Facial Piercings

[zombiesarepeaceful]

I had snake bites, but it looked too feminine on me so I went back to having just one on the side. I have 13 piercings altogether, and 6 tats. My ears look a bit girly, ok...but I've never been called out on my ears but a few times. If your lips are girly..I think snakebites make them look worse. One makes it look better. It doesn't help that I have a gemmed stud in my lip, but oh well. I also have gauges, but small ones. I look pretty andrygynous cause all my piercings have rainbow, black, or gemmed jewelry. LOL.

[Radar]

I think the sensation of being tattooed is a lot like being papercut over and over, at least the outline does- sometimes when I'm getting tattooed I close my eyes and can't help but imagine the artist has this big sheet of paper and is just sawing it back and forth giving me the papercut of the century.

Ow man. When I get paper cuts they seem to hurt really bad. If tattooing felt to me like my paper cuts I'd never get tattooed. You're right in that the black outlining hurts worst. I try to explain what getting tattooed feels like but it really is a unique, hard to explain feeling.

[zombiesarepeaceful]

^^Tats feel amazing to me. Then again I'm an ex cutter. But it's really like theraputic. I actually laugh when they tattoo me.

[DRAIN]

Tekla, have you ever considered the fact that some of us are pierced not because 'it's trendy' or 'convenient'(how could it be?) but because it's what's right for us as individuals(like coming out as trans)? I've been pierced/tatted for years and here and there I've had a hell of a time getting employed, but the truth is I don't WANT to be employed somewhere where a deeply personal matter as what I do with my body is up on the table for dissection. Need I remind anyone here that, as transsexuals, we're 'freaks' that scare and confuse other people with our 'personal lifestyle choices', just like those 'scary pierced and tatted' people do? That many of us long for HORMONAL AND SURGICAL body modification? Squabbling about the morals of a personal choice like whether to be branded with ink/pierced just seems laughable in the face of that. ('How permanent is it? Can you hide it? Think how hard it will be to get employed!'  HAH!) Have we forgotten our position/who we are? Or are some of us just unaware that the rest of society views vaginoplasty, chest reconstruction, hormonal injections- as terrifying, expensive mutilative blasphemy, something in the realm of those 'with problems'?  Even with my body jewelry out and my tattoos covered up, I am still a pierced/tatted person, and I don't want to work anywhere where pierced/tatted people are not welcome, because whether I 'pass' as someone who isn't, I'm still 'one of those' people. Likewise, I can get by without having anyone know I'm a ->-bleeped-<-- but where transpeople are hated, I do NOT want to BE!

And forget not, Tekla, your 'uncool' and 'unhappenin'' generation will fade and die, and new blood/meat will be there to replace you someday. The cycle will then repeat itself; that's just the way it is. This thread is a discussion on how piercings affect our perceptions of gender, not a debate on whether or not they're 'cool' or 'acceptable'.

this.

i have 0g lobes, a cartilage piercing, and a labret. i WANT more, but even as much as i agree with Cairus up there, i can't see getting a lot of visible mods. as for passing....i can't say since i've only passed like 3 times in the last 10 years xD