Piercings & Tattoo's - Art and beauty or boring and vain

Cheese Head · Sun 31 Jul, 2005 22.47

miss hellfire wrote:
babyben wrote:Hmm - I like ear piercing (up on the back of the ear too) and eyebrow piericing on certain people is nice - others it just doesn't look right.

Nose, lip, chin or anywhere else I don't like it. I just don't get tounge piercings at all!!

(perhaps this could be a new topic..?)
You don't get tongue piercings!

I had my ear pierced at the top. It caused me nothing but grief. I persisted for quite sometime for vanity reasons only. After about a year i gave up and let it heal. It maybe that experience that put me off bodypiercings.

I like tongue piercings, but im too scared to ever get it done myself.

I really think that when it comes to Tattoos and piercings there is a huge problem with inequality. its always a case of pirecings are for women and tatoos are predominatly male. I actually got sent home from school for having my ear pierced.

I also had my ear pierced at the top, but the parlour( /hairdresser) used a gun on the top, and AFAIK guns are only meant to be used on lobes. Eitherway, I had the stud an eventually chnaged it to a ring so it would heal better. It never did, i gave up and took it out, and its now just a small infected lump at the top of my ear. nice.

Ill get my lip done anyway, and when i get bored of it ill take it out.

I originally wanted my nose done and still do, if i had money left whilst at download i woulda got it done there, but ohwell, theres next payday. and i want some scaffolding and my right lobe pierced too...

What do folks think here of "Body Art" ?

Before I go...: I saw Society 1 live at download, the lead singer tried to, and suceeded in doing so, sing a full live set whilst being suspended in the air by meathooks. looked cool, bet it hurt like hell...

(these arnt download pics, afaik)

<img src=http://www.society1.net/Gallery/Suspens ... 01-051.jpg>

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Fireboy · Mon 01 Aug, 2005 00.16

Ugh.

Oh, and on the issue of piercing guns, yes, they're only for ear lobes. There was something in the paper about a girl who had a collapsed ear after getting the top pierced with a gun.

martindtanderson · Mon 01 Aug, 2005 02.22

Ugly and self-abusive is what I call it...

babyben · Mon 01 Aug, 2005 02.40

martindtanderson wrote:Ugly and self-abusive is what I call it...

Oh go on, tell us what you really think

That guy above is just scary!

Lorns · Mon 01 Aug, 2005 08.42

Urgghh!! That guy is a weirdo .

Cheese Head · Mon 01 Aug, 2005 20.13

I did go get my lip pierced today. It was a good experience - if not a little unnerving as he chewed gum whilst puncturing the left side of my lip with a needle...

babyben · Tue 02 Aug, 2005 01.45

Cheese Head wrote:I did go get my lip pierced today. It was a good experience - if not a little unnerving as he chewed gum whilst puncturing the left side of my lip with a needle...

good experience.. now exactly how I'd phrase it...

J.Christie · Tue 02 Aug, 2005 01.46

This thread is confusing me so I'll just say ugh.

Spencer For Hire · Tue 02 Aug, 2005 15.58

J.Christie wrote:This thread is confusing me so I'll just say ugh.

It's about piercings and tattoos.

Hope that clears up the confusion.

babyben · Tue 02 Aug, 2005 17.09

Spencer For Hire wrote:
J.Christie wrote:This thread is confusing me so I'll just say ugh.
It's about piercings and tattoos.

Hope that clears up the confusion.

I was going to suggest reading the posts..but that seems too difficult for him..

Dusty Jacket · Mon 15 Aug, 2005 10.37

It's all a display of insecurity. Tattoos & piercing are a simple way for people to 'reinvent' themselves usually after being dumped by a boyfriend/girlfriend they were really into.