Oh those Millennials ;)

[diamondseeker2006]

I seriously doubt this "trend" will be broadly accepted or long lasting, so I don't personally think this thread is going to turn many (or any) people off of PS. Most people doing that aren't looking to PS to help them find quality diamonds for their implants, I am quite sure.

 

[redwood66]

I remember when all the sub forums here, including LIW, BWW, Health and Family, etc were HOPPING. Younger people felt comfortable coming here. They didn’t feel belittled. They felt welcome to talk about trends in engagement jewelry, and changes as far as buying diamonds only from brick and mortars vs online.

Threads like this never cease to amaze me, the way they absolutely continue to discourage community growth.

This is why forums like Ps are getting left in the dust in favor of friendlier places to those of younger generations.

But please enjoy your reminiscing and disdain for literally anything having to do with younger folks. It’s no wonder kids want nothing to do with their parents once they hit a certain age. People are too busy living in the past and unwilling to deal with the changes now and those to inevitably come.

@OP and participants nothing personal. I see this everywhere now. Just makes me sad and I wanted to speak up.ETA: I feel like the ******* net nanny. I guess so be it. This one just got to me.

It should be ok to say if you don't like something though. I would never get one of these because I shovel horse shit on a daily basis so it might not be hygienic for me but someone else can rock it if they like. I would rather the stick on ones like @PintoBean said.

 

[monarch64]

I seriously doubt this "trend" will be broadly accepted or long lasting, so I don't personally think this thread is going to turn many (or any) people off of PS. Most people doing that aren't looking to PS to help them find quality diamonds for their implants, I am quite sure.

This gave me a chuckle, thanks.
My point wasn’t at all that poking fun or having disdain for this particular trend would have an effect on PS traffic. It definitely won’t since if you google any of the search terms I doubt if this thread, or Pricescope, shows up even close to the first page of google results.

Andrey and company know what they’re doing SEO-wise and how to bring traffic.

I’m just saying this community isn’t welcoming to newcomers, esp younger people. They’re having the exact same conversations on other fora and sites that they could be having here, that’s all. That damned social media! Them damned smellular phones! Git off mah lawn! (Btw lawns are beginning to fall out of favor, but I digress.) ‍

 

[Missy]

I remember when all the sub forums here, including LIW, BWW, Health and Family, etc were HOPPING. Younger people felt comfortable coming here. They didn’t feel belittled. They felt welcome to talk about trends in engagement jewelry, and changes as far as buying diamonds only from brick and mortars vs online.

Threads like this never cease to amaze me, the way they absolutely continue to discourage community growth.

This is why forums like Ps are getting left in the dust in favor of friendlier places to those of younger generations.

But please enjoy your reminiscing and disdain for literally anything having to do with younger folks. It’s no wonder kids want nothing to do with their parents once they hit a certain age. People are too busy living in the past and unwilling to deal with the changes now and those to inevitably come.

@OP and participants nothing personal. I see this everywhere now. Just makes me sad and I wanted to speak up.ETA: I feel like the ******* net nanny. I guess so be it. This one just got to me.

@monarch64 I am the OP so I can and will share my intention of this thread. It was not to belittle anyone. I was sharing an interesting trend I had just read about. Choose to read it or choose to ignore it. All within your control. You're a big girl now.



This is for you...



Cheers.

 

[Missy]

That’s a big Nope for me. I was going to post this here @missy . I do believe we watch the same local newscast!? Lol

Haha I bet we do. I had never heard of this before. It's fascinating.

Ok I'm dying

I have a container full of stick on stones from the mid to late 80s. The adhesive is still good on them. It will give you the same look for less pain and less money and is way more versatile because you can change your stick on stones to match your outfits.

Just saying...

Btw I wasn't born yet when I got these stick on stones at the local flea market. I was born a decade after I purchased them...just so we're clear...

LOL I remember those. Fun and easy. Speaking of blast from the past-
remember mood rings? For some reason that thought just popped up into my head. I used to love my mood ring. It was usually black on me and years later I realize why...darn Raynauds But when it turned blue as rare as that was it was a sight to behold. Does anyone wear mood rings anymore?

 

[Missy]

I’m technically a millennial and there’s not a chance I’d do that.

I’m in the definite nope club. Looks painful and impractical.

Those photos made my skin crawl!! Just yuck!! That can't be sanitary! And keeping the stone's clean would be impossible!

Eeeeewww. Just imagine trying to clean that. Nope.

I'm with September_Blue.

It should be ok to say if you don't like something though. I would never get one of these because I shovel horse shit on a daily basis so it might not be hygienic for me but someone else can rock it if they like. I would rather the stick on ones like @PintoBean said.

Yes, even assuming you're going to wear rubber gloves, as you say, a snag-fest that would probably shred even a glove, but can you imagine the yuck factor of actually cooking or washing dishes with those things? Or trying to baste a turkey or rotate a sheet pan with your hands in and out of the heat of the oven? In that situation I've even had earrings get so hot I have to back off, I can only imagine how hot an implant on my HAND would get in oh, about 3 seconds.

And the snagging of your own clothes, snagging furniture, scratching furniture, yeesh. The impracticality of those is pretty staggering.

I must live in a different world than someone who would do that, because someone who would do that pretty obviously doesn't do much with their hands.

My tastes change often so there's no way I could make a commitment for a tat or implant. The ring implant doesn't look comfortable, looks as though it would snag on everything. At least a ring can be taken off when doing activities that can damage either the jewel or the person. Aaaaand, what about upgrades?!

Can you imagine how clogged it would get?? You'd never be able to clean it! They'd be the dirtiest diamonds in the universe. I can only imagine with someone like @diamondseeker2006 - who gets jittery if she can't access the bottom of her diamonds to clean them - would make of this! And the germs....ewwwww!

Dermals are definitely not permanent either. Plus I imagine one on a finger would leave quite a scar. No thanks.

I'm with NOPE...I dont like pain. Plus, I probably would never leave it alone. I would want to pick it off (). My mind would be saying it doesnt belong
there...get it off...now!

Oh no way - I don't actively search for ways to inflict pain on myself. Just think of how grest it would feel to get the diamond caught in something. I don't like piercings anywhere but the ears. I went to be wedding this weekend and there was a woman at least 10 years my senior with a nose ring. I am hopelessly out of synch with what's cool today.

That looks painful and not practical! I'd be whacking it into things and worried about damaging it (or me). Besides... I like changing sparklies sometimes!

To each their own!

Yes to each their own and I am in the no thank you camp. However I keloid to everything even minor cuts so I could only imagine the nightmare I would experience with scarring if I did this procedure. But live and let live and thank you for sharing your thoughts on this. I enjoyed reading them and hope others enjoyed it too.

 

[jordyonbass]

I was going to get dermals on my forehead when I was about 19 so I could screw on some devil horns for gigs. Kinda glad I didn't go through with it...

 

[Missy]

I was going to get dermals on my forehead when I was about 19 so I could screw on some devil horns for gigs. Kinda glad I didn't go through with it...

Glad you didn't go though with it either.

 

[Tekate]

@missy I like this idea more, I think it is more sanitary and I can see the allure, don't like pain and think tat's are over-rated as they are common, my grandfather (born 1894 ) had a tat of a lady who he could make move with his muscle (sort of like a hoochie koochie dancer) now my mom eeeek! proper Irish lady had a hate on HIM and had a bigger hate on that tat.. she told all 4 of us to not look at it and it was vulgar.. so of course I always asked him to make it dance!!! that is where I learned also that tats turn mushy as you get old.. he was a WWI Navy vet and had a snake and other tats.. he was first gen German American and he was funnier/mean type of guy.. I loved him.

 

[jordyonbass]

Glad you didn't go though with it either.

I was still a bit of a 'pin cushion' in my younger rocker years. At one point my piercing count was at 8 lol

 

[lyra]

Dermals are definitely not "new". They've been around for years. If anything, they are becoming less popular. My problem with them is that you get them via an incision in the skin. I don't trust that every practitioner is operating in ideal conditions, and this is a modification which is easily bumped and/or rejects easily. It will definitely scar, unlike most piercings.

As for younger people not coming here, I think a big reason is that they are simply not choosing diamonds as much as in the past. The most common stones I see now on other forums with young people getting engaged are moissanites, morganite, and a bunch of unsuitably less durable alternatives. That's the trend now, as is of course using family diamonds. To each their own.

 

[ksinger]

I remember when all the sub forums here, including LIW, BWW, Health and Family, etc were HOPPING. Younger people felt comfortable coming here. They didn’t feel belittled. They felt welcome to talk about trends in engagement jewelry, and changes as far as buying diamonds only from brick and mortars vs online.

Threads like this never cease to amaze me, the way they absolutely continue to discourage community growth.

This is why forums like Ps are getting left in the dust in favor of friendlier places to those of younger generations.

But please enjoy your reminiscing and disdain for literally anything having to do with younger folks. It’s no wonder kids want nothing to do with their parents once they hit a certain age. People are too busy living in the past and unwilling to deal with the changes now and those to inevitably come.

@OP and participants nothing personal. I see this everywhere now. Just makes me sad and I wanted to speak up.ETA: I feel like the ******* net nanny. I guess so be it. This one just got to me.

As one who is designated "old" by, well, almost everyone now, if I got my knickers in a twist every time I visited a perfume forum and read someone describing a scent they don't like as unflatteringly as possible by lobbing the very intentionally insulting "it smells old lady", I'd spend all my time untwisting my knickers. When I read one of those - and they're everywhere on those forums - I just remind myself that one day the people saying that stuff are going to be old themselves, and they're going to cringe at the things they said or thought about old people. And they too will lose some of the mental suppleness of youth (although I'm not sure slagging old people is indicative of real "suppleness") like we all do with more planet time. And the time will come when even if they don't say something about "young people" in public, they're going to be thinking it, and be privately horrified at how they're turning into their parents. It's really good for a giggle. "As you are, so I was. As I am, so you will be." Truer words never spoken. Nobody escapes entirely.

Don't identify so strongly with "millennial" (or whatever label you feel you have to accept) or "youth" Monnie, it will help. You don't have to incorporate the first one into an identity, and time will absolutely take care of the second one.

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

One set of implants is enough for me.

cheers--Sharon

 

[CareBear]

Ok I'm dying

I have a container full of stick on stones from the mid to late 80s. The adhesive is still good on them. It will give you the same look for less pain and less money and is way more versatile because you can change your stick on stones to match your outfits.

Just saying...

Btw I wasn't born yet when I got these stick on stones at the local flea market. I was born a decade after I purchased them...just so we're clear...

My daughter would love to have your stick-on stones. I’ve go random ‘jewels’ all over the house. There’s a ‘ruby’ on my iPad

And Ewww! Wish I hadn’t seen the pics.

 

[foxinsox]

I was still a bit of a 'pin cushion' in my younger rocker years. At one point my piercing count was at 8 lol

I was a goth in my younger years and had up to 20 piercings at one point
Now I’m down to 7 and I work in a corporate office

 

[Gussie]

It should be ok to say if you don't like something though. I would never get one of these because I shovel horse shit on a daily basis so it might not be hygienic for me but someone else can rock it if they like. I would rather the stick on ones like @PintoBean said.

Laughed out loud when I got a mental picture of you shoveling horse shit in your gorgeous VC, which I am sure has never happened, lol.

 

[jordyonbass]

I was a goth in my younger years and had up to 20 piercings at one point
Now I’m down to 7 and I work in a corporate office

Haha! I took all but my tongue piercing out when I was 22 as I had just started running my own pub. I'm now looking at getting some more tattoos and some old ones finished

 

[redwood66]

Laughed out loud when I got a mental picture of you shoveling horse shit in your gorgeous VC, which I am sure has never happened, lol.

No this has never happened.

 

[Elizabeth35]

I have 6 millennial kids. No dermal piercings that I know of.
2 with piercings--girl with tiny nose diamond and male with eyebrow and lip piercing that are now dormant (he is now an accountant). I think 2-3 of them have tats. At least that I have seen-lol.

Dermal piercings seem unpractical to me--can't imagine doing my daily tasks of cooking, cleaning, gardening, exercising, etc. without catching them. My first thought was catching them on a doorway while carrying a laundry basket or bag of groceries. OW!

 

[PintoBean]

I was a goth in my younger years and had up to 20 piercings at one point
Now I’m down to 7 and I work in a corporate office

Good I'm glad foxinsox chimed in Bahahahaha. I was gonna say, @jordyonbass, I'm 10 years older than you and a conservative priss and even I've had 8 piercings bahahahah.