scars and keloids..why?

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Thursday July 24th, 2008 @ 3:02 AM

Filed under: Scarification

I am pretty experienced with piercings and tattoos and some suspension, but I’m kind of new to scarification..I was wondering, why is it that when people get scarification day, they hope for keliods? Or are happy when it does result in keloids? And c’mooon..please don’t give me a crab-apple kind of answer because I’m new and want answers but wherever else I look, I can’t figure out exactly why..all I have is a few ideas. Thank you BME, you rock

But what if we reeeeeeally want to give you crab-apple answers? Crab-Apples are delicious and nutritious! I miss my old Crab-Apple tree!

The reality is those who want raised scars hope for keloidal scarring because when it keloids, it raises a lot more then average/normal scar tissue.

However although there are MANY people who want really raised scars, there are just as many who want subtle/flat scars.

When a scar keloids its more visual and able to be seen. Where as when it doesn’t keloid the lines can be very thin and without a close up inspection, many people won’t know its there.

Although depending on the certain scarification that is done, keloid scarring can be more problematic than helpful. Case in point awhile back on ModBlog the documentation of the individual who had 3 scars on his chest/ab region and it keloided out of control and needed to be removed,etc.

Hence why anyone who is looking into scarification should really grasp the understanding of keloid scarring, hypertrophic scarring,etc. As well as how such scars will impact the region that is about to receive the scarification project, and if any complications could potentially arise from it.

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