Piercing Ideas For a Masculine Look
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Even since the dawn of time, piercing has been practiced in many cultures . Nose, ear, lip, tongue and genital piercings have a long tradition with Karen people, Indian people, African tribes, Australian aborigines. In the west, it wasn’t popular until the 50’s – 60’s, but now it’s an industry.
In the next article I will show you ideas of piercings to get a masculine look…
But first, let’s see what you should avoid. If your sole purpose is to wind up in the Guiness World Record Book, you can try something like this:
Oh My God.
Ok, enough joking around… Let’s analyze some of the most common piercings
Facial piercings
Anti-eyebrow Piercing
This is a surface type piercing. It goes in your cheek, more precisely over your cheekbone, making an oblique angle with the eye, below the eye orbit (in technical terms, the jewelry is angled with the bottom bead, but it can also be the other way).
In most cases, custom bent surface bars are used, as you can see below
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Some people prefer curved barbells (they’re called so because they resemble your average barbell from the gym)
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The distinct shape has earned them the name of tears, or teardrop piercings
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Bridge Piercing
The bridge piercing passes horizontally through the skin at the top of your nose bridge. Usually, a straight, curved or staple barbells are used, unless it’s being done shallower to allow the wearing of a smaller ring.
There should be a warning here. One should choose an experienced piercer. The lack of loose skin on the pierce spot could mean scarring, migration and a longer time of healing. For those who don’t know, migration is the process in which the body rejects a foreign object inserted into it. When we get a piercing, our body will start pushing it out.
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If done correctly, as in the above picture, it will give you an aggressive look.
Eyebrow Piercing
Those pierces are generally perpendicular on the eyebrow’s ridge. Jewelry is usually 18ga to 12ga, rings or curved barbells.
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Surface piercings
Knuckle piercing
This is for all the bad asses out there. It consists of three (or even more) slightly curved barbells (3/4 inches to 1 inch) in between the knuckles. The biggest problem in healing is that the jewelry has a tendency to get caught in pockets.
Prayer Piercing
Piercing through the outer rim of the hand.
The prayer piercing, aptly named in accordance to its placement, is a surface piercing done through the outer edge of the hand. When both hands come together, we have the image of a preacher.
The problem with this piercing is the healing-the place it susceptible to infection.
Sternum piercing
This piercing is done by punching it on one side and taking it out on another side of the same flat part of the skin. In this case , on the skin which covers the sternum, because it’s a flat area of the body, with no curves.
In order to decrease the chance of rejection, flexible jewelry is being used, the downside being the fact that it’s less reliable than the surface bar.
The latter ones are one of perhaps the best and only proper jewelry for healing surface piercings because its perpendicular design was based on optimizing the body’s healing process.
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And now, I’ve saved it last, the most common, easy to heal, piercing out there :
The tongue piercing
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This piercing is done vertically, through the first half of the tongue. The first thing that comes to mind, is that it’s useful for oral sex. It even has spun the debate, on the placement. Near the tip of the tongue for men giving oral sex to women, and farther back for women giving men oral sex.
As for jewelry, in most cases 14ga or 10ga will do just fine, straight barbell. Some would prefer a smartie bead, like in the image below.
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As for the caution part, only 2 reasons can prevent you from getting one of those:the large number of veins in the tongue and the frenulum below the tongue. The latter one can be hurt badly by the pierce, causing pain and discomfort.
Ok, these being said, you should do the usual, go out there and get what best suits you and your personality. First of all you should be open minded, and realize that this is a form of art, not a torture. You will manage to convey that you don’t care about what others think about you.
Take care, and I wish you good luck in your search for the right piercing.
I don’t have any stomach for body piercing aside from ear. I don’t really like the idea of piercing your body because for me its like violating your body as it is. That’s my opinion huh. As they say to each his own openion.