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

took me along time to have any of my piercing actuly heal

Me too. At one point early on I thought my top ear piercings were such a pain in the butt I'd just "let them grow up" but even when they got really closed as much as possible you could see the little indentation and it looked to me like there needed to be an earring there.. so I had to re-pierce my top standard ear piercing at one point and I've *never* let them grow back up after that.

A hoodoo lady I met late said she swore by broom straw for new piercings, tiny piece in each piercing, turned daily, when new would make it heal perfect lol. :huh:

Over time the top piercing on my right has gotten slightly closer to the edge of my ear than the one on the left. No idea why, just something about the piercing and how my body fat has distributed over time, maybe I sleep on that side more, no idea. Wearing small studs or extra tiny hoops make it not very noticeable that the top piercing is slightly uneven from side to side.

I missed bellybutton piercings, they look very nice on some people and not so much on others. Question is does it look like a cool earring/embellishment or does it look like a piercing where I can see the bit that got pierced hanging down too much. Don't ask me why but for some people I think they look cool and others, nope.

Whatever you get, make sure you really like it.. because it's likely there for life lol.

I personally find piercings and tattoos sexy. I have my ears done 3 times on the bottom (used to be 4 but the last ones closed. I have had my cartilage done, my belly button was done on top and bottom and my nose is pierced. I don't have any tattoos yet. My hubbs has his ears gauged, his cartilage done and his labret. And one tattoo but plans to get more.

I used to have the back of my neck pierced (not the dermals, just a regular bar piercing) and I LOVED it!!! Sadly I had to take it out due to colorguard...but I wouldn't be against the idea of doing it again someday. For now I'll focus on tattoos

Honestly, hate the gauges. Not judging, and I don't think any less of people who have them, but I personally can't stand them. And, in all honesty, if someone takes it too far and has massive gauges and multiple piercings all over their face, I have a hard time even looking at them, forget about having a conversation.

Just personal preference.

Agreed. However, I do acknowledge it's all totally personal preference of what is attractive. I had my ears pierced 10 times, a naval piercing, tongue piercing and nipple piercing at one time. I "outgrew" most of them. I have never like eyebrow, most nose, or other facial piercing aesthetically but whatever floats your boat. Big holes give me the heebie jeebies but I try to be respectful cuz it aint my body so it aint my business! My mom hated all my piercings (called them vulgar) and dislikes my 2 tattoos.

I have 6 ear piercings, two normal lobe on one, two lobe and cartilage on the other, nose tongue twice (venoms) and nipples ...love love love piercings, just not sure what next!

i have a dermal anchor in my wrist...

my ears pierced (i did stretch when at uni)

belly button pierced at the lower naval

I'm always weird about dermal anchors. I heard that people have a hard time with them sometimes because of rejection and that the body tends to eventually push them out? (That may sound stupid, I could be confused)

actual dermal punches reject less than needle earrings...(we all know how disgusting piercing guns are lol)...dermals also take a LONG time to set. I recommend getting it done with a biopsy needle as apposed to a normal piercing needle were they lift the skin...hurts way less, and the healing time is faster. Plus it looks clean and healthy right away instead of red and swollen. I have one in my chest because I've had 4 biopsies in the last year to test for cancer, I figure the 5th biopsy should leave a pretty diamond behind.

I also have 00gauge rings, that's a big as I want them. I have an industrial, conch, rook, nose, vaginal hood and nipple pierced.

I use to have my other nipple and a parallel industrial but they both rejected. And I took out my second holes to make room for my gauges, and my cartlidge piercings to make room for my industrial.

I'm covered in tattoos, I love them, AND I work in a highly successful office. But i do admit that i wear clothing to cover my tattoos. And my piercings are noticeable only if you look closely.

My teacher always said that competence equals deviance...and I'm very good at what I do for a living.

Quoting: [/quote] I try to be respectful cuz it aint my body so it aint my business! My mom hated all my piercings (called them vulgar) and dislikes my 2 tattoos [/quote] >>>>>

Same here, as far as respectful. Your body, your decision.

My Grandmother who was like a mom was the one who gave me my first ear piercing at age 4. I got the upper ones done as a teen as a rite of passage thing. No one ever criticized me for them, but I have an elderly relative in another branch of my family who told me her mother said all piercings were for "gypsy's and *kitten*" when she pierced her own ears standardly when she was young in the early fifties.

i'm sorry but i just dont understand what would make a person want to put a hole in thier genitalia........ maybe because im a guy? i dont know........ but that just sends shivers down the spine.

i did have my ear pierced back in middle school. i think i wore a 10 guage hoop.

I have both lobes and my lower helix. I'm planning on adding my rook and/or tragus, and possibly cartilage. :bigsmile:

I used to have 4ga gauges in my ears. I had to remove them though in order to get into the air force. They are much smaller now.

i'm sorry but i just dont understand what would make a person want to put a hole in thier genitalia........ maybe because im a guy? i dont know........ but that just sends shivers down the spine.

i did have my ear pierced back in middle school. i think i wore a 10 guage hoop.

I contemplated it for a while... mostly for just he shock factor but I would never have the guts to go thru with it... LOL

I have two piercings per lobe, a rook in my right ear, an industrial in my left, and I just got my bellybutton done for the second time (nearly ripped it out the first). Next piercing is going to be a conch, if I ever get around to it.

I love tattoos as well! I have an owl on the right side of my ribcage and hopefully this weekend my boyfriend and I will be getting matching infinity signs on our wrists.

I have my belly button done like two years ago.. was not small then and not small but smaller now... I LOVE IT

I have my belly button pierced (I've had it done for about 7 years now, and super excited to be skinny to show it off) I recently started gauging my ears again, I went to a 6 before, and that's where I'm at now. I plan on going to a 2 for sure, maybe a bit bigger, but I want them to be able to shrink someday.

I also have a second piercing on my ears, right above the first, and then both of my tragus'. I want to get my snug done for sure.

Never wanted piercings but my husband is a piercer at the local tattoo shop and since our marriage I've gotten my labret and a surface piercing in my cheek I thought about a dermal but the surface one was a better choice for me