herro again :) olivia. 24. 937 born, stranded in ky.
mods: ears stretched to 44mm, septum (12g), both nostrils, vertical conch indusutrial (right ear, 12g), conch piercing (left ear, 12g), 16 tattoos.
Body Modification
I believe that all consensual body modifications are beautiful. Why would anyone care what someone else does to feel at home in their own skin?
“By using your body, modifying your body, you can go into [different] states of consciousness and discover the true nature of life and yourself.” -Fakir Musafar
“I feel that some piercings reflect the personality, and those are more like haircuts or styles of clothing that you embrace. Other piercings are supposed to be there. When you look in the mirror, you don’t look different so much as same somehow, as if it has been there all along.” -John Cobb
“Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.” -Frank Gillette Burgiss
“When you open the flesh, you let something in.” -Alex Binnie
well currently: 1.5” lobes, 10g philtrum, 14g septum, 8g conch, a brand, and a few tattoos. I won’t list my retired modz. I’ve also got a couple pulls and play piercings under my belt.
oh, I was a doll for Halloween.
When people say “gauges” when they actually mean plugs.
This is so accurate.
(via awfulmodifications)
alert to dumb people:
your ears aren’t supposed to bleed when you stretch them.
it doesn’t make you look cool when you say your lobes bled when you stretched them, it just makes you look like an idiot.
please educate yourself before you fuck your ears up beyond repair.
actually, do whatever you want. they’re your goddamn ears. but don’t cry when your lobes look like a cat’s asshole, you asshole.
(via awfulmodifications)
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Fucking disgusting.
Way to go, TSA. you’re winning more points every second.
Any Way I Am
I am a modified woman
I am strange hair,
Split tongues,
Stretched ears.
I am a modified woman
With piercings
And dermals,
Tattoos
And scars.
I am a modified woman,
And society sees that as bad.
Yet aren’t all women modified?
With hair dyed a prettier shade,
With breasts just a little perkier,
With heels to make a bum look better.
I am a modified woman,
But I refuse to modify myself
To society’s perception
Of what being
A Woman
Means.
I am a modified woman.
And I am beautiful
Any way I am.
:3
Heyyy, speaking of.
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This might not be accurate, but when I was in college and stretching my ears seven years ago, in Toronto 0 gauge ears were not that common and usually noticed. My humanities professor told me a story about a tribe in Africa where the stretching of your lobes represented knowledge gained through listening. If done correctly, and done over time, you showed years of knowledge obtained from listening to elders with much larger lobes and much more knowledge than you. If you went too fast though, you would mess up your ears and look like someone who was passing themselves off as falsely knowing more than everyone else… the village idiot.
Philip Barbosa (BMEzine)
my lobes have grown along with me, my knowledge, and my experiences.
(via iwantyouinmylobes)THIS PERSON. THANK YOU. you don’t know how often I tell people this. And how often those little fucks ignore it.
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This shouldn’t be a problem if you have any idea on how to care for your piercings.
