Piercings and tatoos

Do I want a tattoo? How many piercings do I want? These are the main questions of today for me actually. Legally, I can't get a tattoo for a couple more years anyways, nor do I think I should make an irrational choice at a young age. But I do kind of want one, though I don't know what I would get it of. I see plenty of  butterflies and birds and names of loved ones, and I don't know if I'd necessarily would want to do anything of that sort. I guess tattoos are more to mark significant events for me than to mark things I like. For instance, my mum has a frog tattoo because they are one of her favorite animals. I'm sure there is some significance for her, but I don't think an animal will ever find its way onto my skin.

Piercings on the other hand are changeable. You can have them close up and no longer be there, get them re-pierced, change their appearances, etc. They are only for beauty and showing a facade of oneself, not for representing something that will forever have changed you. Currently I have 5 piercings, all on ears. I know for certain I will never get a facial piercing; they generally are pretty nasty and get infected way too easily. However, I am considering the standard bellybutton or more ear piercings. Thinking about the act of piercing, it is a weird thing and seems like a form of self mutilation. They do look cute though and are almost entirely accepted in our society.

 It is hard to decide what is okay for piercings and tattoos and what goes too far. Once so very taboo, now they are standards in forms of expression. It is mostly shades of gray when deciding where and what to get, so it seems like if you'd be okay with other people knowing what you had done, you probably won't be ashamed of it come tomorrow. Both processes are reversible though, thank goodness. Wrinkles and Jonas Brother's tattoos don't go well together.

Sincerely Sydney

Writing Tattoos: usually okay