Comments on: Nose Rings And Tattoos

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:28:34 +0000

I am 46 years old & I wear a teeny diamond stud in my right nostril. I work in an art studio, so this is ok at work. I feel like it’s something I’ve always wanted to do, & now I am old enough to finally do it. Some people like it & some give me a hard time, but I like it & I just gotta be ME & do what makes me happy. It’s a small thing, really.

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:07:07 +0000

I am 43 years old and just got my nose pierced. Didn’t think it was an age thing lol. I always wanted it done and just never did it until now. I LOVE it and quite frankly, I don’t care what anyone says. Everyone has an opinion. Not everyone can be right!

By: Christine Scaman

Christine Scaman — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:29:52 +0000

Salida,

Well, now, how well said is that?? However we need to process and mark and recognize our moving forward, that is what we must do. It’s our right brain moving forward and taking over for a much-needed change. It is us communicating our inner emotion instead of our daily schedules and logic-driven lives.

Life changes us. We choose new husbands, new careers. Who knows what they sign up for when they embark on these ventures? Nobody. Sometimes we change with them, sometimes without them.

I recommend to you a most fascinating book. It’s Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s My Stroke Of Insight. This woman is a brain scientist at Harvard who suffers a stroke at 37. The hemorrhage is in her left hemisphere. She recounts the precise shutting down of her left side functions. Because of her deep understanding of brain regions and their roles, she can be quite precise about what is happening in her head. But most fascinating, as the left side is being bathed in blood (blood is toxic to nerve cells), the right side is no longer being inhibited. She is finding joy, peace, oneness with the Universe at the exact time of the stroke. As she tells of her 8-year recovery, she works very hard at finding a way to NOT lose all she learned about her capacity for happiness and deep inner peace, of sharing and belonging, and love for others. All those things live in us all along, but the left side of our brain suppresses them as it keeps us communicating with the external world, instead of just living in a long joyous meditation. It is FASCINATING.

By: Salida

Salida — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:28:03 +0000

I adore what Christopher Hopkins left; not having any tats or holes is being different!
And that’s how I feel about it. I am…wayyyyy over 40 but have several friends my own age still sporting tats and fresh ones at that. I look down at my own skin’s lack of elasticity and think about gravity pulling any artwork into a freakish design understood only by myself and a long term lover. I do remember Pop’s shame the first time the grandkids saw the Betty Grable hula dancer on his arm and they weren’t impressed with the warship across his chest either. I wonder about the dragons and asian symbols in the youth of today’s aging skin and how it’ll not impress the youth later.
I do, however, applaud everyone for supporting another career choice for people. It’s going to keep some one off the streets somewhere. That’s a good thing.
My abhorrence to poking permanent holes in my body come from the usual ear piercing and the damn hygeine I have to participate in for that small orifice let alone more of them! Egads that would take longer to get ready to leave the house. Unless I’m living where I’m working…at the parlor.
But, a big but, I was just observing a Indian female performing a beautiful dance. She is wearing a diamond in her nose. It’s very attractive…on her!
My friend, a high school secretary, had hers done and it seemingly changed her life. She realized her dead-end marriage and moved forward in a new and very positive manner. All because she got her nose pierced, I think not. But because she invited a courageous form of change into her spirit and the nose stud exemplifies her committment to her own changing.
I have another gal-friend who delivered her own grandchild and the baby was tiny and fought for his little life. She felt the presence of divinity saying to her to mark this event. She darted out of the hospital and bought the tiniest mark for the price of any size that very day.
Who could I ever be to say it’s unattractive to another? I probably have some unattractive qualities myself unknown to me, of course. But using art to herald to the world who I am now is not something I need. But some one else just might. And I am happy for them when they find what works for them. Watching spirits soar is a past time I enjoy.

By: Duffy Exon

Duffy Exon — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:02:54 +0000

While I expect that a woman our age in a tie-dyed tee shirt and torn jeans with Janis Joplin hair would be saying one thing with a nose piercing, in the last couple years, I started seeing some fairly sophisticated and professional women in El A with little diamond studs in their nostrils. I’m not sure what they’re trying to convey, but if it is a trend, I’m for it! One of our “outside counsel” firms sent a fabulously attractive woman with exquisite gray hair, who had a little diamond twinkling in her nostril… it was HAWT!

By: Christopher Hopkins

Christopher Hopkins — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:08:14 +0000

I find it very rebellious to not show tattoos or piercings other than ears in our company.

I’ve always thought it very “against the norm” to look more classic, elegant and sophisticated in a salon environment.

So to me, NOT having tattoos or facial piercing makes us uniquely “different.”

By: Christine Scaman

Christine Scaman — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:10:08 +0000

Great comment, Angela.

What you have said is the bottom line, no question. Nobody gets to dictate “taste, beauty, elegance” , since not one of them can be right or wrong – and the great thing about the society we live in is that it opens our minds to other interpretations of those words . Human beings are so multilayered that you could never know one by just looking at the surface.

I like your last sentence best. We all could work everyday on getting past what things look like. This would be a better place.

Sincere thanks for the honest comment.

By: Angelaw.

Angelaw. — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:20:30 +0000

I think it is irresponsible to judge a person based on his/her exterior. Taste, beauty, and elegance does not exist anywhere but in the mind. I challenge the people reading this to think outside the box and realize how stupid it is to even care what message tattoo’s and piercings convey to others. We must live life whichever way makes us feel incredible at the end of the day. If that means a forty year old married mother of four wants a nose ring then it is her prerogative. Seriously, we have much more important things to worry about.

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:31:06 +0000

“What do I think about a nose ring? It looks strange, no matter how old you are. It never ever looks refined, elegant, or classy. In a 20 year old, it just conveys subversiveness, but not beauty.”
I disagree, I kinda like the diamond nose stud, I think it looks “uniquely elegant”
Do I have one? Nope, wish I had the nerve, but it’s just not me. Piercing the ears are as far as I’ve ever gone.
I did throw caution to the wind in Mexico once and got a henna tattoo on my lower back, but it faded by the time I got back to reality.
I do find it a bit disappointing that a 40+ women is still sending messages to her parents…but whatever works for her.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:54:33 +0000

Well done and perfectly said . . . perhaps because (once again) you’ve accurately conveyed exactly my feelings. Just because I wouldn’t do it, doesn’t mean that it’s a bad thing.

Susan