Wambui Virginia @kuivirgie TABOO Miranda cleared campus three years ago, but she can confirm that those were the craziest moments of her life. From wild travel experiences to drinking sprees, and most interestingly of all, getting body modifications. Miranda has a tongue piercing, as well as a navel and eyebrow piercing and several tattoos. A young woman who once studied Economics never knew that her past would soon come to haunt her. One of her visible tattoos is the one that goes up her neck, and one encrypted on her arm. After clearing Campus, she was set for a job interview, with a real estate company, as a financial consultant. She indeed had a hard time covering up her tattoos and piercings, which openly declared “a wild girl”. After …show more content…
I had to remove my earrings from the tongue, and ears, which left visible unattractive holes. If I knew I would go through this ‘discrimination’ I would never have done these things. Its cost me great opportunities.” “There’s a misled perception that people who do body modifications are not serious, or are just seeking attention.” She said During her wild escapades, Miranda has a thigh tattoo and a navel piercing, that was done when she was drunk. She was as high as a kite, and she only remembers the next morning feeling an unending itch on her thigh as well as serious tightness on her stomach. Her piercing which took a while to heal, ended up with an infection, and now lives with a botched navel. Body piercings among young people have been brought about by too much freedom and yearning to stay fashionable. Young people are modifying their bodies, without looking at the future implications. Some of the extreme body piercings include, pierced tongues, eyebrows, chin, dimples, lips and cartilage piercings. Today young people are more expressive through any form of art, be it tattoos or piercings. Adults’ before the age of forty, may not have an issue with it. However, most bosses and CEOs are older people who may not understand and more conservative. To them, these body piercings, mean something different. Either recklessness, disturbed, seeking attention or an