OH NO! A teenager now has a tiny piece of sterile, surgical metal placed through her cartilage, for decorative purposes! THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE! Stop the presses! Call Anderson Cooper! WRITE EVERYTHING IN 128-POINT FONT!
Seriously, I understand that a lot of teens like Miley Cyrus, and parents probably don't want their kids clamoring for a piercing, but as long as she's taking good care of it, this is not a big deal.
@Lana Leigh loves Meryl Streep: I'm almost thirty, have had it since I was thirteen and am a lawyer at a Big Law firm. I could take it out if I wanted to, but I love it, and it's easier to just be competent and have people get over it.
You know, I was looking forward to the Joy Behar show til now.
Also, I would really love it if Kate Middleton was actually not interested in marriage. Not every woman wants to get married. Also, though Prince William is attractive now, she has to have seen Chuck. A lifetime commitment might be a bit.... yeah.
@Bunsen Honeydew: Okay, right after I hit send, I realized I body snarked Prince Charles. I apologize everyone, that was a douche thing to say. Sticking up for poor Kate does not merit slamming someone else's appearance. I feel really bad now.
I like how when she does something that may or may not be edgy, Miley makes a big deal about it and talks it up. It's like she wants someone to disapprove ... "I hope no one is upset with me" in my mind translates to "Please strangers, be upset, cause controversy, I want attention and edginess and I don't feel like don't anything that out of the ordinary to obtain it."
I am too squeamish to ever wear a nose stud. It just strikes me as being very unhygienic to make an additional hole in your nose. Doesn't mucus come through?
@swimmingly: I love mine, but they ARE a pain in the ass. I knocked mine out once while I was sleeping and by the time I woke up and realized it was out, it had already started growing back. It hurt like hell (and bled) when I put it back in.
@swimmingly: Is it like that with tiny cartilage piercings? Because the stud in my upper ear hurts like a BITCH when I sleep on it, but my industrial is fine. (Maybe it's cause I did the tiny one myself?)
@Pennyfeather: I took mine out for work (I'd gotten a clear spacer, but I forgot to put it in) and it nearly closed within three hours. I got the spacer back in, but I fear I will have to cut the spacer and repierce when I quit my job at the end of the summer.
Sadness. You'd think a sports bar would be chill about nose piercings, as server uniforms are jeans and a tshirt, and no one else in the place wears uniforms at all. But no.
@SpasticFurchild: I did a helix cartilage piercing myself in my bathroom a few years ago (In retrospect, I understand there are a great many risks involved, and it's something you sort of do at your own peril.)
I've had lousy experiences with studs, because my ear likes to swell up, and the backing of the stud creates a spot for gunk and crud and nasties to accumulate. I had much better results when I got a sterling silver hoop--one of the ones that snaps or screws shut with a captive bead. This gives the newly pierced tissue room to expand along the curvature of the hoop. It's a little easier for me to sleep on - if I wear studs, I have a tendency to mash the backing into my ear, which is uncomfortable even for the piercings I've had for many years!
New piercings are always really difficult to sleep on, too. It actually took a year or two for my newest helix piercing to stop acting up. I always had to carry around a little baggie of sea salt and a tiny Dixie cup so I could make a warm-water sea-salt soak and dunk the damn top of my ear in it so it would stop freaking out.
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Seriously, I understand that a lot of teens like Miley Cyrus, and parents probably don't want their kids clamoring for a piercing, but as long as she's taking good care of it, this is not a big deal.
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It's not like she tattooed barbed wire across her forehead or anything.
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Also, I would really love it if Kate Middleton was actually not interested in marriage. Not every woman wants to get married. Also, though Prince William is attractive now, she has to have seen Chuck. A lifetime commitment might be a bit.... yeah.
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Oh, I bet she does, things that will join "I can see Russia from here" as statements she'll never live down. I wouldn't do it, Sarah.
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Although, as a very wise young woman once said: "Dee - when your allergies act up, take out your nose ring."
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I now have had my tongue pierced for 10 years though, and I love it and hardly ever notice it's there.
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Sadness. You'd think a sports bar would be chill about nose piercings, as server uniforms are jeans and a tshirt, and no one else in the place wears uniforms at all. But no.
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I've had lousy experiences with studs, because my ear likes to swell up, and the backing of the stud creates a spot for gunk and crud and nasties to accumulate. I had much better results when I got a sterling silver hoop--one of the ones that snaps or screws shut with a captive bead. This gives the newly pierced tissue room to expand along the curvature of the hoop. It's a little easier for me to sleep on - if I wear studs, I have a tendency to mash the backing into my ear, which is uncomfortable even for the piercings I've had for many years!
New piercings are always really difficult to sleep on, too. It actually took a year or two for my newest helix piercing to stop acting up. I always had to carry around a little baggie of sea salt and a tiny Dixie cup so I could make a warm-water sea-salt soak and dunk the damn top of my ear in it so it would stop freaking out.
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Although I am going nowhere near twitter. I don't even want to know how it works.
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What, is she, like, on the battlefield or something?
And let me guess - Nia Vardolos will actually LOVE Valentine's Day by the end of the movie. Wild stab.
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