“Defy your mother!” Mandy Slovin, a young woman with nineteen piercings tells us the story behind each ring in her body. Mandy’s obsession with piercings began at age four while watching Madonna on MTV, at her house. Her religious mother forbade her to get piercings which only fueled her desire for rebellion. When she turned sixteen, Mandy moved out of her family’s house and as her first act of rebellion, got a nose ring which remains her favorite since it was the first. After many years of separation, rebellion and piercings, Mandy decided to talk to her mother again, and five years later, her mother finally allowed her back into their home since she learned to be more open minded.
From that point on, she has been infatuated with the pain and pleasure of getting piercings. Mandy claims that her favorite part of her piercings is how trendy they are. She loves to get them in new places when it is in style and then take them to a whole new level in her body. “If my boyfriend’s mother asked me to take out my piercings, I would say hell no,” Mandy says. Her rebellious attitude hasn’t changed over the years. She also claims that the only times she takes out her piercings unwillingly is when she gets surgery.
It is now ten years later and Mandy has had a total of nineteen different piercings; five in her mouth, three in each ear, three in her nose, and five hidden from sights. She has risked a lot for each of her beloved piercings as many have been infected. Her most painful memory comes from an infection in her ear’s cartilage. Her ear was completely swollen to the point that you could not see any of the creases in her ear. “It looked like a tomato. I almost lost my ear, guys!” she says.
BY: Maya, Jack, Cristin, Robert, and Amanda
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