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03/24/2007 07:57:38 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by Blue Moon:
My best friend Adriana  has five tattoos and about 12 piercings currently (she had waaay more a couple of years ago). three of her tattoos are in obvious places like the back of her neck, forearm, and wrist. Her earlobes are stretched to about the size of dimes. All of this and she doesn't regret any of them. She's only 19.
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Just curious - In your comments on the photo (which is beautiful, by the way - both the subjects and the photo itself), you said she did that thing with her shoulder "because she is self-conscious of her arms". The tattoos?
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03/24/2007 08:00:46 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by Mr_Pants:
I love tattoos, but nothing below the upper arm. Too limiting in the line of business in which I work. Not terribly high-tech, but certainly reactionary. Even more of a limitation, considering that I desire to be seen as some sort of 'professional'. It's all about how others might perceive them.
One of these days, I might get a small tattoo myself. |
funniest post of the day:) |
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03/24/2007 08:05:25 PM · #28 |
:P |
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03/24/2007 08:28:37 PM · #29 |
I like piercings, but not tattoos as much. They've been around for thousands of years... 7000 or so if i remember correctly. I find them both attractive and cool. A person who doesn't have any is kind of a turn of actually. I only have 4 piercings currently, but one has a ring through two holes(orbital). Only the orbital is visible, and it's on the top of my ear. The other 2 are my nipples, which aren't terribly visible most of the time. I only have this many piercings because I can't think of many places to get them where they are not visible all the time.
One of the few careers that i would want somebody with tattoos or piercings is of course at the parlor. I'd trust somebody that's been through it more than somebody who hasn't. |
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03/24/2007 08:36:51 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by maxaz1:
Originally posted by Blue Moon:
My best friend Adriana has five tattoos and about 12 piercings currently (she had waaay more a couple of years ago). three of her tattoos are in obvious places like the back of her neck, forearm, and wrist. Her earlobes are stretched to about the size of dimes. All of this and she doesn't regret any of them. She's only 19.
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Just curious - In your comments on the photo (which is beautiful, by the way - both the subjects and the photo itself), you said she did that thing with her shoulder "because she is self-conscious of her arms". The tattoos? |
Nope, she thinks her arms are fat :P
Also I asked if she wanted to take any of her piercings out for the shoot and she was actually a little insulted that I even asked. It was mere coincidence that none of her tattoos showed.
Here's a pic that shows some of her piercings 
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03/24/2007 08:47:36 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by Elvis_L:
:P |
Ouch ouch ouch
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03/24/2007 09:03:18 PM · #32 |
Blue Moon ... your friend Adrianna, I think, looks very nice with her piercings. So while I have spoken out against body piercings, I think there is a tasteful limit and she has stayed well within that limit.
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03/24/2007 09:03:41 PM · #33 |
This guy, on the other hand, I think surpassed those "tasteful limits" a long time ago. lol
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03/24/2007 09:06:45 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by dwterry:
This guy, on the other hand, I think surpassed those "tasteful limits" a long time ago. lol
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0.o
I agree
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03/24/2007 09:20:24 PM · #35 |
No rings, piercings or stuff like that on my body. Almost ripped my finger off at work once because the ring stuck behind a metal plate while I jumped down 3 feet.... Gold is soft, yeah, it didn't hurt much when it hit the bone. :(
Get enough stuff against my face with near misses too, don't want anything sticking out that can be ripped off. Only wear glasses because one of my eyes cannot take contact lenses.
My old man had an even more horrible story with his wedding ring. He was doing some welding when a drop of redhot molten iron fell on his finger and got stuck between the ring and his finger..... Yeah, he should have had a glove on, but we're talking about the seventies here.
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03/24/2007 09:27:15 PM · #36 |
I am curious, though; how can a "tasteful limit" be defined? For example, I don't mind a few tattoos, but I'm sometimes creeped out by elderly women with earrings in long, stretched out earlobes.
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03/24/2007 09:30:51 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by Azrifel:
No rings, piercings or stuff like that on my body. Almost ripped my finger off at work once because the ring stuck behind a metal plate while I jumped down 3 feet.... Gold is soft, yeah, it didn't hurt much when it hit the bone. :(
Get enough stuff against my face with near misses too, don't want anything sticking out that can be ripped off. Only wear glasses because one of my eyes cannot take contact lenses.
My old man had an even more horrible story with his wedding ring. He was doing some welding when a drop of redhot molten iron fell on his finger and got stuck between the ring and his finger..... Yeah, he should have had a glove on, but we're talking about the seventies here. |
My husband's uncle ripped his finger off when his wedding ring caught on the ladder of his sailboat, as he jumped down into the water. Ironically, his marriage ended soon after. |
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03/24/2007 10:48:07 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by Azrifel:
No rings, piercings or stuff like that on my body. Almost ripped my finger off at work once because the ring stuck behind a metal plate while I jumped down 3 feet.... Gold is soft, yeah, it didn't hurt much when it hit the bone. :(
Get enough stuff against my face with near misses too, don't want anything sticking out that can be ripped off. Only wear glasses because one of my eyes cannot take contact lenses.
My old man had an even more horrible story with his wedding ring. He was doing some welding when a drop of redhot molten iron fell on his finger and got stuck between the ring and his finger..... Yeah, he should have had a glove on, but we're talking about the seventies here. |
I knew a guy at work that lost his ring finger when he fell and his ring got caught and pulled his finger off while he dangled in midair, feeling the ligaments and tendons snap one by one until he finally fell, leaving his finger behind. At least that's the way he liked to tell it.
Message edited by author 2007-03-24 22:48:41. |
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03/24/2007 11:22:50 PM · #39 |
Here is what's next in the evolution of facial art...
Surely their are plenty of young guys here that find this type of cutting edge nonconformity attractive. |
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03/25/2007 12:02:30 AM · #40 |
I'll ring in and agree completely with Art's original post.
I took it as a friendly reminder to anyone considering permanent changes that they'll face fewer limits if they do it where no one can see.
I do my best not to react negatively, but the real point is that there will always be people who do react that way. Whether it's fair is irrelevant to the, again friendly, warning.
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03/25/2007 12:05:26 AM · #41 |
Originally posted by yakatme:
Here is what's next in the evolution of facial art... |
already seen it!
i have one tattoo, the usual single hole in the lobes ofhte ears, and one small silver ring in the to pof my left ear. wheni was teaching, i was also the swim team coach. i was wearing shorts one day, and the kids noticed my tattoo (lower back, on the spine - a space filler from the book of kells - i'm english/scottish heritage, so used my own tradition). they were all 'oo, madam (that's what they call you in southern africa), you have a tattoo! that's so cool? i want one too! hwhere did you get it?' etc. etc.
so then i had to do the whole mini lecture thing, which was actually the complete truth.
i thought about getting a tat for aobut 10 years. i decided on a design from the book of kells. as i studied art, i became very interested in celtic knotwork, and intrigued by the way pagan imagery worked its way into the book of kells (early christian bible - 9th century england). i chose the design i wanted, and thought about it for ages. i was in pretoria, with money left aver from a holiday, and an aquaintance had a new tat. it was very well done, and beautiful. i went down and had a look at the parlour, saw the set up, spoke with the artists (and they were artists),a nd they had the design i watned on their flash wall. well, that clinched it. it took over three hours, and the hell's angel shop owner came in, with his gun in its holster (ARGH!) while i was having it done, with my knickers half way down. but, it's beautiful thing, and is usually private.
i have rambled.
but the point was - i waited until i was 30, and chose imagery i could live with for the rest of my life. and i even considered which bits of me would droop less as i aged.
a friend of mine as 'shoowaddywaddy' on his shoulder. boy, does he regret that.
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03/25/2007 02:09:23 AM · #42 |
Originally posted by yakatme:
Here is what's next in the evolution of facial art...
Surely their are plenty of young guys here that find this type of cutting edge nonconformity attractive. |
At least this could serve a useful purpose (for men anyway) - you could be eating your pistachios or pretzels hands-free, leaving you with a beer in one hand and the remote in the other. :)
Well, I posted and had to take off for most of the day, but am glad to see lots of great responses! levyj413 got my point exactly - it really has nothing to do with whether I like them or judge people who have them - my point is simply a warning that you WILL limit your opportunities - no question. I saw a couple posts from people who say it hasn't and with all due respect I say baloney. For the youngins' someone else already said it may not really hit you until your lae 20's.
In response to  EducatedSavage- I don't know how old you are, but you seem very intelligent and professional and you said you don't feel you've lost opportunities - but I would ask you, at these conferences you have attended where everyone treated you respectfully and professionally, how do you know that someone you met there might have been willing to offer you a dream job snd/or high paying position, but your piercings put them off a bit? I'm not saying that they, or anyone, judge what kind of person you are by what you decided to do to your face, but if I was at one of these conferences and was chatting with you and another person with equally impressive experience and qualifications, but sans face metal, and then I got back to the office and found out my VP of Marketing ran off with my receptionist, I may recall my conversations with the two of you from the conference and would more likely call the non-hardware-adorned person and offer her the VP job instead of you (again, all other things being equal). But since you did impress me so much, I think about offering you the receptionist job - but that thought goes right out the window because I don't want your face-bling to be the first thing my clients or potential clients to see when they walk in the door.
That was just a really long, hypothetical way of saying that you will never know how many opportunities you missed because of this choice you have made. Not saying you can't do well or become rich and successful in spite of it, just stating the fact that regardless of what you think, it does limit your opportunities. Now don't confuse my not offering or hiring someone because of their appearance as personal prejudice - it is professional prejudice - and it is what everyone uses to make hiring decisions.
Also, for those who said "My Boss/Mom/Mother-in-Law said he/she thinks they're nice/cool" etc. - Most of the people you mentioned have no stake in telling you they don't like them - in fact, they do have an interest in NOT saying they don't like them because it would only cause bad feelings in a relationship that exists regardless of the piercings.
As for tattoos - they are not so bad or off-putting to most people as piercings, IMO. I had a roomate in the Navy who had his entire back covered and his arms covered down to the wrists. He always wore long sleeves cuz he didn't like the attention he got from the general public. In 10 years in the Navy, and a couple deployments to the far east, I was tempted to get a tattoo many times. Most of the time I was drunk enough to do it, but too drunk to stay conscious enough to go through with it. And I would likely have had my first wife's name tattooed on me - that would have certainly caused me problems a few years later. ;-)
Oddly enough, I have been toying with the idea lately of getting a tattoo. I'm sure it's a combination of mid-life and watching "Miami Ink" and it may pass, or I may just do it. Maybe I should start drinking again.
I'm done rambling on. I appreciate everyone's opinions. |
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03/25/2007 02:31:14 AM · #43 |
just dont go this route. :p |
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03/25/2007 03:01:36 AM · #44 |
My only piercings are two holes in each ear, and no tats. I thought about one at one point, but then saw a very wrinkled, saggy old lady with a couple that looked.... *shudder*... indescribably bad.
I've always let my kids do pretty much what they wanted with their appearance, after discussion, with the limit being anything permanent.  Becky-Lee has coloured her hair since she was 12, and nobody will believe that's not her natural colour. She had an eyebrow piercing but took it out for a job, only because she'd already had it for two years and expected it to reject soon anyway. Otherwise she wouldn't have taken the job.
Her blonde brother has black, waist-length hair and pierced ears.
Personally, I'm not a fan of major facial piercing because it distracts me. I find my eyes drawn to the metal rather than the person. But I don't believe, in most cases, that it's any sort of an indication of what quality of person they are.
There's one coffee shop downtown, "Bean Around the World", that I patronise when I can. The staff there are incredible! They work as a well-oiled machine, amazingly efficient and professional, yet always cheerful, helpful and polite. And every one of them has multiple tats and piercings and most have hair in rainbow hues and unique styles.
These are folks who would be refused jobs in most places, but it would be the employer's loss.
I don't know, maybe it's because I'm from the laid-back west coast, maybe it's because of the jobs I've had and the variety of people they've exposed me to, but I'm pretty accepting of people's choice of body decoration, even if it's not my choice for my own body. |
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03/25/2007 03:01:44 AM · #45 |
Originally posted by goodman:
just dont go this route. :p |
Especially with a gas pump nozzle. |
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03/25/2007 03:32:37 AM · #46 |
Originally posted by BeeCee:
My only piercings are two holes in each ear, and no tats. I thought about one at one point, but then saw a very wrinkled, saggy old lady with a couple that looked.... *shudder*... indescribably bad.
I've always let my kids do pretty much what they wanted with their appearance, after discussion, with the limit being anything permanent. Becky-Lee has coloured her hair since she was 12, and nobody will believe that's not her natural colour. She had an eyebrow piercing but took it out for a job, only because she'd already had it for two years and expected it to reject soon anyway. Otherwise she wouldn't have taken the job.
Her blonde brother has black, waist-length hair and pierced ears.
Personally, I'm not a fan of major facial piercing because it distracts me. I find my eyes drawn to the metal rather than the person. But I don't believe, in most cases, that it's any sort of an indication of what quality of person they are.
There's one coffee shop downtown, "Bean Around the World", that I patronise when I can. The staff there are incredible! They work as a well-oiled machine, amazingly efficient and professional, yet always cheerful, helpful and polite. And every one of them has multiple tats and piercings and most have hair in rainbow hues and unique styles.
These are folks who would be refused jobs in most places, but it would be the employer's loss.
I don't know, maybe it's because I'm from the laid-back west coast, maybe it's because of the jobs I've had and the variety of people they've exposed me to, but I'm pretty accepting of people's choice of body decoration, even if it's not my choice for my own body. |
The west coast is the best. Especially Victoria! do youl ive in Langford by anychance? just by seeing thayou ahve a esq. lagoon folder and goldsteam park folder |
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03/25/2007 03:34:56 AM · #47 |
Originally posted by noisemaker:
The west coast is the best. Especially Victoria! do youl ive in Langford by anychance? just by seeing thayou ahve a esq. lagoon folder and goldsteam park folder |
Sigh, yup! |
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03/25/2007 03:37:54 AM · #48 |
Originally posted by BeeCee:
Originally posted by noisemaker:
The west coast is the best. Especially Victoria! do youl ive in Langford by anychance? just by seeing thayou ahve a esq. lagoon folder and goldsteam park folder |
Sigh, yup! |
i live in Langford too! i live up on Mill Hill |
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03/25/2007 03:42:33 AM · #49 |
| Just throwing this out there as it pertains to the topic. |
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03/25/2007 03:52:32 AM · #50 |
psst, noisemaker, I posted my response in your thread, so as not to hijack Art's :)
And now you guys have gotten me thinking about getting a tattoo again... hmmm.. the big five-oh is only a couple weeks off.... what better present? ;) |
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