Or other permanent body things.
All my tattoos, they are cheap and one contains my kid’s deadname so I keep it covered is much as possible.
I’ve done so much self harm for over 12 years leaving so many scars. Got into skincare years ago which faded many of the old scars, but family finds it so funny that something below them is doing something out of its league instead of just knowing its place as scum below society so I’ve relapsed again with new scars from punching walls.
Have you considered cutting contact? I have a very toxic parent that I had to do that with and it did wonders for my mental health afterward. People like that don’t deserve to be in your life.
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I’ve been trying for years to move out and never see them again. Thankfully I now have an opportunity to relatively soon 🎉 I’m looking forward to being able to exist as a human being without every single thing about me being a joke.
Good luck! You aren’t the joke, they are. Never forget that.
I spent a short time in the US Navy, just long enough to get a couple of tattoos that I put literally zero thought into. One, a stupid cartoon character done at a whole-in-the-wall shop while I was drunk faded away pretty badly, but the other one, a sexy sailor girl (done by Philadelphia Eddie himself!) stayed pretty nice for quite some time. I was sober that time. That was about 44 years ago. I don’t necessarily regret them, but I wish I’d put more thought in to them, especially dumb old Yosemite Sam…
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I don’t regret any tattoos.
I regret the piercings.
Got my ears pierced when I was a kid, hated wearing earrings and I still have holes in my ears.
At 18 I got a belly button peircing that was even more annoying, so that’s just another hole now. If you’re getting any part of your body pierced that you have to move, really think about what you have to do for the next two weeks because you’ll be VERY aware of it.
my boyfriend threw his cat at me and left a ~6 inch gas down my inner thigh, it’s pretty recent and it already seems to be shrinking, maybe in a couple years it will disappear entirely
is the cat okay?
Cat is great, she is a strong panther, and the meat of my thigh gave her plenty of braking distance (think of a pirate sliding down a sail with their sabre)
Time for a new boyfriend because this one is either mean to you, abusive to animals, an idiot, or all of the above. You don’t throw pets and you definitely don’t throw pets that land on little beds of razor blades at somebody.
Definitely an idiot lol, right before he tossed the cat he said “she’s like a bowling ball!” Like tossing a bowling ball at someone is any better of an idea
Be careful about offering up identifiable information that you can’t change on a random lemmy post, especially if you’re in the U.S.
Sure, one scar. We were demolishing a bigass concrete retaining wall and I was chipping out the wrought iron handrail. Couldn’t be arsed with safety glasses and safety squints weren’t doing it, so I was just chipping it out with a 35lb electric jackhammer with my eyes closed most of the time. As I got to the last parts, it was really starting to lean out over me.
Absolute looney toons moment. About five hundred pounds of wrought iron fell over onto my head while my eyes were closed and made a two-inch tear on my scalp. It was floppy enough that it didn’t break my neck, but I had to get staples.
I got an ugly scar on my pinky from a bullying incident at school when I was 12. It’s not like this was their intention, but it got out of hand and a door slammed hard on my finger.
I had to get rushed to the hospital, got stitches and a massive bandage for half a year.
The bullies never apologized and it got brushed off as an accident.It’s a reminder of bad times during my teenage years and I still get sad when I look at it.
A few scars but nothing significant. I have a shit ton of tattoos and piercings, I have a forked tongue, and I used to have a magnetic implant. Zero regrets.
If that counts, I regret my nipples. I mean, it’s a graft of my own nipples, and I really dislike them. Plus, they hurt.
Phrased that way, the while nipple graft thing is kinda weird. I know a trans guy who opted to forgo them entirely, the first time I saw him shirtless I had to do a double take because you know something’s missing but it doesn’t immediately occur to you what. His plan was to have tattoos done. I’m reasonably happy with my nipple grafts though, lol.
I have 2 ugly tattoos that I got done on the same day, by the owner of the shop nonetheless. One of them looks like a drawing made by a 6 year old. The meaning behind the tattoos are basically gone, yes, but I don’t regret that at all…. just the poor quality. Even if I got tattooed an alien sharting itself in graphic detail, I’d have zero regrets if it was done well.
I blame myself to be honest, I wasn’t ready for tattoos and had the wrong mindset about it all. But the experience taught me valuable lessons:
Don’t lower your standards. Don’t feel like your appointment seals your fate — if they aren’t getting the design right, cancel and find a better suited artist. It’s permanent and it’s your body. Also, there’s no “saving money” with a tattoo you’ll end up paying to get removed later. A professionally-done tattoo is well worth the money and travel. Find well-known artists in your community, and talk with them before you even consider letting them tattoo you. Online reviews of shops aren’t good for vetting individual artists.
No tattoos, only one piercing - a prince Albert, still pretty new but I don’t see myself regretting it. I miss standing to pee at a regular toilet but can still manage urinals just fine. I might have timed it better, I didn’t tell my wife I was gonna get it done and it turned out she was kind of planning on having sex with me that weekend. She’s excited to try it out in a couple weeks though.
I don’t regret any of my scars, at worse they’re a reminder not to do something stupid, but most of them are just a fun story. I have one on my left eyebrow I got in a mosh pit that I think is pretty cool. One of my first dates with my wife involved her taking me for a quick stop to get my stitches removed.
Crap my curiosity got me, should have not search for it.
I have a badly healed broken pinky. It only hurts when I grip someone hard for a long time (get your mind out of the gutter!) such as when doing sports like rock climbing or fencing.
I regret letting my helix piercing heal up. I need to get it re-done.
Sweet Sports, my dude!
