How do I make a cut a scar? - Help.com

Ive done the same thing… kind of a tattoo really…
Let it heal a bit and yes then pick off the scab every day for a few days…

oh wow, are kids getting more stupid each generation or is it just me?

Seriously, all I can think of to say is WTF??

Anonymous wrote:
Ive done the same thing… kind of a tattoo really…
Let it heal a bit and yes then pick off the scab every day for a few days…

Hmm, that never worked for me, I think.
And think about it, cause you might not like it as much when youre older. Crazy idea if you ask me…

I still like mine. A cat scratched me on my thigh…
It is no different from getting a tattoo.
Each to their own.
You have understand it is perminant.

LoL so when you go out and someone says “wow dude that is such a cool scar; how did you get it”.. what are going to say?
Well I got it by picking my scab all the time…
I think it should be nicknamed the retard scab!
Only someone with half a brain would do something like that and think it was cool.
******* morons.

lol, yeah it is, a tattoo is ink and art, not some scar you made on purpose

I’m sorry but what i say still applies

TulipsDream wrote:
I would rather you guys not call me stupid especially since it’s called f******** help dot come not lets bash someone asking a question. I would think that your parents would have taught you that if you didn’t have anything nice to say you wouldn’t say it at all.
I already have scars, and I do f******** like them because each one has it’s own memory. So lesson to learn for LazyDaze and Dani think before you speak.

Truth can sometimes be bitter.
Help does not come in only what you want to hear form.
We are helping you to maybe open up your eyes and realize that what you are suggesting IS a totally STUPID idea; if I came here and said yeah wow well done mutilate your body because you think it is cool do you think YOUR parents would appriciate that and do you think that is the way THEY raised you?

Anonymous wrote:
It’s not well-known because it’s not really part of normal society and not as many people have it like tattooes, however, there is something called Scarification. You can look it up further on Google.com, it might interest you.

Scarifying involves scratching, etching, or some sort of superficial cutting or incision. Scarification, in botany, involves cutting the seed coat using abrasion, thermal stress, or chemicals to encourage germination. In alternative contexts scarification may refer to the cutting of concrete using hydrodemolition, or as a permanent body modification, etching designs, pictures, or words into the skin.

¤¤ Đani ¤¤ wrote:
oh wow, are kids getting more stupid each generation or is it just me?

like i said, WOW

I think it’s stupid and you’ll regret it at some stage in your life, let it heal properly

by the way we’re not calling you stupid we’re calling your idea stupid. Even the best of us do really dumb things we regret later

Omg, really?? Seriously? Do as you will it’s your body… But, with posting a help question you really need to be willing to take the negative feedback along with the positive.

ok sorry dani called you stupid, I really have to read the whole bloody post

hehehh i knoww that’s kinda weird, but ive done it before lolz
yep i always pick my scabs…baddd habit… but it works if you want a scar! lol

all this brilliant advice comes from teenagers who are going to look at these pretty little scars and appreciate them even more after 30 I’m sure

The ‘SCAR’ comes from the cells not healing correctly. To slow the healing process imagine the 2 edges coming back together. Now block them from doing that. Apply high heat to stunt cell regrowth. A jagged edge knife lightly rubbed across it will also destroy the even cell regrowth. The edge can also be attacked with light grit sand paper, say 220 or higher. Binding it in a tight wrap with string or twine to reshape the growth pattern might help. But best of all is just don’t let the blood flow stop to that area, or no new cells will go there. I hope this helped. In the future you can add tattoos to it and then try to cover it up and make it the start of something else even more unique. The story of how you got it is not as important as why you keep it.

cham wrote:
all this brilliant advice comes from teenagers who are going to look at these pretty little scars and appreciate them even more after 30 I’m sure

they asked how to make a cut a scar, and we’re telling them. no need to get testy

helpplz11 wrote:

cham wrote:
all this brilliant advice comes from teenagers who are going to look at these pretty little scars and appreciate them even more after 30 I’m sure

they asked how to make a cut a scar, and we’re telling them. no need to get testy

I just speak from experience, I’m 33 and I regret certain things, so I don’t want someone else to make the same mistake

Yeah, but does a 16 year old really know whats best/cool for him or her? Getting older it won’t be so “neat”.

Anonymous wrote:
Yeah, but does a 16 year old really know whats best/cool for him or her? Getting older it won’t be so “neat”.

if they want it, and no one’s getting hurt, then why not?
if they regret it later, then they’ll live with it, after all it’s their decision

helpplz11 you yourself have a lot of growing up to do… commenting back and forth to a teenager is pointless cause whatever someone else who has life experiences gives any kind of advice you’ll always have something to argue just to make yourself sound right.. you being in high school you already know everything anyways.. whatever like I said it’s her body I’m done with this post!

im just saying my opinion….

whats wrong with scars? if you think eternal happiness can be found by having 100% featureless skin with no imperfections atall then you are more daft than this person who wants a scar.

i personally would like a scar or two. Ive got a very small one on my thumb where i nearly sawed it off but no big ones…

the best bet is to keep picking the scab off but if the scratch was only on the surface then its gonna be difficult to get a permanent scar, you need to damage the underlying cells that multiply to replace the scratch. When these cells are damaged then part of your bodies genetic code is corrupted and the nearest cells have to guess where they should grow back resulting in a scar that isnt what you skin used to look like…

asd wrote:
scars are not cool…. anyone who thinks they are cool (including you) needs a good look at reality.

It is not cool, its actually stupid.

why? your all brainwashed by this idea that you need to look as good as these people in magazines. How do you think people with accidental scars feel? ‘Its not cool its stupid’, yea, thats nice… :(

no one should give a **** about what people look like, its ridiculous, your all living in a dream world, maybe if you put more effort into other people than yourself and your appearance then maybe you’d actually ‘fit in’ with humanity rathern than your group of fake friends. Friends are people, partners are people, not images or pictures of somthing that supposedly looks perfect…

and a scar is a scar, whats the big deal? a mark on your skin, a remanent of an injury, OMG DISCUCTING OR WHAT! I THINK I’M GONNA BE SICK!… NOT!

AdamMartinEdwardson, I agree with you, i have a few scars from getting surgery on my arm…is that stupid? it’s not my fault, and i don’t regret it. it doesnt take a lot for me to get a scar either, almost every cut i get turns into a scar, and im fine with it, as most are.

asd wrote:
“I cut myself yesterday on accident but the cut turned out really cool so I want to keep it. I heard that all you have to do is rip off the scab when I get one but it’s kind of sensitive right now and I can’t.”

Creating scars is not cool. It is stupid.

People with not self inflicted scars (burns, cuts, accidents etc), are like any other person and not part of this discussion.

why is it stupid? there is no negative consequence… using hair spray and hair gel is stupid, it uses up oil and pollutes the environment but people still change there appearance that way…

plus who’s to know how you got the scar? just say u got it somehow else…

If you know that there is a likely chance that someone without enough life experience is going to regret a poor decision it is irresponsible to argue for that decision no matter how you look at it.

i quit, bye people :]

cham wrote:
If you know that there is a likely chance that someone without enough life experience is going to regret a poor decision it is irresponsible to argue for that decision no matter how you look at it.

how exactly is it a poor decision? your telling me that all these people in here that claim to have experiance have all self inflicted scars and regreted doing it?

AdamMartinEdwardson wrote:

cham wrote:
If you know that there is a likely chance that someone without enough life experience is going to regret a poor decision it is irresponsible to argue for that decision no matter how you look at it.

how exactly is it a poor decision? your telling me that all these people in here that claim to have experiance have all self inflicted scars and regreted doing it?

This place is about helping people not hurt themselves or make mistakes however small they may be.

I’m just appealing to you to see it in a differently light. It may seem insignificant, but the way I see it this place is about making people think very hard before they do something stupid. This person may end up loving the scar (which is highly unlikely) and it may not even affect her that much, but I know your values change dramatically once you enter your late 20’s, early 30’s and beyond.

If you really think about it honestly, scarring yourself, especially if you’re a girl is a numbnut thing to do in the majority of cases. The people who are going to end up being proud of their scars and value them later in life are the extreme minority.

I have a LOT of scars that I wish I didn’t have but there is a difference between people who get scars from certain situations in their life and self inflicted scars. You seem to be saying that they represent memories or a persons personality or something along those lines. And that can be true. But what does it say if you decided to cut your self because it looked cool…honestly it dosn’t give people the most flattering impression of you. I just hope you don’t regret this in 5-10 years time.

It’s up to you of course. You posted the topic. Whether suicide post or of lesser significance you still deserve an honest answer.

At the end of the day this is YOUR decision to make.

Bear in mind that what seems good now, may be something you regret later.
There are 100s of older people getting tattoos removed, for example.
Also, what you view as ‘cool’ now WILL be different 10 years from now - I’m speaking from my experiences as they changed me a lot over the years.

I think you would be rushing into a decision you should take slowly. I don’t think you’re DUMB and I don’t believe anybody has the right to judge you so rudely.

What IS smart is not to do anything unless you know 100% that 10 years from now, you’re going to be ‘cool’ (notice, I didn’t say HAPPY, just able to live with it) and unless you have a crystal ball, you can’t really do that.

That’s why Dani and Cham are telling you not to do it. It is your choice, though.

You’re taking all this awfully personally, I just showed the post to someone who posted on how to remove a scar. Good luck

Its not you I meant to call stupid, it just the idea…I have scars which I wish I didn’t have and I understand you don’t regret them. Be careful about giving yourself scars though, depending how you do it you could end up with infections.

You really should have anticipated that not everyones idea of help was going to be the same as yours. Cham, Dani and some others are just giving you what they consider better advice.

I have a self-inflicted scar back from when I thought it was fine to do. I look at that scar and it gives me memories I wish I didn’t have. Just my two cents.

Ok…Coolness aside, if you think it’s uncool then why do it? I’m responding to the fact that you said in the original post that it turned out ‘cool’…looking back at the posts tho, if it’s only 2cm then you’ll be living with much smaller scars than I’ve inflicted (accidentally or otherwise) in my lifetime. I don’t think this is half as serious as it’s being made out to be. *smile*

..but do you find it cool? And from this topic/post it seems that others do find it ‘cool’.

well I didn’t mean to call you per say stupid, your actions are stupid

and yeah when you post something as “strange” as this, your going to have to expect not everything you want to hear, and everyone is entitled to your opinion’s, so I suggest you calm down

Anonymous wrote:
I still like mine. A cat scratched me on my thigh…
It is no different from getting a tattoo.
Each to their own.
You have understand it is perminant.

I believe the exspression is: “To each is own”

And in my humble oppinion I dont think you should do that to yourself tulips…

Av got tons o Scars, av got 6 on my right hand an 4 on my left my legs have about 10 altogether, and i have about 3 on my face an my back has at least 10 again. They were through stupidity more than anything.

scars are not cool. enough said.

TulipsDream wrote:
I would rather you guys not call me stupid especially since it’s called f******** help dot come not lets bash someone asking a question. I would think that your parents would have taught you that if you didn’t have anything nice to say you wouldn’t say it at all.
I already have scars, and I do f******** like them because each one has it’s own memory. So lesson to learn for LazyDaze and Dani think before you speak.

ok, sorry im a little late to this thing, but i agree I N A W A Y. scars do hold memories and like tattoos, they mean something. but they cd get infected, one of mine did. some of the ones i did, i picked at, and i wish to god i hadnt. cos i have to see them every day. one i did on purpose and it hate seeing it.
other ones, i did like a tattoo. of peoples names, so i can remember them. the only thing i dont like about it tbh is the looks i get from people.
dani is right, it can be a silly thing to do.
but the bottom line? its you. your body, your decision. one of my teachers told me ‘ theyre your arms, you cut them if you want to ‘ i think its the same sorta thing. pick at your scabs if you want to. i for one am not gonna judge, cos i do the same thing.

still debating about the scar are we?

You know, in some places scars are considered beautiful. I’m just saying.

cham wrote:
still debating about the scar are we?

lol

to answer your original question… continuously picking off the scab will indeed leave a scar eventually. i’ve done it on accident before. i wouldn’t recommend doing it a lot tho. when you are older you may not want A LOT of scars. but a few may look kinda bad a.

Your body is a temple… you only get one.

Dr. Ralph wrote:
Your body is a temple… you only get one.

If my body is a temple, it’s a temple to some strange dark god with tentacles and an unpronouncable name, with weird, disturbed carvings on the wall and a suspiciously large alter.

pick at it for days and days. eat the scabs, that helps

scars like tatoos tell a story but scars are more intiment. you will regret it at times butthen other times you will love them they shpaeyour life. Keep it from healing keep picking the scab. wear really skin tight long sleeves or like some thing lose with like a sock around it. it makes it easier to pull off the scab.

pick at the scab. it really i fun in a weird way.. :)

I regret having the scars on my shin. I never picked at them or anything, cuz I didnt want them to be turned into scars. But guess what? They just turned into scars anyways. The main one 4″ long and 1.5″ wide. Also lost the nerves as well so I cant feel anything on most of the right side of my left shin. Barbed wire sucks!

Scars are bad *** if you get in a fight.

Other than that, the story behind the scar has no meaning. Your scar won’t have any meaning, except that you were weak. You don’t want to show that…

If you’re a pot smoker, try heating up the top of a metal bowl, then press hardly on the area of your skin you want scarred. Leaves a nice circle/oval. Wanna be more creative? You can creat the olympic rings after a year or so.

No picking necessary.

TulipsDream wrote:

VIABLEuser wrote:
If you’re a pot smoker, try heating up the top of a metal bowl, then press hardly on the area of your skin you want scarred. Leaves a nice circle/oval. Wanna be more creative? You can creat the olympic rings after a year or so.

No picking necessary.

I didn’t want to just have any scar.

Hah, sorry. I felt that this post was outdated, so I figured there was no harm.

Still, I’m curious to know how the scar turned out. I saw that many people degraded those who approved of this idea. Did you let them sway your decision?

VIABLEuser wrote:
If you’re a pot smoker, try heating up the top of a metal bowl, then press hardly on the area of your skin you want scarred. Leaves a nice circle/oval. Wanna be more creative? You can creat the olympic rings after a year or so.

No picking necessary.

It wasn’t really intended towards you, I’m sorry. I just thought that since I took the time to read through this post, I should leave my mark. :P Anyway, hope you stuck with your own interests, it’s really not that big of a deal if you can be comfortable. Even when you’ve reached 50 years old. People just tend to blow things out of proportion when they’re relating others to their own experience. Especially of past regrets.

congratulations (Y)

i think the only reason people are really against you keeping your scar is the fact that most people don’t want to be reminded of the pain or how certain scars can to be. i use to cut my arms and now 5 years later feel a bit ashamed of them. i don’t have anything against people who wish for their cuts to turn into a scar. i would only like to say. THINK about it. you might not feel the same way about your scars in the future

… did it scar?