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

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???

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I have a Prince Albert.






Just kidding.

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

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.

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

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."

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.

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....

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.

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!