How long and hard should does one press the strike brand in?
The brand is pressed in long enough to burn through all the surface skin. If this is not achieved the client will be left with a lot of pain and blistering, and then after healing either no scar, or a blotchy mess that barely resembles their design. As far as how long and hard, this really depends on how much the material has been heated. Most important though is that all of the strikes are even in relation to the skin they’re on as this will increase the chances of the brand looking uniform. It should be noted that as a brand is done, the skin in the area will contract, deforming the tissue and slightly changing the way following strikes are absorbed. Are the fumes from branding dangerous? The fumes from branding contain active biological matter from the person being branded, and certain diseases can be transferred via these fumes. This was discovered because doctors who were removing genital warts were being diagnosed with cases of genital warts inside their sinuses. While most virus
