Cutting: ornamental colors as body jewelry
Attention, this article gets under your skin and is not for the faint-hearted. Imagine someone using a scalpel to scratch a pattern into your skin and simply pull off the intervening layers of skin. Without local anesthesia. Sounds painful? That's very clear!
© lines-and-dots.comAnd yet, people voluntarily submit to this procedure. Cutting is a form of body jewelry. After scoring the pattern, a scar appears after about six to twelve months. In those areas where the skin has been completely removed, extensive scarring develops. These decorative colors then decorate the body like a tattoo or a piercing. In order for the scar to be particularly prominent, the healing of the wound is purposely slowed down with irritating substances. At least now non-followers of the "Bodymodification" scene probably have goose bumps on the entire body.
© lines-and-dots.comIncidentally, these scarifications are not new: they are one of the oldest forms of body modification among African peoples. For tattoos are often not at all or only slightly visible when the skin is dark. While scars are often perceived in the Western world as a sign of a previous injury, in other cultures they are considered jewelry or a sign of the unity of a group.
Anyone who wants to be cut with us should always pay attention to hygienic and accurate work. Otherwise, the wounds, which are up to three millimeters deep, can become badly inflamed.
