The painful process of creating raised tattoos has been used for hundreds of years. In recent years, scarification has become remarkably widespread in Europe, the U.S. and Australia.

Scarification is the world’s most shocking and extreme form of body modification. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. WITH tattoos now mainstream, body modification fans are turning to a new extreme.

"With scarification, the design is from your body only." Others, he adds, want an intense, euphoric experience, making the body art all the more important. "At the end of the day, it's not just ...

DETROIT (WWJ) - Inside one local Detroit tattoo and piercing parlor there is new insight into the oddities that are gaining popularity. WWJ's Kathryn Larson spoke with owner of Detroit's Custom ...

The painful process of creating raised tattoos has been used for hundreds of years. In recent years, scarification has become remarkably widespread in Europe, the U.S. and Australia.