Tatooes, Piercings & Other Decisions

I just read the post where everyone is talking about tatooes and such. It made me wonder, how do your other selves handle things like this?

Example... I'm on a diet. I've lost 30#. Problem... my 15 year old still sees herself as 105 lbs, drop dead gorgeous, not over 200 and the mother of 3 with stretch marks to prove it.

So my husband, wonderful man that he is, gets the fun responsibility of dealing with the 15 year old who doesn't want to be denied all the things that she loves.

Speaking of which, she got really scared a couple of weeks ago. She started thinking about what would happen if she "woke up" and he had died. Of course, I control whether or not she wakes up... but it's still a fear for her, because he is the only person in all the world that even knows she exists. Without him she is afraid she wouldn't wake up anymore.

So how do you deal with decisions that permanently impact your life... or rather, how does your alter deal with it? Have they done things to you that are permanent... how have you dealt with it?

I'm reading the boards and it keeps giving me more to say...

I remember dani's first DVD... I'm 38 years old, she's 15 and has been since I was 15... so DVD's, and CD's didn't exist yet... computers didn't exist for home use... I'm a web developer, so technology is pretty prevalent in our home.

Freaks dani out a little. My husband (her adopted daddy) has to explain things to her. Does someone explain things to your alters?

Sorry, just another memeber of the ___ Generation, so I've always had computers and $#%^. And I guess I kind of remember when DVD's came out and it was like "Ooh! Fancy new technology! Look how clear the picture is!". My alters don't care if I get tattooes cuz they understand its my body and I can do as I please with it. Plus my dad is a tattoo-covered former-biker (still rides, just not with a group anymore), so its understandable that growing up around people covered in ink would lead to the inspiration of getting one. Plus tats are badass, plain and simple . Unless its something really dumb, like my friend's tattoo of his dead German Shephard. Or my other friend who got this stupid tribal thing with BIA (Brothers In Arms) and some other acronym. Yeah, these tattoos have their own personal meanings.... but they're still dumb tattoos. And girls are usually pretty bad with tattoo ideas. Once in a while, you'll see a girl with something that's actually cute (Amber's little music note) or pretty cool (My friend Ami's tattoos). But mostly really dumb things, like butterflies or stupid little hearts and/or stars, or this one dumb girl who came in while I was getting mine asked for snowflakes running down behind her ear. And I really wanna boot every skanky whore with a tramp stamp. Ugh! Bitch might as well have it read "Dick Goes Here *Arrow Pointing Down*" Or two arrows pointing at her crotch when she's got the hip tats. Or "Attention Whore" when she gets one on or above her tits.

Mike is a very angry kid. Ha ha ha ha! - D

When I got my first tattoo, it wasnt me, it was Amber Ray, and I woke up one morning thinking $#%^, How did that get there... but it was what I wanted, and I loved it. At the time I didnt know I had alters, I just knew, that I would go away and come back from time to time.
our second tattoo is stars on the side of our foot. It took a long time for us to decide on this one, but in the end when we had decided that certain stars were for certain alters and a star was for a group and such like that the decision was made and we got it together. Everyone was aware, and we did it as a group.
Piercings are different though. You can take out a piercing and the hole doesn't show very much so basically there isnt much fuss, except from beth (15) who is our "personal stylist" and she makes us take them out or put them in from time to time