10 Things Only Women Who Had Belly Button Rings Remember

If you have grown up in the 90s, you probably have a belly piercing, or at least begged your mother to allow you to get one so you can ~ subtly ~ remember the boys you had, IDK during the Pool and others. However, as the size of the clothes slid higher and higher, the belly rings disappeared, but the holes remained. Here, 17 things that women who have ever had stomach piercings will remember.

1. The magical sensuality of ~ torsos ~. Somehow, the pierced stomach was the sexiest you could do back in the day. Why? I'm still not sure. To remind the guys of real estate between your breasts and the vagina?

2. Thinking that it is a timeless look that will last forever and that will be really effective. I particularly remember to have looked at my stomach when I had the stomach ache, thinking, I would only take if I no longer suffer from a naturally concave belly to do nothing all day, which does not Will never! And then I went to college and I immediately gained weight and ate my words.

3. Be afraid this will hurt a ton and you feel like you deserve a medal of honor at Congress in the end. Bonus points if you proudly declared "it did not even hurt", while you were standing on fragile legs and no longer attached to your Vulcan wrist from your mother's hand, even if you Were so terrified that your brain blocked it all.

4. Salty sea sauce! It does not matter that the markup on bottled salt water is, like, 300 percent. Now that you had endured the pain of the actual piercing, the last thing you wanted to do was make the cleaning process more difficult than it needed to be done.

5. Walk like a robot out of fear, you accidentally hit it or something while it was still tender and fresh. You have probably had the best posture of your g-dang life in the days immediately following your navel piercing. Attending the right hella seemed to be the only way to avoid catching it on your pants or shirt if you were knocked out.

6. Being mortally afraid to touch him. Of course, you heard somewhere that you had to twist the jewelry while cleaning it, so that your skin would not stop at that, but it seemed quite when you were still acclimatized to this new foreign object.

7. Yahoo responding to the TF's "belly infection panels" every 40 minutes. I know I just googled what a keloid looks like, but what if the definition has changed to include this maybe something?

8. Sea salt dips! Some of my best memories of high school involve me on my computer trying to type a try with my right hand only, while my left hand held a glass of glass full of sea salt solution on my piercing. Everyone says the gust of wind until your tummy is up but you will only need a chance spill on your crotch to figure out that you really needed a hand to keep it in square.

9. If you were to have it pierced with a hoop, you probably felt stupid Hua and counted the days until you could slide a bar in that puppy and be the midriff-y pop star that you had to look like. Depending on your anatomy, your piercer may have suggested a hoop and not a beard to speed up your healing process, which, all good and all but everyday with a hoop and not a bar was basically the same as not even Have your belly Percé. After all, what is the purpose of showing a stupid pirate-y ring when everyone had these curved barbells with dolphins on them?

10. Speaking of dumbbells with dolphins on them, BARBELLS WITH GOLFINS ON THEIR. The belly jewelry was so different than other jewelry in that the softer and more kitsch item, the more you absolutely must have it. Would you wear stainless steel earrings with smiling faces on them? Absolutely not, but throw me this option as a belly ring and I would ask my mother the last three digits of her credit card information to order, YES.