Hi guys, can I ask you all your opinion on the rings, studs and other hardware you decorate yourselves with?

Do you think such things are more girlie than boyish?   I personally think it is.
Do you think that such hardware draws attention to make people look harder at your faces and so possibly spot femaleness?  Again I do.

I have to say that in my town there are very few piercings to be seen except for girls getting them all over their faces and punk/goth/rough guys getting them in their ears and eyebrows.

I tend to think that piercings attract their attention so their not looking at the femaleness but at the piercing.

I see lots of guys with piercings, although I see alot of girls with monroes, medusas and tragus piercings so I think it depends on what piercings you have.

Quote from: Nathan. on July 29, 2010, 03:29:58 PM
I tend to think that piercings attract their attention so their not looking at the femaleness but at the piercing.

This.  And I've seen many more guys than girls with lip rings/eyebrow rings/other facial piercings (not ears) than girls.  Maybe it's just my area, but I really don't think facial piercings scream "female" or "feminine" anything.

For me, eyebrow piercing and nose piercings scream "girl" to me, but it's mainly girls I see with those piercings.  When I see snake bites I just think of "punks" because I've seen them on guys and girls.  Lip rings I see as more masculine, though, probably because I've seen more guys with them.

I think if you have the piercing in the wrong spot then it could draw notice to the more female aspects of your face, just like various bits of make-up can also.

I agree that it depends where the piercing is, but also what kind of ring or stud is used. But pretty much I think its a unisex thing now, atleast where I live it is. No one's ever mentioned to me that my snake bites are feminine when it comes to the question of passing. Not to sound too confident, but I also think I can get away with an eyebrow piercing (which is what I'm getting next) and everyone's said it'd look ok on me. So I guess it also depends who it is, facial features and such

In the area i live everyone has piercings, guys and girls.  I think how it looks on you just depends on the person.

I have seen more guys with snakebites then girls.

and, I had to take my snakebites out for a job interview and my face looked much more feminine and soft without the rings, I think that the rings on each side evened out my face and somehow made my jaw appear larger.

I think piercings are for either gender. There's plenty of them around here. I used to have my ears pierced all up the sides of my cartilidge but I took out most of them cause I thought they looked too girly. Now I only have my conch on both sides, one cartlidge and both lobes gauged. I also have my lip and tongue. It depends alot on what jewelry you use too. Sparkly gems? Yeah, you'll probably be read not as male if you're pre-T.

Mostly they scream unemployed, or minimal wage at best.

They do make retainers so you can hide them when you work yanno.

One thing I love about my septum piercing is that I can flip it up and you can't tell I have it.

Quote from: tekla on July 29, 2010, 05:48:47 PM
Mostly they scream unemployed, or minimal wage at best.

Take them out at work, no big deal. I make well over minimum wage with my piercings even

It all depends on how the person WEARS them. My sig is Andro and they have a labret piercing and gauges. They pass for male quite often. One of the people I used to know decided to gauge his ears early on in his transition and the rings made him look very feminine but once he switched the hardware to something more masculine, he passed flawlessly. He also has his tongue pierced. -shrug- At the same time I know plenty of cis guys who have all ranges of facial piercings.

Unless you're wearing large hoop/dangly earings and diamond nose studs, I don't think it really screams FEMALEEE. Just avoid butterfly bellybutton charms and you should be ok XD

Quote from: Shade on July 29, 2010, 06:15:22 PM


One thing I love about my septum piercing is that I can flip it up and you can't tell I have it.

oh, i so want one... but there's something fishy with my nose, so i can't 
also, people round here are quite relaxed about such things, so no worries...

For me, I chose to go with a little different style for my eyebrow hardware - I got the spikes:



Some styles and small hardware do look more feminine, but I think it's more as has already been said in that it's how you wear them.  I want to get more piercings eventually, but I'll choose wisely based on my facial features.

shopping around town yesterday the person with the most piercings was a big rough horrible guy wearing camo boot and clothes, long grey pigtail down his back and big horrible beard...he rattled when he moved from all the junk in his skin...
I think he must live in some wilderness fantasy bubble...

I don't pass without my piercings. I can't get served without them either. I have three rings in my lip, a septum ring and slightly stretched ears.

So the formula seem to be:

no piercings: 15 year old girl
piercings: 18 year old guy

Sticking with the metalface me thinks

Quote from: lilacwoman on August 08, 2010, 04:43:31 AM
shopping around town yesterday the person with the most piercings was a big rough horrible guy wearing camo boot and clothes, long grey pigtail down his back and big horrible beard...he rattled when he moved from all the junk in his skin...
I think he must live in some wilderness fantasy bubble...

oh hey, that was me, glad you like my metal 

ok, i kid. but really, did you start this topic just because you don't like piercings? because that's what it sounds like.

Quote from: tekla on July 29, 2010, 05:48:47 PM
Mostly they scream unemployed, or minimal wage at best.

This is substantially true, and should be borne in mind.

- N

Quote from: tekla on July 29, 2010, 05:48:47 PM
Mostly they scream unemployed, or minimal wage at best.

Hmmm... sounds like something that someone who judges others by their appearance would say...

Quote from: DRAIN on August 08, 2010, 10:10:55 AM
oh hey, that was me, glad you like my metal 

ok, i kid. but really, did you start this topic just because you don't like piercings? because that's what it sounds like.

well no I don't like them but I do think locally they are girl's things...my boss crosses her fingers everytime her two teen girls go shopping in case they come back with piercings or tattoos.