…sun (back/stomach/underside of arm) make it last longer?

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Friday September 7th, 2007 @ 11:32 PM

Filed under: Scarification

I have a small ice branding on my left hand, which was done by pressing dry ice directly to the skin. (Yes, this was done backstage at a play that used dry ice for fog effects, no we weren’t drunk)

It healed really quickly, and left a really beautiful lily-white scar on my dark olive skin, but apparently I tan too readily, as after a few weeks, the thing has all but disappeared.

So, my question is this… I’m planning on getting a larger ice branding, so would putting it somewhere less exposed to sun (back/stomach/underside of arm) make it last longer? Is there anything else I could do to preserve the scar?

From the sounds of it, you may have only damaged the superficial layers of skin and not actually generated any long term scarring. Cold branding is an imperfect form at best, but if you want to try it and can’t access liquid nitrogen try this:

Make a sollution of dry ice and 90% isopryl alcohol. Dip a piece of copper in this and use the copper as the strike branding implement. It will take several prolonged strikes to do any substantial scarring.

Don’t expect any detail,amazing results (or possibly even scarring period) and you won’t be disappointed.

- Sean Philips

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