Personally, I find piercings other than the ear to be of bad taste. You asked I am giving you my honest answer. I have three in one ear and one in the other and only wear posts, nothing flashy.
I mean why the eyebrow? What does that do? So many people out there have lips, tongues, nipples, genitals and other areas pierced. It’s all a bunch of bunk if people do it to claim to be “individual” as so many of their peers have them.
It’s kind of like the hippie days. Everyone wanted to be an individual but they all looked alike so they weren’t an individual. I went through that stage when I was in my teens and early 20s…call it becoming old or call it being wiser for my knowledge, it (individualism) doesn’t matter to me because I know in my heart I am different. I still look at eyebrow piercings as distastful. I often frequent establishments like fast food restaurants where they wear band-aids to cover them up so as not to offend the clientele.
Sara, if you did it just because, not because you wanted to be “individual” that you wanted to experiment, then cool. But as a small business owner I honestly would pick the more conservative person with the same qualifications, especially if he/she would be calling on clients as my employee. I could not send out a person pierced to an old school construction company to try to get their network or web design business.
Hey, that’s how I feel. I think it’s over rated and we all have our wacky “fads”.
Luckily, the place I work for is international and thus very liberal (IKEA for those familiar with it). Not only do I get completely free medical, dental, and vision insurance, 2 weeks paid vacation after one year, and 5 sick/personal days a year, I am allowed to have as many piercings as possible.
That said, the woman who hired me is quite out there (ex Californian hippie from the mid-60’s) so she is laid back enough not to care anyway.
Am I the only one who prefers eyebrow rings to eyebrow studs? I am not a huge fan of either, but rings definitely look better IMO.
If you have an eyebrow piercing, I might think you were a little more of any of the following: debonaire, outgoing, anti-establishment, slutty, or vapid. But this really depends on what goes “with” the piercing, what the rest of your clothes are like, other piercings, etc. A standard suburban chick wearing A&F with two ear studs and an eyebrow ring will make a very different initial impression with me than a black clothed corpse makeup wearing goth girl with 6 piercings in each ear, a lower lip stud, and an eyebrow right.
Of course, those initial impressions can be dispelled or confirmed by talking to me for two minutes.
I’m a nut about eyebrows, I groom mine all the time, and feel that properly groomed eyebrows are the best thing you can do to bring out your eyes. That said, when someone has good eyebrows, well groomed but not overly groomed, an eyebrow ring is great. It draws attention to the eye area. However, when it’s not placed at the EXACT right place, or when the eyebrows are misshapen and sloppy, it’s just punky. Which isn’t bad, it just gives the impression you don’t care about your appearance and did it because you wanted to do it. I do LOVE the really tiny, thin gauge bar-bells, I saw one on a customer that you didn’t even notice at first, but for a little sparkle on her eye. Very subtle and cool.
So either way it’s a good thing. My belly button ring says hello to your eyebrow ring.
Pierced nipples are the ultimate sex toys. Plus I think they just look hot, if I do say so myself. My hubby agrees. Oh yeah they hurt like hell for a few weeks but now nothing but fun, fun, fun.
I like to shop for jewelry for the girls too.
The only drawback is sometimes they are hard to hide under my nurses uniform, especially when it’s cold.
I don’t understand this at all…I’m a little slow on Saturday mornings sometimes. You probably will have to send me a picture so I make sure I’m on the same base as you (hopefully 2[sup]nd[/sup])…
Sara - I’ll bet it looks gorgeous on you! Can’t wait for a picture!
Liz - I was just being silly. Hence the smiley. Which led to your smiley back at me. See? Everybody’s happy. We’re all one big happy family - like a Tarantino version of The Walton’s.
PS - Don’t those extra piercings in your ear cartilage hurt?
Preparing to sound like an old man here, but screw it, she asked…
If you’re going to participate in a trend, for God’s sake get in at the start of it! Where I am, the piercing thing has already begun it’s slide into the fad dumpster, to end up with it’s brethren the mohawk, the butterfly tattoo, and the male ponytail (although some of those are still seen behind the wheel of old Volvos sporting NPR and Nader/LaDuke bumper stickers).
At first, the piercings were eyecatching and cute, but once the novelty wore off, to even be noticed, they became bigger and greater in number and it’s now to the point where you could go out with a crescent wrench hanging from chin and no one would bat an eye. Not that many could, since half the population suffers from nerve damage or has so much scar tissue built up that it’s all they can do to open them.
At least you can erase the hair and clothing mistakes - whose idea was it to permanantly mark yourself for the sake of fashion? It’s an absolut truth that the things you think are cool at age 20 have little in common with the things you value at 32. And if you’re one of the few who still think the same way, well… you just don’t want to be one of those people. You really don’t.
I have a tongue piercing that I (<ahem> and others) have enjoyed for the past three years. Before I went to get it done I contemplated for over a year what kind of statement I wanted to make. Being a professional by day and a hedonist by night, it was a tough call. Belly button seemed like it would chafe if not done correctly. I ALWAYS wear a bra in public, so nipples also seemed chafe-worthy. Genitalia was not what I was going for. Ears are done and done again. Lip was totally out for the professional status. I was left with a tiny barely-there nose stud, a tiny barely-there eyebrow ring, or a tongue piercing. I decided on the tongue. A) because people don’t see it unless I want them to, thus enabling me to keep my inner freak inner. B) I was curious to the sexual implications and rumours I had heard. I’m quite happy with my choice.
I don’t think most people would make a snap judgement about one eyebrow piercing. And if they did, would you care anyway? Not to disparage those that don’t like it, but not liking it and making a judgement based on it are two seperate animals.
All three are on my ear lobe, two of which I did myself exactly a year apart in high school. Yep, on Columbus Day my sophomore year and then again on Columbus Day my Junior year.
Used ice and a safety pin. I could hear it crunch going through the lobe. It really didn’t hurt much, that I recall. The things we do when we are young
I guess the idea of other piercings and tatoos is just not my style. I don’t wear a lot of jewelry anyway, I wear one ring and it’s just below my first knuckle on my left index finger. I started doing that when I was a senior in high school and just like it. Other than that and silver and gold (four) posts in my ears I don’t wear any jewelry anymore.
'Sides, my hands are ugly, short and stubby. I don’t have pretty long fingers with pretty manicured nails. Just doesn’t work for the work I do. Oh and since I wear glasses, I already have something on my face. No one sees my tummy on a regular basis. The thought of getting my nipples pierced makes me wanna puke as my nipples are sensitive enough and there’s no way in hell I would peirce my tongue, I already have problems talking sometimes. Oh and forget piercing in my pubic area, I don’t need help getting turned on, I can get turned on by thinking about sex.
See Mermaid, that’s the kind of escalation I was taking about. You can take the clamps off and they don’t leave a scar. Same goes for the rings, handcuffs, ticklers, chains, leather…oh you get the point.
You seem to have an intimate knowledge of things exotic. Tell me, just what DO you know about rings, handcuffs, ticklers,chains, leather…that you are not telling us? Hmmmmmm?
I’m ok with it, as long as people keep them very clean. I have seen eyebrow barbells with nasty open sores at either end where it enters the flesh. Not much would turn me off from a girl faster.
no support here. It’s more fun to tug on the barbells with your teeth, watch the nipples stretch out and such.
Ive gotten piercings to be individual, but then, no one else had the piercings I had. I didn’t get my ears pierced to be individual, I got them pierced cause I like the way it looks. Same with tattoos, and same with the piercings I’m planning on getting. Plus, it makes me more attractive to the kind if people I find attractive.
I don’t really care if people think it is passe or not. That was never my intention.
Like oldscratch said, I like the way it looks and I thought it was something that would convey my creative side.
Where I live, it’s no where near passe anyway, as far as I can tell. I see a few people with piercings, some with three thousand, but most people do not have them. And it’s not like Baltimore is a bofuck town, either.
When I get sick of it, I can take it out and deal with a slight scar that my eyebrows mostly cover. No big deal.
Thanks for the lecture. I miss having those since I became an adult.
