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Application


The Application
Basics
1. Name: Marcy Y.
2. Age: 15. ( 16 In August.) I know I'm young. But I've planned out current mods/future mods long before I got them. My mom has no problem signing off on them, so I consider myself old enough to get them, if I know the risks/outcomes and have the smarts to get a decent artist.
3. Gender: Female.
4. Location: NY
5. Who invited you to join, if anyone: No one, I found the community searching for bodymod communities.

Mods - all of these come with the "why or why not" attached to them. Please explain why you decided to get each mods or why you've chosen not to have them. Leaving something blank isn't an option!

6. Tattoos? I currently have one tattoo. A roll of parchment with a quill/ink pot next to it. It's more personal than anything, because I'm a writer and that's what I plan to do with my life.

7. Piercings? My upper catrilage is peirced, along with my two bottom lobes. I plan on more. In the future I would like to get an industrial peircing, and I'm thinking on my eyebrow, , lip, and perhaps a vertical labret.

8. Brandings? None.

9. Scarification? I have many scars from a cutting addiction that can still be a problem. I don't show them, because I'm not too proud of them.

10. What is your biggest health risk surrounding your mods? None. The only problem I had getting my tattoo was keeping my breathing regulated so I wouldn't pass out during the procedure.

11. Which mod do you find most visually pleasing? Be specific - not just "piercings" but "vertical labret." I find vertical labrets, eyebrow peircings, and lip peircings to be the most pleasing.

12. What mods do you find the least visually pleasing? Same crtieria as above! I don't mind them, but I have a dislike for gauges in a person's ears. I don't mind the small ones, but the larger ones make me shudder a little. I don't like bridge peircings much.

13. Why do you find mods attractive as a whole? I'm in love with making your body personalized and your own. That's why my tattoo is important to me. I'll go on a limb of being laughed at by saying I think they're hot. Modifying my body is important to me because whether I have it now or plan to get it in the future, they'll all be important to me and have a meaning.

14. How do you respond to: "Does that hurt?" Plenty of people asked me if my tattoo hurt after I got it done. I told them the truth. For me, who has a low pain tolerance, it hurt like a bitch most of the time. I told them the shading tickled. It almost put me to sleep, actually.

15. Is your family mod friendly? Not most of them. My sister had her tongue peirced and has a tatto, a big one along the small of her back. My mother has a distate for peircings but a love of tattoos ( though she has none herself.) which I don't understand. She'll allow me to get tattoos but not any more peircings until I'm 18, even though the peircings are less permanant. My father has a strong dislike for them, and doesn't even know I have one. My aunt called me an idiot when I got my cartilage peirced. My family can be quite closeminded at times. My sister in law has 5 tats, though. A cousin of mine once tried to rub my tattoo away, because she was convinced that it was a fake.

16. Friends? Most of my friends are really into body modification. A friend of mine has his lip peirced, and a few of my other friends have their tongues done. My friend Natty her her eyebrow done. When I got my tattoo, there were a few disgusted look from the few bible-thumping kids in my school. My best friend plans on tattoos and a tongue peircing, and we're hoping on a road trip to NYC next year. She'll be 18, and I'll be able to get something peirced without visual parental consent, so I'm planning on my indutrial then, and she's going to get her tats/peircings then.

17. Workplace? I guess my workplace would be school, yes? Well, a recent incident occured when my English Lit class had a substitute in for our normal ( very accepting, btw) teacher. A few friends and I were talking about the mods we have, and our future plans for mods, and she glared at me when I said I had a tattoo. Then she called me a lowlife. Other than that, all the people ( kids, teachers, staff) that have seen my tattoo have liked it.

Pictures

I only have one good picture of my tattoo.



As I said, it's a scroll of parchment, the inkpot, and a feather quill. I hope to get it touched up this summer. I love the shading the woman did on the scroll, because it makes it look like an old, weathered document. If you can't tell, the tat is located on my left shoulder. For my 16th birthday, I'm hoping that I can get my second tattoo. My sister in law said she would take me to her tattoo shop. My design goes as follows: A celtic symbol of trinity, with the phrase " through our bleeding, we are one." written in Gaelic, through out the symbol. The symbol represents my family's heritage, as my great grandmother came her on a boat from Ireland. The symbol also represents trinity ( if you've ever watched the show charmed, it's the symbol on the " book of shadows." though, this symbol and the desgin they used for the show are somewhat different.) which is important to me because my mother, my sister and I are all very close. We can hate each other, but we're all very close. I also find it important because my two best friends and I are closer to each other than I am some of my family. The phrase is from a song by a band called AFI ( A Fire Inside). I take the saying as a family thing. Through bleeding and hard times, death and desertion, my family has always stuck together and pulled one another through tough shit. I'd like to get it on the inside of my left or right wrist. I haven't decided which yet.

Just Out Of Curiosity - these won't affect your application and won't be judged.
Are you on IAM?..No.( Not too sure what it is, either. o.O )
Where do you get your mods done? A specific artist and location is fun.--I got my first/only tat done at a shop that was open in my town for a while. The shop has since closed up. What a bummer.=/