Body Branding

    Getting your skin branded with a red-hot metal brand is the new tattoo.

    Remember your teenage goth days of carving crucifixes into your leg while listening to Sisters of Mercy? Yeah, we wish we had been that cool in eighth grade.

    Editorial note: Whoa! You've found a super-old post here on BuzzFeed, from an earlier era of the site. It doesn't really represent where we are anymore, and may in fact be totally broken, but we're leaving it up as a part of our early history.