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ORIGINAL: chellekitty

i have been branded by a technique i have heard called devils fire, but have not been able to find anything under that name on the internet so not sure what the proper name, if any there is for it...the technique is to heat a disecting pin, or something of similar size to red or white, depending on the person you're talking to with a small torch and touch it to the skin briefly, and can range from just the popping of the top skin cells (which creates a fun little popping noise) to actually scarring the skin, that being said, please don't try it without first hand, in person training because as with all sharp pointy things you can hurt someone easily and that multiplies when you heat it...the brand i had done is a butterfly on my left shoulder blade, i have a fairy of considerably larger size on the right shoulder blade and, personally, of the two the fairy hurt more and took longer to heal and i was in subspace after the branding...but everyone is different
on the other hand, if the branding experience is one you are looking for possibly even more so than the actual brand itself, strike or multistrike branding is the way to go and there is a lot more info out there on these options...as for pretty brandings, cautery is the most painful but most detailed technique and most, from what i have seen, professional branders use cautery branding unless otherwise requested...
good luck
chelle
ps, it appears that i don't have the picture of my branding on this computer but i may post it later

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ORIGINAL: nephandi
i am worried as there is so mutch difference in what pepole are sying from totaly safe to it being insanity and i am a bit at a loss as to what to belive.