"It’s Not a Fashion Statement, It’s a Deathwish..." Part 2 – Are Piercings Losing Their Originality?

Back in the days of punk and “rebellion” being pierced was something scary and you only really got pierced if you were a rocker, or of that sort of persuasion.





However, it now seems like the world and their wives - even the cat – are getting piercings and it’s no longer such an act of rebellion, more a case of fashion.






This seems most noticeable when it comes to lip piercings. Two years ago, when I got my lip pierced for the first time – amidst immense nervousness, and a bit of rebellion, since I hadn’t told my mum – I knew very few people with piercings.

But now, that’s a different story, all you need to do is look around, and you can lose count of the body art you see, even on the local undesirables coming out of the job centre, and your local neds.




Body art as a form of individuality, as it once was, seems to be dead…