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ERIN REED Staff Writer
Either you have body piercings or you stare at the
people who do.
Body piercing seems to become more common every
year. It's no longer characteristic of one particular type
of person ? body piercing is pretty much for anyone.
For those of you who are scared to go beyond the holes
in your ears, or for those of you who want different piercings
but aren't really sure what you're getting into, keep reading.
Nick Brock, freshman computer science major, recently
had his right eyebrow pierced by a friend, and this is how
it works.
The piercer takes a clamp with a hole in it, pulls the
eyebrow away from the face, and sticks a needle (which
he sterilized) through the hole, which goes through the
skin of the eyebrow. While the needle is in the skin, he
puts the ring in after it then takes the clamp out, and it's
done.
"It didn't hurt at all," Brock said. "It felt like a shot
from a doctor. It did bleed a lot, though."
Not that Brock has been totally problem free. Skin
knots up around the hole sometimes, but "it doesn't bother
you at all," he said. He cleans it twice a day with a gel
made of alcohol and aloe vera.
His friends thought it was either "real cool" or "real
stupid. As for Brock himself, I thought it would look
cool, and it does," he said.
For girls, the most common piercings, besides the ears,
are the nose and the bellybutton. Zaida Jimenez, freshman
chemistry major, pierced her nose herself with a safety
pin. She burnt the tip of it for sterilization and dipped it
in alcohol. With her nose numbed by ice, she stuck the
safety pin through to make the hole, then put the stud in.
She likes it because "it's different, it's cool, and it's a
good conversation starter. That's part of the way I met a
lot of people," she said. Complete strangers come up to
her and ask her how she did it and if it hurt.
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MONNE GLEATON Staff Writer
Are you tired of the blaring lights and the rowdy
atmosphere of Five Points? If so, you can now come to The
Wooden Flute on 1520 Main St. and enjoy a quiet evening
of jazz over a smooth, smoldering cup of cappuccino.
The Wooden Flute is a Jazz Performance Hall and is
owned and operated by jazz trombonist and Atlantic
recording artist Ronald Westray.
The Wooden Flute is unique because it is dedicated
not only to providing Columbia and surrounding areas
with quality jazz performances by well-respected artists,
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thought it would be cool if I did it,
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lip," she said.
Kyle Graydon has pierced just a
Graydon, a junior media arts major, hi
nose, tongue, nipples and penis.
He pierced his nose himself with a sa
it "every once in a while." He said it 1
that it has healed it doesn't hurt anyi
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He had his tongue pierced professional
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enhances oral sex.
His nipple rings are "pretty fun," he
your nipples more sensitive." He said
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about it and because "my girlfriend tl
cool if I did it." He had heard that it
pleasure, and "it does," he said.
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and he never takes it out because he w
pair of pliers due to the thickness of tl
It didn't hurt "as much as you woe
"It never hurts anymore. It becomes a
pay that much attention to it." If anyc
a penis piercing, Graydon says "go to {
So what do these peoples' parents sa
piercings?
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As for Jimenez's nose ring, "my
tutaback Jimenez mom said she hoped my nose would
sleeping sometimes, get infected" and that "it was so ugly."
" As for any other However, now her mother accepts it.
my eyebrow or ray Graydon's parents only know about
his tongue and nipple piercings. "They H
ibout everything, don't think it's too cool," he said,
as pierced his ears, Does society frown on body piercing? |
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this piercing hurts eyebrow ring out for a job interview
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ie had heard a lot always focus on my ring (rather)
lought it would be than on my eyes."
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ick Brock is pierced and proud.
but she has "trained under a professional body piercer
in Columbia for a long time," she said. She will pierce
your naval, eyebrow, septum, nose, lip and tongue. All
. piercings cost $30 except for septums and tongues which
lve' are $40.
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n Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" with Marcus Roberts and
it the St. Lukes Orchestra.
He continues his achievements with The Wooden Flute
r, and said of his music. "My performance and compositional
h styles are unique, yet connected to styles of the past and
if present. I balance coolness and sentiment within the
n continued optimism of swing and blues."
With this in mind, make plans to "swing" by The Wooden
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