Sylvias, not many of us are meaning to be rude, but if you see yourself as being better than other human beings, than you can expect to get the same treatment from other people who see themselves as being better than you because just as you do not approve of drugs, others may not approve of your actions. When you ask for advice, you should take all of it in full, not just what you want to hear.
You need to take a blood-born pathogens class asap. Also, you need to keep in mind that by cutting druggies you are risking a lot more than if you were cutting just regular emo kids. Druggies immune systems are much weaker and they do not clot nearly as well. Also, they are unlikely to take any care of their cuts. If you were going to do that to anyone, the last people you should do it to are druggies.
You said you did simple things on these people, like a cross. Well, my dear, I am pretty sure even a druggie can cut two lines on themselves. It is better that they do it to themselves than for you to get entangled in horrible things by doing it for them.
Also, you are in no place to judge those people's lifestyles. At least these druggies are only doing things to ruin their own life's, you are playing with the potential to ruin other people's lifes.
I am not saying you cannot be a scarification artist, you may make a great one. All I am saying is you need to stop being elitist because you business will depend on your customers and what your reputation amongst the modded/potentially modded communty is. If this is your passion in life than treat it with the respect it deserves by doing it right, and no other way. If I were in your shoes I would take all the advice from this thread and everybody in it to heart.
Best of luck.

thank you to the assholes who refuse to contribute anything useful to this thread, for the record i am only a bitch to people who are to me first.

Edited by Sylvias - July/31/2008 at 9:25pm

+1 to Hobo.

And, just to reiterate what I've already said, calling people "assholes" and demanding that they stop posting on "your" thread (unless of course they are going to tell you exactly what you want to hear) is probably not the best way to get ANY useful information.

Just search the forums for "why some guys won't get a pa?"  You'll see exactly how treating people like shit gets you chewed up and spit out.

Don't be to mean with Sylvias now Terri-Sian. The thread is almost a month old now, and I think that in other threads we already managed to explain some things to Sylvias who also started to understand them. She's young, needs of course advice, but if we just flame her down everyday I'm not sure we'll help her a lot :o) I mean, the first part of your message was right, the second once... I think she has dropped that attitude already :o)

Cool talk everybody, but let's get to the right point, please :D.
What kinda scalpels is one supposed to use? I mean exactly. I recently bought a scalpel in a pharmacy, but unfortunately the standard medical scalpels rip-open the skin cause the blade is V shaped. Of course it depends on how deep you cut, but still a razor blade sticked even deeper wouldn't create this kind of wound. I was looking for some scalpels on ebay, but there's nothing particular to look for, when you just can't look at the blad and see for yourself.
Plz, serious advice.