For every girl, there is a dream for being beautiful and gorgeous. So we often find ourselves in many places such as shopping mall, hair salon, beauty parlors, and etc. Not being eccentric on purpose, but I just don’t like shopping, don’t care much about my hairdo, and don’t have enough disposable money yet for myriad body works. So my life of being a woman seems, at times, to be extremely boring.
Well, that’s technically not true. I work on a meaningful job and always have a few interesting side projects, I socialize with others on substantive issues, I read, write, cook, take walks in Schenley Park, and go to a body piercing store! How does that last one sound?
Yeah, finally after all those 20 some years consciously believing that taking care of my body, hair, and skin is a way of respecting and worshiping my parents, I consulted with them about the idea of having my ears pierced. They said “Go ahead.”, so off I went immediately to the great Hot Rod Body Piercing Co. in Oakland, that was recommended by many people, on the ninth of October 2013, with +Rachel Szewczyk and two other girl friends of hers.
In Math, we learned that if A=B, B=C, then A=C. In reality, it seems to be true as well. Your friends’ friends are your friends too. At least at that day, I felt such a great bond with the three girls, among which two of them I met for the first time. We all, except the Rachel in pink shirt, did some piercing work. The artist was kind enough to allow me to take some pictures documenting that important day of my life of being a woman who is actually not completely boring.
Beer winning trivia @ Ear Piercing
1. Ear piercing has been practiced all over the world since ancient times. There is considerable written and archaeological evidence of the practice. Mummified bodies with pierced ears have been discovered, including the oldest mummified body discovered to date, the 5,300 year-old Ötzi the Iceman, which was found in a glacier in Austria. This mummy had an ear piercing 7–11 mm (1 to 000 gauge in American wire gauge) diameter. The oldest earrings found in a grave date to 2500 BCE. These were located in the Sumerian city of Ur. home of the Biblical patriarch Abraham. Earrings are mentioned in the Bible.
According to The Anatomies of Abuses by Philip Stubbs (c. 1555 – c. 1610), an English pamphleteer who was educated at Cambridge and subsequently at Oxford, but did not take a degree and his name is not in university records, that earrings were even more common among men of the 16th century than women, while it was in 1577 confirms the practice among "lusty courtiers" and "gentlemen of courage.” Evidently originating in Spain, the practice of ear piercing among European men spread to the court of Henry III of France and then to Elizabethan era England, where earrings (typically worn in one ear only) were sported by such notables as Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleign and Charles I of England. Common men wore earrings too.
From the European Middle Ages, a superstitious belief that piercing one ear improved long-distance vision led to the practice among sailors and explorers. Sailors also pierced their ears in the belief that their earrings could pay for a Christian burial if their bodies washed up on shore.
Your ID @ Hot Rod Body Piercing Co.
1. Where does Hot Rod Body Piercing Co locate in Oakland?
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