting your scars, you can have personalized jewelry made to look just like your scar or design a tattoo around your scar. Macabre body mods like scarification and branding create scars just like tattoos.

June 15, 2009 - In an update on branding, here are a few more chill-inducing pictures of the new fad that has more and more people opting for scars than tattoos. Branding, or scarification, emerged in San Francisco and was originally embraced by gay and lesbian...

April 27, 2009 - will already know that scarification is becoming increasingly popular amongst hard core body modification fans. This is a collection of scarification works of art that are truly for the hardcore geeks out there.

April 18, 2009 - The results of this body mod procedure leave raised, red images. Scarification can also be used to cover old scars; in a similar manner, branding irons can also be used.

February 26, 2009 - As tattoos become mainstream, more and more people are looking towards body modification, piercing unusual parts of their bodies and scarification as a means to express their individuality in an extreme fashion.

October 05, 2008 - Scarification refers instead to the practise of using scar tissue naturally produced by the body to form designs, pictures or words into the skin. These scars are most often formed by cutting or branding the skin.

October 05, 2008 - It is also becoming more and more common, however, for people to choose branding and scarification to cover up old self-harm scars. The technique is called ‘body reclamation’ and is meant to put those who have cut or otherwise hurt themselves back...