Saturday, December 1, 2007

Lethal Beauty

Body piercing, has been practiced since olden times by different cultures and the purposes of body piercing long ago were commonly related to spiritual as well as cultural. But nowadays, piercing other parts of body beside ear like navel, tongue, lip, and nose have become mainly for decorative reasons and for self-expression and you will find almost everyone today, young and old, girls and boys alike possess ear piercing.

Standing at the crossway you can notice the passersby racing down the street in either brown or black leather footwear, similar-looking cell phones on their ear or more or less similar business suits pacing fast to reach their destiny on time. You will find that almost everyone pacing down the street walk, dress, act, and look the same. However, you will also find people who refuse to follow the others in the same way instead they create their own world where everything is different. They belonged to emo groups following different lifestyle.

Regarding fashion emo people can go for anything that differentiate them from other normal people. For instance the earring-like pieces that is actually worn on ear has been given a new direction, which has ultimately given, arise to body piercing. Body piercing has now become a form of body art, done through deliberately piercing a particular part of the body and inserting a particular piece of body jewelry and it is done for ornamental purpose. There has been a paradigm shift in the purpose of body piercing from spiritual as well as cultural reason to ornamental purpose. The simplest and widely used method is the standard needle method but there are also other methods that are executed for the same purpose and they are scalpelling, piercing guns, dermal punching, and indwelling cannula method are some of the common and unique in terms of the tools and techniques used.

Though the present purpose of body piercing is to beautify oneself but there involves several risk and few of which are serious. Such beauty obtained by involving risk can be termed as lethal beauty. One can conceivably acquire bacterial infection from contaminated needles and piercing tools and may experience dental damage, excessive bleeding, nerve damage, and allergic reactions and worst of all, one could contract HIV if the piercing tools used were not properly sanitized. Therefore in order to possess such lethal beauty you need to avail of body piercing services only from the most reputable body piercer to ensure a trouble-free body piercing experience.

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