One of our readers, Heart Above the 45th, asks:
Thinking of getting a piercing… Any recommendations in town? Price averages?
Let’s also debate the best place to get pierced. Please keep the poll choices clean.
Best Body Part to Get Pierced?
[pic from Sukanto_Debnath/flickr]
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Acme. Acme Acme Acme Acme Acme.
For serious, best place to go ’round these parts. Open seven days a week, noon to six.
Acme Tattoo
5 Elliewood Ave
Charlottesville, VA 22903-2603
(434) 293-6730
(no I doesn’t werk dere.)
Clarification: the piercer is open seven days a week, not sure about the skindoodler.
i concur with this. christina’s done 3 of my 4 piercings and they’re all marvelous.
as far as prices go: depending on the piercing, anywhere from $50-90, and up. in general, the more metal is used, the more expensive it’ll be, obviously – so a nose piercing will be much more wallet-friendly than, say, a prince albert. i actually don’t remember how much my nose was, having gotten it so long ago (and that was in richmond anyway; if you find yourself there, drop in on river city tattoo just off 95 at the boulevard exit. great folks there.), but i don’t think it went above $30.
Kailee at Capital on Ivy. She’s awesome, reasonable pricing, professional and no swelling/rejection.
However, I think she may have graduated from the A-school…
I’m horribly technologically illiterate – but I wanted to share a pic to show that I just got my clavicle all pierced up by Christina over at Acme (she’s the only one in C’ville I know who does microdermals!) and she was wonderful!
Below is a pic… hopefully. Or a link to a picture? Or something that is neither… We’ll see when I post:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3609/3645394420_93499fb1e0.jpg
(If it doesn’t work, maybe copy and paste?)
what about a tattoo? a tattoo of a piercing? laff! that doesn’t even make any sense.
how about a tattoo of a clown face, on my face! that is what i want.
you should go for a tattoo of a piercing of a tattoo. that would be meta and you would freak out and die probably.
i gave one of the Ben Around guys a lift into town when his motorcycle broke down in poruing rain… he was very pleasant and seemed super-professional when speaking of the biz.
i need one re-defined (gone over for detail, b/c it’s blurry) or removed and re-done. anyone suggestions?
there was a place on the downtown mall years ago—i went in to get one removed and the guy basically took an Exacto-knife and went over the tattoo with it until it bled, then told me to go swim for an hour in a chlorinated public swimming pool. then to come back for another round. AND charged 100 bucks for that. AND it didn’t work.
Bwahahahaha… are you sure you didn’t wander into an S&M bar? Did that once in Hamburg… never been so scared in my life.
eeeek! maybe so. that was the early 90s when the Goth kids in SoHo were still cutting themselves in club bathrooms for fun. Maybe Americans aren’t such self-starters as the Brits, and on this side of the pond you have to cough up a C-note to get someone else to do it?
anyhow—i got another done on TOP of the one that didn’t go away (at same place!), and it’s always looked like shite, now WORSE than shite: “Is that an octopus?… The Great Seal?… Brittney Spears’ Family Crest?…”
Greg at Acme did one of mine. My chiropractor declared it the best he has ever seen.
chiropractor? sortof a limited frame of aesthetic reference, non? i mean best one compared to those worn by osteoporotics, arthritics, scoliods, and believers in Quack Medecine generally? what do the gynie or coiffeuse (unless same) think of it?
do people still get piercings? i thought that was just a high school/ college phase thing.
There is that phase… But my reasons, actually desires, for getting my nose pierced are 1. because I want to and 2. I’m intrigued by the folkloric medicine behind it and at this point in my life am willing to try anything to alleviate things.
what’s a “middle nose” piercing?
Who bloody knows… All I want to know is why the hell can’t I add an answer to these damn things!
Now you’re talkin’ mah language.
/waits for new “Clitoral Hood” choice to be deleted by Thorazine
/waits for otterdung’s protestations about me using sexual terms for their actual purposes while he ignores others’ inane and immature use of sexual terms. I guess it’s ok for pretty girls like Shenanigans to talk about profanity and sex, but not the tattooed, too-thin, satchel-wearing, western-shirt-sporting, oversized-sunglasses-rocking, Becky-Reid-haircut-copying Hipsterbot that stands before you.
/wutevs.
no kidding.
i thought you were chubby
Yeah I noticed that. Perhaps all the energy needed to transport her giant shoulder-chip around has resulted in dramatic weight loss. I’m rushing out to patent this idea…. I’m thinking Diet-Chip™.
Isn’t that the anal leakage stuff? YUM!!!
Olé Olestra!
I’m not reasonable, amiable or friendly. I’m a bot. I have no feelings, because they get in the way of being cool.
being so annoying gets in the way of that too
ooh, shen, you gots old. welcome to the club, chica…
oh, are you still around? i wasn’t aware. Uva/hipsterbot has replaced you as the annoying spammer.
well, at least uva/hipsterbot has a personality
and at least you’re cute and generous with booze. I miss you, shen!
Making fun of the hip young white people who usually make fun of everyone else is the new making fun of everyone else
i don’t believe that mocking hipsters is as purely anti-white racist as you seem to want it to be.
If you just want to hate whitey, and i certainly have no objections to anyone hating whitey, you may have to be a little more incisive, more accurate with your cutting. If you want to ‘make fun’, you may have to be a little more clever, or witty, or spread yourself a little broader than just repeating bad words (taint, pussy, etc.) while alternately linking dozens of times to Hipster Handbook and What White People Like?
I don’t think any of them were racist, but they were certainly funny and made regular and very clever fun of whitey; you could perhaps use as your model: Chris Rock, In Living Color, Eddie Murphy, etc.
In america at least, african americans largely invented ‘hip’ culture in the last century and this present one, appropriated and imitated by urban white youth but inclusive of the black originators (blues, zoot, jazz, beebop, calypso, disco, reggae, ska, dancehall, hiphop, etc etc etc) in emulation of, patronage of, and inclusion of them. While white mainstream culture stole continuously from black forms, it also venerated and enshrined the originators (a trend continuing vigorously now in the re-mastering and re-issue of originals).
In america, ‘hipsterism’ in its present-day version/definition, is generally regarded as even more virulent amongst Asian-Americans as among whites. Globally, the fever for American ‘hip’ still prevails, it would seem, with block-long lines around every Levi’s Store, MacDonald’s Franchise, Coke stand, and with American CDs and films topping the charts or dominating them in nearly every country on the planet.
Also, Hipster Handbook and What White People Like are both satires. Which means, in short, that they have aready done cleverly, popularly, and at length what you seem to be trying to do. So you may be a trifle under-gunned and a trifle stale.
Please consider returning to what you were formerly on Cvillain—engaging, funny, interesting, challenging, clever, pointed in your arguments, contributing in substance and wit, etc.?
I, for one, prefer Pepsi to Coke.
although I call every cola, “Coke”.
jaysus, RhymesWithOrange…you actually read through FIVE of those paragraphs? I fell asleep after the first few lines, trying to proofread it before i hit ‘Submit’.
I’ve never known anyone to prefer Pepsi to Coca-Cola, but the fact of Pepsi’s survival attests to a broad following somewhere beyond my personal contacts. How do you account for it? You’re too young to remember the Michael Jackson ads for Pepsi.
slow day. I prefer the taste of diet pepsi to diet coke. I am coke-marketed though since I refer to all colas as coke, though. That could also be a regional thing. You know, like “pop” is to Pittsburgh.
too young? how old do you think I am?
well, the ‘rhymes with orange joke’ is as old as vaudeville, but you must be 23 according to Cvillain demographic studies.
older and wiser!
i think it must be cheaper for restaurants to carry, bc they always switch TO it. & then everyone is unhappy.
troot. Nobody orders Rum-N-Pepsi. The only Pepsi blend i recall is from Laverne & Shirley, a 70s teevee show, in which they drink Milk-N-Pepsi when they are feeling down.
that is too bad that you had to explain what Laverne and Shirley is
I used to work for the Pepsi Challenge back in high school (yes, they actually set up booths and had people do blind taste tests to determine which one was better.
Most of the time Pepsi won (and trust me, there was no tampering or conspiracy, just a bunch of 16-year-old girls in oversized t-shirts pouring cola into paper cups and asking which tasted better).
Most of the time people chose Pepsi because, when tasted side-by-side, Coke is bubblier and tarter. It tended to make little kids tear up because it burns the back of their throat a little. And Pepsi is easier on the bubbles and is a little sweeter.
These are just my observations from a “highly controled scientific survey” where we spent most of our time eating the palate-cleansing oyster crackers and drinking the free soda.
I was told by a Pepsi salesman that most people tend to buy whatever is on sale. I do not go to the red side. I’m true blue.
the sweetness and lesser carbonation tends, and gawrsh i hate to invite flame, to appeal to lower socio-economic demographic in America, much in the way painfully sweet wines do (not gewerztemiener/dessert wines, but cheap ones). same of rancid Sweet Tea served in the south.
/the kool-aid palate, y’know.
paging Hipsterbot!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi#Niche_marketing
It’s not solely to just lower socio-economic demographics. Humans prefer sweetness, they learned back in days of early man that when tasting plants, if it was sweet, it was okay to eat. If it was bitter, it was maybe toxic.
I don’t care how hard Cindy Crawford tries to push her sexuality on me; I am not going to drink Diet Coke. At least, not without a lemon to cut that toxic taste shen speaks of.
when was the last time you saw Halsey Minor or Colin Powell or Henry Cisneros drinking Orange Crush?
When was the last time you saw a celebrity drinking Starbucks?
I saw ex Governor Mark Warner drink an orange crush (cocktail) at escafé two years ago. Does that count?
Only if it was up his arse and using a curly straw.
I see ★★★★★★
What makes you think I care about racism? I’m a hipster. I take neighborhoods from the blacks…I don’t befriend them.
did i miss something?
Primates not only like sweet things, they like things that look sweet, like berries. That is how plastic advertising signs and shop logos are designed.
that’s cool about the subliminal-ish aspects of advertising.
as naturalist pal Andrew used often to say:
“It’s shiny… the crows would like it…”