What is that held in by? Hair?
By Shannon • Sep 20th, 2006 • Category: ModBlogQuite a while ago (over two years ago actually), Kivaka sent me these shots of people who came into his shop with rejecting piercings, at least one of them completely unaware that there was even a problem!
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haha what’s holding that on, a hair?
how can you NOT notice something amiss?
Did they think that was just part of the healing process?
Ew, look at that navel piercing… how could they not notice something was horribly wrong?
I agree with owned… how could you NOT know something was wrong when there’s barely anything holding your jewelry there? DUH?!
whoa… Suddenly the two little dots that are on my eyebrow don’t bother me anymore. I took it out the day I noticed that it wanted to reject. I’m happy I did because the piercings in the pictures are going to leave nasty lines, not just two small dots
How could they not notice are they blind?! Not to mention the fact that rejecting hurts. Yuck
holly shit….why sont people notice that there piercing is going bad…and why the fuck do you still leave it on when its only beeing held by a tintsy bit of skin! god!
its just stupid….maybe they placed bets with there buddies or something…. :/
For letting it reject that far, I say the jewelry should have been removed by just pulling it out through the invisible pieces of skin that are holding it in.
People don’t notice generally because of two different reasons (or more, but these are the two main ones I’ve noticed). One: denial, the urge of wanting the piercing there is stronger than the warning bell that something is wrong. Or two: many people just don’t know their bodies, or how to listen to if something is wrong. Generally the latter leads me to believe that these are the people who, for instance, wouldn’t go to a doctor until after an infection has spread beyond control or until wisdom teeth has started to rot out of their skull.
he did say only one didn’t realize that there was a problem. but i still wonder which one cause they both look horrible.
The hair on that eyebrow squicks me.
But that butterfly jewelry is cute :)
The human body does an amazing job as foreign objects remoover!
its almost out. amazing mechanizm.
I’ve had people come into my shop that wanted jewelry changed because “this piece is bothering me” and their piercing looked like these…and you can’t tell some of them it’s rejecting, because they won’t believe you. I had one girl with an eyebrow like the one shown ask me to take it out without tearing her skin open and all I could think was, “What skin?”
I couldn’t imagine even trying to unscrew the end on that eyebrow without accidently just ripping it out o_O
Does that count as an Industrial Eyebrow?
I have to admit though, my nose piercing migrated a little and it took me a while to notice. Nothing this bad though.
My bellybutton migrated slightly, but jesus, nothing like that. i should think that the jewelry had something to do with it. it doesnt look like particularly good jewelry in the second one.
how the hell do you not realize that a piercing that is only hanging on by a thread of skin or hair(?) is a big fucking problem?!
i just what to know, if you had a rejection from a piercing before what are the chances of happening again?
the butterfly is cute, but it looks pretty cheap.
ye gods, those made me shudder… it reminds me of my friend who got her nipples pierced @ a terribly thin gauge & one day asked me (very innocently & offhandedly) if i knew what it meant when you could “see the metal through the skin” on a piercing =(
My eyebrow piercing didn’t get -that- bad, but it wasn’t held on by much when I finally gave up hope and took it out.
I used to have that exact naval jewelry…it’s cheap, and it gave me nothing but trouble, not least of all because whenever I sat down the butterfly pressed against my stomach, pushing the bar forward, and an already unstable piercing starting to reject at a much faster rate. What can I say, it was my first ‘real’ piercing, I was ignorant…but it never looked like that!
How could these people not see something wrong, and let it get this far? Horrors!!!
Arrr my eyebrow did exactly tht. I really didn’t wanna take it out but it just popped out in my hand. My belly looks like it might be growing out, or just healing. :(