What is the best metal touse for human branding? I want to brand myself w/o getting infected or poisoned?

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Okay...here's the basic deal with scarification, or "skin branding":

1. Warning

Scarification is not a precise art; there are many variables, such as skin type, depth of the cut, and how the wound is treated while healing, that make the outcome somewhat unpredictable. The body creates the scar, not the artist; it is important to keep in mind that a method that works well on one person may not work so well on another. Also, the scars tend to spread a bit as they heal, so scarifications are usually relatively simple designs -- small details can easily get swallowed up in the healing process. It is extremely easy to get infected badly, and even experienced body artists can make errors in cutting too deeply or burning too hot or too long.

2. The Tools Used In Strike Branding

The type of branding done with metal is called "strike branding". There are other kinds of branding that use other methods. "Most artists choose to make their branding tools out of thin high-grade stainless steel sheet metal. That said, other materials such as silver, random metal findings (bolts, etc.), and even ceramics have been used. Metal allergies and biocompatibility does come into play to some extent, but in general any foreign substances will come off with the scab (if they're even transferred at all)."

3. More About The Tools

"As far as the thickness of the metal, thinner is usually better. It's easy to heat, and easy to form, and only carries a limited amount of potential damage (whereas a red-hot 1/2" bolt can do enormous damage if held against the skin for too long). Remember as well that a brand will typically heal to three or four times as thick as the utensil, and usually never be thinner than 3/16" (about the same as the line drawn by a fat magic marker)."

"The whole brand is not done as a single brand. The design is divided up into many smaller sections no larger than about an inch and a half. These smaller sections may be shaped of course (i.e. arcs instead of lines). It should be noted that a small area of skin is enclosed in branded tissue (for example a small circular outline brand), it will probably die as well and become part of the scar (as it can lose it's blood supply)."

4. How Long To Brand

"The brand is pressed in long enough to burn through all the surface skin. If this is not achieved the client will be left with a lot of pain and blistering, and then after healing either no scar, or a blotchy mess that barely resembles their design. As far as how long and hard, this really depends on how much the material has been heated."

"Most important though is that all of the strikes are even in relation to the skin they're on as this will increase the chances of the brand looking uniform. It should be noted that as a brand is done, the skin in the area will contract, deforming the tissue and slightly changing the way following strikes are absorbed."

5. Just One More Warning!

"Branding, cutting, and scarification are far from precise arts, and because the call for scarification is much smaller than that for piercing or tattooing, most artists are simply not that experienced. In addition, even experienced artists have trouble getting consistent results because there are so many variables in the healing process. To compensate, many artists feel it's responsible to stick to relatively simple geometric designs, rather than more intricate patterns."

6. Conclusion

Look, if you want to get a brand, go right ahead - as long as you know the risks. I can understand why it can be preferable to tattoos, for example. But please, please *please* do not do this yourself if you are not an experienced body artist in branding. Designing the tools and knowing how to do the burn properly - you have to have a serious handle on the human anatomy so that you don't hurt yourself - are hard enough. But having to concentrate on all that while sustaining the brand is just asking for serious trouble.

Check out the info below - especially that last link - for more about scarification. But remember...your health is more important than your aesthetics. Don't screw up your epidermis or worse when you could simply enlist a cool, professional body artist to help you out.

Best of luck & happy body-modifying!

EDIT: For those of you who are drawing a lot of assumptions about scarification, please understand that in this case, it falls into the category of "body modification", like tattoos, not "body mutilation", like depressed individuals who may cut or injure themselves. Someone who chooses branding has chosen an unconventional technique to emblazon an image on skin, but it can also be superior as a method, as it does not involve toxins, and the image is produced by one's own body rather than the artist's ink. I find the lengths women go to meet the feminine ideal, for example, a lot more psychologically unhealthy than someone taking some artistic license with his/her own body -- why isn't that getting as much condemnation?

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Answer 8

You better damned well make sure you want that on your body for the rest of your life. Did you know that self mutilation is a mental disease? I really feel sorry for today's youth. You're doing things to your body that will have ramifications for the rest of your life. If you really want to be different, than be yourself and stop following everyone else's lead. It just makes you look like a fool. Just because tatoo's and piercings are in right now, they're just a fad and will fade into obscurity. Then, for the rest of your life you'll have to explain to people why you were so dumb in your youth as to permanantly scar yourself. And if anyone out there is thinking of a medical progession, I suggest you specialize in plastic surgery. In 15 to 20 years, you'll be making a mint just in tatoo removal.

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