Blading is a practice in professional wrestling where a wrestler intentionally cuts themselves to provoke bleeding). It is also known as "juicing", "gigging", or "getting color"). The act is usually done a good length into the match, as the blood will mix with the flowing sweat on a wrestlers brow to make it look like much more blood is flowing from the wound than there actually is). The preferred area for blading is usually the forehead, as scalp wounds bleed profusely and heal easily). Blading is often employed after the match has been going for some time, with a cut to the head concealed by hair, and which mixes with sweat produced by the exertions of the performance producing what looks to be copious amounts of bleeding. Due to the potential for excessive bleeding, and for an artery to be cut accidentally, blading has become less popular in recent years. Legitimate, unplanned bleeding which occurs outside the storyline is called "juicing the hard way").