Cultures around the world still honor ancient traditional practices of body modification, or the intentional and often irreversible alteration of the skin. For many practitioners, body modifications ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics has released its first clinical report on Tattoos and body piercings. The AAP recommendations, "Adolescent and Young Adult Tattooing, Piercing and Scarification," ...

Tattoos may be pretty commonplace these days, but one age-old body modification trend is still shocking people after taking off on social media. Instead of traditional tattooing, where ink is inserted ...

TORONTO – When Holly Mosienko decided to cover up an unsightly scar on her leg, she strayed away from typical solutions, like plastic surgery or makeup. Instead, she opted for more scarring — this ...

Branding, etching, cutting - is “scarification” the next big thing in the world of body art? Scarification experts, blood painters, graffiti artists, aerial silk contortionists and car and ...

A news item that resurfaced today involves the Arkansas state legislature, which, by an overwhelming majority of 26-4 in its Senate, recently passed a bill that would ban certain tattoo procedures and ...

JONESBORO, AR (KAIT)- A relativelynew tattoo law has been getting a lot of attention on social media. Arkansaslawmakers legally redefined the term body art to include scarification,whichis the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Parents of teenagers considering tattoos, piercings or scarification — cutting, burning or branding ...

'Brave' Josh opted for the scarification design, performed by body modifier Brendan Russell, to cover up his existing inkings A LAD who went off the tattoos on his forehead decided to replace them – ...

If you aren’t familiar with the works of Popek Rak, he’s a Polish rapper (or “raper”) turned MMA fighter with a career record of 2-1, a desire to mutilate his body in one way or another and nobody ...

TORONTO - When Holly Mosienko decided to cover up an unsightly scar on her leg, she strayed away from typical solutions, like plastic surgery or makeup. Instead, she opted for more scarring — this ...