THE BAD IMPACTS OF MODERN BODY PIERCING

Many people go to pierce their body parts these days. They pierce their ears, nose, and even some other parts that I am not even brave enough to mention. They have many different purposes to get their not-in-proper-place-piercings done. Some only follows the trend and others argue that they can explore the beauty of their bodies through this kind of piercing. They say that this is art. Honestly, I don’t think so. Because actually, piercing (except ear piercing) brings bad impacts for ourselves instead of showing beauty.

First, body piercing may leave unhealed ulcer if the process of piercing is not hygienic. Our body is very fragile. If we pierce our body on improper place, means that we force our body to have something that it should not. Moreover, piercing is identical with injury. Once you do not treat it well, your body will struggle. The wound will get infection and it will become worse and worse. Imagine if for example we have piercing on our cheek and then the wound become ulcer. Then we will lose our pure face! That’s terrible.

Second, if the needle used to pierce is not sterile or has been used to puncture other people, we may be affected by HIV/AIDS. As we know, this disease cannot be healed perfectly. We can die suffering from this disease because our immune system is weak. Furthermore, we may not socially be accepted if people know we get this disease. Actually, not only in extreme piercing, this problem can be happened also to people who do common piercing. A small pleasure can bring a huge disaster.

Third, some of piercing may be dangerous for our nerves. I have heard that eyebrow piercing is risky. Once there was a person taking the ring off from his eyebrow. He found something around the eye that he thought as a thread. He pulled it and then he became blind. Later, the doctor said that he broke the optical nerve around the eyebrow. If for instance we pierce our face and it causes us not being able to move our face muscle. It is so lucky that we will not be deaf if we pierce our ears.

Fourth, some piercings may disturb our daily life. If we have our tongue pierced, it is not easy to eat because it hurts when something stuck on the ring. We can even swallow the ring coincidentally. I say that because my friend did it three times. For extreme piercing on the lips, it is also hard to eat. We cannot chew food easily because it is difficult to close our mouth. Some of the extreme nose piercings may also cause breathing disturbance because the air stream in and out through the nose be blocked by the huge rings or sticks.

Last but not least, the “hole” remains from piercing is absolutely far from beauty. It even looks terrible. One may make our ear as long as Buddha Julai, but with a large hole on the lobe. For extreme lip piercing where people put something as big and round as needles box, we will find a hanging lip on the chin. The big plug on nostrils may cause us having four holes on the nose. For short, all of these holes do not reflect aesthetic value at all.

In conclusion, piercing does hurt. How can people hurt themselves only for a trend? It leaves wound, it may contaminate our body with disease and illness, it disturbs our daily activities, and the hole remaining not good. But it is only the matter of choice. You just only need to think about the consequences before practicing this kind of “art”.