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 ...

Cicatrices often manifesting as facial marks; scarification; and tattoo represent a symbol of specific identification and beautification among the South western Yoruba. The historical practice marks a ...

When Eva Nieto went to school for piercing and branding in 2002, she thought it may have been of waste of her time and money--at least for the branding portion. Nieto was interested in branding but ...

Keith aspires to look like a walking piece of art with tattoos covering his almost all of his skin, including his eyeballs. Find out why he was rejected on "Botched" ...

Painting with chalk -- Chalk & ocher -- Colors of the earth -- Ocher bodies -- Red ocher -- Ocher & oil -- Powdered with ash -- Patterns of beauty -- Spirit paint -- Painting for seduction "The ...

Content warning: Human alteration and scalpels. General warning: We are not speaking as doctors. Or lawyers. If you watch sci-fi, you probably do not have to think hard to conjure a scene in a trendy ...