By Anonymous · Feb. 07, 2008 · 0 comments
Long before the advent of "the scene," when the monroe piercing was still pretty uncommon I suddenly decided I needed one. I was nineteen and feeling rebellious, and my mostly liberal family that had allowed me to dye my hair whatever color I wished and dress however I liked expressly forbade facial piercings. The parlor I picked out on a whim as well. It was called Electric Circus or Masquerade or some such and was on the corner of 12 mile and Woodward if you know the area, I hear it isn't there anymore. I initially picked it because you ...
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By Anonymous · Feb. 07, 2008 · 0 comments
On my 18th birthday I awoke to my best friend knocking on my door saying "Get ready we're getting pierced!" I showered, got dressed, connected to the internet and immediately started browsing BME. My friend had no idea what this site was, or what it did, and I simply informed her of the just of things and told her this is where I got the idea for my vertical lobe that I had gotten done two years earlier. We decided to get facial piercings, lip piercings to be exact. I was afraid of gum erosion and "destroying my teeth" so ...
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By Anonymous · Feb. 07, 2008 · 0 comments
La prima volta che ho visto un monroe stavo guardando MTV. Hanno trasmesso un video delle Sugababes: una delle cantanti aveva questo bellissimo piercing. Ho pensato: "che idea carina, un piercing che sembra un neo!". Da allora sono passati tanti anni, ma questo piercing mi è rimasto impresso!Io adoro i nei sopra le labbra! Finchè, quest'estate, l'idea di farmelo è diventata davvero persistente. Ciò che mancava, però, era il coraggio. L'idea di un ago che mi trapassa la carne mi terrorizzava letteralmente, nonostante tutti mi dicessero che non è doloroso. Ho rimuginato per mesi, ho guardato praticamente tutti i video ...
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By Anonymous · Feb. 07, 2008 · 0 comments
Before I did my labret I hadn't really thought about facial piercing. There was a time when I was 13 when I thought getting my eyebrow pierced would be the greatest thing that happened since radio was free, but because I have sane parents, they didn't let me. Besides that, I had never really thought about any facial modification. Satisfied, I thought, since last year when I pierced my nipple, I didn't really think I'd be getting anything else done any time soon. Which brings me to the spontaneity of it. My girlfriend and I had been wandering about Toronto ...
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By Anonymous · Feb. 07, 2008 · 0 comments
For my sixteenth birthday in January of 2007, I decided to get myself a present I had been wanting for about 3 years a labret piercing. Looking back now I wouldn't have gone to the studio I ended up going to, although I didn't really have any problems. After taking care of it just how I had been told my labret healed up perfectly and I was very pleased with the results. About 5 weeks after getting the labret I was itching for more, and started browsing around BME for piercing ideas, none of the facial piercings really suited ...
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By Anonymous · Feb. 07, 2008 · 0 comments
Around the beginning of freshman year, I had started getting into body modification. It all started when I saw a couple "scenesters" with their lips pierced and I had said "I want that." Back then, I only wanted a piercing for superficial reasons. I didn't want it to "fit it" or to "be cool." But I didn't want it because it was a part of who I was. Nowadays, I consider body modification to be a part of who I am, and I believe that nothing can ever change that. I compare it to the nature vs. nurture philosophy, body ...
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By Anonymous · Jan. 31, 2008 · 0 comments
Voila, Je m'appelle Kristal, j'ai 17ans et j'habite en Suisse. Mon premier piercing, un helix (après les lobes, si on peut appeler sa un piercing)s'est très bien passé. A suivi la langue, toujours excellent. Puis, Voulant me démarquer de ma soeur, j'ai cherché quelque chose de plus original. J'ai d'abord pensé à un labret décalé, mais vu que c'est le nouveau "trip", j'ai abandonné. Puis je suis tombée amoureuse du madonna. Vous me direz, sa fait un peu vulgaire, surtout à 13ans comme c'est la mode maintenant. Mais enfin, passé les préjugés, je me suis dis que tout dépendait de ...
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By Anonymous · Jan. 31, 2008 · 0 comments
Okay to be honest, I am not just another safety pin wielding dumbass. I'm also not someone who has a mommy that "doesn't approve" of modifications. I just like to pierce myself on my own because I like the sense of accomplishment. It also makes me feel more like me. Im not trying to be different, I just try to make myself feel more "right". I don't make it my main goal in life to try to seem rebellious or unique. I really just want to be myself. Anyway. One day I was sitting around thinking about getting a new ...
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By Anonymous · Jan. 31, 2008 · 0 comments
It all started a year ago, at a party with a lot of my friends. Everyone was sitting around having a good time, drinking, smoking and just chatting. After everyone had a bit too much to drink as they always seem to do, I started kissing a girl who is now a good friend of mine. She had two lip piercings on her bottom lip on either side, called snakebites. I loved the way these felt when I kissed her, but at the time it didn't cross my mind that I should get a piercing. Over the next about 10 ...
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By Anonymous · Jan. 31, 2008 · 0 comments
So, I've been thinking about this for awhile. Really, I have. I had an eyebrow piercing done in Kansas City, where I'm from, and had to take it out for work, and I knew I wanted another piercing, but something different. After moving to Florida to attend Full Sail and was no longer working somewhere I couldn't have a facial piercing, I decided now was the perfect time. I drove down there in the afternoon, which was a bad idea because traffic was horrible. Well, probably typical for I-4 W at about 4:00pm on a Thursday, but very congested for ...
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