Piercing

I had my ears pierced years ago but can't remember when or where. I have no other piercings but have a tattoo on the base of my spine which I had done when I was 40 - for no other reason than I wanted it and my son's then girlfriend worked in a good parlour in London. He had several piercings done but let them all heal up but does have a few tatts - his wife has none and doesn't like it but my other DIL had one done on her back after me as did my friend. Since then she's had a couple more done and so has my granddaughter (19) who also had her navel pierced. Her dad has had a lot of tattoos and last year had a huge back piece done of a dragon - it's amazing. However he's sensible enough not to have anything done which shows at work so no neck or forearm ones. I go to festivals and see young girls with full sleeves and even ones on their faces which I feel is wrong - there will come a day when their skin sags and the beautiful (some) patterns and pictures droop and distort or they may need to go to a formal dress occasion. Piercings can heal but tattoos are permanent. I don't like to see babies with earnings in either - seem cruel and not of their choice.

I have my ears pierced and years ago when I was still slim I had my naval pierced too. I have to say we lived abroad for several years and I used to wear bikinis a lot and my naval jewellery made me feel very feminine and sexy, even alone with my husband I felt feminine and sexy whilst wearing it. I have a 9ct gold one with a CZ to match a ring he bought for me. Don't wear it anymore now my tummy has gone a bit wobbly LOL My sister, on the other hand, 'treated herself' to a pierced nipple when she turned 40 and one day whilst towelling herself after a bath, a loose thread got tangled around it and ripped it out of her nipple and she said, never again.

No piercings or tattoos for me either but not bothered by other peoples' if they want to risk infection or injury that's up to them.

What I don't understand is the current need to draw attention to their worst features. It used to be to show off your best areas and disguise the rest-when did that change?

Someone I knew had her nose pierced on her 40th birthday with a stud through her nostril. When she had a heavy cold, she had to remove the stud because she couldn't keep it clean, and then catarrh bubbled out of the piercing hole. Eeeeuuuw!

I have one piercing in my ears and a pierced nose which I had done in my early 20s. I take the attitude that it's up to the individual what they do to their bodies. I'm horrified by those who forbade their children to have piercings and never forgive them if they do. Surely when they are over 18 they are free to choose? There are worse things than a bit of body jewellery.

Every nerve end retracts at the thought of piercings in intimate areas.
NanaandGrampy I didn't ever think I'd laugh at such things as above but I'm still chuckling at your post. What a vision!

Yes, my mum always said it was only gypsies/didicoys had their ears pierced but I decided to have a piercing in each earlobe at the jewellers when I was in my 30s. Really glad I did as love wearing pretty earrings. My elderly neighbour said a friend did hers for her donkeys years ago. She froze the ear with ice and held a potato behind it while piercing the ear with a needle-
ugh!!

Weird how different we all are isn't it? I haven't got a single piercing as I have never, not even for a second, wanted any. In fact it would be the last thing I'd ever want or consider, apart from a tattoo!
I think we must have different eye to brain connections that produce vastly different images!! I hear people describing tattoos as pretty, artistic, amazing, lovely etc. All I see is garish unattractive colours in undesirable designs. I can honestly say I've never seen a single tattoo that I found attractive. As for having one myself.... I'd rather drink acid!!!
I have no problems with others having piercings or tattoos at all and I realise it must be me that's out of kilter, but they do make me cringe!!

My mother also was scathing about ear piercing. I always retorted that the Queen had pierced ears. However, I did wait until l left home to have mine done. I love pretty earrings.
No other piercings.

Hi Gaggi3 - my grandma always said having your ears pierced improved your eyesight and told me she had a pair of gold sleepers for me when I had it done. My mother wouldn't allow it so I never did get the earings and finally had my ears pierced in my 20s. So far the eyesight doesn't appear to have improved!

I was twenty four, very pregnant while walking through a department store. My two grandmothers were with me and paid to have my ears pierced. They used a cork behind my ear and a needle. I heard the crunch and my ears hurt for days after.
I did have a student years later in my class who was a male. He had his nipples, ears, eyebrow, nose and lips pierced. It was hard to teach without constantly looking at him.

I had my ears pierced in my late thirties and never regretted it, because I love earrings and clip ons are agony. When I was young and had a very neat middle, I think I might have liked a navel piercing too, but I often see very flabby older ladies walking around wearing crop tops and low slung jeans, with their wrinkled belly-button all bejewelled! Up to them, of course, but pretty it ain't.

I just can't help thinking what the younger people will look like when they are wrinkly with sagging skin as we know it happens over night?.
Any thoughts what the next crazy fad might be my parents banned my sister & I from wearing hot pants.!!!

I have one piercing in each ear,and don't like the thought of any more as I can't see the point. However,when my children were teenagers,I promised I'd only insist on 2 things;no smoking and no drugs. As a consequence,I couldn't say anything about the pierced eyebrows and nose stud,and I also tried to be sympathetic when the piercings got infected. Yuck!

One piercing in each ear thats enough for me.

I got my ears pierced first when I was 12 then a second set the day I became a Granny .
I quite fancied having my nipples pierced , now that things have sagged I could link them up to my ears for an instant lift !

My Mother always considered ear piercings common. I wonder what she would have thought of my son's X-girlfriend who had her naval pierced. It got infected and she had a lot of worry about blood poisoning before it finally cleared up. Took ages and it was very sore and weepy. Definitely NOT attractive imo.

Pierced ears can catch on things and then they bleed. I just didn't fancy it myself. Why can't the designers of clip on earings make them delicate and pretty too?

Just pierced ears for me. But I did try to wind up my daughters by telling them that I was having my navel pierced for my 60th birthday. I expected them to throw up their hands in horror and say I was much too old, but no, they offered to come with me! (I didn't do it!)

My brother pierced my ears when I was 17 (sigh) with a darning needle and an ice cube, very cost effective. I jumped at the second ear and was lopsided for awhile til they healed. It was a talking point until I had them straightened out a few months later in a jewellers. The things we do.

I was 27,almost 50 years ago, when my sister, a junior doctor in A&E, knowing I wanted to have my ears pierced, rang up and said it was a quiet afternoon, so she could do my ears right away. She used a hypodermic and it didn't hurt at all. I really wanted to wear pretty earrings as her bridesmaid the following month. I still have those holes and a vast collection of earrings. I don't feel dressed without them.

When my DSS were young I told them that I didn't mind what they did to themselves as long as they didn't get a tattoo. We had multiple ear piercings and tongue piercings (yuk) and eyebrow piercings and hair dying and head shaving, but they never did get tattooed, for which I am extremely grateful (and not a little surprised)

Never pierced, dont like these things in noses, always reminds me of a bull in a field, NOT attractive.
Felt sorry for my Grandson,who is fourteen, he had asked for one ear to be pierced, for Christmas, he got a very nice "earring" from his parents, it was very discreet, he came home one day, really upset having been told at School that "only Gay people have earrings", he took it out next day, Mum and Dads money down the drain!

Oh yes, I'd forgotten that. My mother, said she had had her ears pierced, around 1920, to improve her eyesight...it didn't work!
She did her best to persuade me to have mine done as a teenager, but I hated the idea.
Then I had the opposite battle with my teenage daughters as they begged to be allowed pierced ears while I held out, a shorter time with each one.
Is this something that skips generations?

I only have my ears pierced. One hole in each ear and I can't remember when I had it done now but possibly in my late teens. However, I've always fancied a belly button piercing - I don't know why but I know ideally you have to be under 25, ultra slim and have a flat tummy for them to look good. However I've always had a hankering to have one done so that I can have a sparkly diamond there. They look lovely on slim young things IMHO.

My granddaughter aged 7 has just started pestering her Mum for pierced ears and of course my DD is not keen and put her on the phone to me to try and talk her out of it. Fat good that did as I cannot be a hypocrite since I got my DD's ears pierced when she was 4 years old. It was at a jewellers and I distinctly remember we had to chase her round the store once she'd had one done to get the other one pierced. Oh the guilt! Still she's worn them ever since. So we've reached a compromise over GD's ear piercing - will her Granddad came up with the suggestion that if she still wants them done - have them done in the school summer holidays when Mum can make sure they are cleaned and checked over every day and she has 6 weeks to get used to them. In the meantime Ive given her a pair of sparkly clip-ons that I had and she can wear those around the house.

I did a life drawing class and the model was a very pretty, slim young girl. However she had piercings in her nipple and labia. Must have been so painful having it done. Can't understand why.