Body Modification. - Comments

I have between fifteen and twenty piercings and five major tattoos. All of them visable, even though I had my job before I got a few of them done.

People are still old fashioned, and to some people find the look of a person with major modifications can be intimidating. I mean have you ever walked down the street and be a bit like " Oh, look at that!"

Your mum wouldn't be doing her job if she didn't try and look out for you. My parents hate every single thing I've done to my body, but with major modifications you have to be serious about it.

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Thank you.

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WalkingOnBrokenGlass
I know, it's terrible actually. The amount of people who have seen me ears and told me it's 'the most disgusting thing they've seen in their life', I'm like THANKS! :D
Your tattoos sound epic. o.o

Um, well, my fiance's ears are stretched to an 1 5/8 right now, and we ended up walking out of Zaxby's because this ignorant redneck guy was sitting behind us, talking loudly about his ears. I usually just ignore it, but it really bothered us. I mean, we were just trying to eat dinner together.

I have 3 tattoos.
I waited until I was 18 to do anything...and I was moved out. They can't say sh*t when you're not living with them.
I have a heart with a skull on my left shoulder, Gary from Spongebob on my wrist, which I just not too long ago, and a heart with wings above my ankle that I share with my bestie.

el sombrero.
Exactly! And, in my opinion, piercings/tattoos can be a shitload more subtle than humongous, fake breasts and still, it's more ~acceptable. It's a total ballache.

V You're really rather lucky, I'm basically gonna go crazy with piercings when I turn 16, it'll really piss my mum off which is sucky but ay well.

I agree with you on everything that you said. I've had it easy, my parents are just liked "It's your body, if you want to get that, get that. I'd rather you get it now, than going out and going crazy when you graduate" So yeah...

1. I've had snakebites and I'm getting the left side of my lip+septum pierced during the summer. And I'm getting my ears gauged soon.

2. I want to get a tattoo, but I've decided not to get one untill I'm 18.

I've always wanted a tattoo on my hip, a white rabbit; though I've always been spoken down not to on behalf of my mother... why? Jobs... yes, I want to be a clinical Psychologist, so on that field it'd look incredibly 'unprofessional' to have such thing as a tattoo.

As much as I hate such utterly forward discrimination, it is the sad fucking reality... I asked to my Uni advisor and he told me that it was highly unlikely that I would be hired for the job I want (with criminals) if I had a tattoo.

Such things annoy me to no end... what if another girl went to ask for that position and had breast implants? Is it not the same? It's a fucking body modification!

1. Just my ears.
2. I wanna get tattoos, I don't what of yet though, and I wanna get my eyebrow peirced.

My sis warned me about listening to "that music stuff you're listening to now" because people would automatically categorize me. Well, lookie here, it's been three years since she said that, and I've done quite well not listening to her.
Obviously, music isn't as obvious as piercings. (Department of redundancy department?)
I love piercings and tattoos. I want on around my wrist. (a tattoo, not a piercing xD), but I seriously doubt I'll ever be allowed. We're not heavy on body mod in our family xD

1. No. Well, in my lobes, but like, nothing proper cool.
2. I'd like a piercing in the little flap thing in my ear, not the lobe or anything, but the little thing over the earhole. I have no clue what it's name is. And I also want, as said, a tattoo around my wrist.

In the military, you lose any chance of becoming an officer if you have any large, prominant, or visible tattoos.

I think it kind of sucks.

v. Yeah, my grandpa is a chief in Samoa, and he has the tattos that start in the middle of your stomach and go all the way down to your ankles. He got them the old fashion way too, sharp stone, ink, then run out into the ocean.

I think that I would go with modernation and moderation if I ever got one, but the Samoan tattos are pretty cool.

I like Monroe piercings, but I won't get one myself. I have promises to keep that I made with my dentist in the first grade.

black literature That's actually pretty cool.

1. I only have my ears pierced.

2, I don't really want anymore piercings, but I was thinking about getting a little cluster of music notes on my wrist or ankle.

Most people around here think that you're weird if you don't have a tattoo, but lots of people won't hire you or anything if you have visible tattoos or piercings. It kind of weird.

v. I think that if I ever got a tatoo, it would be a tribal one like my grandparents have in honor of the good 'old family heritage.

1. Tattoos, no. Piercings, yes. My ears are pierced twice on each lobe and then on my left ear my cartilage is pierced once. I also have a nose piercing.

2. I do want a tattoo near one of my shoulderblades. I won't go into detail about it because the story is super long and I don't have the patience to type it all out. That's the only tattoo I'd get, though. As for piercings, I'm happy with what I have. No more, no less.

v In my mother's mind, 'excessive' piercings and tattoos must mean that person is a 'hoodlum, delinquent, or mean and just out of jail.'

I only have peircings in my ears and nothing else.

I'd have to say that while it sucks, people automatically seperate you into a catagory in their minds subconciously. You could be the nicest person in the world, but most people will take peircings and say "Rebel. Probably has a sharpened tooth brush on them and is going to steal my purse"

It sucks and it isn't fair, but I think your mom is just trying to help you.