Piercing

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 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 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.

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!

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.

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!!

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!!

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!

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.

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!

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?

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.

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.

Yuk! regarding the original post, just the one piercing in each ear for me which I had done when I was about 13, I always wear earings, pearls are my favourite. I don't like piercings all over the place I think they look gross, but each to their own.

It was an old superstition that piercing children's ears gave them good eyesight! Have no idea how that was supposed to work.
DH's aunt had her ears pierced, along with a friend, when she was a student nurse in the early 1930's. The old chap (her words)who did it said the only way he could do it safely and efficiently was if they each sat on his lap!!

i had my ears pierced when i was 18 [all those years ago] and then again when in my early twenties. a little while later my daughter paid to have them pierced again so i've got three holes in each ear.
did toy with the idea of an intimate piercing but decided against it as i couldn't afford it!
i will admit to two tattoos though and i love them - i've had these for something over 20 years and i'd have another like a shot!
if people want to have ears and anything else pierced then i think it's up to them - i have a friend with all sorts of piercings.
again, if people want tattoos then it's a free world after all. same friend with the piercings has lovely roses tattooed on her legs and arms. they look lovely but i wouldn't have them - my tattooes are small and discrete.

Same but different.......can somebody please tell me how the nose is blown when adorned with studs and rings and things? Makes me feel a bit ughy but I am truly mystified. Please don't be overly graphic with replies. I AM genuinely curious and oh so ignorant.

Most ears aren't attractive, so why draw attention to them by wearing earrings? We forbade our three daughters to get their ears pierced but it didn't stop two of them getting them done in their teens and not telling us. Still haven't quite forgiven them. I can't stand seeing babies with pierced ears, or even wearing bracelets. I know it's a cultural thing in some cases, but still daft. As for tattoos - in my childhood it was only sailors who had them - 'Mum' emblazoned on a forearm or chest looked quite good, but now it seems to have become a form of self-harm.

Ummmm.......I have a lot of piercings and I love them. My OH has rather a lot too, none that can be seen of course. But I have to admit to hating those stretched earlobes, something to regret later I think.

I'm 66 and have never had my ears (or anything else!) pierced.Having seen a friend have her earring ripped out of her ear during a rough and tumble game it put me off for life.As for piercing intimate places....no, no, no. Can,t be safe.

Nanaandgrampy-that made me laugh out loud!! Very true too [

I didn't even have my ears done till my 20s - don't think I'd want any other sites. I've got a Brazilian adopted sister who has been part of my life since she was 10 and had already had her ears done as a baby and looked cute!

What happens if you have nipple piercings and then have breast lumps? I've often wondered at people's ingenuity at damaging their bodies. There was a director of something in The Times with staples in his face and I couldn't hide the picture to read the article. I think I was brought up not to stare at the afflicted and that's how I feel.

Couple of of hooks in lips seem to be popular. Worry about them being caught in fork when eating. Had my ears pierced when I was 27 in jewellers fainted after first one consequently the hole in second is skew wiff. Slopes downward have to remember when putting ear rings in.

I didn't get my ears pierced till I was about 20. Fainted afterwards still in the shop! Very embarrassing.