Why?

Mercury_Tilt

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I am MAN

Relative to who you are and im going to add them right through my life as a diary of the past.

neuro-praxis

Ok, ok, I don't have a tattoo yet but I'm getting one. I've chosen my design. But I have a bunch of piercings.

For me, it is somewhat an assertion of my independence. It is my body and I like to decorate it. My first piercings (three in my right ear and my eyebrow) a few years ago were a rite of passage. I was just eighteen, had recently moved out and was beginning life on my own. It wasn't a rebellion (as there weren't going to be any repurcussions from my parents), but it was an assertion of my adulthood.

I may not always want the piercings and that is ok...but for now, they're like an addiction. I have to hold myself back from having lots more done, I guess for career reasons. My lip was the most recent (about 8 months ago) and I am itching for another.

The tattoo I'm being slow about, as it's for forever, but it's going in a discreet area. I find tattoos and piercings physically attractive so its natural to want them on myself.

It is hard to explain, it really is. I studied it at college in anthropology and didn't find an answer. All I found out is: all over the world, through all the ages and in every tribe, people have been doing this - self decoration. In some parts of the world (Papua New Guinea to be exact), your life as a woman is begun at about 14 through ritual scarification: your belly has intricate designs scratched in and ashes are rubbed in to created a raised scar. It's extremely attractive and women without the markings have difficulty finding husbands.

Anyway I have rambled. I am very interested in why I love this stuff. I can't answer it. At this point I don't even see the piercings when I look in the mirror. It's weird. This is me, as in KnowYourNerds, all pierced up.

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Silent Grape

i have two tattoos, a little butterfly thing on my inner thigh and elvish writing on my back. i got the first one when i broke up with my bf of two and a half years. our whole relationship was very special and beautiful etc etc and i wanted to mark it somehow. my ex will always be a huge part in my life so this tattoo was also my way of moving on to the next stage in my life. is in NOT like getting a name tattooed!

the elvish writing i have done is a phrase which originally comes from latin (not telling what it says tho) it sums up my whole growth as a person or whatever over the last few years, and its a phrase which always gives me hope.

tattoos gives a me a lot of confidence and, corny as it sounds, a lot of inner strength. i feel like my identity is getting stronger with each one.

neuro, piercings are so bloody addictive its so annoying! i keep having to top up just to keep it interesting!

uch

Got my first one due to the influences of Brian Setzer ( Stray Cats Front man ) who is covered and I thought they looked cool, from there I kinda just enlarged the Jigsaw whenever the mood took me, I have thirteen tattoo's now and don't plan to stop but you need to be convinced of your designs and the timing must be right for the next one.

memphis

I have one tattoo.

Its a black chinese dragon that is supposed to symbolise freedom and strength. I like it, its a personal thing.

Don't really know exactly why I got it done, I guess its just cos I like tattoos. I was in first year in college and just moved out of home, so I guess it was a way of marking that independence or freedom.

I'm planning on getting another, but not in a hurry. Its this design (won't say of what) that I drew myself, and it symbolises my Irishness, and my identiity as such.

rain on

cos I was 17 and thought it'd make me look tough.

true!

Have yet to regret it though...

Altheus

For now it's decoration, next it's assertion of my belief.