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You'll find the updated version of this page there, or you can search the blog to find info on the subject. As a young married mommy, I blog about anything and everything from my experiences surviving PPD and OCD, to coping with pain from car accident injuries, to daily life with kids, to scrapbooking and card-making, to blogging and internet/new media topics.
Piercings & Tattoos
Pictuers of some of my piercings and tattoos ...
I've been pierced over 20 times, and have had 9 tattoos done. I think it's safe to say I'm a fan of body art! Most of the tats and piercings were done during my later teen years and my early 20s. I've taken a bit of break from them, but still have a couple tattoos planned (which I'll hopefully get before I hit 30! :P).I do believe that tattoos and piercings are a wonderful form of self-expression and body art. I waited until I was an adult to get my first tattoo, though, and am glad I did, because they are permanent and one should make sure they have thought hard about their choice of tattoo, so they will be happy and comfortable with it in the future as well.
For the piercings, I have had my eyebrow, my nipple, my tragus, my rook, and my ears pierced. I would have to say that the most painful piercing was the tragus, which is the hard little flap over your ear opening. That reeeeally hurt and I didn't end up keeping the piercing because of the pain and also infection. The eyebrow ring was surprisingly not that painful, but it grew out fairly quickly (within 1 year). As for the nipple piercing, I will tell you for a fact that it's not true that you can't breastfeeding after getting your nipple pierced. I took out the piercing, of course, to let it heal during my first pregnancy, and breastfed my daughter until she was 7 months old. I then went on to breastfeed my son for almost 2 years! I never tried to put the piercing back in or anything, but I never had difficulty breastfeeding as a result of the healed site of the piercing that had been there.
Piercings:
~ 6 piercings ~ I have 6 earring holes in the right side. For a year or two, I had them set up with these pride-colour earrings
~ Piercing of my "rook"/"crux" ~ on my left ear, this was actually not as painful as I expected and has stayed the same for years and years now
~ Nose piercing ~ although I now wear a tiny faux-diamond stud, I used to wear sleeper rings for my nose piercing
Tattoos:
~ Angel wings & "a" ~ on my left hip, in memory of my 1st miscarried baby, angel
~ "K" star ~ on left shoulder/arm, as it started out and what it turned into (designed by yours truly, as you can see at the top of this very site)
~ Woman-power sunburst ~ on my lower back (1st pic was when it was still new and healing). This one as also designed by yours truly.
~ Rainbow butterflies ~ A ring of butterflies around my ankle - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. I've contemplated perhaps getting them
entwined in a vine to bring them all together, but still am not sure I'll go and do it.
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