My first tattoo

About half a year ago, during a full day meeting at work about corporate culture, we were asked a lot of personal questions about ourselves. In order to understand what was maybe holding us back from success, we needed to find out what held us back in our personal lives as well. (nb: Perhaps strange in a traditional workplace but not so much for a fashion/tech start-up.) This session was emotionally difficult but at the same time it was cathartic and there were a lot of revelations.

At the start of the day, we began with a question that was tough to answer, "What do you want to achieve in your life but haven't yet?" What was on my list?
- pay off my student debt
- get a dog
- get a tattoo

As inane as that list sounds-- those were my honest expectations of my life (I'm baring my soul here ok?) And then the question that followed was, "And what's your excuse?... Money or time are not allowed to be your answers." So I had no excuses. With my 30th birthday just months away, it seemed like the perfect timeline to just do it. Shit, I was finally going to be decisive about at least one of the above goals.

179: stretched

An important part of who we both are is our love for body modifications. Although neither of us is heavily 'modified' (we don't have tattoos or any heavy mods yet) we still have visible piercings and stretches that sometimes makes us victims of a couple of stares or some finger pointing. no big deal.

I think our stretched ears are often the topic of conversations & a lot of people are often curious about why anyone would do something like that to their bodies. It's our own personal choice & if we're gonna be grandmas with big saggy earholes, we're just gonna have to buy bigger plugs to fill them ;). Samantha has her ears stretched to 1/2" and mine are about 00g to 7/16". We're also asked about how you go about stretching your ears and how much it hurts... & they answer is slowly & not at all (if you're doin it right)!

Anyways, I just received an order from my favourite online body jewelry store Body Art Forms & I thought it would be a good time to show you guys my pretty collection!


This is most of it, minus the faceted solid cz's that I usually wear & a pair of hoops in my drawer. Plugs are on the left side & big dangly organics on the right.


from top, left to right:
popcans, faceted cz inlays, ss tunnels, turquoise, IS purple transparent dichro, diamond galaxies,
diy roses, ebony wood, virgin marys,
blue goldstone, rough faced druzy, white jade, green aventurine

Aren't they so pretty? I'm on the hunt for some rough faced amethyst plugs now :)


These octopi were some of my fave danglies that I've had... they sat a little funny though so I have since sold them. but yeah, a favourite :)
(eta, they're from nine25ag)

xoxo