Piercings, like tattoos or a good outfit, can tell a story. If you're someone who bucks tradition, you may have something like "angel bites" or "dahlia" piercings. Should you fall into the opposite ...

I never considered myself an earring person in my teens, maybe because what I wanted most of all then was to vanish. Sensitive, shy, mocked in my working-class school, I straightened the wild rumpus ...