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Piercings of all kinds are far more acceptable now than they were 5 or 10 years ago. Most employers don't frown on most piercings these days, unless they're excessive, and a nose piercing is far from excessive.

justine wrote:

Piercings of all kinds are far more acceptable now than they were 5 or 10 years ago. Most employers don't frown on most piercings these days, unless they're excessive, and a nose piercing is far from excessive.

Perhaps if you work in an office. But if you're dealing with people, most employers forces you to remove or cover up a facial piercing.

I was present when my then-girlfriend (now wife) got her belly buttonpierced.



Holy crap!

She said it hurt a tad, but I'm too much of a wuss to ever get a piercing.

The piercing was performed @ a tattoo parlor. It wasn't 100% clean, and she got a slight infection for a week or 2...nothing major, just the kind that needed to be cleaned daily. The guy who did the piercing did use a sterile package, wore gloves, etc.

It looked really good on her. Now she'll have to get it re-done after having our son. We'll prolly look at going to a Dr.'s office for that.

oatmeal wrote:

wellfleation wrote:

You let you 16-year-old daughter do this? Wow, when I see kids with these piercing I always wonder who the hell their parents are. Don't worry, I'm sure she could get a job at Spencers or something?

Heh.  Piercing holes close up if you don't put the piercing in, you know.

well, zero gauges...

but chances are that your either already in a profession that allows is, or you know you are boned if you get Zero Gauges.

TheConfuzed1 wrote:

Piercings may close, but that doesn't mean that you can't still see where they once were.  I haven't had any piercings since high school, but you can still tell that they were all there.

"All"? Like what sorts of piercings? I didn't picture you as a 'piercing' sort of fella....

And I'll propose there's a difference between the remnant 'hole' being visible (faint tiny scar size of a pinhead that only the piercee would likely notice) and being obvious to passers-by (OMGHOLES!!1!) Except, as Edward points out above, if you're playing with stuff in the zero gauge range.

What's "zero gauge?" About 5/16" or 8mm

Nearly life-size:

oatmeal wrote:

What do they call the measurment of a piercing the size of the hole in the middle?

African

anyhoo, Zero Gauges are the "point of no return" for your earlobes. Once you get to zero, your lobes will not be able to close the hole up. Some people have been able to get it back down to a 2 gauges, but the hole will never close up completely. Of course, you can go bigger then zero, but then you'll look like a freak...

KingFred wrote:

TheConfuzed1 wrote:

Piercings may close, but that doesn't mean that you can't still see where they once were.  I haven't had any piercings since high school, but you can still tell that they were all there.

"All"? Like what sorts of piercings? I didn't picture you as a 'piercing' sort of fella...

My nose, plus three in one ear.

i have 6 piercings of my own and nobody has a problem with them... i have my eyebrow with just a small ring in it and alls you can see is two tiny balls about 1/2 an inch apart, each of my ears are pierced twice... the first hole i used to have 6 gauge hoops in them which is 4.1mm but then i got bored at school and shuved a pencil threw each one and they weren't normal pencils... they were bigger it was about the size of a 0 gauge which is 8.25mm and then i went back to the 6 gauge and the hoops could spin so it wasn't healing so i went to a 14 gauge which is 1.6mm and they are healing now but not all the way yet and once they are healed i am going to properly stretch them to a 2 gauge which is 6.5mm, in my second holes i have regular sized ear rings, and then i have my scrotum pierced, i did all my peircings myself but i know where to get the supplies... i can get the hollow needles for 35 cents each and i got a set of piercing clamps from my dad.... oh and i forgot to mention that i had my finger pierced for 2 months and my arm pierced for about a week and you can still see where they were at and i have had them both out for about 2 months now

Month old threads are fine. Year and a half old threads are not.