It’s My Scar is a website that will turn photos of your scars into jewelry. There are bracelets, rings, and necklaces.
Here’s part of one story:
To me [scars] are visible symbols of the events we have experienced, an incredible reaction to our environmental interactions. On more than one occasion I have too eagerly inquired about the scars others have, or don’t have. (I dated a guy once who did not have a single scar on his whole body. I remember thinking “Haven’t you ever fallen? Where is the proof?”) Scars began to find their way into my healthy appreciation for body modification, and in my own art as I pursue my deep appreciation and curiosity of the body.
So it was on one stormy Halloween night (don’t make too much of that) that a”friend” of mine and I decided to participate in a scarification ritual. For me it was to be an annual marker, an eventual segmented band around my arm, to grow over time. We had discussed what and where was to pass, but despite our preparations and discussions he took the opportunity to slash me. I was unprepared and looking away in mid-sentence when he swiped the blade across my upper arm. It was the deepest cut I have ever seen in my life. I was staring at my muscle, all fat peeled back in layers, blood and pain all over my world.
(Via.)
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I’m gonna see about having earrings made from my two extra nipples.
“friend” sounds like a psycho asshole.
I like the idea – but the price is NOT right. And you’re supposed to commit to payment before you see the product? Pass.
Paul, you are a sick man.
@2 FTW
Um, you already paid for the scare once and wear it, why do it again?
Okay, I guess I could see this if you have a scar from something that nearly killed you (cancer surgery scar, scar from a serious accident). Not my thing, but, you could make it about owning the experience and being grateful for surviving.
But, as a celebration of when your friend stabbed you with your permission? Really? This is appropriately filed under “??!!”.
Coming up next season: jewelry from your pimples, turds, placentia. And the ever popular, crunchy “Lookit Me Rinds.”
Weird, stupid and repetitive.
Do they make circumcision-scar bracelets?
@3 the price range listed ($200-$1500) is completely reasonable for custom made jewelry. At that price, the jeweler is probably making less than $20/hour for a skilled trade. Also, usually when you get something that is custom made for you there has to be some up front money. Sometimes you only pay a portion up front, but at least some money changes hands before the artist/craftsperson/designer gets to work. Otherwise, people who do custom designs for a living would be working for free until you decide to pay them, which is highly risky for them should you decide to change your mind. Custom work is a commitment by both parties. No one likes to work for free.
I have a scar from a life-changing injury. I can’t imagine having a reproduction made as jewelry. The freaking accident dominates my life too much already – why would I need another reminder?
When you come to the web site that offers to memorialize that good crap you just took in solid, traditional bronze, masculine stainless steel, or sleek, space-age titanium, you have reached The End of the Internet.
I’m totally creeped out that all the stories on the site come from women. I’m afraid the site is actually run by some creepy male scar fetishist.
isn’t there already scar related jewelery? i call mine ‘piercings’. why the hell would you pay to wear a replica of something already on your body? why not just get big red arrows tattooed around your scar if you’re so proud of it? maybe they can make me a belly chain of my stretch marks! hilarious.
What about the scar from my circumcision/hypospadia “repair” I had when I was 18 years old? That’s a beauty.
This smacks way too much of that pregnant belly cast trend from a couple of years ago. Nobody else really wants to see this stuff, so why inflict it on us?
um, gross?
Hah, this is totally retarded and kind of cool at the same time.
Yeah, I really want to commemorate the time I was a complete moron in expensive metals. The open-heart surgery one? I can understand that. But give me a break – either go to a professional or at least attempt to learn how to do it correctly. What a twit.
I had a similar experience. A “friend” had a scar on his chest in the shape of a heart. I thought it poetic [beautiful and tragic]. One morning he decided to add another scar on his arm with a heated up coat hanger. On a whim, I said do my inside upper arm. He didn’t do it how I would have done it, which would have been minimal. Instead it turned out HUGE and deep. It was a bad lesson to learn. Nevertheless I will live with it forever.