Modification Checklist
Are you modified? If you have participated in any of the actions listed below, then you are indeed modified.
This list is by no means exhaustive. Nearly everything we do in our daily lives pertains to body modification.
Coloring your hair
Cutting your hair
Shaving hair anywhere on your body
Wearing hear extensions
Trimming your nails
Painting your nails
Wearing acrylic/fake nails
Wearing deodorant
Using soap
Wearing makeup
Using perfume/cologne
Using sunless tanner
Using a tanning bed
Getting a spray tan
Wearing contacts/glasses
Dieting/purposefully losing weight
Getting breast implants
Getting breast reductions
Getting Lasik eye surgery
Wearing glasses
Wearing contacts
Getting Botox
Circumcised as a newborn
Body building
Having braces
Having a cancerous mole removed
Please list any other things you can think of that might be surprising to think of as "body mods!"
I wonder if the tone is slightly off-putting.
ReplyDelete"You are modified" may be good because it confronts the viewer with a little bit of shock, but perhaps it is too adversarial and therefore people will be less open- especially when considering that some of the items on the list make modification seem a little too abstract by implying that each falls under the same category: modification (one blanket term).
Could your questions/statement imply some sort of level of modification so we can see that there is no clear distinction between "modified" and "unmodified"?
On a less important note, wearing contacts/glasses appears twice. Going by your list, items like teeth whitening, many regular medical procedures, wearing body-shaping undergarments, hearing aides, and others come to mind, but perhaps the list could be arranged differently, so I'll keep it at that.
Thanks! I'll definitely work with all of these suggestions.
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