What would happen to a Ponies Cuie mark if they were shaved?

[Unity 332]

If a Pony were to be shaved what do you think would happen to their cutie mark?

Would it be on their skin? whatchta r ur thoughts.

[Hierok 11,829]

Ponies don't shave. I don't even think they have hair sometimes which would mean it is drawn on their skin. 

[Ethan Tran 949]

did you even seen a picture of a horse (pony) up close?
their body hair isn't that long, to cover a cutiemark (which is some sort of magical tattoo?). so you'll see that "tamed" pony with a cutiemark all the time. only their mane is pretty long. body hair is too short. so even if you shave one, there'll be not much difference.

[Wonderbolt Slipstream 263]

Not much, their body hair is already super short so it wouldn't make a difference. Besides, who would shave their body hair in the show?

[FizzyGreen 908]

The coat is what has the colors of the cutie mark, not the fur above it. I haven't seen alot of fluffy flanks so far so i dunno but the most i've seen only have coat and almost no fur.

[Sunny Fox 5,929]

I'm sorry, but you're all flat out wrong. This was already answered in Ponyville Confidential: The fur is what makes the cutie mark, not the skin.

Exhibit A: Snips' and Snails' cutie marks disappear when their fur is shaved to get rid of bubblegum. You can even see the remnants.

[Fhaolan 4,468]

Yeah, @Sunny Fox is right, although that is somewhat disappointing of an answer.

I had several different headcannons before that episode, all wrong. Ah well.

[FizzyGreen 908]

Horses have skin like cats? That seems... weird.

[Lord Midnight Madness 1,542]

Well first I think it would dissapear but then it would come back once the fur comes back. The cutie mark has magical properties and would reappear when the ponies fur is completely grown back.

[MangoFoalix 24,898]

28 minutes ago, FizzyGreen said:

Horses have skin like cats? That seems... weird.

Why wouldn't they have skin though? As far as I'm concerned, all mammals have some sort of skin.

 

[Hierok 11,829]

4 hours ago, Sunny Fox said:

I'm sorry, but you're all flat out wrong. This was already answered in Ponyville Confidential: The fur is what makes the cutie mark, not the skin.

Exhibit A: Snips' and Snails' cutie marks disappear when their fur is shaved to get rid of bubblegum. You can even see the remnants.

I see. It is kinda strange to see it this way. Their fur is pretty long after all, but still their fur is always the same and we don't see hair. 

[Props Valroa 25,979]

5 minutes ago, H'rok said:

I see. It is kinda strange to see it this way. Their fur is pretty long after all, but still their fur is always the same and we don't see hair. 

It is pretty strange to see it that way. Why is it on the fur and not the skin? Interesting.

[Ethan Tran 949]

c'mon guys! are you serious? it's just a joke moment, referring to old cartoons like Tom&Jerry, mostly all old Disney shows and such.
example:

this moment with Snips and Snails is not cannon, just a funny ref.
imho of course, but I don't see how cutiemark would be on the fur... so y'all saying, that the fur is glowing...

Edited August 12, 2018 by Ethan Tran

[Hierok 11,829]

1 hour ago, Califorum said:

It is pretty strange to see it that way. Why is it on the fur and not the skin? Interesting.

Maybe just the same as with a dog. Only here it is on the flank. It is strange it is always looking the same since they should have long hair to cover their skin.

1 minute ago, Ethan Tran said:

 of course, but I don't see how cutiemark would be on the fur... so y'all saying, that the fur is glowing...

It is also strange skin is glowing. 

[Will Guide 21,325]

17 minutes ago, H'rok said:

Maybe just the same as with a dog. Only here it is on the flank. It is strange it is always looking the same since they should have long hair to cover their skin.

It is also strange skin is glowing. 

It's a magical world of colorful talking ponies, of course, strange glowing skin would be strange to us people.

[BornAgainBrony 2,395]

31 minutes ago, Ethan Tran said:

imho of course, but I don't see how cutiemark would be on the fur... so y'all saying, that the fur is glowing...

Ehh... just treat hair follicles like they're pixels on a computer monitor. Each follicle is set to grow hair of a specific color. So even if you shave, viola, cutie mark returns in a few days or weeks.

Edited August 12, 2018 by bornAgainEquestrian

[cuteycindyhoney 13,283]

7 hours ago, Sunny Fox said:

I'm sorry, but you're all flat out wrong. This was already answered in Ponyville Confidential: The fur is what makes the cutie mark, not the skin.

Exhibit A: Snips' and Snails' cutie marks disappear when their fur is shaved to get rid of bubblegum. You can even see the remnants.

Thank you! You saved me the trouble of tracking down (or making) a screen capture. This was literally exactly what I thought of when I saw the thread. 

 

PS. On the far left, that pony is enjoying Snips and Snail's plight just a LITTLE too much!

[ManaMinori 4,143]

One need only look at the ponies that had flocking back in g1. Their symbols are under their fur, if you deflock the pony, but is still visble through the flocking if it is kept on

[Hierok 11,829]

3 hours ago, Will Guide said:

It's a magical world of colorful talking ponies, of course, strange glowing skin would be strange to us people.

I know, but I was playing on the comment above which said glowing fur could not be, so it had to be on the skin. 

Edited August 12, 2018 by H'rok

[Sunny Fox 5,929]

7 hours ago, Ethan Tran said:

c'mon guys! are you serious? it's just a joke moment, referring to old cartoons like Tom&Jerry, mostly all old Disney shows and such.
example:

this moment with Snips and Snails is not cannon, just a funny ref.
imho of course, but I don't see how cutiemark would be on the fur... so y'all saying, that the fur is glowing...

While I agree with you that the intent of the scene was to make a joke, that doesn't in any way make it non-canon. It's still evidence that a cutie mark disappears when the fur is shaved off, which is what the OP was asking. 

The fur doesn't need to glow, the hair just grows out in whatever colour is needed to make up the cutie mark.

As for the dalmation fact: it's interesting, true, but that doesn't really make any kind of a difference to the world of the show. 

Actually, I too thought at first it would be obvious that the cutie mark would be on the skin, not the fur, so I was surprised when I turned up the screenshot. But one has to follow the evidence presented. 

[碇 シンジン 27,427]

I font think it would affect it any way as I think it is kinda become one flesh with the pony that has it. By that I mean that you cannot really get rid of it unless you force it off with magic or physically chop it off. It seemed pretty painful  when starlight was ripping them so i I don't think simple shaving could erase it 

[Senko 459]

What I'm curious about is Starlight's pulling the cutie mark off them and replacing it with the equals signs, same with Twilight's miscast spell and the maps glowing colourshift. If we assume that its the coat itself growing in a different colour than those would all be events where the colour of individual hair/fur follicles are actually being changed on them. Could explain why it tickles though.