-- originally posted by Arini
Carrying on from our earlier post about tattooing (and why people
need to leave the Wiggles the hell alone), I got my philtrum pierced
this weekend. If you don’t know what a philtrum is, it’s that little
divot between your nose and your upper lip. It’s my first oral piercing,
and even though it’s still quite swollen (I closely resemble a duck
right now), I’m really happy with it. Today at work I was asked the
following: “why would you ruin your beautiful body like that?”
Well, first of all, thanks? I do love my body. My
answer, as always, was “the more holes I have, the more shiny things I
can put in them.” To me, that’s a perfectly sensible reason. To others,
not so much, but I beg of you, how is a piercing any different than
getting your lady parts waxed? It hurts a bit, and in both cases there
is some upkeep. For your bikini line, it’s going back again when you
start getting furry again. For a piercing, it’s some fairly simple
aftercare (that does NOT involve “piercing solution”).
But, you say, a piercing can get infected! Well,
waxing carries the risk of ingrown hairs, which don’t seem so bad. But
an ingrown hair can form a sebaceous cyst, a type of infection which you
should not google unless you care to be thoroughly grossed out. If
you’ve ever gotten one, you know that they can hurt a LOT. The point
here isn’t to argue whether one form of beautification is better than
another, but that we, as humans, do plenty of otherwise pointless,
painful things for beauty’ A professional piercing is a safe and
beautiful way to enhance your body.
I leave you with this article about safe, piercing gun-free piercing. Enjoy.
Why I took my 7 year old to a piercing parlor
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