Are tattoos scars?
As listed in newsletter #87: www.b3ta.com/board/1017769

I neglected to mention the *other* one I fucked about with myself, on my ankle, with a sewing needle & bottles of ink... it's still partially visible, at least the black Geminii sign in the middle... you can't make out any of the coloured bits, as they've faded with time.

I've got a lovely scar on my right shin that only shows up really well when I tan (read: sunburn, natural redhead here). I decided round about the age of 12 that it was time to become a woman and shave the peach fuzz off my legs. Instead I took off a strip of skin directly on my shin bone measuring about 6" long and 1/2" wide... it didn't really hurt much until I saw the flap of skin go down the drain.

I've also got a scar on the outside of my right calf from a wonderous ATV accident, precipitated by my brother jumping off the front of it (while driving), which caused the handlebars to turn the thing sharply to the right. I leaned forward to try to steer myself away from the tree I was headed toward, but instead ended up with my leg stuck under the wheel (which kept turning until the rubber tore into my leg), and my hand stuck between the tree, its branches, and the accelerator on the handle, with the whole mess continually pushing itself further into the tree & trapping me for what seemed like an eternity. In times of panic, it's always important to remember the kill switch...

I've got a lovely scar across the top joint on the middle finger of my right hand from where I almost cut off the end of it with a very sharp pair of brand new Fiskars kitchen shears. I was quite young, I don't even recall what I was doing with the scissors. Probably just running around the house.

I've got a scar on the fleshy mound of my palm, opposite my thumb, where I've been trying randomly over the years to dig out a pencil lead that's been imbedded in my hand since the 7th grade. I didn't get it out for the 10th year anniversary, I'm hoping I'll get it in time to celebrate the 15th.

I'm not sure this counts, but I've got scarred track marks on the inside of my elbow on my right arm from having had my blood drawn so many times! For some reason, nurses don't seem to care about such trivial things as making their patients look like heroin addicts...

I've got a whole mess of road rash scars under my chin and just inside my hairline, also a lovely one on the bridge of my nose that (thankfully) has faded over the past 10 years enough to not be noticable, and one directly on the line where my top lip meets the cupid's bow. Somehow it's just not as manly & intimidating on a woman... all of this from the idiotic decision to get on a go-kart being driven by someone who was stoned & tripping.

My most recent addition (does this count?) would have to be my DIY nipple piercings, which are healing quite nicely. (Send me the money for it & I'll go get myself professionally pierced next time! - I'm still working myself up to having more of the less visible bits done, but I'm flat broke... and not opposed to taking donations)

For some reason, I forsee more DIY disasters in my future... I seem to be amassing them...
(Ecclesia, Sat 5 Feb 2005, 6:17, Reply)