Piercing

Piercing history

Piercing is the decoration of a person’s body by piercing certain parts of it. Surgical steel is used to create the hole. When the wound heals, an ornament is placed there. It can be silver, gold. Nickel and copper decorations are not used, because they cause an oxidation process. Mainly pierced ears, lips, nose, tongue.

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Popular options:

  • belly button piercing
  • nose piercing
  • ear piercing
  • intimate piercing
  • tongue piercing
  • nipple piercing
  • lip piercing
  • clit piercing
  • eyebrow piercing

Piercing since ancient times

Even African tribes and peoples have come up with piercing as a culture. In the Maasai tribe, people were the first to start decorating themselves with large items. They put jewelry on their ears and lips. In addition, there is an opinion that the ancient peoples deliberately spoiled their bodies so that they would not be turned into slaves. Today these techniques are called ear tunnels and lip piercings. In addition, there is information that when piercing the body, a person should resemble a sacred animal as much as possible. Thanks to jewelry, a person turns into a magical animal or spirit..

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Quite often, the size of the jewelry and the type of puncture spoke about the person’s social status. If there are many of them, then the member of the tribe is authoritative and strong. Ancient Roman warriors pierced their nipples, for them it was an honor. This testified to the bravery and courage of the warrior..

In ancient Egypt, women began to pierce their navel. These were girls who were as close as possible to the pharaoh, as well as priestesses. American Indians actively pierced the earlobes and cartilage. It was very popular. In general, when such decorations took place on the human body, this should have scared away and prevented evil forces and unkind energy from entering the human body..

Earlier in the peoples, where the culture of piercing was professed, it looked as it should be. But in modern times, bright and pronounced punctures are only becoming more popular every day. If we pay attention to the history of mankind, then the body was pierced by people who were engaged in a variety of activities. We are talking about Asian, African, Siberian, Polynesian women.

Piercing and modernity

Today, mainly piercings are done to decorate your body. It began to develop in the period of 20-21 centuries. It turned out to be a real direction. People follow fashion so much that they carry out even the most sophisticated punctures on the body. They strive to be like famous and public people. Some belong to the representatives of the subculture that professes this style..

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Quite often, people get pierced to be in a certain group or so simply. Such punctures are influenced today by public people from show business, rock groups, stylists. Young people strive to imitate such representatives in everything..

There are people who are convinced that the modern world looks dull and boring. Therefore, with the help of piercing, they paint it, bring a certain uniqueness to their body. Despite different opinions, everyone has their own motives and reasons in matters of various punctures.