What are keloids?
Most simply put, keloids are raised scars. That said, not all scars are keloids — keloids are a very specific sort of fibrous scar tissue that the body produces in response to trauma. As far as the use of the word “keloid”, it is both a noun, and a verb. The verb, “to keloid” means to create these raised scars of course. Keloiding is in part related to the amount of melanin in your skin; the darker your skin, the better you generally keloid. That’s part of the reason why light skinned people have historically stuck to tattooing and dark skinned people have stuck to scarification (plus scarification shows up better than tattoos on dark skin). People who are genetically prone to keloids can pretty much leave their fresh scarification alone and be left with large even raised keloids, whereas other people will need to artificially irritate the wound in order to have it raise. BRANDING Please note that I have included general information on healing and scar formation as it comes up. Please
