101 Things: Inked and Stuck.
Originally published at Tongue Tied 'n Twisted. You can comment here or there.
101 Things #75: Get a tattoo and/or piercing.I’ve done both of these numerous times! The dates are all fuzzy, including years, but here’s my list. I’ll add pics once I find them.
Piercings:
- Labret. 18 years old? Maybe 19? First piercing. Still got it!
- Navel. pre-2003. I had to take it out in 2003 in Australia when it went nasty. Gone.
- Eyebrow. Didn’t heal well and started rejecting. Gone.
- Snakebites (both sides of lower lip) - 2006, celebrated finishing chemo by getting holes jammed in my lips. They didn’t want to heal properly. Gone.
- Nape x2. First one I got after first meeting Tracy, as she had one and I loved it. I got a second one a while later, pierced with a soft material rather than metal, and I switched my first one to the same thing, and they got irritated. Gone.
- Lip. I forget the name, but inside it sits just about my gumline and it comes out in the middle of my lower lip. I look like I have a vertical labret, with my two piercings. I love it.
Tattoos:
- Turquoise scarab beetle that I designed, lives between my shoulder blades. My first tattoo (but not my first design, heh) and I think I was 19 when I got him. Unfinished, as I haven’t designed his wings or decided what he will be holding (sun or moon or something else)…
- Quote on each wrist. On my right, “Light, in the absence of eyes, illuminates nothing.” Left, “What the flame does not consume, consumes the flame.” They are both quotes from the Aeon Flux cartoon, which sounds silly but I bet you thought they were kinda cool before you read that. I have always loved the oddness of that show, and these quotes specifically spoke to me. The first is my “art” quote, basically reminding me to LOOK, to really SEE, and that there is beauty in everything. The second is my “strength” quote, basically what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, which I need a reminder of occasionally when I’m feeling weak. Gods know I’ve had enough happen in my life that a reminder that it’s made me stronger is needed sometimes.
I have more tattoos planned, including cap sleeves of Cthulhu theme (though yet to be designed), an elder star tattoo that looks like a scar or brand on the back of my neck, and at least two more quotes, both from Aeon Flux again. “They say cats always land on their feet, but at this point there’s really no floor,” down around my ankle, and “That which doesn’t kill us, simply makes us… stranger,” possibly as a chest/clavicle/whatever area tattoo.
Have you had any piercings or tattoos? What have you got?
If not, why? Do you hope to in the future? How do you feel about body modification?