Today, I took “everyone’s” advice and did something very conventional, yet unconventional in itself as well. I took my upper lip piercing out. Literally, I took the labret (piece of mouth jewelry) out of the piercing, not the piercing itself. My upper front teeth and gum thank me. Now I can smile brighter.
Piercings are easy, you can take them out anytime. Tattoos are ugly little stamps that you have to commit to, usually till death if you’re not privileged enough to have them surgically “removed”. I decided to leave the lower lip one in for now, till I decide its time. Speaking of piercings, I could work with a septum piercing for a while. I think it would be an easy one to clean and have, in general, I just don’t know about the cold/mucus part. Not that I must have it, I just think it would be nice to have. My mouth feels liberated. My mouth feels free. 
My teeth are safer and not as exposed to chipping, and gum erosion as with the piercing. I got this particular one on my birthday last year. And loved it. It defined me for a while, I just had to let it go. Until next time. It will forever be a part of me in a way though. 
My mind keeps thinking about me getting a tattoo at the back of my neck, or along my biceps or triceps. Like I said, tattoos are ugly forever-stamps. When you get a tattoo, you and your tattoo get married. I see myself with a neck tattoo. I could be a neck-tattoo chic. It has to be really substantial though. Like deep, historical, life-changing, mind-blowing with an awesome back/life story of its own and things. That is how my tattoo should be before it’s imprinted in my dermis. if my tattoo were my wife, she’d be… Indescribable. 

Mouth piercings can get really funny: they call for extra attention and care. Like not eating certain things and a high degree of oral hygiene. The latter, to me and almost every other self-loving homosapien is obvious, it’s with the former that life gets uncomfortable; with said piercing and oral piercings, in general. Eat a little this and it’ll get all messed up and swollen or even worse, infected. My piercings was getting uncomfortable, an unpleasant presence in my mouth. It is not healthy to have unpleasant presences in the mouth. The human mouth, as we know it, is already a disgusting place. The most that the modern human being could do for their mouth and themselves, is keep a good oral hygiene, which I feel like am doing by letting my upper lip piercing close up. It had the tendency to swell and act up out of nowhere, and made my upper lip look un-me and wrongly bigger in pictures. My upper front teeth had started feeling unusually sensitive and bothered and this guy that I really really like and want to be with does not find excessive facial piercings attractive. There! I said it. 

Would you alter your appearance for someone, or something? 
I would. If it meant sense and moving forward. I would. I wouldn’t get a tattoo of my boyfriend’s name or anything like that, I’d take my jewelry out if it increased my chances with somebody I really liked. And I think that is where my subconscious mind was when it clicked in my brain for me today.  

Everybody has piercings these days too. My subconscious mind might be sending out having-less-facial-piercings-is-cooler-than-being-a-studded-face-person signals out. I might simply just have to leave the metal out of my mouth. Or have less of it. 

I just now decided, in my head, to further alter my (facial) appearance. Some things might come in handy. 
Shaving head and/or coloring hair back to black. 
Getting septum piercing done with gold jewelry.
Taking lower labret out. 
Get back neck or arm tattoo… 
Be in a committed growing relationship.