What is it called when you get a tattoo scraping off skin and leaving a scar as the tattoo?

kj_imagine2007-04-09T09:28:58Z

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It's called scarification, and it's done by branding (burning) or cutting the skin. Here's a link of collected photos of what it looks like.

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=images&imgsz=all&imgc=&vf=photo&va=scarification&fr=slv8-acer&ei=UTF-8

Sexy Sel2007-04-09T08:23:12Z

Hey, it's called scarification.

Here is a gallery that shows loads of scarification tattoo's

http://www.bmezine.com/scar/bme-scar.html

Ren2007-04-10T00:02:32Z

There is also a procedure called carving where the skin is cut out leaving a "picture" of basically the underlying muscle. It's too extreme for me though!!

Anonymous2016-03-18T02:19:51Z

accidentally scraped skin fresh tattoo

this Mike guy2007-04-09T08:58:04Z

a dumb idea

EDIT: never mind, I thought you meant you wanted to remove a tattoo by scraping it off your skin. I now realize you were referring to scarification, I didn't read the other answers before sry lol.

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