A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

How obsessed are you?

The resolution is so small and the number of pixels are tiny, but if you think the picture on the left is more attractive than the one on the right (the original is the one on the left), then your sense of beauty probably includes body modification…

Comments

60 responses to “How obsessed are you?”

  1. SNR Avatar

    Haha so true!

  2. xitsallxovernowx Avatar
    xitsallxovernowx

    Oh wow, I’ve always wanted to do this to a picture.
    Of course I already knew I found people with body mods to be more attractive it’s interesting to see the difference side by side.

  3. alf Avatar
    alf

    well… the nostrilpiercings takes a lot of attention of her (freaking cute) eyes

  4. Mike Avatar
    Mike

    I think she looks better without.

  5. trailerparkray Avatar

    i find both attractive, but i think the nose peircings make her look more interesting if that makes any sense.

  6. Em Avatar
    Em

    I said to my fiance, “Attractive – left or right, quick!” without giving him a chance to think… he said “Definitely left” and hadn’t noticed the piercings.

  7. Zoe Avatar
    Zoe

    Funny, how much two nostril piercings can change my view of someone. I find the left 100% more attractive than the left.

  8. Sixums Avatar

    I don’t notice the eyes any less on the left picture, or her lips for that matter (nice lips, definitely). I find the left picture more attractive, but I find myself leaning more towards that these days. I tend to notice people with mods a lot more because I find it an instant point of commonality, and they accent the person rather than hinder their appearance.

    Now if only I could get that hot guy on the bus with all those facial piercings to notice me. XP

  9. Zoe Avatar
    Zoe

    Err…Left moreso than right. Damn the lack of edit button. 😛

  10. Bethany Avatar

    Hey, that’s me! 🙂
    Those nostril piercings were hell to heal for some reason. I had hellacious hypertrophic scarring for two months, that wouldn’t respond to any sort of treatment.
    They’re much better now though.

  11. Zar Avatar
    Zar

    ew, the face without nostril piercings squicks me out. she’s lovely, but the piercings look more natural to me!

  12. chr_st_ne Avatar

    i like the left a lot more. i think it helps balance her face out more cause you have her gorgeous eyes and mouth, but it’s kinda blank in the middle.. if she doesn’t have double nostrils, she certainly should get them!

    sidenote, but where did you get this girl’s pic?

  13. chr_st_ne Avatar

    oh psh, nevermind. she does have them. and i assumed she submitted the pic to BME. gosh i should read more attentively.

  14. Bethany Avatar
    Bethany

    oops. I messed up the link to my name. haha.
    I’m ‘Bethany!’ on IAM, and that’s what I was trying to link to, but oh well.

  15. Jay Avatar
    Jay

    those piercings make her look infintely better!

  16. carolyn Avatar
    carolyn

    I find the right more attractive.

    Just cuz I hate the placement of those double nostrils. They look much too low, IMO.

  17. Jay Avatar
    Jay

    damn, hit enter too quickly! i guess this goes back to the whole symmetry being a huge deal when it comes to attractiveness.

  18. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    I find the left one much more attractive. On the right she looks so plain; the nostril piercings really enhance her face.

  19. lala Avatar
    lala

    She actually looks kinda creepy in the picture to the right. DEFINITELY like the one on the left. She looks so much more natural and gorgeous.

  20. kaysea Avatar

    Shes gorgeous either way.
    But damn those nose rings are a pain in the ass 🙂

    Parnie has the one of the prettiest faces in the world.

  21. Appleby Avatar
    Appleby

    … No comment.

  22. chris Avatar

    so much cuter w/o

  23. taradactyl Avatar

    The left is much more attractive to me!

  24. Lisa Avatar

    The left picture wins hands down.

  25. Lucas Fury Avatar

    i’m very good friends with this girl off the box, and i’ve actually told her before that i think she looks better without em, haha. ..not that i think she’s ugly with them, not that i don’t like that piercing, and not that i don’t think some girls do look better with em, just different strokes, i guess.

  26. ChopperMark Avatar
    ChopperMark

    Sorry, the Abercrombie sweater kills it for me 🙂

  27. con Avatar
    con

    Can you do one of these with a guy? 😛

    I am very much drawn to the left though, shes perdy 🙂

  28. Emily Avatar
    Emily

    shes beautiful and her (real? photoshopped?) nostrils seal the deal for me. haha… oh, how attractive i find the mods. wierdly though, i always date blank canvases.. aka no one with any piercings or tattoos…….. yet!

  29. Kevin Avatar
    Kevin

    I hate myself for this, but I think that she looks better in the picture without the paired nostrils. I’m definately a fan of paired nostrils, but I don’t know…Maybe it’s just the jewelry, but I don’t particularly enjoy them on her.

  30. Amanda Avatar
    Amanda

    I prefer the right

  31. Yom Avatar
    Yom

    Is it me or do the piercings make her nose look wider?

  32. Bethany Avatar
    Bethany

    No, it’s not just you, they really do make my nose look wider.
    But I’m not a fan of my nose to begin with, and the piercings make me like it more.

  33. AXU Avatar

    yeah, I’m totally guilty, it took me a minute to tell why, I ‘had the whole no chance to read, just look’ thing… hm, that’s fine with me…

  34. Wilburt Avatar

    much of a muchness really, she looks good either way. as long as she is happy with em thats the main thing… well thats the way i look at it. and of course each to theire own 🙂

  35. Nicole Avatar
    Nicole

    With the piercings. The glint of the piercings helps my eye travel from the shine in her eyes, to her nose, to the shine on her lips. Overall, the picture just flows better with them.

  36. Alli Avatar
    Alli

    I think the piercing actually makes her eyes sparkle more. The left is much better.

  37. choice Avatar

    i have to say she’s beautiful regardless. piercings don’t MAKE PEOPLE beautiful, just as not having piercings doesn’t MAKE you any more beautiful. it’s all personal preference in the end.

  38. My_Own_Nightmare Avatar

    I think she’s attractive in both.

  39. Tohnia Avatar
    Tohnia

    she’s attractive with and without the nostril piercings, but I prefer her with them because they seem to enhance her look so much more. That and I adore her Abercrombie hoodie! I want to get one of those, but i’m too curvy to wear one and they’re freaking expensive!

  40. gretta Avatar

    lately I have seen a lot of really cute girls with symmetrical nostril piercings. I think I might have to get two.

  41. Sarah Avatar

    totally on the left!

  42. CousinJen Avatar

    She looks the same in both to me. And they are both pretty.

  43. areku Avatar
    areku

    I’m fine with either, really. She’s got perfectly fine looks, so the right is very beautiful. And the nosepiercings that she has also compliment her face, so the left is also.. Very beautiful.

  44. Allen Avatar
    Allen

    Bethany, my fiancee, moreso the most gorgeous girl ever, reguardless of her nostril piercings or not. Though I do have to say… the hypertrophic stuff was annoying. I tried to get her to take them out for months to let the inflammation go down. I know they stressed her out and the biggest reason she didn’t want to take them out was because she’d have bumps on her nose, both symmetrical and no one would know why. Haha she is gorgeous either way, and more importantly… she looks great with or without make up… love waking to that every morning

  45. ÈMþRê§§ Avatar
    ÈMþRê§§

    I love her eyes, so lovely.

  46. tattoedmat Avatar
    tattoedmat

    Bethany your stunning girl 🙂 but yes the piercings deffinatly do it for me 🙂

  47. hollaayy Avatar
    hollaayy

    That’s right. She’s cuter than ur gf. I love you bff

  48. fishie Avatar

    I’ve taken all of my facial jewelry out a couple of times in front of my boyfriend, and even though he’s not normally into piercings, he thinks I look a lot better with them! I look so weird without my face in… not even like myself. It’s funny.

  49. hellonightmare Avatar

    I think mods that suite the person can make their appearance more appealing.. that’s why I took out my snakebites and eyebrow piercing recently, I didn’t like how I looked with them..

  50. renna Avatar
    renna

    I think the nostril piercings add to the beauty of her eyes =)

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