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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Having held out for years and refused to get my ears pierced, I finally got them done a couple of months ago. Now, like my tattoos, I seemed to have opened a floodgate, and now I want MOAR. I've been debating what to get done next, I was in an alternative jewellery shop/piercing parlour last week and oh so very nearly got my nose done. A nipple piercing is also tempting. What do you reckon I should get done?
If work/family/polite society wasn't an issue, what body modification would you have done? Alternatively, what body mod can't you stand?
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:47, 186 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
They just freak me out, the idea of tying them all together and then pulling, ew. Makes me shiver.
I would dye my hair bright colours all over instead of just the underneath bit if work wasn't an issue. For the most part they're not bothered about my mods, although I wouldn't want to get anything like a face tattoo anyway, all my tattoos can be hidden if necessary.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:50, Reply)
They must be so uncomfortable when they're pulled tight.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:53, Reply)
Plus the pulled skin looks a bit gross as well. I hate those circus of horror things where guys attach hooks to their skin and drag things along, ick.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:56, Reply)
They're likely to be my next piercing.
If work/family/polite society wasn't an issue, I'd get a microdermal in my face, plus tattoo my face.
I can't stand girls whose only facial piercing is a Madonna above the top lip, to one side), they almost always complete chavs.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:51, Reply)
he's frightened of needles though, the poor little lamb.
I'll do my own strikethrough:
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:53, Reply)
we're going to Tenerife.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:56, Reply)
That being said, I've only got one industrial, so am breaking my own rules. I'll definitely get my nips done as a pair though, will wait for my septum to heal up first.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:55, Reply)
Kat Von D's facial tattoos are incredible. She's incredible, but I love her stars :D
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:56, Reply)
Not the random squiggly shit 'tribal', but proper Polynesian, Maori etc, plus the geometric work.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:57, Reply)
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/Chakotay.jpg
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:10, Reply)
At least I think it's her right.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:03, Reply)
the labret piercing. It's a bit like a soul patch in that it makes the person look like they're trying to be all alternative but don't have the commitment to do it properly.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:51, Reply)
I much prefer them to the side, with a ring.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:57, Reply)
So you hate me AND Kitty now. Wookiee too, he has one.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:58, Reply)
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:00, Reply)
because I'm of the opinion that off centre lip piercings look fucking silly on most people. Oh and the madonna piercing can fuck right off - I've never seen one that looks nice yet.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:14, Reply)
dontvisitthis.com/wp-content/2010/06/Padlock-Ear.jpg
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:53, Reply)
So watch out the internet are after you.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:55, Reply)
I know someone who's got massive ones, I'm totally doing that.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:54, Reply)
They look ok up to a certain point, then they just gross me out, especially when the tunnel is taken out.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:55, Reply)
Although when i originally got them pierced at 4mm, I decided then that 6mm was my limit.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:55, Reply)
Lashing out at anything and everything that comes near.
You and TGB are perfect for each other.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:13, Reply)
Through their hatred of all things, they found one thing in common- a delicate, beautiful love. Now they have something to cherish: they stare into each others' eyes and whisper... "I don't like this"
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:13, Reply)
I'm devastated that you feel this way though.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:16, Reply)
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:26, Reply)
Surely they look dreadful with nothing in?
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:07, Reply)
my friend has taken his out and they are fucking gross
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:07, Reply)
O_o
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:08, Reply)
for your lovers eyes only.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:09, Reply)
'but where would you be able to get that done?'
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:15, Reply)
but those piercings that look like beauty spots I don't like. Tattoos are my thing really have a consultation booked in for planning my back, excited.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:53, Reply)
(Top lip, in the middle, through the philtrum) and I loved it. Had to take it out for work though, and it closed up over a few hours.
It has a silly name though.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:19, Reply)
they don't look nice. I am a sucker for girls with lip piercings especially hoops not studs. Plus they call trousers pants where you are as well and that still confuses me.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:21, Reply)
I used to have my lip done, miss it terribly, was probably my favorite piercing.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:28, Reply)
But nose, nose I could see working on you.
I'd have the tattoo I've wanted for ages in a more public place than my foot, and maybe dye my hair odd colours again. I used to want a labret, but I'm not really down with piercings any more.
I don't like much modification on men, to be honest. But I do review on an independent basis :D
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 12:59, Reply)
pierced or tattooed. I'm far too big a pussy for the former anyway and I don't think either would suit me.
I do like both when they're done properly, but a single labret or a single butterfly tattoo just don't work. If you're going to do it, do it properly!
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:02, Reply)
Don't have the stomach (literally) for belly piercing, like my tits too much, don't like my ears, and all sorts of practical reasons (I get terrible ulcers, I imagine the piercing would be hell for causing them if I got a mouth one)
Tattoos, I'm down with. Though not with going to the parlour and picking any design off the top of your head. You have to try and think.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:05, Reply)
when there's a reason behind them. If it's something you've ordered off the shelf or, worse still, one of those chinese characters/tramp stamp things, then you'll just look like a chav.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:10, Reply)
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:14, Reply)
It's full of win
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:16, Reply)
and one is in the tramp stamp location :D
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:30, Reply)
This shit dates really quickly and you're stuck with it.
What if Kerry Katona gets the same shit as you done? You become a laughing-stock. Not for me thanks - I prefer to become a laughing stock for the things I say and do, than merely my appearance.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:35, Reply)
Is to get a tribal squiggle on the side of their hand, like Cheryl Cole.
Most of them get shit ones, so exactly like Cheryl Cole's (seriously, it's a terrible tattoo).
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:37, Reply)
who's got that exact one.
I want a floral one behind my ear, running down to the back of my neck, but I can't decide exactly what form I want it to take.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:44, Reply)
I want to add some flowers and shit to my rib one to make it less boring, but I'm proper skint.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:50, Reply)
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:00, Reply)
and probably re-pierce my lip and tongue and get feet tattoos.
I would tell society to fook orf and live in a little cottage in the country and farm all my own food and have big b3ta bashes
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:09, Reply)
Then I'll be starting my other sleeve, chest, back, right leg and feet.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:11, Reply)
She called me yesterday and the first thing she said was "I see you've mutilated yourself again".
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:13, Reply)
I like Japanese gangster tattoos, but only on Japanese gangsters.
I've posted this before, but the best tattoo I've ever seen was on my pal James Graham, a hilarious crusty traveller/squatter type. He'd got a mate (quite probably in prison) to tattoo his forearm with the Motorhead logo, but the chap had fucked it up and just given up, so to this day James' arm bears the legend:
'mota'
Genius.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:10, Reply)
and he had OZZIE tattooed down one arm and SABBAHT down the other. I lolled every time he came in.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:32, Reply)
but I've never seen anything I'm 100% convinced I want to have inked in to my skin for the rest of time. Plus I'm worried I'd finally grow the balls to have it done and then not like it.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:19, Reply)
I've never quite understood the appeal. Most tattoos look shit, and once you get into full sleeve territory it just looks ridiculous and deeply unattractive. And piercing anything other than the ears is "hello, please relieve me of some money and make me uglier k thx bai".
Chavvy gyppos the lot of you.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:19, Reply)
I know I'm in the minority here, but I really don't like tattoos or piercings at all. Pierced ears are just about OK, but only on a woman.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:28, Reply)
I'd like to get a monroe but there's another girl I know that has her nose and a monroe and I don't like her so I'm abstaining.
I saw a girl with a surface piercing next to her eye which looked super cool and I'd like to have that.
sort of like this
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:22, Reply)
They're quite cool but prone to rejection. Like a lot of OTers really.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:23, Reply)
and most of my piercings reject anyway so I wouldn't get it done
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:27, Reply)
It's a microdermal or surface anchor piercing, aka single point piercings.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:29, Reply)
not even sure if my piercer does it
all this talk about piercings has me itching for one now
ugh
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:32, Reply)
i'd get microdermals put in over my spine, but a) it'd be bastard expensive, and b) it'd reject because of the movement
snake bite piercings annoy me, saw a lot of them at sonisphere and it looks like they're got 2 nasty spots on their mouth
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:26, Reply)
(and I truly mean no offence to those of you that have all this stuff done) is that I suspect I have led a much more 'alternative' life than a lot of body-modifying types - to the extent that I spend my time desperately trying to conceal this from the world at large rather than making it really fucking obvious by, say, putting nails through my eyelids or whatever you crazy kids get up to these days.
When I say it makes me laugh, I don't mean it genuinely makes me actually laugh, you understand.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:31, Reply)
some people like having piercings and tattoos.
Also, that was pretty patronising.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:34, Reply)
I've known really quite large numbers of 'Torture Garden' types in my time, including some chappies who performed an American Indian-style hook-hanging event in a Bethnal Green loft, on the whole I have found them to be, outside of this one sphere of activity, rather staid.
The biggest genuine deviants/nutters I've known have invariably looked rather ordinary.
Also, I am pretty patronising.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:38, Reply)
I don't like when people call lump me in with all the 'alternative kids' though because I don't really think I am. Plus no one is alternative these days, emo has taken over as the norm.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:42, Reply)
Emo and chav groups are about equal in size in a lot of cities nowadays. The counterculture has become mainstream.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:43, Reply)
I've heard it can be quite a euphoric experience.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:42, Reply)
You'll be suspended all right.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:50, Reply)
I get piercings and tattoos because I want them. I'd love for tattoos to be more socially acceptable, so long as it's well-regulated to stop any chav twunt buying a shoddy tattoo gun off eBay and permanently scarring their friends.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:34, Reply)
But do you really contest that the 'scene' is peppered with 'look at me' types? I'm not trying to belittle anyone's personal choices but I do know more than a few idiots who fit that description and my brother wrote his thesis on 'modern primitives' - I'm not just opining in the hope of a disagreement, here.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:46, Reply)
But do disagree with every heavily pierced or tattooed person being lumped into the 'look at me' category.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:48, Reply)
I said 'a lot of body-modifying types' - and I'm afraid from the sample I've known - and I really have known more than just one or two - the folks more often than not looked like they lived an alternative lifestyle (and frequently had chosen a 'striking' look precisely to give this impression), but in fact really did not.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:53, Reply)
How many practitioners of a defining activity would it take before that activity ceased being alternative?
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:55, Reply)
I would define an alternative lifestyle by a combination of the following
* sexual so-called 'deviancy'
* 'alternative' living arrangements (squatting, communes, travelling etc.)
* use of MASSIVE DRUGS or alcohol to excess
* refusal to work for a living in the traditional way inc being a criminal
Thinking about it, in somewhere like Camden the regular 9-5 straight looking dudes are the ones living an alternative lifestyle...
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:07, Reply)
People that live 24/7 BDSM lifestyles would definitely be considered alternative, as would the total recluse/outcast who lives in a hut in the countryside living off the land.
You could argue that any alcohol use in the UK would not be considered alternative, no matter the quantities, and that being tee-total is more alternative.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:12, Reply)
I was thinking about homeless drunks really, rather than 'liking a drink or two'.
But it's very much a term wide open to massively different interpretations, for sure.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:18, Reply)
wah wah massive drugs wah wah my cats gone wah wah you all suck I am better than you
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:36, Reply)
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:40, Reply)
Although now I've angrily said that, I'm doubting myself...
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:49, Reply)
I always thought it was re.
EDIT: Google says I'm the winner.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:25, Reply)
Oppressed is done by an outside source.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:29, Reply)
Now I feel super edgy and kewl.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:38, Reply)
it's not that I'm against them, per se, more that I'm worried I might leak
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:32, Reply)
I want to try it with sambuca, and see if I can light it.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:35, Reply)
and do it with a ping pong ball, then I'll be impressed
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:35, Reply)
I reckon he must be the one responsible for episodes I, II & III
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:45, Reply)
I was pretty embarrassed.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:39, Reply)
I like rubbing my eye to make squidgy noises
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:45, Reply)
so I usually can't rub my eyes between 6am and midnight. It feels so good to take them out at night and then rub my eyes until they're nearly bleeding.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:49, Reply)
the idea of putting contacts in totally grosses me out
anything going in my eye at all reminds me of a horror movie or something
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:56, Reply)
Although I chose to first find this out with ice cold diet coke and flailed everywhere because of the fizziness.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:41, Reply)
I don't see the attraction. Tattoos can look good but only rarely have I seen one that really struck me as nice. The last one I saw that impressed me was the 'Join, or Die' tattoo that Craig Ferguson has on his forearm.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join,_or_Die
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:35, Reply)
just doesn't appeal. And I've yet to hear an argument for it more articulate than "well, I just like it".
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:57, Reply)
doesn't mean it's a shit argument. It's possibly the best argument there is. Better than some made up bullshit about why it means something. I got all my tattoos because I like them no other reason, I liked the designs even the shit one I did myself.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:05, Reply)
and I'm not allowed to get any piercings/tattoos done now so I've missed the opportunity.
Not fond of snakebites myself
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:54, Reply)
no piercings, no tattoos, they even think twice about injections in case it sparks off my illness again
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:01, Reply)
i'm not sure if i ever encountered her while she was sober
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:14, Reply)
when at Soni she's drunk, and I've met her sober only for us both to get drunk in the evening.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:18, Reply)
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