scarring your body forever

[lauralh]

So, I think I might be getting a job. At which point I can then look as funny as - well, they'll let me. I'm talking neon hair and weird facial piercings. And tattoos that are only visible when I wear tank tops or less.

So I have some pretty silly ideas on this topic which I'm therefore going to open up for public ridicule.

[Poll #160965]

edit: this piercing is a lot sexier than the one I posted.

Comments

[lisa.livejournal.com]

are you getting a job w/ meg and henry?

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I sure hope so.

[shekb.livejournal.com]

I can't think of an ooglayer place to put a piercing.

[trueenough.livejournal.com]

I vote yes on the Strong Bad tattoo, with the understanding that you will regret it in a couple of years. Knowing that is half the fun.

[ernunnos.livejournal.com]

Get the piercing if you think it suits. As a general rule of thumb, don't get any cartoon characters tattoo'd on you that aren't as old as you are. A cartoon character from your early childhood might be ok. I'd recommend a Smurf tattoo before a Strong Bad tattoo, even though I think Smurfs are lame and Strongbad is awesome awesomeness.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

Yeah someone said "That's like getting a tattoo of Taz or something."

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

do you really want to get a tattoo of a flash cartoon? does strong bad mean something to you personally? like, something deep that you want to always remember? I would so advise against it otherwise.

I would have suggested a tongue or nipple piercing before the labret. Labrets are not sexy, and if you're going to mod your bod....why would you do it for the worse and not the better? Tongue is sexy and functional (Jimbo will bakc me up on this, I'm sure) and nipple/genital piercings are sexy (and maybe functional for you, depending...think of nipple rings as "pull here" signs for those guys too dense to be rough in bed without reading minds.)

[cpf.livejournal.com]

I nearly got a Cap'n Crunch tat once, when I was owed money by an artist.

But yeah, regret.

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

Word.

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

Tongue barbells should be more common in girls than earrings, if you ask me. =)

[aefirpo.livejournal.com]

Tattoos of 'great personal significance' are so fucking pretentious. Chances are, things you think you're always going to want to remember now are things you really could care less about 5-10-15 years down the road. I wouldn't recommend getting a tattoo for this reason. The only exception to this are tattoos that are there to remind you of a certain, non-fleeting, period of your life.

Tattoos really should be things that mean absolutely nothing or esthetic designs. Those are the things that really fit the 'timeless' category. You'll always be able to look down at a Strong Bad tattoo and giggle.

Also: sexy, sexy, sexy. Why do you hate attractive piercings so much?

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

Cute girl / mildly unattractive piercing, ew! / ew!, and neutral-looking girl / mildly unattractive labret. In order of links from left to right.

Bleah.

[aefirpo.livejournal.com]

Next you're going to say that you don't like surface bar piercings either. Loser.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

That first girl is great. I want that piercing now.

victory

[aefirpo.livejournal.com]

is mine

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

OMG NOES NOT TEH PIERCING STILL WIT TEH BLOOD ON TEHM I HAEV NEVAR SEEN TAHT BEFOER NOW I AM TOTALY SQUICKED!!!!11one

The current fascination with tons of impractical body jewelry kinda reminds me of the 70's fascination with more and more outlandish platform shoes and butterfly collars, to be honest with you.

[aefirpo.livejournal.com]

Right, so, I should have put a little more effort into finding a back-of-the-neck surface bar that wasn't infected, but the site I was using limits the number of photos you can sift through.

I happen to find these highly attractive.

[aefirpo.livejournal.com]

link

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

Glad you like 'em. But hey, even japscat has fans...

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

Jesus man, doesn't it ever occur to people that maybe, just maybe, installing an assload of stainless steel rods subdermally so that they bisect the spinal cord at its most exposed location is Not A Very Good Idea?

[aefirpo.livejournal.com]

A piercing is so much more likely to rip out of your skin than it is to seperate a vertebrae or what have you.

andrew did most of it for me

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

so I'm just gonna say that I do not like rough nipple play in the fucking least.

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

Sure, if it gets yanked on. On the other hand, if you wind up on the wrong end of a blunt neck trauma, you could wind up quadriplegic instead of merely concussed.

Ridiculous.

[aefirpo.livejournal.com]

I think its generally accepted ettiquette to remove all your piercings before getting in a fight with a man with a bat.

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

I'll give you points for drollness, but the most common source of blunt neck trauma is the car accident. Gonna pull those things out every time you get in a car or on a bus?

Deliberately running a very high risk of giving yourself a subdermal infection (with possible accompanying swelling) just over the spinal cord also doesn't seem like the best idea.

I dunno man, "flagrant disregard of personal health" just doesn't usually strike me as attractive.