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Renan Duarte

Doctors Warn About Trendy “Freeze” Branding Tattoo Alternative That Puts People “At Risk”

A new trend gaining popularity on TikTok is raising concerns among healthcare professionals.

Freeze branding involves tattooing human skin with icy-cold liquid nitrogen. The chilling technique, also known as cryo-branding, is traditionally used to mark and identify livestock.

Unlike traditional branding, which uses heat, this method relies on cryogenic coolant to destroy an animal’s pigment cells and hair follicles.

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