What does a healed brand look like?
Ideally a healed branding looks like a pattern of thick raised lines, slightly lighter than skin colour. However, the amount of raising or keloiding varies greatly, dependant on a large number of factors. Sometimes these scars even inset rather than raise. Strike branding generally produces fatter, more raised scars, with modern cautery devices being able to produce a more subtle line. How much does a brand hurt? Strike branding actually hurts much less than most people expect — in some ways it’s a “head game” as much as a physical ordeal. Proper strike branding hurts for a second until the nerves are burned away (not like a minor burn, like on your stove, which only burns the surface). That said, please don’t read that as it being painless — it still hurts A LOT both during and after the strike being applies. It should also be noted that the endorphin rush can be quite extreme, and some people find the subsequent euphoria disorienting (and sometimes addictive). When getting branded
