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 ...

Having an evening walk with my nine year old niece last week, a look of shock appeared on her face seeing a middle-aged man probably a Masai with face full of scars. “Uncle, what happened to that man?

Used as a form of initiation into adulthood and a sign of beauty or membership of a specific clan, scarification is a way for tribes to wear their identities on their faces. The ceremony is a process ...

“WRITING” on the skin using stones, glass or knives – scarification – is a traditional, permanent body decoration that is “like wearing your identity card on your face”. In Papua New Guinea, for ...

A Nigerian model, Adetutu Alabi has called on the public to desist from bullying people with tribal marks. Tribal marks are scarification which are specific identification and beautification marks ...

A TRIBE in Papua New Guinea carries out one of the world’s most extreme initiation ceremonies on boys as young as 11 which sees their skin sliced open with razor blades so their scars will resemble ...

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 ...

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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 ...