I don’t know about you, but I am soooo OVER piercings. I feel like they hit their boom back in 2001-2002 and now should be something few and far between.  The only exceptions should be:

• if it’s part of your culture
• a piercing that has been there forever
• or if it fits your personality perfectly. I’ve met people who look naked without a hoop through their nose or bar through their tongue.

Otherwise I’d like to see a ban immediately. It hasn’t always been like this though. When I was about 18, I got caught up a bit in piercings & tattoos.  At one point I had my tongue pierced (ugh traumatizing) and my belly button (kinda drunk when that happened, oopsah.). A year or two later, the piercings  were gone, as well as the love for them. One of the main reasons was because they got popular & it was no longer a novelty; tattoos at least are different. I don’t think I’ll ever grow tired of seeing new tattoos and the creative things people come up with.  It seems that people with piercings, in order to remain a shock factor, have to come up with interesting body parts to get done..

When we were at the Big Day Out a few weeks back, I saw BY FAR the worst piercing ever. After hearing the band Jet perform,  the entire crowd broke up and moved this way and that, looking for new music to enjoy. It’s always uncomfortable being in a huge packed crowd, UNTIL you are  pushed to that next stage of discomfort….A HUGE MOLE…. ON THEIR BACK…..PIERCED.

I repeat.

Back.Mole. Pierced.

!!

I don’t know what else could have been worse.  Moles are hideous. Why draw that extra attention to it?  Oh god…..  at the same time basically, Kyle & I pointed and gasped,

“Oh My God. WHY???? Why oh why oh why???”

So at the end of the day, I say yes to : pierced ears & sometimes the nose. Otherwise, over it! Lets think of a new way to express ourselves.