I got an eyebrow pierced today.

[travelingtypist]

Thank you, Lisbeth Salander. :evilgrin: (I'm only 46 after all.)

No, really, I took my mom in today to get her some eyebrow tattoos. She had shaved her eyebrows when she was a teenager and they never grew back, so almost 50 years of eyebrow pencil. The tattoo parlor is on the little gentrified downtown strip of her little town and we have to drive by it every time we go anywhere. I'd get pinged about the eyebrows every single time. So they were $300. I bought her a gift certificate for one eyebrow for her birthday and it was up to her to take it the rest of the way. Well, today she did it. But while I was sitting in the tattoo parlor for the two hours it took, the piercing lady had a break between appointments. Now I have a couple of pretty blue pieces of glass above and below my left eyebrow.

Neat.

[bluesbassman]

1. I think that's pretty cool. Is it your first non-ear piercing?

:thumbsup:

[travelingtypist]

2. Yep, first non-ear.

It's so cool to see how people react to it. It's just tripping that it took to my late 40s to realize I'm kinda cute. (Something to do with fixing my teeth and the whole change that happened there.)

[siligut]

3. You make it sound very pretty

Pic? I am unwilling to make any commitment, tattoos, piercings, just not gonna do it, but it very cool that you did. Good about your mom too, she will appreciate your gift more and more as time goes by.

[travelingtypist]

4. Thank you.

It is pretty. The piercist (sp?) seemed unwilling to let me go completely Lisbeth metal. I think I'm fine with that. I'll have mom take a pic this weekend, get it uploaded so y'all can see.

[elocs]

5. I got my first, and so far only, tattoo at age 55. So you're never too old for changes.

I was thinking though of having my wrists pierced for cufflinks.

I thought wrist piercing was a joke until I looked it up: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://sixthseal.com/2008/12/wrist-piercing-sub-dermal-piercings-on-my-left-wrist/&usg=__rbPazDbUKAlKoK1rFXdVIlCSDHg=&h=375&w=500&sz=31&hl=en&start=2&sig2=_xyoyn0U8304nBIjnE7gUA&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=Zfoh816AzpPVGM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwrist%2Bpiercing%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=d4A3TY2wHoOB8gbJz9S7Aw

[siligut]

6. The redness around those doesn't look good

I'd wonder if the piercee has a fever. Plus, it looks very impractical, I know practicality isn't why they do it, but still.

[elocs]

11. There are some very inconvenient places on the body to pierce

and wrists wouldn't be at the top of my list for that.

[siligut]

12. My feeling was we use our hands so much, things would catch on the knobs

But then, as I said, I am practical. The typist's inspiration, Lisbeth Salander, made piercings seem both beautiful and foreboding, for lack of a better word.

[travelingtypist]

7. I have two tattoos.

A panther on my shoulder -- can never remember which shoulder -- that I got when I turned 21, and a Celtic anklet that I got last year that the purple ink I'm allergic to and won't heal for the demon itching, but no regrets, none.

I love your little steel pins. That fucking rocks. I think maybe I'll go more radical once it heals.

[elocs]

10. No, no, I didn't get that. I was surprised that wrist piercing actually happens.

Getting my wrists pierced for cufflinks has always been my standing joke about piercing.

[travelingtypist]

13. Get what?

Sorry, I'm confused.

Tell the standing joke story, please?

[elocs]

16. When someone told me they had a piercing I would say I was thinking of having my wrists pierced

for cufflinks. I always meant that as a joke because until tonight I never realized that people would do that, but then considering what other body parts get pierced I should not have been surprised.

[Maine-ah]

8. I was 35 when I got both my first non-ear, and a tattoo.

:toast: congrats! I wanna do my nose...but I'm kinda afraid to, belly button is good for now.

[travelingtypist]

9. Thanks!!

I wanted to do my tongue, but I'm scared shitless to do that. Settled for an accessible eyebrow instead. I have dentures, scared to let anybody but a dentist inside my mouth. But the other one I want is on the left side of my chin, a little crystal. My hair girl has one and I just love it. I'd have to get way, way, way down in my happy place for that one.

[MiddleFingerMom]

14. I like a fairly delicate pretty eyebrow piercing, but often with a nose piercing...

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...I'm almost afraid to look because it just MIGHT end up with me STARING at a
wart. Or, worse... a little booger. Seriously.
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Not an attractive possibility.
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I've always joked about coming out with a new line of piercing jewelry heretofore
never really considered.
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"Rearrings".
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Last time I mentioned that, someone said it had been done and (I think) even posted
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I didn't go.
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Yeah, that's right. ME!!! MiddleFingerMom. I COULDN'T go.
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I've joked for decades about getting two tattoos. It's STILL not out of the realm
of possibility. A "W" low on each buttcheek.
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That way... when I bend over... it'll say "WoW".
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When I stand on my head... it'll say "MoM'.
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When I cartwheel... it'll say "WoW MoM, WoW MoM, WoW MoM, WoW Mom".
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[travelingtypist]

15. I couldn't go by itself either.

Wanted like crazy, too chicken to go on my own. I took advantage of the situation for my own ends. It didn't hurt much, not more than my chiropractor draining the pain out of the tendonitis in my right shoulder anyway. You have to trick yourself. It's the way to go.

:evilgrin: