BODY PIERCING JEWELRY – BOON OR BANE?

Anything can become fashion if it is new and novel, and followed by people. That is the order of the day today when body piercing jewelry has become a mania and a movement of fashion from a cranky idea. Fashion always has a late pick-up and so has the weird idea of piercing your body at odd locations and thereby causing yourself pain and infection for the simple point that it is different and hence has to be trendy.

One would be surprised at kids lining up at the spas or beauty salons which offer special treatments which lessen the after pain and also to doctors who offer special discounts to people who take these treatments. Some places where one can see kids with small rings or curves or sharp objects being pierced are eye brows (thankfully the eyes are being left out for now. Not sure when that shall become a trend again), nose edges (not the usual place where piercing is done), all edges of the ears, lips, chin, neck, forehead ( the full portion), the belly button, thighs and even the knees! Oh my god! I am not able to imagine the pain that these crazy kids have to undergo for the sake of fashion. How do their parents allow such acts?

Well the question itself is funny as no kid even informs his/her parents of his/her decision to get a body piercing jewelry. They simply go out with their friends, get their piercing done and then when it comes to pain, suffering and doctor appointments, they take their parents along and make them feel embarrassed in front of the doctors who ask thousand questions if they are conservative. Again if they are those fashion crook doctors, they are more than happy to treat them.

There are banners in front of spas and beauty clinics that they offer the safest form of body piercing jewelry and that their material doesn’t hurt the body at all. This is simply not believable as the danger is not much in the material but the part of the body that is actually getting pierced! Surgical steel is the material that is recommended in Europe where there are even legal regulations outlined for selling body piercing jewelry.

Anyway, the decision has to be taken on an individual basis whether the pain and effort are worth it and the result would be positive or not.