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is it just me?
posted 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

I am a cashier at Wal-mart, And over the past few months I have noticed more and more facial piecing.
For me it's hard to not stare, but I do.
Why would a young girl piece her beautiful cheeks? Specially when she already have cute dimples?

Not just the cheeks, but chin and lips. Some with just one lip ring while others have two. Some match their male friends. Or boyfriends,

Maybe it is just me. What will they look like when they get to my age or those in their sixties?

Maybe it is just "me" ! ?

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Tamara's avatar Tamara
Tamara said to Pattyanniek 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

The only piercings I have are in my earlobes...one hole on each side! However, multiple facial piercing are there, I believe, for the purpose of drawing attention. I don't get it...but I can't help but think that one day, those attractive young people are going to regret their decisions...but I could be wrong!

glory's avatar glory
glory said to Pattyanniek 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

I feel the same way about tatoos....usually you see them on the the most beautiful creamy white skin and all I can think is how can you ruin skin like that with ugly ink? 

moongoddess's avatar moongodde…
moongoddess said to Pattyanniek 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

That's when I love to treat them like they're normal.   I don't look it the piercings and look right in their eyes like there is nothing unusual about them. Much the way I would look at anyone with a disability by acknowledging them with respect.  Poor things.

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dynamomma's avatar dynamomma
dynamomma said to moongoddess 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

Good morning moongoddess:  You have this down pat!!!  And to reiterate what as already been said, they think they are being unique and all they're doing is falling in line with some latest fad to get attention.  The whole idea goes right past me!!  Like Tamara said, the only piercings I have are on my ears (one hole each side).  And now that my earlobes are getting bigger and drooping, I'm sorry I got those holes.  p.s. I like your new picture!

moongoddess's avatar moongodde…
moongoddess said to dynamomma 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

Well good afternoon to you dynamomma.  Sometimes they look like they fell in the tackle box.  Have to resist dialing 911 when I see them.  I remember the white lipstick too.  It didn't look right on me.  My thing was a very thick black eyeliner with an exagerated line on the outsides.  Cat eyes.  Very long dark hair.  Bell bottom hig huggers (without muffin top) and Jesus sandles or leather moccosons with lots of fringe.  I was cool man. 

p.s.  Thanks on the pic.

Kim V's avatar Kim V
Kim V said to moongoddess 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

I do my best to treat all people with honnor and respect. Eye to eye, heart to heart. The pearcings and tatoos are a distraction, but I get around it just like an odvious disability. I still think we are more alike than we are different. The same song in a different key and musical style! Time will tell how the self decorated body art types will feel about their"statements".

SeaWriter's avatar SeaWriter
SeaWriter said to Pattyanniek 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

My favorite incident regarding facial piercings:

A man sat down on the bus. In came a young man with multiple piercings. The man couldn't keep his off all the rings and studs. Finally, the younger man said, "What are you looking at?"

The older man replied, "What do you think I'm looking at?"

The younger man said nothing. Clearly, he already knew the answer to the question.

Would the older man have stared at the younger man if he had not had the piercings? I doubt it. So can we consider the piercings to be a bid for attention? Sure. But do the piercings make a person unique? Do they show his individuality? No. THey make him appear to be every bit the conformist he accuses his elders of being. He may be dancing to a different beat, but he's not dancing solo.

At least the white lipstick I wore in high school wasn't permanent...

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dynamomma's avatar dynamomma
dynamomma said to SeaWriter 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

Hi SeaWriter -- Ooohhh, now the truth comes out (lol)  Love you.

SeaWriter's avatar SeaWriter
SeaWriter said to dynamomma 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

Hi Dynamomma -- Funny!

I went to high school in LA, and we were surfers, one and all. My mother said we looked like corpses. Did I care? Surf was up, at least until the nuns banned the white lipstick. But by then we had moved on to other obsessions, and were eyeing the go go boots we wanted to buy for the rare days we didn't have to wear our uniforms-- but then the nuns banned those, too.

dynamomma's avatar dynamomma
dynamomma said to SeaWriter 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

How dare those nuns get in the way of your "high" fashion.  Hey, do you remember the days when we could ONLY wear skirts or dresses to school?  I can even remember my first year in college.  We couldn't wear pants of any kind except on free dress day.  Come to think of it . . . that might not be so bad to impose strict dress codes for teens today.  Except the teens today skirts wouldn't cover their behinds.  Oh the burden of being a teen.

crystalli's avatar crystalli
crystalli said to dynamomma 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

I absolutely remember wearing only skirts or dresses, and hated it!  My knee socks never stayed up.  The boys had to wear white shirts, ties, slacks (no chinos) and regular shoes (no sneakers).  Of course, the latter was true of girls, as well.  But what really fried me was when, on a bitterly cold NY evening, I went to night class at Bklyn College in slacks (Oh, my!) as I was recovering from a bad cold.  They sent me home.  Rules were rules.  There were no exceptions.  Whatever could this have to do with the learning process?  In the 70's I saw girls going to college with their bare rear ends hanging out of their shorts.  Now this might just interfere with the learning process on the part of male students.  It's all about using common sense.

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dynamomma's avatar dynamomma
dynamomma said to crystalli 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

do we long for the way it use to be?

Kim V's avatar Kim V
Kim V said to dynamomma 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

Almost! Only if I can go back in time with the wisdom I have earned to this point.

dynamomma's avatar dynamomma
dynamomma said to Kim V 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

Oh yes I agree on that.  Wouldn't want to go through the lesson building experiences again.

crystalli's avatar crystalli
crystalli said to dynamomma 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

On select items, yes.  The pendulum always swings too far in one direction or another.  What to do, what to do...? 

Kim V's avatar Kim V
Kim V said to SeaWriter 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

I wonder what they will look like in 40-50 years. There they are in the old folks home, tied into their wheel chairs drooling from their pearce holes, covered with blurry inked wrinkeled sagging skin. The furure isn't pretty. I let my boys experiment with clothes and color their hair because it would grow or  be done over, without plastic surgery!

dynamomma's avatar dynamomma
dynamomma said to Kim V 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

Oh Kim V.  This is so funny . . . the visual is priceless.

crystalli's avatar crystalli
crystalli said to Pattyanniek 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

I'm with you on this one, but remember when our parents shook their heads at Elvis, then the Beatles, and their parents shook their heads at women smoking and flapper skirts?  More recently there were the Mohawk haircuts (I saw one the other day on a 3 year old boy), so I guess it's mainstream now.  Purple hair, green hair, multicolored hair is everywhere.  I guess each generation has to find a way of saying symbolically, "Look at me.  I'm different than you."  But they need to discover that differentiation goes way beyond how they look on the outside.  It's about making decisions based on what feels right for each individual, decisions not based on "I'll show them."

workingypsy's avatar workingyp…
workingypsy said to Pattyanniek 02/05/2010, 03:26PM new!

I agree Pattyanni . . . I can't believe these fads . . and the dumb part is that those same kids'll complain about their zits:)

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