scarification and implants

[falllenshadows]

Terragar

falllenshadows

Mesic, if you find a good place for flesh removal/scarification could you let me know? I live in VA also and would be willing to travel to get something done if I knew it would be done profesionally.

I've been trying to track down some reliable places with skilled artists, but havnt found any Id feel okay about with letting them "work" on me. And I do not really know anyone that has had anything of that sort done, so I cant even find out about places from word of mouth.

You could try Howie(www.lunacobra.net) He's awesome, and he travels

Wowm yeah Id say he is awsome, I browsed through a bunch of his work. Now Ill jsut have to find out if he comes anywhere near me  

[-Panty.Waste-]

Implants kinda weird me out.

I seen this one guy once and he had a dragon tatooed all the way up his neck and half up his face, and he had a steel plate implanted in his face so the dragon looked 3D, well you know what I mean. But it was crazy!  

[babies-in-a-cage]

How the hell do you people even burn those designs!?!? What do you use? Same with scarification, is it just a blade or....  

[popcornsharingbox]

Well, there's generic scarification, and then there's skin removal. Skin removal is mainly what's used to create more complicated or bigger designs. What they do is cut along the edges of the design, lift the skin at a corner just barely, and cut the connecting tissue in the area to be removed.

If that makes sense?

As for burning, there are specific tools they use. Little electric branders of sorts.  

[eclecticitea]

babies-in-a-cage

How the hell do you people even burn those designs!?!? What do you use? Same with scarification, is it just a blade or....

It depends on the artists performing the procedure...
For scarification, surgical scalpels are used. When I got mine done, my artist used #10 blades. Different blades can give a scar piece different effects and some prove to work better for high-detail designs or cross hatching than others.

For branding, some people use heated pieces of metal for geometric patterns (I think there was a clip of Brian Decker using pieces that were heated and applying that to the skin) where other branding artists like Steve Haworth uses an electrocautery method that acts more like a pen/more free flowing in terms of design.