i know about the drinking, hun! thank you for the heads up anyway....very kind of you

I figure you would but I'd rather say something than nothing.

I've also heard about people taking an anti-flammatory before getting work done and -- of course -- the same blood thinning happens. It would suck to abort the process because of a dumb move like medicating before body art.

if im gonna do it, i would want it to be right the first time

You look thirty! Mid life...eeek. They do look cool. I ask someone with a tiny gold ball in her nose about how it felt and if there's a post on the other side. She said 'no post'. It doesn't bother her but I wonder about sneezing or blowing it out, lol!

At real mid life (me!), I now think of pores and how things don't heal as well as they used to heal and with that, I'll leave it alone.

With the tiniest jewelry, it does look nice. People who get major things done, e.g., ear plugs (ugh, yikes) that they will be forty years old and do they want a donut hole in their ear (only if they are very eccentric).

:)

Your too young to be going through a mid life crisis!! I think the ant tattoo would be neat =)

ha not if i think i'm gonna die in my 60's lol

i've done my nose myself twice.

the first time, i was sixteen and i did it in the school bathroom. i was one of only two people in the school with their nose pierced...and i loved it. um, i even wore it with a chain to my ear and my lip.

i took it out for work, but i re-pierced it when my husband and i split up. that was in 2001...i once again took it out for work...2004...

it heals too freaking fast, and i can't have a pierced nose where i currently am working.

Don't do it!

you're totally messing with my head!

I'm telling you! If you do it, I'll be angry.

i'm totally lipping you off in polish right now

Breaking down stereotypes takes a lot more courage than it sounds like. And costs a lot more than some folks are willing to pay. It sounds all noble, high minded, and maybe even exciteing to do something counter culture. But that initial flush fades and real life falls in.

Ask people who live with body art how they are really treated. How often they are stared at, openly talked about within ear shot, pestered, lectured, shunned, and out right discriminated against? Ask them how it feels to be nice, courteous, helpful, and still be treated like a criminal, or a freak, or like you are a dumb ***, or permisscuous when you are none of those things? Or how hollow it feels when you tell someone off for being a bigot and it changes absolutely nothing. If having a tat is that significant to you then go ahead and get your tat. But think through the battles you pick and how long you really want to fight them. I would suggest a good henna tat. Live with it a while and see if you feel so bold.

really i do appreciate the info

Alright, you got yourself an angry man.

thank you so much for sharing! and i do mean it in the nicest way possible.

i have lived a very unsheltered life, and by no means have i seen it or heard it all...i have, however seen and have been discriminated against for various reason. i have also seen the ugly side of people, all though i am sure there are worst...

i will take everything you posted into consideration.

i knew you would

<-----these are my fists, bring it on polak i wegier

I have a huge scar on my nose from where my nose piercing used to be, occasionally people ask me if I have it pierced, or have had it pierced.


I dunno, i havent been into it since age 19.


I would get my nipples pierced again though, I breastfed my son for a year so I let them grow in.

Nipple piercing is awesome, and intimate. I loved them


Hated having my tongue pierced.. man that was a retarded piercing!

Never again!

Polak, Węgier dwa bratanki/I do szabli i do szklanki/Oba zuchy, oba żwawi/Niech im Pan Bóg błogosławi!

Alright...Do it then, whatever. Don't come crying that your nose hurts.

ha i knew you would see it my way once i threw the polak wegier card lol