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Body mod reception?

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  • 14-03-2017 1:49pm
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    BlowInYank
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭


    Hi all, I'm moving to Ireland to do a PhD in history at Trinity this autumn. I have tattoos and brands from collar to wrist, and a head and finger tattoo that can be covered with hair and a ring respectively. I also have a septum and vertical labret piercing.
    How much difficulty will I have with the reception of my appearance in Dublin and surrounding towns? Will it be difficult to secure accommodation or get a part-time job? I was thinking of dreading my hair as well, but would that push me past the point of irrespectable?
    Any advice appreciated. I'm 30 years old and the mother of a toddler, if that affects anything.


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    raze_them_all_
    Registered Users Posts: 6,744 ✭✭✭raze_them_all_


    HOw does it affect you now? same thing


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    BlowInYank
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭BlowInYank


    Well, I live in a suburb of a major east coast city in the States. In the city no one looks twice at me, but I get some strange looks and get followed around in shops in the countryside. Presumably the same for Dublin versus other counties? I'm going to live in Carlowtown with friends, is it provincial there?


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    raze_them_all_
    Registered Users Posts: 6,744 ✭✭✭raze_them_all_


    BlowInYank wrote: »
    Well, I live in a suburb of a major east coast city in the States. In the city no one looks twice at me, but I get some strange looks and get followed around in shops in the countryside. Presumably the same for Dublin versus other counties? I'm going to live in Carlowtown with friends, is it provincial there?

    Carlow is fine, 3 or 4 parlours iirc and a piercing place where I got 20+ done


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    Star Lord
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    Same as everywhere really, loads of people won't bat an eyelid, or will gaze enviously at the piercings/tattoos (I know I do at times)
    Then there'll be the old-fashioned folks that don't understand such things, and will feel the need to comment, be that to your face/behind your back/not directly to you, but where they know you'll hear.


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    BlowInYank
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭BlowInYank


    Thanks!


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    Bluefoam
    Registered Users Posts: 7,719 ✭✭✭Bluefoam


    People will be allot more interested in how you are as a person... Carlow is a great place. I lived there for 4 years while studying, but it's a good distance from Dublin, I wouldn't like to be doing that commute...

    As for getting accommodation, it's difficult to find places in Dublin, it's competitive & expensive... They'll want to know if you have the resources to pay the rent & that you'll treat the place properly rather than whether you have tattoos.


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    Bluefoam
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    BTW... If you're going with dreads, you'll fit in perfectly in Galway... Bleedin' hippies!


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