Piercings & Gauges... Like them, hate them, or have them?

LilysMom28

id love to get my belly button pierced again (had it done when I was 19 but had to take it out)...but I'm afraid Im getting to old for something like that. lol is there an age limit for things like this???

Picola1984

I had my Monroe pierced, but it had something heavy fall on it and I got scared so took it out!

I fancy getting my tragus done, just a nice little jewel

emc1976

Piercings....Like, Gauges....Not my thing they look like they would hurt. I know people who have them and I have no problem with them.

jmanthei98

Well, you can probably tell by my picture that I have the industrial. Got it last July and I absolutely love it! My only other piercings are in my lobes.

I don't mind other piercings. I don't understand some of them, but to each their own! Not a big fan of gauges. The smaller ones look okay, but the large ones...no thanks. I can't help but wonder what that would look like when the person gets older and decides to take them out.

rammsteinsoldier

Wanted to get my eyebrow pierced to go with the multiple ear piercings but then I had to get a job. Reality stinks!

LilRedRooster

I don't have anything pierced, except my ears, but that's just because I'm not a big piercing kind of person. I've considered getting my belly button done, but I'm more keen on getting a tattoo before that point, haha. I actually don't mind them at all on other people, I just don't see them easily on myself.

ohsweetcalamity

LOVE 'EM. I work in a piercing shop, I have 15 piercings right now, 5/8 plugs. Teeeeechnically they're all called plugs/eyelets/stretched ears etc. Gauge just means measurement, so all jewelry, even the kids earrings at Claire's or your grandma's heirloom diamond studs are gauged, they're just a small gauge. Just a technicality.

RachNRoll

I have ears pierced and I had my nose pierced for almost 2 years...

about a month ago I lost my nose piercing...I wonder if the little hole already close... Anyone know if I can still put a stud on my nose after so much time?

NicoWoodruff

I meet a lot of different folks and have attended clothing optional events lol, and since you've asked my opinion here's my truth on it:

It all depends.. like where is the piercing and whether it suits the person or not. I have a friend with a piercing at the side of her nose and it looks absolutely beautiful on her but some people it just doesn't look so awesomely good. I think skin texture goes into it, as well as your features in general. You have to be able to pull it off whatever it is, tattoo piercing or anything.

I do not like lip or eyebrow piercings as a rule though, I don't think they really look good on much of anyone. Unless you look like a punkrocker for real and then it's kind of cool. Tongue piercings are just weird, I get the mystique a little in a way, but not really.. mostly they just gross me out. Same with nipple piercings, just ow.. that's all I have to say.. for me anyway, just looks painful like looking at someone's appendix scar. I've seen some guys that were pierced down there, and have to say my first reaction tends to be "oh dear god no, looks pretty but I would never want that junk coming near anything of mine" lmao.

Especially I don't like when someone with a lip or tongue piercing fidgets with it, with their tongue. I mean really, that's just gross and not fun to watch lol. And if your tongue piercing keeps you from being able to speak without a lisp and improper diction, you just seem like a zero, sorry.

Otherwise if you have something and wear it well and it really compliments you.. it can definitely add to your look.

Me, I only have double ear piercing, in the normal lower ear region.. but I enjoy wearing all sorts of earrings and some I can wear in my top piercing can give the illusion that I have cartilage piercings higher or all the way around the top of my ear. It can be fun to do that on one ear sometimes for effect. Lately I love really small huggy cartilage hoops for both my ears in all 4 spots.

Dayna154

have piercing (4) no tats tho..

dollymixsix

Stretched ears freak me out. And they smell when the plug isn't in! My friend has huge ones and whenever she leaves them out she has the unfortunate nickname of onion rings.

I do like piercings, had 14 at one point but now I'm down to 8.

lind3400

I've got tragus, cartilidge, had my nose done twice just have one now and had my lip done twice and took it out...I dunno I loved them when I was a teenager and thought they were so sexy on men....and now I still find them sexy on men but for some reason it really takes away from the prettiness of a girl when u get older...I dunno its confusing lol

freaksfitness

I have a Prince Albert.






Just kidding.

allison_42

I have my ears pierced and used to have my nose and belly button pierced. Hopefully if I lose more weight and get more toned in the tummy area I'll get my belly button pierced again.

Sherbog

I find them very interesting. As a nudist I have seen my share of piercings! www.aanr.com

HeidiMightyRawr

I do like piercings to look at, but don't have many myself (low pain threshold and not 100% it's for me to have loads)

I have ear lobes, left top part of my ear, and belly. I like the stretched ears to some extent - I don't like massive holes, or the way they look when they're empty, but the not so extreme ones can look good on certain people

purpleipod

My ears, tongue, and nipples are pierced. The ears have a 0 gauge and 2 8 gauges in each, the tongue is a 4 gauge, the nipples are just 14's.

jhartram

Don't mind seeing gauges, but they're not for me... but I have 10 piercings (ears, eyebrow, tongue) and I've signed for my kids to get pierced (just ears, for now... they're 8 and 10... but later on piercings will be an option for rewarding good grades/behavior)

KaseyLynn410

loe gauges and piercings im at 7/16ths in both ears
and when ever i wear metal it always get gross so quick i just use the soft platic ones that go in easy they fall out alot but i like thoose glass and woods ones best
beside that i only have one other piercing currently i use to have both sides of my lip pierced and nose twice my problem is the healing it takes months for my piercings to heal but IF i get through it, its fine after but it took me along time to have any of my piercing actuly heal

youngtweezy

I have a lip ring, but once I get into awesome shape I want to get my hips pierced. I can't remember what that's called.

cloud2011

I'm a mom and my daughter (14) says she's interested in a nose piercing. I don't really have a problem with that, or belly button, or even eyebrow. Don't like tongue or nipple piercings. IAnd, I actually can't stand gauges. Especially giant ones. That's just me. I think there's nothing aesthetically pleasing about them, where with tattoos and piercings, I get those, even though the only tattoo I'll ever consider is a little candy heart on my rear that says "Kiss mine."

NicoWoodruff

The big gauge stuff kinds of shocks me.. I try not to look at it because it makes me stomach feel weird lol. I only know one person currently who I can say honestly, really can pull of the big gauge earring thing. She has this thing in her ear that looks like a sort of spirally twig from the yard, but it actually looks really good on her somehow lol. She's about the only one I've gotten a good look at from feeling less of the stomach twinge aversion.

I've wondered do people do it for shock value? Maybe not but, it does shock me.

KimR87

I dont have any gauged except my tongue which ive had at an 8 guage. I also have my left eyebrow, right side of lip, nose, Industrial and Tragus in right ear and Rook and Cartilage in left ear.

lillystargazer

I love piercings and gauges. I had my ears and lip pierced, now just my ears. I miss my lip piercing so bad.

MelissaE27

I have my nose pierced and my cartilage in my ear.. had my tongue done had to take it (work) my 2 older kids gauge their ears Im not exactly happy about it but its up to them.. I think piercings are awesome.. along with tattoos I have 5.. and sooo want more....

BandForAlyAnne

i love peircings. i have 3 lobe piercings and the bottom one is a 0 gauge. been that way for 3 years now. i like the look of a little bigger but i dont want to damage the skin too much. i have my left tragus, left helix (traditional spot), and right helix (across from my tragus). my parents dont like facial peircing or tattoos so thats why i dont have any yet. but when i move out i plan on getting either a medusa or verticle labret.

Smiler106

To those who don't like them, what do you think about gauges that look like the blue earrings in my profile photo? Would you even know what they are?

Yes I would know what they were. Although those types of jewelery are quite pretty I still dislike gauges. The fact is when you take the jewelery out the hole that is left is gonna look like an *kitten*. I think that is my main objection, the idea to deliberately permanently change your body to make an artificial bum hole in your ear is nice? No. For the most part, they look bad and they smell bad too. I'm into piercings though, I've had 14 in total, although I only have one remaining at the moment (daith in right ear) because of my job.

FionaNiConnor

I started stretching my earlobes years ago. I was... 19, I think, so nine years come summer. I'm at 7/16" right now; I've been at this size for years. I don't want to go any bigger, so here I shall stay. My family used to give me a very hard time about them, but now I just get the occasional tease about them. ::shrugs:: They're *my* ears and if *I* want big holes in 'em, then by gum I am going to have big holes in 'em.
Otherwise, I have six other "normal" sized holes in both ears, a smiley piercing, and three others that you can't see when I'm wearing clothing. ;-)

I also have tattoos on my back, legs, lower abdominal area, and behind both ears. I want more, but I'm saving tattoo space for when my canvas gets smaller.

jessicajoy87

I think guages are gross looking. I don't mind piercings as long as their face isn't covered in them. I have 2 in each ear. When I was in high school I had my nose and my toung pierced. I took the toung ring out and I had to take my nose ring out for a mission trip. I didn't my the tounge ring at all so I didn't put it back. But I loved my nose ring and the hole ended closing!

artgeek09

I've got 2 lobe piercings in each ear, plus a cartilage piercing in the left ear. I also have my center labret done and currently have segmented ring in it. I love it. Though my fiance wishes I would take it out, it's kind of special to me. It's my "statement" piece.

I'd love to get microdermals done and in anti-eyebrow fashion, but I'm fairly certain most people unfortunately won't trust a psychologist with facial piercings. I dread the day I have to take my labret out