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The SO Piercing Questions & Discussion Mega-Thread

Piercings are who you are and what you like and stand for
i have a tongue ring, 5 in one ear and 3 in the other
i work in an office and im 20, i only take out my tongue ring.....i dont think you should pick an age when you want to get rid of them just put nice, small earrings in
 
by the time i was 17 i had 25+ piercings. they all stayed in until i was 20 and i started student-teaching. then most of the earings came out (minus the rook, traigus, and helix). the bellybutton and nipple piercings came out because i was bored with them.

at age 22 i got my own classroom. time to 'grow up' some more. or conform. either way, the tongue piercings came out and i removed my 0gage plugs.

i'm 25 now, about to start a career in a more 'professional' school setting, and i find myself wondering if i should just go all the way and remove my only remaining non-standard piercings- rook, helix, traigus. i was ready to get rid of all the others when i did. but, i'm not ready to part with these guys yet.

so when should people do it? i dunno. i guess it depends on your personality, your career, your life, etc. if my career choice wasn't one that required conformity (at least in the beginning) than i probably wouldn't have gotten rid of any yet. it just depends on where YOU are NOW.
 
One of the most highly regarded College professors where I went to school was a lead singer of a local punk band and had several piercings.
 
Take them out when you're bored of them. I honestly don't see why this is an issue.
I work in a professional environment, and while I only have a couple of visible piercings, I don't see the need to remove them, and I am likely to get more soonish.
 
Can it ever be time? If your doing it for trend, take them out NOW!!! If not....what's the problem.

Other then the tongue ring which can rot your teeth...
 
For me personally I took out my piercings (tongue + ears) a few years ago when I began travelling on business and having to meet with some of the brass of the company in meetings all the time.

I actually kind of miss 'em and have been thinking of getting my ears done again.
 
Thanks for everyones thoughts. I decided, like a few stated above, to keep them till i get bored of them. I suppose I can take them out and put em back in for a job all i want. I just aint ready yet for them to come out perm. If i feel naked with em out at work, then its a sign i aint ready. :)
 
ladyinthesky said:
Piercings are who you are and what you like and stand for
i have a tongue ring, 5 in one ear and 3 in the other
i work in an office and im 20, i only take out my tongue ring.....i dont think you should pick an age when you want to get rid of them just put nice, small earrings in
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so what are you standing for with 8 ear piercings? who does that make you?
 
personally i think in a professional job interview you'll be looked down a little bit for having excessive piercings. dats jus me (im unpierced n untattoed)
 
i took my gauges out once i started looking for jobs.

i didn't take them out because of the job itself cause i could care less what people think about me i just thought of it as a stage i'm moving onto.

first job and all, idk i'm just fucking weird i guess.

i had a tongue piercing i did myself for like 2 days until it became annoying and i took it out for good.
 
Microdermals (the hot new fad baby!)

A microdermal or surface anchor has evolved from the techniques used in pocketing, dermal anchoring and transdermal implants. "The idea is to give the aesthetic look of a transdermal implant but with the simplicity and safety of a piercing" (Brian Decker - Pure Body Arts). The simplest way to describe the jewellery is that of a miniaturised transdermal implant, i.e. a flat plate which sits beneath the skin with a single exit for a barbell post giving the visual effect of jewellery (a bead, spike, etc.) that appears to be screwed right into the body.

http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Microdermal

3 Microdermals done by my fiance on the other piercer at her former shop:
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What do you guys think? Their implants but easy to remove, even years of having them in, they can be dug out with a simple 12 gauge needle (or in rare cases a scalpel). She learned how to do them watching the guy who split her tongue do it to like ten people, then put 1 in my chest, 3 times in succession in 3 differant places, so she could learn. She also did her first "punch and taper" piercing (http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Punch_And_Taper). Here's a pic.

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So...... Yay or Nay to Dermal Anchors?
 
I'm completely out of it myself, deleted my BME account and everything (so much elitist dicksizing on that site). She doesnt even pierce there anymore, just her friends in our sterile kitchen. We're ordering some microdermals, i'm gettin one in the middle of my pubic mound and one in the center of my chest.
 
ive had a phobia of jewelry since i was a kid.. it spawned from a fear of metal in general.

i couldnt wear jeans until i was like 14..

i could never imagine getting a piercing.. i'd just die probably
 
I got one of these in the summer:

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The picture was taken a few hours after I got it done so it still looks a little red/bloody. I was in love with it at first but more recently it's been bugging me 'cause sometimes it gets a little sore when I move around trying to fall asleep. Overall, I think it was worth getting. Although I did tire of the "Did that hurt!?" questions eventually.
 
mrs-mojo-risin said:
I got one of these in the summer:

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The picture was taken a few hours after I got it done so it still looks a little red/bloody. I was in love with it at first but more recently it's been bugging me 'cause sometimes it gets a little sore when I move around trying to fall asleep. Overall, I think it was worth getting. Although I did tire of the "Did that hurt!?" questions eventually.
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Did they just pierce it or was it done punch and taper? Either way came out excellant, did it keep (a lot of mine fail, simply because most surface bars fail and reject)?
 
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