So what is it exactly, getting your cells popped? Cell Popping Body Art is essentially the process of creating single-pore burns on the human canvas to create artistic designs AND also create an incredible endorphin experience in the same breath.This body modification is considered a temporary branding that lasts anywhere from 2 weeks to 6 months (or longer) depending on each person’s healing cycle. Basically it is heating a small metal poker under a flame until it is glowing red and gently applying the poker to the skin for 1 second. It is NOT necessary to add pressure, the poker just rest on the skin for 1 sec. It is a small surface burn. A completed design is outlined with burn dots.

Why is it called Cell Popping?

When the poker is applied to the skin you will hear a popping noise. What makes the noise is the water, or humidity, in the skin cell evaporating at the contact of the poker on the skin you are burning.

What does it feel like?

The pain level is usually considered less painful then a tattoo. The pain last that 1 sec the poker is on the skin, and it feels just like, well, a burn he he. Often there is a burn smell. It may be sore and tender for a couple of days after, take some ibuprofen. No worries about contamination: when the poker is glowing red it is automatically sterilized.

What to expect after?

Well most likely it will be a series of whitish dots with the skin around all red from the trauma. Usually the redness will disappear within 1 to 2 hours and the dots will become slowly redder. Usually it will take about 24 hours for the design to really pop out. Here is the key to a long successful popping: DO NOTHING FOR 24 HOURS. Not water, no cream, no treatment. The idea here is to not encourage healing. The dots will scab and fall off within a week or two. Do not scratch. After the scabs are gone you will have fresh skin cells either darker or lighter than the normal skin tone. From that point the body will heal the marks in its own due time, again 2 weeks to 6 months (or longer). There is a minor chance of the wound getting infected, as with any wound, but it is very rare.

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