Sanctuary Tattoo

I really enjoyed seeing my friends tattoos during the presentation of the artists that work at sanctuary tattoo, i knew a lot of the people that had work done at sanctuary and actually photographed one of the young men for my senior thesis, here are those photographs:

Design a Scarification pattern

This is a design of a sparrow that i really enjoy, i don't think i would ever get scarification done, but i think that the design of a bird would look interesting if i were to get one.

Transgender

I could not imagine how difficult it is to have to deal with not feeling like you are a woman or a man, and not being in the body that you feel comfortable in, I grew up always knowing that i felt like a girl and would do "girly" things, and i have always liked skirts dressed and makeup and getting my hair done, or my nails done. The article about the man in Maine becoming a woman was very strange to me because i could not even imagine what taking those hormones would do to you emotionally and how confusing it would be to make that transition but at the same time knowing thats who you really are.

Scarification and Piercing

When i was younger i never went through the phase of really wanting piercings, i have always been interested in tattoos though. The only place on my body that is pierced are my ears, and i did not get that until i was thirteen. The most entertaining part of the reading is when the daughter is persuading her mother for a tongue piercing by cleaning up her room and taking down posters, i would have not gotten anything with that kind of attitude, it just shows that when you're younger you follow the crowd. My sister is now pregnant and had her belly button pierced and has a stretched out scar where the hole used to be and she regrets it. I went through a phase where i wanted to gauge my ears as well, but i did not go through with it because my ears are too sensitive and would not heal correctly.

This is me if I had a nose piercing:

Creating a 1950's Hair Style

This is my attempt at re-creating a 1950's hair style on myself, and all of the steps that go into it.

Hair Curlers:



Finger Waves:



So far, I can't believe women would do this and so much more to get ready every day. I dont think i would ever take this much time to just prepare my hair for the next day. All night i was uncomfortable, i don't think sleeping in pin curls and curlers would be tolerable for me at all, i don't know if it could ever be comfortable.

The Final Hair Style:

50's style Hair, The Old World of Hair

This article was the most interesting to me, because i can relate it to my own life. I grew up all around hair salons and hair stylists because that is my mothers profession. I have always had a hair salon in the house i grew up in and had the smell of perms and hair spray throughout the house. The most interesting part of this article is when they were talking about the hair stylist Adler, ["Adler liked to trumpet his abilities. he called himself "a sculptor of the head" as he liked to put it. From time to time he would also call himself a psychoanalyst. One visit to his salon, Adler claimed, was worth six trips to the shrink."] The things that my mothers clients will tell her is almost like she is a psychologist and she often feels worn down after a particularly troubled client. The other side of this article that was interesting is the complete disdain for embracing or respecting femininity, and how men wanted to strip it all away like the plague.