Have you ever considered branding?
 

instead of tattoos or something?

I saw this thing on skin carving and thought this was actually really beautiful:




after it healed:



but I would never do it unless it was on my arm or something and I can keep things from touching it and making it sore.

No, but then again I'm not cattle.

Hell no.

Also, I'm scared. Of branding.

Also, the scared/scarred pun was impressive, I must say.

yeh I have. Scarification in general, as well as branding. But branding especially is fairly unpredictable and depends a lot on your skin type. In the past my skin has not scarred much with either cuts or burns. I had a fairly large burn(cast iron plate, eh) on my upper arm about 3 years ago and for the first year it was really dark, but you cannot see it at all now. I have a few SI scars on my arms, but the amount of scars doesn't relate well to the amount of times they were cut up.
I'd love it if I could get something winding and ethnic on/around one of my forearms with the kind of look you see on lots of african tribes, but I doubt it would turn out that way. They use cutting + ash and african skin is not so similar to maltese/celtic whitey. :(

This girl's one you've posted looks fucking gorgeous, but not everyone's would turn out so nice and evenly.

I said yes but only to branding other people.

i thought you meant branding as in having a brand name tattooed to yourself (for money) instead of paying to have the chinese word for gay permanently inked around your belly button.

do I look black to you?

uhm, no. i don't even consider a regular tattoo.

:mad: