WARNING: This article contains graphic images of scarification. Tattoos may be pretty commonplace these days, but one age-old body modification trend is still shocking people after taking off on ...

Scarification is a form of body modification. The scarification process involves someone purposefully cutting into the skin to create scars in specific designs, patterns, or markings. Many ...

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.

Baule sculptural figures depicting scarification idealize Baule notions about beauty and are still admired for their likeness to humans even though the practice of scarification has died out. Vogel ...

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.