Originally posted by BackFire
My friend got a bunch of piercings, after a while he got sick of them and took them all out. I have no piercings, don't understandt he point.
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Can't speak for everyone... but the piercing thing was a side effect of getting my first real well paid proper job - I gave up being "an artist" and became a wage slave. It hurt so much I had to do something to prove I wasn't becoming "one of them" so the nose ring (at the time) seemed like a small act of defiance. A facial rebellion!
The tata is much more a "tribal" thing, leaving Scotland I needed something to remind myself who I was no matter where I was. I did it to stop myself getting homesick. Worked too...