Speaking of certain Congo people, Tuckey says that they scar themselves principally with the idea of rendering themselves agreeable to the women of their tribe.

Among the Itzaex Indians of Yucatan, a race with particularly handsome features, some are marked with scarred lines, inflicted as signs of courage.
Cosmetic Mutilations .-- In modern times there have been individuals expert in removing facial deformities, and by operations of various kinds producing pleasing dimples or other artificial signs of beauty.
We have seen an apparatus advertised to be worn on the nose during the night for the purpose of correcting a disagreeable contour of this organ.

A medical description of the artificial manufacture of dimples is as follows:--"The modus operandi was to make a puncture in the skin where the dimple was required, which would not be noticed when healed, and, with a very delicate instrument, remove a portion of the muscle.
Inflammation was then excited in the skin over the subcutaneous pit, and in a few days the wound, if such it may be called, was healed, and a charming dimple was the result." It is quite possible that some of our modern operators have overstepped the bounds of necessity, and performed unjustifiable plastic operations to satisfy the vanity of their patients.
Dobrizhoffer says of the Abipones that boys of seven pierce their little arms in imitation of their parents.

Among some of the indigenous Australians it is quite customary for ridged and linear scars to be self-inflicted.

In Tanna the people produce elevated scars on the arms and chests.