Body Modification

[curiosityandthecat]

I'm curious. Imagine that.

How many of us have body modifications? I don't necessarily mean the obligatory female ear piercings or the ridiculously over-played tribal armband. What else? I'll go first.

Piercings: 0

Tattoos: 5
1. Large tribal across my upper back.
2. Large tribal on my stomach, moving down below my waistline.
3. Chinese symbols on my upper right chest saying "In Memory of Father" (literally translated as "Respect for the One Who Carries the Stick")
4. Pink Floyd tattoo on left inner forearm
5. Pink Floyd tattoo on right inner forearm (I like Pink Floyd)

Your turn.  :eek:

[Will]

My current modification wasn't intentional, but I've grown to love it in a way. I have a plastic tube where my descending aorta would normally be. Does that make me bionic? Yes.

I also pierced my tongue when I was in high school. It was done with the singular mission of having a vibrating tongue stud. It was awesome. It also was an incredible nuisance when I wasn't using it. I only had it for maybe 4 months and I decided to remove it.

[LARA]

I have one tattoo.  The only interesting thing about this tattoo is that the other person who had the same design is now dead.  Not my fault.

[DennisK]

I got nuttin'.  I do enjoy Chinese letters and big Samoan tattoos, though.  I am a graphic designer and a doodler by nature.

OK, I've got a little one on my arm.

[curiosityandthecat]

I got nuttin'.  I do enjoy Chinese letters and big Samoan tattoos, though.  I am a graphic designer and a doodler by nature.

They're not Chinese letters; they're Chinese words.   æˆ' means I, æ,,› means love, and ä½  means you, thus æˆ'æ,,›ä½  means "I love you." Not really letters. Incidentally, if you're ever around a Chinese or Japanese, don't refer to them as "characters"... they tend to get slightly insulted, heh.

[jrosebud]

Some of my hair is blue/green/purple at the moment.  It's not a permanent change, but meaningful to me, nonetheless.

[curiosityandthecat]

Some of my hair is blue/green/purple at the moment.  It's not a permanent change, but meaningful to me, nonetheless.

At the risk of sounding like some teenage MySpace creep, can you post a picture?   I love crazy hair like that. It screams confidence.

[jrosebud]

sure, curio.  



quite a few people have asked me why i colored my hair (or called me emo for it *bah!*).  it wasn't to rebel or to be a part of group.  i simply love colors (blue, green, and purple are my favorites) and dyed my hair as act of joy.

[curiosityandthecat]

quite a few people have asked me why i colored my hair (or called me emo for it *bah!*).  it wasn't to rebel or to be a part of group.  i simply love colors (blue, green, and purple are my favorites) and think that colored hair is pretty.

Couldn't agree more. Emo is an insult in my circle.  

[jrosebud]

crap, curio, you quoted me before i could edit.    )

[curiosityandthecat]

crap, curio, you quoted me before i could edit.    )

Yeah, I do that.  

[Kyuuketsuki]

Piercings: Only earrings (does that count as 2?).

Tattoos: No, but I would absolutely love to have one of a dragon standing on top of the smashed remains of a cross, a star of David and whatever the Islamic symbol is ...my wife would be most upset so I don't

Kyu

[karadan]

Nothing. I have rather a lot of moles so as much as i'd like a tattoo, it probably wouldn't be a good idea.

I do, however, have 5 tiny titanium springs sat in the epigastric vein in my left leg. The reason for this is to restrict the blood flow to a certain part of my body because i once had a varicose vein. It was an experimental precedure at addenbrookes hospital. I was one of the first to have it done apparently

[joy_landlocked]

i only have earrings (eight: three in each earlobe, and two cartilage on the left), but they're meaningful to me.  for several years i've been marking the end of the summer with an ear piercing, around my birthday.  i'm symbollically taking the entire year, i suppose, the good and the bad and everything, and putting it away at that time.  in my mind, the new year starts in september.

i've often thought about tattoos, but it's really hard to settle on a design and be sure i wouldn't change my mind.  the only really big constant in my life that i'm comfortable sharing with everyone is my vegetarian/almost-vegan lifestyle, but i have yet to really find something to symbolize that.  i think because i don't have external symbols to rely on, i tend to attach heavy meaning to my personal symbols, and if i'm going to wear anything around on my skin, i have to be really sure i want to display it.

[Mister Joy]

I have an ear piercing. I've thought about getting a tattoo of the Clifton suspension bridge across my back, though I'm not sure (it'd cost money and it's hard to imagine how it would look). But the bridge is to Bristol what the sky needle is to Seattle: iconic.