Your Thoughts on Belly-Button Piercings

[Gerbil]

 

[Chick_a_dee]

If you have the right Bod for it, I like it. Otherwise, not so much. I'm currently contemplating getting my labret pierced and nose. I had a vertical labret, eyebrow, nose and my ears stretched but I want sometihng a little more conservative, a simple labret would be lovely.

 

[PineappleMama]

Had one... drove me NUTS... stupid thing was exactly where the waist of my pants hit.

But for those who wear their pants down to their knees I reckon that wouldn't be a problem.

I'm still boggled about why anyone would want to look like the folks in the Psyche Ward... but that's another topic.

 

[Mahonri]

If God had wanted us to have piercings, he would have put holes there to stick them in. That goes for ears, nose, tongue, lips, eyebrows, belly buttons and other unmentionable areas. Same thing for tatoos... I guess that's what birthmarks are for.

 

[PineappleMama]

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As far as that goes... it's just decoration. No different than eyeliner or hairspray, or even clothing really... just more permanent. Some know what they want and so go for the Forever Path (or at least think they do, can you say Tattoo-Be-Gone) others aren't so sure about keeping the same 'look' for life and stick to temporary. Even hair dye comes in permanent and temp bottles. *shrug* I may not want it for myself, but in the end it's the person doing the spackling (makeup) or needling (tats and pierce) that has to live with it...

 

[Chick_a_dee]

 

[DragonEggs]

I have one. I wear really big ornamental ones when I'm bellydancing. Otherwise I wear a really simple ball one (my favorite has a New York Yankees symbol in it). The fancy ones get stuck on your pants or other things too easily. For people who have one or are thinking of getting one, a bag of dog food is your worst enemy. Come to think of it, mine has gotten stuck on bags of fertilizer too.... Anyway it was easily the most painful of all my piercings but still wasn't that bad. Definitly took the longest to heal.

I had my eyebrow pierced but the guy messed up and went through my brow line. All the hair on the arch of my eyebrow kept falling out and would take forever to grow back. I finally got tired of penciling it in and took the thing out. I plan to get it re done properly. My eyebrow hair still falls out in that spot occasionally for no reason and takes awhile to grow back so I don't see why not.

I also have my tounge pierced. THAT IMO was the worst idea. My best friend had talked her mom into getting one and when we got to the shop she was gonna chicken out. She finally agreed to do it if I would get one too. My excuse was that I had no money, so my wonderful father who was there for moral support (and because he had a mad crush on my friends mom) said he would pay for it, and because I'm no pansy I said the dumbest thing ever "OK". It actually didn't hurt and healed up in a couple of weeks, but my dad decided to take us all out to eat at a fancy restaurant afterwards and our tounges were so swollen I had to break off little pieces of my food and hand stuff it in the back of my mouth. I literally could eat nothing but ice cream (with no chunks of anything) pudding and crushed ice for DAYS. I tried soup but WAYY too hot and the noodles got stuck on my piercing and HURT. I still have it just so I can tell people not to do it. I know, sounds hypocritical, but I'm a firm believer in taking care of the things people give you and I have taken excellent care of everything (and still have most of what I didnt grow out of, and even some of the stuff I did grow out of) that my dad ever gave me. I know I'm weird.

I also have *counts.....* 5 tattoos. Well 6, I have the same one on the back of each leg (corset laces). And I plan to get more. Everything I have is my own original design drawn by me and each piece means something. I have my dog of 17 years (who died last July) pawprint over my heart, a black light 7 point star on the opposite side of my chest (its invisible during normal light, only seen under black light. Just looks like a scar to anyone who sees it). This has a personal story behind it that no one would really understand, I have the 2 corset laces on the backs of my thighs (these were a birthday gift, another of my favorite art pieces I drew and is also connected to the 7 point star story) a sugar glider on my foot/ankle from when I use to breed and raise sugar gliders (planning a chinchilla next, then a chicken in that same area) and my very first tattoo ever was a set of small dragon wings on my upper back with a rose in the middle going down my spine. This was a design that I drew up to go on the back of a dress I designed and then later sewed myself (appliqueing that design on the back of that dress was flippen HELL). The dress won an award and later started the whole story that led to the 7 point star and corset laces.

I get a lot of compliments on my tattoos and love each one. I see them as art, decorations like pineapple mama said. For those of you who feel "religious" on the subject these are our mortal earthly bodies and I believe we are meant to enjoy them while we have them. They do not go with us when we die. Now I don't agree with people who abuse that right by using their body to shoot coke or anything like that, but if I want to use my body as a canvas, well, it's mine and I'm gonna do it and I feel if you don't like it, well, no one is forcing you to do anything to your body and nobody is forcing you to look at mine.

BTW, I'm not some 115 lb (well not anymore) skinny bikini model or anything, but I don't wear tube tops either or try to show off my ink and piercings in a tacky way. I do think sometimes people go overboard and some people get stupid things (one artist I know has the male unmentionable tattoed on his chest and nail clippers tattoed on his leg, what?) but thats just my opinion and they can do what they want and I can do my art the way I want. Im sure there will be people out there who question my choices and think they don't make sense (GOD BLESS AMERICA!).

Sorry went on kind of a rant there. Hope I didn't offend anyone as was not my intent.

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[DuckLady]

While the OP asked for opinions, let's be sure they are constructive, not destructive.

Thank you.

 

[Ec_Prokta]

Quite honestly, I don't see the point of having one.

 

[redhen]

On skinny chicks..yes, cute.
On fatties..(like myself).. scary and just not right.

(if your going to show it in public..)