One of my tats is on my leg. I had to shave that area before getting the tattoo two months ago and since then no hair has regrown where the tat is at. I shaved extra not knowing just how much room the tat would take up and the areas without a tat have grown back. I’ve seen people with scalp tatoos grow hair over them so I know it doesn’t completely suppress hair growth but I’m thinking it does limit regrowth.
So asking a question makes one “intellectually old”? OK.
I was curious because one young woman, when not wearing the jewelry, at least had a fairly even hole, but the other, who had the bigger jewelry, it looked as if the coyote outside our building had bitten a chunk out of her ear.
Yeah, it’s not new. I saw it starting in my college years in the early 90s. Was even friends with some folks who had them. I don’t like the permanence of them (at least with a tattoo, you can hide it during work hours depending on location on your body), but hey, who am I to judge.
Cultural diffusion which is something that should be welcomed in the UNITED STATES. We are supposed to be a melting pot of different cultures where we unite and ACCEPT other cultures to form our own culture which is a mish mash of all the other cultures. But in butthurt 2018 people get offended as cultures diffuse into each other and they then like you pout because of it. You want cultural isolation which is why people get offended when instead you should embrace the acceptance that comes with diffusion.
Technically Native Sun is right. This practice has numerous cultural origins.
Bordowung from other cultures is pretty cool, IMO, if it’s something you like & isn’t permanent if you change your mind.
Trying a clothing style with other origin, or different kind of food. Looks like this one, though, either can’t be reversed or is costly to repair if possible.
Different cultures do things that to them their entire culture sees it as a perfectly sane thing to do.
There are indigenous tribes on other continents that stretch their lips, some that elongate their necks, and so on.
Hell we here in America have our own little disfiguring we like to do to our baby males to the tune of an average of 80%. Now to be sure this is not a fashion trend or an attention seeking thing. But it is a culturally acceptable thing that has long been embraced.