Comments on: Plastic surgery should fix that

By: earwicga

earwicga — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:57:16 +0000

I so wanted my mum to be like that – she ignored me bleaching and perming my hair and also piercing my nose. I have found out since that she found it seriously difficult to hold back the words she wanted to say

By: Cath Elliott

Cath Elliott — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:18:43 +0000

No, it happened at my school too earwicga. And I can remember my brother and his friend piercing each other’s ears in our kitchen one day while my parents were both out at work. They did the ice cube thing too.

T’was actually quite entertaining ‘cos my dad had done the whole “No son of mine is going to have pierced ears!” speech virtually on a loop since my brother hit his teens, so we all waited with baited breath to see how he’d react.

In the event he didn’t even notice P’s ear for about a month, by which point, when he threatened to explode with rage, everyone turned to him and said “It can’t be that bloody bad if you’ve only just seen it!”

That shut him up

Well, that time anyway…..

By: earwicga

earwicga — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:55:42 +0000

sianuska – I’m really sorry you had to go through that.

polly and maggie – glad you said that, I thought after posting it that it that I rather looked like I was schooled in a borstal!

By: maggie

maggie — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:29:12 +0000

I pierced my ears (well numbed with ice cubes) with a (home sterilised) needle and never had a problem with them. That was, deep breath, 34 years ago and I still wear earrings through the holes I pierced!

By: sianushka

sianushka — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:09:35 +0000

i have a lot of scars from when i was a teenager similar to the teen mentioned in cath’s post, although my mum didn’t find out in order to order bio oil for me! but when i was 18 and had pretty much stopped self harming (although i did relapse a bit a few years later) i got my tattoo as i wanted to make a scar on my body that was personal to me, and symbolised coming out of a dark period of my life and the other forms of scarring that went with it.
most of my scars are faded now but i have never not wanted them as they are part of me and my life, and although i wouldn’t want to repeat those years or the feelings that brought on the scars, that period was part of me and my life and my experience. i think this is why i love my tattoo so much – it was a moment of taking control of my body and making a statement with it. (even though it is very small and on my hip!)
but that’s only my take on scars, i totally understand why people don’t want to keep them and do want them gone. it’s all a matter of choice!

By: polly

polly — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:23:33 +0000

Ah yes, the home made schoolgirl tattoo. Also piercing your ears with a needle. (No I never did either, I am very scared of pain).

By: earwicga

earwicga — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:11:49 +0000

Not a thigh or a knife, but we all carved our names into our skin with compasses when at school – lotsa people also put ink into the cuts to make it more permanent.

By: Cath Elliott

Cath Elliott — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:27:56 +0000

And that’s probably one of the most inappropriate uses of smileys I’ve ever seen!

My daughter’s been self-harming . But we got her some lotion to make sure the scars don’t stick around too long, and it worked a treat

By: Cath Elliott

Cath Elliott — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:24:30 +0000

Did you read the comments under the scar article? This one in particular jumped out at me:

My daughter scarred her thigh by carving her name in it with a knife. but she regretted it afterwards and put Bio-Oil on it (from Boots and other chemists) and it did fade away.

Erm, well that’s okay then. I think. But I suspect it might take a bit more than a drop of Bio-Oil to sort out why your daughter’s carving into her thigh with a knife in the first place…….

By: earwicga

earwicga — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:42:23 +0000

Lol Polly! Just need a decorated war hero being carried through the floods and voila – new BNP poster!