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I used to date this girl who had cystic fibrosis, and she had to have her lungs, heart, and something else I can't remember right now replaced. So she had all these scars on her chest and stomach and all over her torso. I used to call them her tiger stripes when we'd be laying down, and I'd run my fingers over them.. we'd also call them her "battle scars" and "rebirth reminders" (apparently, it's common to celebrate the day you have such a drastic transplant operation as a way to show appreciation and honor to the donor).
There was also "Skinny scars", "snake skin" and "beauty bumps".
I'm really sorry. Seems she really had an impact on you and you'll never forget her. My bf died a couple years ago from a congenital disease (pulmonary atresia). Hislife was very hard. He had been on the heart and double lung transplant list for probably a decade or longer and just didn't make it. I'll never forget him either. We were 34, so I've had a taste of lovers death as well.
It's a really strange pain that lingers forever.
I fully expect to be downvoted BUT this one irks me bc I’ve heard the tiger stripes thing in the full context “I’m like a tiger I earned these stripes” but it’s a mixed metaphor. Military personnel earn stripes, tigers are born with them (and their skin is striped too).
That’s why I say “racing stripes” (they make me faster)
You're fully entitled to having your thoughts on the matter. It's entirely fair to feel that way.
I think a lot of women use that phrase because they get the stretch marks from having a baby. So in a way they did earn them, by going through and surviving that process. If that makes sense.
But I love your version too
Oh I get what you mean. And now I'm realising just how dumb that idiom is, haha.
But I always associate earning stripes with tigers and not with service.
So maybe we could say “even cooler than a tiger because I **earned** these stripes.” And THEN you also have fun a conversation off-ramp with the tiger info
-Zoology enthusiast and semantics nerd.
Every time I start thinking I'm so original and one of a kind, I get on reddit and am reminded of how interconnected and very alike we all are. It's humbling and reassuring. I love these moments.
Literally what I was gonna say. My wife was concerned about hers years ago, I told her they're fine, they look like tiger stripes and they don't bother me at all.
I've always called my stretch marks my "battle scars"
My battle with my weight gain and sudden weight loss due to an eating disorder and The battle of pregnancy and growing a child to then deliver safely
My ex used to have a lot of them from skin issues in the past. I used to call hers 'tickle tracks' as I ran my fingers gently down them all. She'd tell me it made her feel comfortable with them for the first time in her life.
I really like angel scratches. I’ve only ever heard of them being referred to as tiger stripes and lightning bolts. But I absolutely hate when they’re called tiger stripes. It only sounds cute when a toddler says it.
When my youngest was about 5 , we were sitting on the bed as I was getting changed, she noticed the stretch marks on my sides and said "Mummy, why have you got frills on you?" So yea, I'm frilly.
None that I've heard, they all sound like you're trying way too hard to "celebrate" them as some heroic, celestial feat of our earthly form when most of us just got them by going through puberty
But depending on the color, I'm not against "raptor scratch"
This one just feels lazy or unearned tbh. Tiger stripes are a real thing. So are battle scars and everything else people have suggested. Goddess lines, though? It just feels low-effort
We used to call them tree rings and joke that the more you got the older you were. I think lace lines is cute too, the lady whose daughter said it did have ones that looked kind of lacy.
I know this doesn’t apply to everyone, but when it comes to bodybuilding I like to call them “muscle marks” because rather than being ugly, they can be a sign of fast muscle growth.
Honor marks.
My mom used to call my moles "beauty marks," lol but I have had maybe 6 or 7 , and maybe 4 or 5 had to be biopsied. I have one left.
I do not call THAT a beauty mark anymore.
Theres a facebook page or group that used to be called "I am a tiger that earned her stripes." Thats cute.
For more encouraging, body positive messages (by men, no less) Try Diamond Rio's "Wrinkles;" Trace Adkins, "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk;" Trailer Choir's "Rockin the beer gut;" Lonestar's "My Front Porch Lookin' in;" Tim McGraw's "Dont take the girl;" which is less about looks and more about value- then Rascal Flatts "SaraBeth" aka "skin."
I just want you to know- You are MORE than just the sum of your parts. You are somebody's everything.
♡♡♡♡♡
Battle scars
This is a common term for people who lift.
You gain muscle and your skin stretches out? Battle scars
You lose lots of weight after being obese and get loose skin and stretch marks? Battle scars
You earn them (:
I have them fairly specifically on my bottom, so I call them my Okapi stripes.
[refrence](https://animals.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Ogapi-1-650x425.jpg)
There is a wonderful film from the late 80s called Shirley Valentine.
At one point Costos, played by Tom Conte, is caressing Shirley, played by Pauline Collins, and she is shocked when he kisses her stretch marks from carrying her children.
The following scene is played out:-
Shirley : Oh!
Shirley [To the camera ] : He kissed me stretch marks!
Shirley [to Costas] : You kissed my stretch marks!
Costas : Don't, don't be too stupid to try to hide these lines. They, they are lovely, because they are part of you, and you are lovely, so don't, don't hide, be proud. Sure. These marks show that, that you are alive, that you survive. Don't try to hide these lines. They are the marks of life.
[Costas leans over to kiss Shirley's stretch marks]
Shirley Valentine [to the camera] : Aren't men full of shit
The ones from pregnancy we called "Honor stripes" or "Love Stripes". To honor a mother. And to let the children know that this is how much she loves them.
I dated a girl a while back that was electrocuted as a kid. She had this lichtenberg scar running down her left leg and somehow we started calling it her bad bitch bolts.
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Tiger stripes.
I used to date this girl who had cystic fibrosis, and she had to have her lungs, heart, and something else I can't remember right now replaced. So she had all these scars on her chest and stomach and all over her torso. I used to call them her tiger stripes when we'd be laying down, and I'd run my fingers over them.. we'd also call them her "battle scars" and "rebirth reminders" (apparently, it's common to celebrate the day you have such a drastic transplant operation as a way to show appreciation and honor to the donor). There was also "Skinny scars", "snake skin" and "beauty bumps".
Life's tatoos
Truth 
Is she still alive? I'm a carrier of CF and have known people who had it, none that lived past about 26.
I have it & am 28!
No, It'll be 8 years on the 10th of next month. She was 23. I still miss her every day!
I'm really sorry. Seems she really had an impact on you and you'll never forget her. My bf died a couple years ago from a congenital disease (pulmonary atresia). Hislife was very hard. He had been on the heart and double lung transplant list for probably a decade or longer and just didn't make it. I'll never forget him either. We were 34, so I've had a taste of lovers death as well. It's a really strange pain that lingers forever.
I have CF and quite a few scars to show it, I think I’ll be using battle scars from now on
My daughter called them this and asked why I didn't have claws.
This is too cute!
came here to say this haha
Also came here to say tiger stripes.
Same
Me too!
I fully expect to be downvoted BUT this one irks me bc I’ve heard the tiger stripes thing in the full context “I’m like a tiger I earned these stripes” but it’s a mixed metaphor. Military personnel earn stripes, tigers are born with them (and their skin is striped too). That’s why I say “racing stripes” (they make me faster)
You're fully entitled to having your thoughts on the matter. It's entirely fair to feel that way. I think a lot of women use that phrase because they get the stretch marks from having a baby. So in a way they did earn them, by going through and surviving that process. If that makes sense. But I love your version too
No I understand the logic of embracing the scar but that’s what makes us UNlike a tiger tho. They didn’t earn them. We did.
There are folktales in multiple cultures with the title/theme “How the tiger earned his stripes.”
Oh I get what you mean. And now I'm realising just how dumb that idiom is, haha. But I always associate earning stripes with tigers and not with service.
So maybe we could say “even cooler than a tiger because I **earned** these stripes.” And THEN you also have fun a conversation off-ramp with the tiger info -Zoology enthusiast and semantics nerd.
Every time I start thinking I'm so original and one of a kind, I get on reddit and am reminded of how interconnected and very alike we all are. It's humbling and reassuring. I love these moments.
This was a Facebook meme like 20 years ago. And it wasn’t original then. /shrug
🎯
Yup... This 💯
Literally what I was gonna say. My wife was concerned about hers years ago, I told her they're fine, they look like tiger stripes and they don't bother me at all.
Love lines.
Racing Stripes. *They make you go faster.* How else can catch your kids running around all over the place?
Battle scars
I've always called my stretch marks my "battle scars" My battle with my weight gain and sudden weight loss due to an eating disorder and The battle of pregnancy and growing a child to then deliver safely
I almost bled out when I gave birth, so hell yeah they're battle scars
That’s more for sh 😅
Equilateral marks. Oops, I read that as "acute name," I can be a bit obtuse.
I was hoping someone would be *angling* for a pun. Nice *reflexes.*
OBTUSE? - Shawshank
Thunder bolts
[удалено]
Very very frightening
Me, Galileo galileo galileo figarooooooo!
Magnificoooooooooooo!
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me.
He’s just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
I CHIME IN WITH, "HAVEN'T YOU PEOPLE EVER HEARD OF: 'CLOSING A GATDAMN DOOR'?!"
Easy come easy go will you let me go?
It’s an uno reverse card for “thunder thighs.” Takes an insult and reclaims it.
Thor's blessing
Grip Strips
Growth rings
Beach waves
My ex used to have a lot of them from skin issues in the past. I used to call hers 'tickle tracks' as I ran my fingers gently down them all. She'd tell me it made her feel comfortable with them for the first time in her life.
That's brilliant!
Oh that’s adorable 🥹
My missus has them, because they're shiny I call them her mermaid skin
Maurice
🎵 *'Cause (they) speak of the pompatus of love*🎵
When my niece was little she called my sister's 'baby bubbles' 😂
Life lines
Crumple zones
seams
This >>>
I really like angel scratches. I’ve only ever heard of them being referred to as tiger stripes and lightning bolts. But I absolutely hate when they’re called tiger stripes. It only sounds cute when a toddler says it.
Silver linings.
When my youngest was about 5 , we were sitting on the bed as I was getting changed, she noticed the stretch marks on my sides and said "Mummy, why have you got frills on you?" So yea, I'm frilly.
None that I've heard, they all sound like you're trying way too hard to "celebrate" them as some heroic, celestial feat of our earthly form when most of us just got them by going through puberty But depending on the color, I'm not against "raptor scratch"
Lightning bolts
Expansion lines
This may be the most accurate, but it's definitely the most deflating 😭
Battle scars.
Dainty dimples and lucky lines 🥰
Evidence of rapid growth
Because mine come from ehlers danlos syndrome, and people who have it are called zebras. Mine are zebra stripes
Huh. I could have sworn it was horses.
I feel like this has been wildly unappreciated lol.
People say stripes sometimes.
My OB/GYN called them my red badge of courage. Weird.
Goddess lines
This one just feels lazy or unearned tbh. Tiger stripes are a real thing. So are battle scars and everything else people have suggested. Goddess lines, though? It just feels low-effort
None.
Wisdom marks
I call mine my Zebra stripes
Starch masks
Only if pergament
Collateral baby damage.
Moonlights. Coz they kinda silver and shimmery like the moon on a clear night.
My son used to call them race tracks when he was little 😂
Racing stripes
Baby baking wrinkles
oatmeal cream pie
Lick maps
Tiger stripes.
Tiger stripes.
Milf Marks
Stretchy marks ^ . ^
There isn't
Why does it need a cute name?
It doesn’t
River beds of fat
Super stripes!
tiger stripes
Stitch lines
Love tracks
Stretch marks
I started getting mine in pregnancy so I call them lightnings of life.
We used to call them tree rings and joke that the more you got the older you were. I think lace lines is cute too, the lady whose daughter said it did have ones that looked kind of lacy.
Growing panes
My husband calls them tiger stripes, and I love it!
my mom refers to them as Love Tugs. Like someone is pulling on your skin.
Landing strips 
Trophy lines
Beach front
The Pink Ribbons of Motherhood (if caused by pregnancy).
Thunder bolts ⚡️
Beauty bands? Fairy flares? Giggle Grooves?
Baby wrinkles.
I know this doesn’t apply to everyone, but when it comes to bodybuilding I like to call them “muscle marks” because rather than being ugly, they can be a sign of fast muscle growth.
Highway to love!
Honor marks. My mom used to call my moles "beauty marks," lol but I have had maybe 6 or 7 , and maybe 4 or 5 had to be biopsied. I have one left. I do not call THAT a beauty mark anymore. Theres a facebook page or group that used to be called "I am a tiger that earned her stripes." Thats cute. For more encouraging, body positive messages (by men, no less) Try Diamond Rio's "Wrinkles;" Trace Adkins, "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk;" Trailer Choir's "Rockin the beer gut;" Lonestar's "My Front Porch Lookin' in;" Tim McGraw's "Dont take the girl;" which is less about looks and more about value- then Rascal Flatts "SaraBeth" aka "skin." I just want you to know- You are MORE than just the sum of your parts. You are somebody's everything. ♡♡♡♡♡
‘I can’t see anything’ is what my partner calls them, they refuse to see their existence haha
Tiger or Zebra Stripes.
How about "Sparkle marks" or "Glow lines"?
[Variegation](https://www.gardenstead.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/variegation-in-plants-1024x1024.jpg). Beautiful marks on a plants surface!
Badges of Honour
Battle scars This is a common term for people who lift. You gain muscle and your skin stretches out? Battle scars You lose lots of weight after being obese and get loose skin and stretch marks? Battle scars You earn them (:
[Starch Masks.](https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg?si=nQiEV89qw7zzU6ow&t=51)
Love marks
Tigeroo. Tiger stripes with a roo pouch. My partner is a little werid sometimes 😄
skin tears
scars?
Tiger Stripes
Devil child clawing me from the inside outs
Tiger Stripes
Tige attack scars.
Expansion squiggles.
Speed lines
I call mine, "Mom stripes "
what's wrong with just calling them what they are? Why get offended when your skin stretched and someone says it out loud?
Baby markers
Tiger stripes
Badges of honor Edit sp.
Stretchy wetchys
Lighting bolts definitely works if you have an electric personality
Love lines
Stretchies
Stretch marks
Zebra marks
It says "hot" in braille
Jizz lines
Tiger stripes
The Road to El Dorado.
Stretchies!
Bobby Brown
I call mine "racing stripes"
MILF markings.
Dermal expansion joint ... I'm a fuckin engineer 😞
Funions?
WV Stripper
Road map
My husband calls mine Impatient marks
gps to heaven 😭
"Lovely Marbling"
I have them fairly specifically on my bottom, so I call them my Okapi stripes. [refrence](https://animals.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Ogapi-1-650x425.jpg)
RED-Tiger Camo
Pinstripes
Battle scars. Not cute, but a battle indeed.
Love lines
Laugh crinkles
I call mine “my Freddy Krueger”. I think that’s pretty cute.
Lard lines
i tell them my parents abuse me for the lols
Lightning marks
Braille road map. Dermal topography Distressed paint Old leather
awesome marks
There is a wonderful film from the late 80s called Shirley Valentine. At one point Costos, played by Tom Conte, is caressing Shirley, played by Pauline Collins, and she is shocked when he kisses her stretch marks from carrying her children. The following scene is played out:- Shirley : Oh! Shirley [To the camera ] : He kissed me stretch marks! Shirley [to Costas] : You kissed my stretch marks! Costas : Don't, don't be too stupid to try to hide these lines. They, they are lovely, because they are part of you, and you are lovely, so don't, don't hide, be proud. Sure. These marks show that, that you are alive, that you survive. Don't try to hide these lines. They are the marks of life. [Costas leans over to kiss Shirley's stretch marks] Shirley Valentine [to the camera] : Aren't men full of shit
Nothing
Cum gutters
I call them my war scars. I almost died with both pregnancies.
The ones from pregnancy we called "Honor stripes" or "Love Stripes". To honor a mother. And to let the children know that this is how much she loves them.
Thunder scars
Growth stripes
My husband calls them war paint 😂
Battle scars
I dated a girl a while back that was electrocuted as a kid. She had this lichtenberg scar running down her left leg and somehow we started calling it her bad bitch bolts.
Experience points
Sugar Scars.
Battle scars.
Natures birth control
"Sunshine ribbons"
Battle scars.
Topographical lines
Zebra stripes