Re: nostril piercing

Derek Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> And herein lies the wonderful thing about piercing...Only the person
> wearing the piercing/jewelry has to like what it looks like.

Well, yeah.  I, however, am entitled to my own aesthetic judgement.

I've also found that some piercers have a stock style of jewellery they'll
do particular piercings in.  When I went in to have the nose poked, it was
assumed that I would want a skinny stud; I had to ask to get a slightly less
skinny ring.  If I hadn't read up and didn't know it was appropriate to
ask...

> Also,
> many people with nostril piercings are trying to get away with
> wearing them at work. Many people can get away with this particular
> piercing in a more professional setting, as long as the piercing
> isn't too over-stated.

I'm lucky in that I work for a very liberal employer: the UK government.
Dress code says no denims, sportswear or beachwear, basically, and I've not
had any negative reactions to having metal or ink on show.  Nor have my
pierced and tattooed colleagues -- except on one occasion.  A lady in my
office had her eyebrow pierced with a ring.  Anyway, it wasn't healing well
and was manky and red and swollen, and one of the doctors who was in the
building to sit on a tribunal had a good rant at her, not because she was
pierced but because she had a nasty infection sitting an inch away from her
eye and hadn't seen anyone about it.  He wrote her a private prescription
for antibiotics when she told him she wouldn't take it out!