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So this started out as an Industrial thread but while browsing I found an existing one a few pages back. I was disappointed to say the least, especially since there were few response and my question wasn't really answered and I am anti-repeat threads.

I decided to recycle this and hopefully get some blood pumping in this guild.

Most of us are young. Teenagers probably. I'm a little older, I'm about to be 20 at the end of the month (I'm an "oldbie" if you will).

Now I know that when I was in high school I couldn't wait to get piercings, tattoos, and any other mod I could think up. I got a few of them. I have a few tattoos, a handful of piercings and enjoyed every minute of it.

But I grew up.

I left school, got a job, and had to be an adult.

Sure, piercings and tattoos are becoming more accepted in the workplace, but still the acceptance isn't that widespread.

You'll see a girl at Target with a stud in her nose, the cashier at McDonalds with an eyebrow ring, and someone with pink hair at Hot Topic. When was the last time you bought a car from a man with full sleeves? How about your real estate agent? Does she have a lip ring?

Nope.

Sure, you can get jobs, but can you have a career while being pierced/tattooed?

From what I've experienced, no. You can be a tattoo artist, sure. You can be a beautician and things like that. What if I want to be a teacher? A doctor?

You cannot have a good paying job and not be "normal."

It's disgusting. It's horrible. It's completely un-American.

But it's life.


Bye-bye piercings, hello scars.


Now coming to the new point of this thread, are there any of your body modifications that you regret?

For awhile I thought I regretted my first tattoo (mainly because I gained weight and it isn't as nice as when I first got it) but quickly got over it.

I'm still in love with everything!

...except for the scars on my eyebrow. They're stuck on my face and I have nothing to show for it! How I loved that piercing...

And the little bump I have on the bottom of my tongue. That's there and isn't going away.

Rather than regret, is there something you wish you could change?

Don't get me wrong, I don't regret any of it but I still see those two litte holes whenever I get my eyebrows waxed. They're hardly noticeable but I know they're there. I feel almost like a sell-out and not quite as good as my competition (I have a great job---especially considering my age) at the same time. Do those scars mean I'm not as good of a manager and make me immature? No. But I think others might notice and think that. Why does it matter? Some day you'll understand.

Like I said, how many head honchos do you see with piercings (or scars from them)?

Maybe those scars are there for memories.

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I don't regret it.

I wish I wouldn't have lost it but I don't regret it.

In fact, if I can, I plan on getting it re-done.

About the Industrial, I'm getting it done Friday. I've heard some say it's better to use CBRs and some say a barbell. I'm not really sure which. That's all.

Curiosity. smile

i've heard that if you get the industrial with cbrs that they might heal at the wrong angle. i don't know if it's 100% true though, so hopefully somebody els can ask. i have an industrial and got it done with a bar, but i never asked my piercer about the 2 cbr thing. (just because i think the bar is sexy XD)

oh and how did you lose your eyebrow piercing? my first one rejected, then i got it repierced, watching it like a hawk, PRAYING it doesn't reject whee

oh man >.< mine didn't have any infection or anything in plain view, just... rejected >.< i'm really hoping i was just sensitive to the metal, so i got it re-done in white gold (white cuz i didn't want yellow, i like the silver look) but i share your feeling of missing the one u had. i had about a 2-3 week period with nothing in there, and i was majorly bummed out gonk

I personally haven't really regretted anything I've done. Sure some of the questions and looks people have given me have made me question my decision, but not enough to fully regret it.

Yes, I know that there are limitations to what people allow you to have and how fully people in the work place will accept you but they still will. My boyfriend works at a hospital as a phlebotomist (someone that performs blood draws when nurses can't make them) and he has tattoos. Not full sleeves, but still enough to notice. He also has a female co-worker that is heavily tatted. So it is becoming more and more mainstream.

The thing is, most of us are teenagers and don't have to deal with careers yet, but when that times comes chances are we will have changed in some ways and may not even care if we have to take out our lip rings. In the long run piercings aren't really a big deal, they come and go.

There was a science guy (I don't remember what he was. I think he worked at a University) on Inked once and he had lots of tattoos

Car salesmen wear those nice suits, you'd never know if they had full sleves. Nor would their bosses. biggrin

I personally intend to be so well edjucated and so ******** GOOD at what I do (I'd like to be an educational IT specialist) that it wouldn't be worth rejecting me because of some well paterned and inoffensive ink, or a few nifty barbells.

Ehhhh. There have been some piercings I have questioned having, like my labret...But, it signified a time in my life and I don't regret it a bit. I have scars all over me, one more on my face isn't going to hurt me. It adds character, right? xD.

Honestly, I still don't get why piercings are still considered 'taboo' or show to some generations that your a 'delinquent'. I just don't get it. And, I really don't care how people view me. Sure, I might care when I'm looking for a job or applying to college. But, right now do I care? Nope. Will I care when I'm an adult with a job? Nope.

I for sure plan to get more facial piercings, and even if they reject or I take them out...So what? I wanted that piercing, I got it...But, I didn't know it would turn out bad, so what it there to regret?