#body mod things

[boinails]

Facial piercings not allowed in the webbed site nomore??? Help lmao

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lieutenant-unicorn said: i think the not-solid ones are called tunnels. there are others called eyelets. I don’t have stretched anything-s though so i don’t know what everything is exactly

TUNNELS.

Seriously a vocab word I've been scraping for forever.

Thank you for your wisdom.  Even if it is limited, def helpful.

Clearly I need to have a talk with Tom.  But this helps me to feel like I'll sound slightly less stupid.

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lieutenant-unicorn said: gauge is the measurement :)

Right right. So gauging isn't an act, stretching is.

The size is the gauge.

Am I right?

Are all types of jewelry called plugs, or is that just for the solid ones?

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etyma said: 1. I fucking hate prescriptivism, but… “stretch” not “gauge”. 2. There are actually silicone plugs one can use with a thin front you can actually stick thin-gauge jewellery through (if you stretch to at least a 10 or 8). You can even get them in flesh tones.

I've actually always been a bit confused on the terminology and people are always saying how everyone gets it wrong but no one has quite explained what is right so I'm just like ahgodhgkdshfgl.

I believe someone told me one of the issues is people think gauges are a thing and it's more an act or something?? IDK

If you feel motivated to explain more about this shit, I definitely welcome it.

[in-soviet-russia-appa-rides-you]

So my only beef with streching is that I feel like if I did it I'd want it to be the first/primary lobe hole in my ears. But I also like dangley earrings... so conflict.

I do have the one pair of earrings that would hang nicely in such a hole, but are pretty long.  And I want to be able to wear all my dangles in my first hole!

But today I had a thought.

What if I got a third hole on both ears, stretched those, but still kept it relatively small.  Then I could hang those earrings higher up and they'd be less likely to hit my collar necklaces when I wear them.

And then I'm like, "Wait, so my idea is to stretch a third hold just for this one pair of earrings.  This seems silly."

But still... something I would do.

[in-soviet-russia-appa-rides-you]

I put my stud back in for work, and I flipped up my septum ring and I'm just like...

...my face is so plain.

More... metal...