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Well scar sure. With I didn't need those stitches in my leg. Zero out of 10. Would not recommend. I mean, do people gather scars for fun, like tattoos?

I have bad teeth. There was no expectation that men have to do anything to look good growing up, so I never worried about it, and my parents never made me (which is fine). Now I just can't even begin to afford it.

I have a dumb fucking stupid scar on the meaty part of my palm under my thumb, from using a pair of wire strippers - backwards - as an ad hoc pickle jar opener. The little chunk barely attached left now a perfect little sharkbite scar that I've grown to despise as a reminder of hubris

I haver a scar (more like a small disfformity) I regret because I sometimes feel that if I would have gone to the doctor in time (or at all) I would have not have it now. Also I got injured by doing just a stupid thing so it's sad have a constant reminder of that. But whatever, you end up learning to live with it.

I don't regret any scars. But I have two tattoos I wish I didn't have and one I wish was a little different. I'm black, and most artists that aren't black themselves do not work with black skin. So some of my earlier stuff is "bad" because of that . However, I rarely expose my limbs so I forget about them a lot. At the end of the day, I just don't fancy them, but I'm grateful they're not something truly horrendous or offensive.

Edit: I regret getting a second ear piercing, but that's because it caused a keloid. I was relieved that it was about the size of a pimple and never risked it again.

No but I'm this close to getting some biblically accurate angel and Pikmin tattoos and I have no idea if I'd regret them when I'm older or embrace them LMAO

Luckily no. Have earings, never regretted them. Have a tattoo I drew myself that came to me in a dream, which seemed pretty timeless, at least to me. Still happy with it and of where it is.

Thought of getting more tattoos, but glad I never did. Never could come up with another design I would be 100% content with, or that I was certain that I would never outgrow. I had friends and ex-partners that got tattoos on a whim or impulsively, getting a tattoo can be fairly cheap, getting a tattoo removed can easily be thousands of dollars. And that is assuming there is no scarring.

I did the thing and got a tattoo of something special between me and my spouse.

Now ex-spouse.

Am currently getting laser tattoo removal to lighten it enough for a cover up.

I had a piercing that turned into a scar. Got a stud put in at a music festival, and that's how I learned I'm allergic to low-purity silver alloys. After taking the anchor-y part off the back, I had to fish the stud out of my swollen earlobe with needle-nose pliers.

I got 5 dermal anchors back when I was 18. They have been nothing but problems. I’m down to 3, 2 having been ripped out this past year.. I’ll let the other three reject whenever they decide to do so (I’ve been preventing rejection for almost 20 years and I’m tired of it). I’d have to pay to get them removed, which I’m not doing.

Don’t get dermal anchors.

No, actually. I got tattoos way back when it was a shocking thing for a woman to do, am really so shocked myself that they became popular. Thought I might not like them when I was in my 30s/40s but knew I'd like them when I was old. But as it turns out, I liked having them straight through and still do.

Scars I do like too.

I have a scar in my left armpit. I have several patches of skin all over my body which looks and behaves funky. I have brown straight hair but where my funky skin is I have blond spare curly hair which doesn’t grow long. I got it lasered on my neck and face as a teenager because I was told it needs to go because insurance didn’t want to continue paying for an acid creme to make it brighter (the skin is also darker and uneven). + random assholes asking me if I didn’t wash my neck. Under my arm the skin got often inflamed from sweating and looked like a rough naked mole. They tried to laser it and I got bad scarring and they decided to cut it away. Roughly 10 cm. The scar is ugly as hell. I can’t feel shit and it is uneven and hard to shave around. Lifting my arm for sport like jumping jacks hurt. Lucky me I hate sport anyway.

Be careful about offering up identifiable information that you can't change on a random lemmy post, especially if you're in the U.S.

Stretch marks...

One band logo tattoo. I got it when I was childishly upset at someone I soon after broke up with. One day I'll get it covered up. It's a good in for people to talk to me at least it seems haha

I got an ugly scar on my pinky from a bullying incident at school when I was 12. It’s not like this was their intention, but it got out of hand and a door slammed hard on my finger.
I had to get rushed to the hospital, got stitches and a massive bandage for half a year.
The bullies never apologized and it got brushed off as an accident.

It’s a reminder of bad times during my teenage years and I still get sad when I look at it.

I'm not a violent person, but I have gone down on a road bike many times and one of the common injuries is skinned up knuckles. I have some deep scars as a result. It would be easy to assume they were the result of violence. My size and build also supports this assumption. I am entirely the opposite type of person.

For reference, I got a full back tattoo when I was 17, but the only thing I regret is having to get a few bad teeth pulled due to not taking care of them in my twenties.

Take care of your teeth kids. They don't come back.

I have 2 ugly tattoos that I got done on the same day, by the owner of the shop nonetheless. One of them looks like a drawing made by a 6 year old. The meaning behind the tattoos are basically gone, yes, but I don’t regret that at all…. just the poor quality. Even if I got tattooed an alien sharting itself in graphic detail, I’d have zero regrets if it was done well.

I blame myself to be honest, I wasn’t ready for tattoos and had the wrong mindset about it all. But the experience taught me valuable lessons:

Don’t lower your standards. Don’t feel like your appointment seals your fate — if they aren’t getting the design right, cancel and find a better suited artist. It’s permanent and it’s your body. Also, there’s no “saving money” with a tattoo you’ll end up paying to get removed later. A professionally-done tattoo is well worth the money and travel. Find well-known artists in your community, and talk with them before you even consider letting them tattoo you. Online reviews of shops aren’t good for vetting individual artists.

All my tattoos, they are cheap and one contains my kid's deadname so I keep it covered is much as possible.

I have a badly healed broken pinky. It only hurts when I grip someone hard for a long time (get your mind out of the gutter!) such as when doing sports like rock climbing or fencing.

I regret letting my helix piercing heal up. I need to get it re-done.

Sure, one scar. We were demolishing a bigass concrete retaining wall and I was chipping out the wrought iron handrail. Couldn't be arsed with safety glasses and safety squints weren't doing it, so I was just chipping it out with a 35lb electric jackhammer with my eyes closed most of the time. As I got to the last parts, it was really starting to lean out over me.

Absolute looney toons moment. About five hundred pounds of wrought iron fell over onto my head while my eyes were closed and made a two-inch tear on my scalp. It was floppy enough that it didn't break my neck, but I had to get staples.

I almost lost a fingertip a couple of years back when someone I worked with fucked up.

That's the only one I'm slightly miffed about.

I have enough sensation, and the scarring has improved with time

My tattoos are old and wonky, but they're a marker of my life. They are with me to remind me of where I am, and where I have been

I've removed all the piercings apart from the PA, and that's not closing up without surgery. I'm actually really fond of it. I've had it for a couple of decades now, and I think it's pretty impressive

Most importantly, my woman likes it!

I've done so much self harm for over 12 years leaving so many scars. Got into skincare years ago which faded many of the old scars, but family finds it so funny that something below them is doing something out of its league instead of just knowing its place as scum below society so I've relapsed again with new scars from punching walls.

10" chest scar from open heart surgery. Some days I wake up, forget its there, then see it in the bathroom mirror.

"Ooooh... riiiight... that was a whole thing."

my boyfriend threw his cat at me and left a ~6 inch gas down my inner thigh, it's pretty recent and it already seems to be shrinking, maybe in a couple years it will disappear entirely

If that counts, I regret my nipples. I mean, it's a graft of my own nipples, and I really dislike them. Plus, they hurt.

No tattoos, only one piercing - a prince Albert, still pretty new but I don't see myself regretting it. I miss standing to pee at a regular toilet but can still manage urinals just fine. I might have timed it better, I didn't tell my wife I was gonna get it done and it turned out she was kind of planning on having sex with me that weekend. She's excited to try it out in a couple weeks though.

I don't regret any of my scars, at worse they're a reminder not to do something stupid, but most of them are just a fun story. I have one on my left eyebrow I got in a mosh pit that I think is pretty cool. One of my first dates with my wife involved her taking me for a quick stop to get my stitches removed.

Absolutely. The only advice I'd offer the younger generation is to wait until you are 25 to get tattoos. You may not be fully matured but you will reduce a lot of regret.

I spent a short time in the US Navy, just long enough to get a couple of tattoos that I put literally zero thought into. One, a stupid cartoon character done at a whole-in-the-wall shop while I was drunk faded away pretty badly, but the other one, a sexy sailor girl (done by Philadelphia Eddie himself!) stayed pretty nice for quite some time. I was sober that time. That was about 44 years ago. I don't necessarily regret them, but I wish I'd put more thought in to them, especially dumb old Yosemite Sam...

I have 2 significant scars I'm not happy about, but only one is my fault. The first is a big ugly scar from when I had appendicitis as a kid. They told me it would be small and go away, but 40-odd years later it's still there.

The one that's my fault is on my right kneecap. I was jumping on my parents' bed and they had this big sturdy cedar chest at the foot. I lost my balance and came down real hard on my right kneecap. It hurt so bad I passed out briefly from the pain. I couldn't put any weight on it for an hour and couldn't walk on it the rest of the day. The scar is small, but it is a reminder of my own stupidity cause it wasn't like I hadn't been warned that jumping on the bed was dangerous.