My outside is finally catching up with the inside...if that makes any sense.

I feel so unbelievably comfortable with my new red-striped hair. Never thought it would make such a difference in my self-perception.
Now I want to get my nose pierced.
I also want to keep my job in education, get enrolled in a competitive master's program, and become a k-12 teacher, all in the near future. Yeah.

In the west women wearing ear rings are considered so normal, yet pretty much any other form of piercing is still frowned upon in professional circles. I remember, growing up in Eastern Europe I felt like an odd ball not wearing any ear rings. It was so common then for parents to pierce their daughters' ears from an early age.

Pierced ear lobe or a pierced ear cartilage - is there really such a principal difference that we need to address it separately in a dress code policy? My first sentence seems to make more sense than this.