Onicemile,
Body modification is a bit too general a term. Technically, anything could fall into that category. It's kinda like putting medicine and illegal drugs all in the same category.
Piercing your ears is a body modification, but it is one thing for women and girls to pierce their ears and quite another for guys to do it. A needle size hole so an elegant ear ring slides through is one thing, but a hole the size of a railroad spike is another, unless one is going to use their ears to hang up their clothes. Both are body modifications.
How about tanning? There are those who sit under the sun with tanning lotion to get some tan color into their skin which goes away in time. There are others who sit in tanning booths until they look like overdone turkeys and get skin cancer in a few years. But both are body modifications.
How about when men lift weights? Or women for that matter? Men want hard bodies with broad shoulders, narrow hips, washboard abs, bulging muscles everywhere. Now imagine that on a woman. But it is body modification. Now imagine a woman who takes her weight to exactly where she wants it and gets some muscle tone, but just enough to change the shape of her body to exactly where she wants it. Or others who build specific muscles to give a more hour glass look and then stop the heavy training and let fat accumulate on the muscle they just built, resulting in a specific 3D change that they designed which worked perfectly!
How about weight loss? You are familiar with this one. There are those who lose enough weight to lower diabetes, heart attack and stroke risk. Some just want that spare tire gone. Then there are others who lose so much weight that they are looking at disease and death from starvation because they took it too far. Beautiful and shapely women get caught in this trap and then end up like they spent two years in a concentration camp. But weight loss is a body modification.
Take your power drill into your favorite furniture store and find a kitchen table. Then start drilling holes into the middle of it anywhere you see what looks like an imperfection. Draw shapes with a permanent marker to "hide" an imperfection in the finish. This all will definitely change perception. Sounds silly doesn't it? Why not just fix the finish?
I could go on, but you get the point. The differences in all of this is what is a) healthy, and b) not excessive to the point of permanently damaging the body. There is beauty and there is burning. Tatoos and piercings are burnings. What I said about tatooing and why be someone else's canvas is the same with piercers, it is just a different "art" (to me it is not art, but I'll call it that for the sake of discussion). There are many who want to harpoon anything that moves to transform it into something that is, in my opinion, freakish and filthy. After that, they are on to the next victim. Just imagine a few years from now when your tastes and preferences change. But those "small" tatoos and piercings are your companions for life. All you can hope for is to hide them.
I saw a woman today at a local store checking out items and taking payment. But what stuck out like a sore thumb was a tatoo on her left breast. I don't know what gets into women who do this. It completely spoils what would have been a beautiful Décolletage.
Tell you what, instead of tatoos and piercings to hide, cover, change perceptions, (but in reality make them even bigger and draw attention to them in a negative sense), list what you want to accomplish and let's see if there is a natural way to address the issues before taking an action that you will live to regret later in life. I will help in any way that I can.
Wahaika
Body modification is a bit too general a term. Technically, anything could fall into that category. It's kinda like putting medicine and illegal drugs all in the same category.
Piercing your ears is a body modification, but it is one thing for women and girls to pierce their ears and quite another for guys to do it. A needle size hole so an elegant ear ring slides through is one thing, but a hole the size of a railroad spike is another, unless one is going to use their ears to hang up their clothes. Both are body modifications.
How about tanning? There are those who sit under the sun with tanning lotion to get some tan color into their skin which goes away in time. There are others who sit in tanning booths until they look like overdone turkeys and get skin cancer in a few years. But both are body modifications.
How about when men lift weights? Or women for that matter? Men want hard bodies with broad shoulders, narrow hips, washboard abs, bulging muscles everywhere. Now imagine that on a woman. But it is body modification. Now imagine a woman who takes her weight to exactly where she wants it and gets some muscle tone, but just enough to change the shape of her body to exactly where she wants it. Or others who build specific muscles to give a more hour glass look and then stop the heavy training and let fat accumulate on the muscle they just built, resulting in a specific 3D change that they designed which worked perfectly!
How about weight loss? You are familiar with this one. There are those who lose enough weight to lower diabetes, heart attack and stroke risk. Some just want that spare tire gone. Then there are others who lose so much weight that they are looking at disease and death from starvation because they took it too far. Beautiful and shapely women get caught in this trap and then end up like they spent two years in a concentration camp. But weight loss is a body modification.
Take your power drill into your favorite furniture store and find a kitchen table. Then start drilling holes into the middle of it anywhere you see what looks like an imperfection. Draw shapes with a permanent marker to "hide" an imperfection in the finish. This all will definitely change perception. Sounds silly doesn't it? Why not just fix the finish?
I could go on, but you get the point. The differences in all of this is what is a) healthy, and b) not excessive to the point of permanently damaging the body. There is beauty and there is burning. Tatoos and piercings are burnings. What I said about tatooing and why be someone else's canvas is the same with piercers, it is just a different "art" (to me it is not art, but I'll call it that for the sake of discussion). There are many who want to harpoon anything that moves to transform it into something that is, in my opinion, freakish and filthy. After that, they are on to the next victim. Just imagine a few years from now when your tastes and preferences change. But those "small" tatoos and piercings are your companions for life. All you can hope for is to hide them.
I saw a woman today at a local store checking out items and taking payment. But what stuck out like a sore thumb was a tatoo on her left breast. I don't know what gets into women who do this. It completely spoils what would have been a beautiful Décolletage.
Tell you what, instead of tatoos and piercings to hide, cover, change perceptions, (but in reality make them even bigger and draw attention to them in a negative sense), list what you want to accomplish and let's see if there is a natural way to address the issues before taking an action that you will live to regret later in life. I will help in any way that I can.
Wahaika