How Did I Get Here?

Hello Universe!

It is me, the casual mess on two legs.

I have come to the realization that if I am going to write about the Body Modification Industry and the life I live in it, I would need to briefly explain why and how I got here. And, you know, not just post innocuous nonsense. So, Hello! I am Eurydice Caroline! The wonderful, eccentric person you will come to either enjoy, tolerate, and/or loathe.

I will have been in the industry for seven years in 2026, a body piercing apprentice for two years as of September, and recently aged another tumultuous twelve months into a real 31 year old human. Surprise! To everyone who thought I was barely of age to buy myself a drink, I am not sorry to disappoint. Having your millennial body fermented in microplastics since birth really does wonders for the skin.

In truth, being in the industry was originally a dream, never what I thought to be an attainable goal. My early twenties were spent adjacent to it until a tattoo artist I had befriended basically said “Hey, want to come by?” Thus, I miraculously became a receptionist. Several years in, a piercer new to the shop heard me meowing at nothing as I rearranged supplies.

Scene Opens

Me, meowing into cabinets: 😸

Piercer, peeking out of the new piercing room: …Were you just meowing ?

Me, caught: Yes…

Us: Instant Friendship

End Scene

Not my cat for reference:

Hey Eury, why did you want to be a piercer? Wouldn't you have wanted to be a tattoo artist?

Well, random person on the internet, the plethora of answers to your question can be exhausting. So, let's simplify this. 

To begin, that is kind of rude. One is not better or more important than the other and I happen to know me performing any kind of tattoo work would be a disaster, for me not you. In my weird mind marbles, drawing and extreme anxiety go hand in hand. However, the particular science behind piercing is beautiful and complicated, and my brain just happens to function in that sort of complicated. 

AND

I am dysmorphic, believe in the value of body reclamation through alterations, and am fascinated with the physical process of body modification and suspension.

“You only live one life, might as well modify the temple of your body into your vision of the self.” - Me, half asleep and possibly half quoting someone else.

Me, the happiest I ever am each year, for reference.