Nipple Piercings
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Jim Kilgour
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Nipple piercing, the slippery slope.
Beat Takeshi
Two-Hip Shakur
Yeah I bet everyone of those guys that hate peircings would say "WOW that looks great" if the girl of his dreams took her shirt off and had them....
Jeremy Ordan
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Here is a post I can actually contribute to...
In college I worked at a piercing place because they paid me cash under the table and it wouldn't interfere with my baseball scholarship. Great job, interesting learning experience, and I was able to get anything I wanted done for nothing. This has it's good points and bad points. I can honestly say that I have been pierced from head to toe, but at this point in my life I have taken pretty much all of them out.
Why?
First of all, once you can fit a pencil through your earlobe there is a problem. Secondly, with even a retainer in my septum I couldn't get a job. Thirdly, with my tragus, earings are not professional in professional work environments (or so I was told when I took that job). Tongue, well, yeah, that came out because I kept stretching it out until it was just too much. Nipples came out because of a girlfriend who didn't like them...
I can tell you this. Zach, you will want to clean them obsessively for the first two months. I had my right one done three times and lost all three because of infection. My left I had a migration issue but that got fixed the second time. Another great solution is to just get some hospital gauze and tape it over to prevent the painful rubbing.
I can say that I am a recovering piercing junkie. Got rid of almost all of them because things that people can see are just not considered professional. I never got into tatt's though because, well, I don't like that sort of commitment. At least you can get stitches in your ears to get those to heal.
In college I worked at a piercing place because they paid me cash under the table and it wouldn't interfere with my baseball scholarship. Great job, interesting learning experience, and I was able to get anything I wanted done for nothing. This has it's good points and bad points. I can honestly say that I have been pierced from head to toe, but at this point in my life I have taken pretty much all of them out.
Why?
First of all, once you can fit a pencil through your earlobe there is a problem. Secondly, with even a retainer in my septum I couldn't get a job. Thirdly, with my tragus, earings are not professional in professional work environments (or so I was told when I took that job). Tongue, well, yeah, that came out because I kept stretching it out until it was just too much. Nipples came out because of a girlfriend who didn't like them...
I can tell you this. Zach, you will want to clean them obsessively for the first two months. I had my right one done three times and lost all three because of infection. My left I had a migration issue but that got fixed the second time. Another great solution is to just get some hospital gauze and tape it over to prevent the painful rubbing.
I can say that I am a recovering piercing junkie. Got rid of almost all of them because things that people can see are just not considered professional. I never got into tatt's though because, well, I don't like that sort of commitment. At least you can get stitches in your ears to get those to heal.
Rick Meyer
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MattSTL, I'm with you buddy. I am SO not uptight at all. I very much believe in the "each to his/her own" philososhy. However, I just do NOT get piercings at all. Granted, we live in an ever evolving static society and there may come a time when a nose piercing resembling that of Taurus the BULL will look macho. But in 2005-2006, it looks rediculous.
Why pierce the nips? I just dont get it? PLEASE explain the lure to me. I don't even understand tatoos. I couldn't imagine what I could tatoo on me that would have any meaning to me 50 years from now. So why do it? If I was in a really tramatic war maybe, sitting in the trenches with my company men, maybe I would tatoo a memorium of them. But, I've never been in the military and never will be.
I am 34. I am not set in my ways. I just don't get you kids these days. Having said that, my girlfriend has a decorative tat on her lower back. I like it on her a lot. But ask me that again in 40 years.
Rick
Why pierce the nips? I just dont get it? PLEASE explain the lure to me. I don't even understand tatoos. I couldn't imagine what I could tatoo on me that would have any meaning to me 50 years from now. So why do it? If I was in a really tramatic war maybe, sitting in the trenches with my company men, maybe I would tatoo a memorium of them. But, I've never been in the military and never will be.
I am 34. I am not set in my ways. I just don't get you kids these days. Having said that, my girlfriend has a decorative tat on her lower back. I like it on her a lot. But ask me that again in 40 years.
Rick
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