Belly Buttons Gone Wild

Posted July 31, 2008 at 9:23 pm by Maureen

Today, while on my lunch break from work, I got into my car and drove to a tattoo parlor. I laid down forty bucks, bared my stomach to a man with so many piercings I wondered how long it would take him to get through airport security (and who was also quite possibly extremely stoned), and got my belly-button re-pierced.

I first got it pierced over ten years ago, when I was at the tender young age of 17. I kept it in all through the years, until I got pregnant. I planned to keep it in the entire time, but the ultrasound tech worried it would scratch up the wand thingy during my ultrasound, and at the time I was all, “Fine. Whatever. Just tell me the sex of my precious child!”, so I took it out.

When I tried to put it back in after I had my son, I found it had closed. At the time, I shrugged and didn’t care because, really? Did I really want to display a piece of jewelry amidst post-partum blobby skin? Not to mention my belly-button looks sort of collapsed-in and weird now.

Fast forward to a year later, when I’ve finally (FINALLY) lost the baby weight and gotten into shape. With my beach vacation looming next week, I decided to take one last grasp at my youth and do something ridiculous, stupid and totally vain.

And I love it.

I will never be the same I was before I had my son–physicially, mentally, emotionally. Nor do I want to be. But damn it, when I’m up with him all night due to razor-sharp molars coming in, wiping baby puke off my formerly nice work suit and cleaning off the vaseline he’s smeared all over the bedroom wall, at least my belly button will look cute.

Bring on the margaritas and the bathing suit!

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Tags: bathing suits, life after kids, navel piercing, tattoos, vacations

3 Responses to “Belly Buttons Gone Wild”

1. 1. Allison G_MOD said:
   August 1, 2008 @ 11:45 am

   Good for you! Besides, you’re ONLY 27. That’s still young enough to display a belly button piercing. (please take it out before you get too old, otherwise it just looks silly)

   Now I know I’m probably the last person left in the world over 18 without a tattoo, buuuuut… there’s a gal I know who is in her early 40’s, a mommy, business woman who has a tat on her lower back (aka Tramp Stamp) of a cartoon kitty rolling in daisies (looks like baby Simba from Lion King). It may have been cute when who-knows-when she got it, but on this woman, it just looks ridiculous.
   Tattoos are forever folks! What looked cute in your late teens/early 20’s will not look cute on you in 20+ years…..

2. 2. Tracy said:
   August 1, 2008 @ 11:53 am

   I’ve got tattoos on my arms, but if I got my belly button done and exposed it to the world, I’d be blinding a shit ton of people. My belly hasn’t seen daylight since 92

3. 3. Rita said:
   August 2, 2008 @ 10:23 am

   Whatever makes you feel good! If your belly is cute enough to show off a sparkly adornment, then go for it! Flaunt time is very limited. I was just at a waterpark yesterday and I always go away from those things with a whole new appreciation for every stage of the female figure. Whatever stage you’re in, appreciate it, because honestly, it’s alldownhill from wherever you are (unless you’re like three, in which case I applaud your reading skills for being able to follow this thread).

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