face piercings

[deggers316]

just seen a girl on tv around 15 with two rings in her nose and two studs either side of here mouth, that's her privilege i know but if she were turned down for jobs because of this and was asked by dhss to remove them to make her more employable could she then say that was against her human rights and so continue to live on benefit ?
just a thought

[LoftyLottie]

I am actually quite a liberal person I think, but not when it comes to face piercings. I don't judge the people with excessive piercings because I can't talk to them for long. Face piercings literally make my knees go week and I feel queazy. The thought of people having holes punched in them is unbearable to me...............................

[Ankou]

i don't mind what people do with their own bodies to be honest, but putting them in front of one of my clients is a different kettle of fish.

[Khandro]

In my humble opinion, I have yet to see a woman that I find really attractive have her face pierced at all. In fact, the uglier they are, the more they seem to do it, - I wonder why that is?

[LoftyLottie]

I hesitate to agree Khandro, but I sort of know what you mean.

[yogasun]

Agree with Lottie. One of my son' s friends used to have a nose ring and a piercing in his brow (a very intelligent boy, by the way) and I could only talk to him if I didn't look at him. He had them removed a few years ago so no problem there now. He has a good job in London and I think post degree he went for interviews so that might have been the decider to remove them.

[Khandro]

I wonder if it could be linked to low self esteem, self-harming. Just a thought!

[pdust]

personally ive dont self harm, im aware that piercings could be seen as a form of self harming and i wouldn't do it now, ive no intention of having more done, none of the people i know who are pierced self harm either. Some have got to their 40's without so much as an ear pierced. From conversations it seems most of us who have done it just like the way it looks. Its just in my opinon a decoration that can be taken out whenever you like. Most wont leave much visible scarring if any... (obviously the tunnel ones people have would but hey thats their choice)

[Ann]

My friend and I saw an elderly man (hippy type) just before Christmas and he must have had 200 face piercings!!! I know it was rude of us but we were in a shop and walked down the next aisle and up the same one as him just to get a further look, we just could not believe our eyes!!! It made us feel quite sick, all the ones in his nose and lips can't be hygienic and surely could get infected, as sorry to say, he didn't look too savoury really, a bit like an old tramp - he was probably a really nice old chap, perhaps it just made us form a wrong opinion..

[Ann]

He was actually worse than the pic jno posted .....

[albaqwerty]

My older alba (19) had his ear pieced, fine. Then he went ofr a few more different ear-piercings. He has two studs pierced through his lip. He was 17 and a student (still is a student) Mr Alba and I hate them with a passion. He got a tattoo when he was 18 and kept taling about getting a 'sleeve'. He's not mentioned that for over a year now.
'Hate them with a passion' should read as hate the piercings and not the students :)

[pdust]

shame too many people dont look beyond the 'cover' alba :(

[albaqwerty]

Never judge a book by its cover pixie x

His g/f had a nose-piercing. One of those just above a nostril type thingy, it was quite pretty. She took it out when visitng grandparents and couldn't get the thing back in. Healed up no bother and she hasn't bothered about it.

[pdust]

I dont know how people manage to leave facial piercings in tbh. Ive had my nose done a few times and you don't realise how often you touch your face until you catch them all the time. I had ones on my body removed for the same reason, i loved them but getting a shower/bath was a nightmare if i forgot they were there and just scrubbed with a scrunchie ...ouch!!!!

[albaqwerty]

A friend of mine had her tongue pierced when she was 30. A treat for herself!!
However, she stuck her tongue out at her son whilst they were bantering and her stud got caught between her front teeth. I'm sorry to say I had an accident when she told me. :D

[boxtops]

Tongue piercings - why? - and I hate it when people who have them, keep fiddling with them.

[albaqwerty]

Nipples and Prince Albert's I just cannot understand. A niece of mine had her belly-button pierced and her mum nagged her to take it out when she was pregnant. I don't understand tongues either.

[jomifl]

Paul and pdust, if you cannot see that a morbid obsession with self mutilation says something about someones state of mind then you need to sharpen up your deductive faculties.