Call me old-fashioned if you like, but the recent trends with tattoos all over your arms and face, piercings and other sorts of body mutilations make me think that you don’t own your body, you just borrow it from your older self and what happens if s/he is not as happy with it? :dubious:
Those are kinda pretty. 
Thanks for sharing.
I used to live in Austin - big hippie college town, so you’d see these. Kinda no big whoop in a place like that. (Go 300 miles out into one of the small towns of Texas, though, and it’s a whole nuther story!)
I’ve been watching Fashion Police on E! with Joan Rivers and Kelly Osborne, and KO’s arms look like Popeye the Sailor’s, like great big dark sailor’s tattooes, like…shit. I’ve also read somewhere she is going to have them removed. I daresay this is an example of where you spend your youth all drugged out, screwed up, rebellious, angry, and self-mutilating. Then you grow up, sober up, turn fairly good looking, embark on a career, and you look down at the ugly scribbling on your pretty white forearms and think What the HELL Did I DO? I don’t ordinarily mind looking at tattooes, but Kelly Osborne’s are so blatant and ugly!
I have a friend who has started stretching his ears. I can’t say I am terribly fond of it, but it’s his ears, not mine. I have my ears pierced and my nose pierced, so I guess I don’t have much ground to stand on…except I can always take my earrings out and cover my ears with my hair, and as for my nose, I make a point of only ever putting in piercings with very thin wire so the hole doesn’t enlarge. If I ever decide I don’t want it anymore it is easy to pop out and will at the most leave me with a small scar, and quite possibly close up.
I also want to get a tattoo - a small one, on my wrist. These are all things that can be hidden if need be.
I don’t understand the gauges at all, I admit. At least piercings can be removed. Tattoos can be covered up, even if you have to wear long sleeves. (As long as you don’t tattoo your face). But the gauges never go away and can’t be hidden.
A skilled makeup artist can also cover tattoos with regular ol’ makeup (I cover mine on my ankles when I need to for work because I hate panty hose). Even a total makeup n00b could cover tattoos with some of the products that have recently come out with exclusively that purpose. Kat Von D’s tattoo concealer (before and after picture) is a good example. Granted, she’s 'shopped in that pic, but even in the [.JPG"]unedited ones](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xbuHX51NBbA/SoMEyM1_KvI/AAAAAAAABGo/mZOxy_abY6U/s400/DSCN1388[1), her tattoos are still mostly covered.
Joke’s on him!
Yes, they can go away. It took months, but I’ve seen it happen.
they are dumb
I think it depends on your skin, too - my granny had slits for earholes only from wearing hoops all her life. I am sure it’s because the elasticity has worn out after all these years.
I don’t know anyone who wears those. If I did, I would spend all my time plotting to attach a large padlock to one of their ears, and then run away laughing maniacally.
There are some really nice ‘tribal’ earrings out there, I also have stuff in bone, amber, jade, various metals, and plain captive ball hoops that I normally wear. They arent overly thick so I can look relatively normal. =)
Gauges? My cousin can fit shotgun shell bullets in her pierced ears. I’ve always thought it was attractive on men but I like piercings, tattoos, body modifications, etc…
A bunch of my friends have their lobes stretched to various sizes. Their current ages run from 19 to 45 and they work everywhere from restaurants (where such things are no barrier to employment) to upper end grocery store management or office work. A few are tattooists and piercers, but most are just average folks who happen to belong to various subcultures.
As to whether they look good or bad, it depends on the person. I dated a girl who would sometimes wear those fat crayons little kids use in hers - I thought it was cute.
One of Mr. Neville’s cousins does. I saw him on our trip to Chicago this summer. I kept trying not to stare at it. Either I was successful, or he and everybody else pretended not to notice that I was staring. This cousin is around 17, so I doubt he’s given any thought to what might happen if he no longer wants this look at some point.
What’s up with her stomach & chest? Bizarre fake tan?
One of the tellers in my local bank has the lobe plugs, well controlled feral hair and arm tattoos, he is always immaculately attired in long sleeve shirt and seriously what is the problem? he comes across as someone any employer would be happy top have.
I think that’s the real color of her skin and that the pale bits are where the makeup has been applied. Though her chest and neck aren’t anything like the same color, so I’m not sure.
Old Fart: “I won’t hire anyone who has tattoos, but this young lady here, who has gotten into the calamine lotion - she looks like a model employee”.
Those things gross me out for some reason. Here in Seattle, they’re really common.
And I’m a girl who doesn’t have a problem with most body mods. I’m perfectly fine with other people having large tattoos, tongue piercings, etc., and I really think that it’s wrong to deny someone a job based on them. But those giant ear holes bother me.
That is what I get for being stupid enough to loan something to teenaged me, I guess. 
Considering what teenage/twenty-something me did to my knees I really should have charged a deposit or something.