By Anonymous · Sept. 28, 2008 · 0 comments
Ever since the first time I saw an industrial I loved it. I thought it looked beautiful and knew I would end up with one eventually. About four years later, I finally got round to it. I was finally 16, had enough money and had moral support to make sure I didn't back out. I never had any trouble finding a studio I felt comfortable with - I'd heard good things about Nirvana Piercing from a lot of people and as soon as I walked in I knew why. Friendly and knowledgeable staff, cleaner than should be possible and a ...
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By Kitty_Fantastico · Sept. 28, 2008 · 0 comments
There is no better body mod than that which signifies an event, experience, or the beginning and/or end of one of life's chapters. Whether it's a vertical clitoral hood piercing to assert independence after an abusive relationship, a tattoo because you've finally moved out of home or even just a standard lobe piercing to celebrate the end of high school, it doesn't matter. The important thing is that this body mod provides a permanent reminder, whether explicitly or implicitly, that you were there, that you did this, that this happened to you. It was with this train of thought that ...
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By Anonymous · Sept. 28, 2008 · 0 comments
When I first decided to get my industrial I had a lot of negative opinions from friends. The reason I decided was because I saw this chick with the most awesome industrial at the smashing pumpkins concert. One of my friends had gotten hers done at high school, but I was a bit put off when a few weeks later hers swelled up and it looked like her ear was eating her piercing, then a few months later she ripped it out so I kind of didn't look fondly on them after that. Two weeks after I went to the ...
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By Anonymous · Sept. 28, 2008 · 0 comments
I have been skulking around BME for years now and have finally decided to add my story to "our" collection. The next decision was which experience should I write about? I decided to write about the most recent ... the piercing and subsequent stretching of my ear lobes. Stretched lobes have kept me fascinated for years! Just the look could be enough to keep me interested, but the additional process and (constant) care while stretching added a kind of weight to the idea. My other piercings and my tattoos are in locations where they are easily covered, and once they ...
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By Anonymous · Sept. 28, 2008 · 0 comments
Ok so I've been interested in getting pierced since I was about 15 but never really had the balls to get one, mainly I suppose because my circle of friends have never really been into it, stupid reason I know. Anyway fast forward to this summer that I spent working in Ibiza where attitudes to piercings are very different, seems everyone as at least something pierced! So one day, with nothing much else to do I decided it was time to get my first piercing. So I grab a couple of my friends and head down to Naxa one of ...
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By Anonymous · Sept. 28, 2008 · 0 comments
[NOTE: I actually got this piercing exactly two weeks ago; there just wasn't an option for that. So I picked one week ago. Sorry.] The first time I saw my cousin's vertical industrial piercing, I knew I had to have one. I brought a friend of mine to Twisted Images to check the price on a tattoo she wanted to get because it's got the reputation for being the best tattoo/piercing shop in town. While we were waiting, I got to talking to Natalie, one of the piercers, because she recognized me from a wedding we both happened to be ...
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By Anonymous · Sept. 23, 2008 · 0 comments
I had wanted a cartilage piercing and had been bothering my mother about it for weeks maybe even months. In june I had gotten by second holes done and now wanted something different. Initially, my mom didn't want me to get the cartilage piercing. She'd come up with excuses on why not to come to the piercing shop with me. My father flat out told me that I was crazy for wanting the piercing and he had said the same thing when I wanted to get my second holes done. I researched cartilage piercings online and finally found a piercing ...
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By Anonymous · Sept. 23, 2008 · 0 comments
Quite some years ago, i met a waitress with a helix piercing and instantly thought it was magnificent. My left ear is naturally pointed, which is why it has been named Spock. I thought of how cool that piercing would look going through the point of my ear. The idea never faded, but I decided to let it sit in the back of my mind because I knew my mother would never go for it. Since then, I have moved away and met a girl who is very much into body modifications, and has passed the bug onto me. Since ...
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By fizzy watermelon · Sept. 23, 2008 · 0 comments
I have been wanting to get increasingly piercings after my first, which was an ear cartilage piercing a matter of days after my 16th birthday, it was this late as both of my parents are very conservative and neither have any piercing apart from lobes or any tattoos and have a very strong opinion of them and ho much they dislike them. Anyway I enjoyed the experience so much I got a second within a week or so. Both of these were done at eclipse also, in Camden, and while the piercings themselves are very good the people have practically ...
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By Anonymous · Sept. 23, 2008 · 0 comments
My freshman year of college was my first taste of freedom. I have always been enticed by tattoos and piercings but have never been able to get one. I decided that after I turn 18 I would get something pierced regardless of whether my parental unit agreed or not. Fortunately, she did. I searched for days through BMEzine searching for piercings I thought would compliment me. I decided on a Tragus piercing. My friend often frequented a local tattoo shop, Big Kahuna, inquiring about tattoos, so while I was there I asked about getting both of my tragus' pierced. After ...
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