Easily hidden piercings allow for diverse styles

Nothing compares to the feeling of adrenaline rushing through your veins as you sit in a chair at the piercing parlor.   You try to hold your pen still as you fill out the consent forms thinking “Yes, I know its going to hurt, but it’s so worth it,” as so many of the proudly pierced say. Since ancient times, piercings have been a way for people to express themselves religiously, and/or culturally. Nowadays, people still use piercings as a way of self-expression, but they add a bit more of a fashionable twist to it.   
People often express an addiction to getting pierced, and I can say from personal experience that it is, in fact, addictive. Scientifically, some people have a certain craving for adrenaline rushes—adrenaline junkies. For some people, this craving can be satisfied by jumping out of a plane or scuba diving with sharks.
 For less adventurous people, a body piercing seems to be the sexiest and least life-threatening high.
In a recent study of college students in America, 40 percent of men, and 60 percent of women had some form of body piercing for style’s sake. Looking around Drew’s campus, I believe this statistic to be very accurate. The question is, however, just how exotic can you make the piercings without looking trashy? A great example of exotic yet classy piercings are those of Katie Ananian (’10) who has the nape of her neck pierced. As she has told me numerous times she can always just let her hair down to cover the piercings when in formal situations. Also, Saara DeAngelis-Jimenez (’13) has her nasal septum pierced, and told me that “I can flip it inside of my nose so no one can see it when I don’t want people to see it. That’s why I got it done, because I can hide it so easily.”
When I got my own body piercings I made sure that I could still stay formal and classy, while having fun and expressing myself.  I always wear a retainer piercing in my tongue when at my internship, and my hip piercings are already covered by my everyday clothing.  Having these piercings has never detrimentally affected me. 
Gabriel Guerrero (’13) said “piercings are a great temporary way of expressing yourself, unlike tattoos. You can take them out when you are sick of them.” Sarah Davie (’10) said, “If you can pull [body piercings] off, do it.” I could not agree more.