laci
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Post by laci on Aug 20, 2003 20:23:23 GMT -5
my freind who got the henna tattoo is from korea, if her grandmother had seen it, all hell would have broken lose, so its just a month long tattoo, a trial run just like you said or like a tattoo rental. concerning belly button piercings, when i was at the henna place they also did piercings and had a display case for these little things you put in your piercing. they looked great i mean i wouldn't get one myself but they did look very cute, but i think the right kind of stomach is needed for it...
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Post by KoNeko on Aug 21, 2003 8:54:48 GMT -5
*laughs* Stomach? Hahaha! That depends on whether you intend to be flashing your belly button at people or not. Oh, but for certain kinds of navel jewelry (e.g. barbells), you can only do those if you have an inny, and it has to be sort of deep. I've got a barbell for my navel piercing and the end that sits in your belly button is a silver ball with spikes on it, and the spikes are pointy and one of them is actually poking through the bit of skin at the bottom of my belly button... it doesn't hurt but yeah. I can't get the ring out because I did the bally thing up too tight.
I got my industrial piercing done at a tattoo and piercing place. Actually, we spent the first hour looking at the tattoo designs and I seriously wanted to get one but then I saw a guy getting one done (it was a really big one on the back of his calf muscle) and just looking at it getting done made me go "aggghhh!!"
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Dawney
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Post by Dawney on Aug 21, 2003 14:59:45 GMT -5
Hey... how come they put a stud in it straight out? Did you get yours pierced with a gun thing or a needle? I heard that with the guns and cartilage piercings, they're more prone to getting those bumps of scar tissue on them when they heal, you know how there's that bit that sort of sticks out the back of your ear?
I got it periced at a store with a gun. Actually they didn't even know if they could do it (then I would have done it myself) because I have a big overhang, thanks to my father's side of the family. But it worked out okay. So far its healing nicely so I guess i'm okay.
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laci
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Post by laci on Aug 21, 2003 15:54:51 GMT -5
well i don't know.. you want to see the thing right, there is no point if its enveloped in fat. oh and whats an inny if you don't mind me asking, i'm guessing it has something to do with the belly button..
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Post by Leia Skye on Aug 21, 2003 21:56:30 GMT -5
I only have one piercing in each of my lobes, and will probably keep it that way for a while because I'd like to be a film actress and I don't know how well they can hide various holes in one's face when said face is appearing on a screen magnified to the size of a Buick. A tattoo I think I could do, though, I could cover it with makeup. I'd get a faery probably, on my lower back. I might get the Isis symbol though, on my stomach...or maybe the Fire elemental symbol since it's my element. I'd probably get that one on my left wrist. I turn 18 in May so...w00t! 9 months!
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Post by KoNeko on Aug 22, 2003 12:17:15 GMT -5
*gasps, then points insanely at the screen* Leia love! You came back! I just noticed! We missed you so much... welcome back!
Laci, an inny is like, when your belly button is a dent on your stomach, like, so the barbell can sit in that dent. I can't really explain it well, but it's opposed to an outie, which is when your navel like, sticks out in your stomach, like an actual button. Does that make sense?
If I were to get a tattoo (once someone had actually strapped me to the chair, because otherwise I'd scream and crawl up the back of it or something), I'd get a loopy bass clef on the inside of my left arm.
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Post by Nie on Aug 23, 2003 20:12:11 GMT -5
I'm prolly going to see about that piercing course this avro/tonight. I'm hoping I can do it soon to have an excuse to not be at work much when my boss gets back. Not real happy with her atm.
So I'll let everyone know when I'm doing the course and I'll give everyone gory details.
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Post by Ritsu on Aug 24, 2003 14:02:39 GMT -5
I pierced my ears twice, on each lobe. No, it isn't two holes on each lobe...
First time I pierced them, the holes infected really badly so I let them close... and for a year I had pus coming out of them and little balls inside the lobes.
Second time I pierced them, this year, I was extra careful with everything, and I actually started wearing earrings until, once again, things got ugly. More ugly than last time, because this time when I rolled the earring pus simply spilled out of the hole. *ick*
So yeah... pity though, because earrings really looked good on me.
About tattoos... I don't know. Time will tell. Right now, I'm fine as I am. A couple of years ago I wanted one... maybe next year I'll want one again. If I end up doing one, it'll be a little, insignificant star on my arm... you know Damian Kulash from OK Go? Right. Where he's got is. I'm not copying him or anything, it's just that je*heart*stars and that place seems to be the best one.
Last year I wanted to tattoo "DREAMER" on my wrist... the back of my wrist. If that makes any sense.
I met a woman once who said "If God gave us a clean body, it is our duty to keep it clean". Blah.
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S.S Tigress
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Post by S.S Tigress on Aug 25, 2003 20:51:32 GMT -5
I got my lobes pierced (the common way) when I was 3. I actually remember it...it hurt like hell on my left one and I had thought that my right one didn't go in because it felt fine. I got one more hole on each lobe almost 2 years ago. I was lazy and didn't clean them for a week. When it came time to take out the studs it hurt too much, and my mother saw that they were infected. Oh that was horrible there was a purple bump on the holes and my mom had to poke them with a needle to get all the pus out of it....Ack...::shudder:: I'm hoping someday to get them done again, but we'll see
Tattoos. I've always thought about what kind of tattoo I would want and where and all that. but I'm terrified of needles and I'm sure it would hurt a lots. I hate pain, I don't take fondly to pain.
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Post by Leia Skye on Aug 27, 2003 23:37:17 GMT -5
*gasps, then points insanely at the screen* Leia love! You came back! I just noticed! We missed you so much... welcome back! Thank you darling! I missed you loads.
For people afraid of needles, what is it about them? The longness, or the sharpness? Or the risk of infection? For me it's the idea that something is going through my skin...but I get over that quickly, especially since for the past year I've had to get bloodwork done every month.
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Post by KoNeko on Aug 28, 2003 9:05:32 GMT -5
*grins and takes a deep breath* The reason I have a thing against needles is because my dad is a doctor, and ever since I was little, he'd take whatever vaccinations I needed done home and do it after dinner. Like, you know when you're a kid and you need the rubella and hepatitis and polio etc. things? Yeah, well, my dad did all of those for me, and it's just... first of all, he has really bad eyesight (as does everyone in my family), and he also does this awful thing with the needle when he like, sort of takes aim at the spot where he's going to inject you first- you know how people line up darts with the bullseye and sort of move the dart forwards and backwards a little bit? He does that with the needle. So, ever since I could, I would run around the house, if it were vaccine time, and he would chase me brandishing a needle. So understandably I've got pretty freaky memories of it.
That said, I don't mind if other people do it. Like, I have no problem having other doctors inject me, or when I get blood tested, or even getting pierced (even though IMO that hurts more because they're intending to put holes in you) but yeah, if other people I don't know are going to stick needles in me, I won't be as inclined to scream and run around the room or whatnot.
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Post by Nie on Sept 4, 2003 4:05:43 GMT -5
My sister has a real thing with needles. When mum took us all to get hepatitis shots me, my mum and 4 other nurses had to hold her down to give her the injection. Me on the other hand am not worried about needles at all. I'm fine with injections and blood tests and piercings. Which is a good thing if I want to get a piercing certificate.
Haven't been able to find out about that yet cos my boos has been throwing all these shifts at me at work cos one of our girls left and we're under staffed.
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Calantha
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Post by Calantha on Sept 4, 2003 20:45:32 GMT -5
I've had like...serious panic attacks when getting shots... I admitt that I still ask for the baby needle, my mother if she is with me, and/or the stuffed teddy bear they give small children. I also cry a great deal and beg and plead for them not to get the needle near me...yes, I am a needle wimp. I have...I daresay, a fear.
Laci, I've had a henna tattoo before, an arm band one and then one on the small of my back that was just like a little flowerly sort of design thingy. I liked them...and they weren't painful.
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Post by KoNeko on Sept 5, 2003 3:36:22 GMT -5
Cool. When I got a henna tattoo ages ago I got a tribal design of a lizard on my shoulder. It was round, like it was chasing its tail, which I thought was really cute.
The only painful bt about the henna tattoo was when the guy that was doing it stabbed a toothpick into my arm. Ouch.
Cal, what's a baby needle? Does it hurt less?
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Dawney
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Post by Dawney on Sept 10, 2003 22:32:25 GMT -5
I've never heard of the baby needle, but if it hurts less, I'm asking for it I hate all the preparation for needles and the pain. It feels like its burning me, like poison, and that disturbs me. I've never given blood (or had it taken) from my arm and I reeeally don't want to because I always hated when they used the thing that pricked your thumb. Cause it was fast and surprising and I hated it. And my fingers have always been really sensitive.
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