How to hide A Belly Button Piercing From Parents
I HID MY BELLY BUTTON PIERCING FROM MY STRICT CARRIBBEAN PARENTS FOR OVER 365 DAYS
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what's up youtube what's your girl
justin l here i am back at it again with
another video
um as per request i am going to be
telling you guys on how i told my
uh strict caribbean parents uh but my
body piercings and
tattoos got comfy go grab some snacks go
get some juice
i don't know what you want but if you
grabbing snacks can you get me a popcorn
please with extra butter
i love you thank you well without
further ado let's get on
long long time ago when a far away land
um lived a girl in 2016 named arnel who
thought it would be a very great idea to
go get her belly button pierced without
her parents knowing and hid it for a
whole year and a bit
where they only found out three days
before she was going to university
so yeah that is basically what happened
um throwback
back to 2016. at that time in my life
almost
everybody had their belly buttons
pierced now that i think about it
literally everybody had their brother
downstairs um
but it was kind of cute you know like
everyone either planned to go get it
done with their best friend or if they
didn't already have it done they were
going to go get it in a couple of weeks
like just everybody had their belly
buttons pierced i don't know why it was
a thing but it just was
people had butterfly ones people had
glow in the dark once people just had
like you know the ugly little ball ones
i didn't like those ones but everybody
had it and i wanted it too
but i knew i knew with the rules of my
parents
that it would not be a smart decision to
go and get it done on my birthday
or anytime after my birthday like i just
knew
i just knew i wasn't allowed to date
until i was 16 years old
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it was kind of like that glorifying age
because 16 allowed me to actually have
my first boyfriend i
should go for my g1 um work
like i was so excited to turn 16.
so anyways i waited i saved up my money
i knew it was roughly going to be around
45
or so um i saved up my money and i
waited
summer rolled around and i knew i
couldn't get it done because with soccer
season i didn't want
someone to hit me in my stomach and all
of a sudden comes infected or it rips
out
like you hear all those horror stories
so i didn't want to do that and
on top of that i was still dancing as
well so i didn't want to like you know
do a bridge or a cartwheel and
something gets stuck and hooked up on it
and
also boom infected or rips out and it
was
a couple weeks before september and
school usually starts like september 7th
september 8th like around then
and soccer season ended roughly mid
august
so i had like a almost like a three week
gap where i just didn't have anything
like dancing restart back up
soccer didn't restart back up so i
didn't have any physical activity to do
and i was like this is the perfect time
literally the perfect time to go and get
my belly button pierced
so one day i was researching places
asking my friends like where they got
theirs done
etc and i call a place and i booked my
appointment
but because i just got my g1
i can't drive by myself i need someone
to drive
me and i can't ask my parents to because
i'm not opening that can of worms
so i call my brother hey
what's up what are you doing today
and he's like what's up like is
everything okay
and i was like well i had the money
i booked my appointment i want to go get
my belly button done
so can you pick me up after school and
can we go to the place
and he was like yeah like sure did he
tell mom and dad about it
and i was like
no well what are you gonna do you know
how they are
and i was like yeah i know how they are
but we gotta do it anyways we're gonna
do it anyway so he picked me up from
school i waited around like you know
little i guess people called the kiss
and ride i called the roundabout i don't
know the pickup spot
he picked me up from there he asked me
how school was and we're driving to this
place and at this point like
you know how risky you are and you know
that you're about to get in trouble
but like in the moment you're just like
so excited and the momentum and blood is
flowing that you're just kind of like
not really thinking of the aftermath so
that was me i was in the right okay i'm
gonna get my belly button done
i'm gonna get my belly button done i'm
gonna get my belly button
so we pull up to the place and he's like
do you want me to come with you and i'm
like yeah you can come on in
the guy was super super nice i laid
there on the table he literally told me
to breathe and breathe out and it would
be done so i did i was like
it was so ugly and he was done right so
it wasn't really painful
at all it was afterwards i was walking
like my stomach was tight i don't know
if that makes sense almost like you're
flexing like you're flexing your abs
that's how i felt
so we're done i paid got the cleaning
stuff yada yada we're in the car now
we're driving home
and then it starts to hit me and i'm
like what did i just do
what did i just do i'm going to get my
butt
whoops just ah and i start panicking i'm
like
tip on like what am i gonna do uh mom
and dad are gonna be so mad
am i gonna be grounded am i not allowed
to date anybody
like i'm thinking all the worst possible
scenarios right so i got home
my parents were asking me how was my day
i asked them how their day is and in my
head i'm literally
alert alert panic panic panic but i pull
it off
i go to bed nobody knew a thing at
soccer
i left it and i put a couple bandages on
top of it
i played with that thing in it and i
still play with that thing on me
i dance with my leotards and stuff
either same thing i would bandage that
thing up
put my leotard on good so no one saw
anything
a whole 365 days passed and my parents
didn't know i had this piercing and that
was that i got it done
and they did not no they did not know
i didn't wear any crop tops i wore
high-waisted
jeans high-waisted tights high-waisted
shorts like i
always had this thing covered and i
think that especially why
um it never got infected like most
people's do like i always hear that
horrifying like it's all like
full pus and stuff and that's disgusting
my belly button piercing never got
infected so i hated that thing i hit
that belly button piercing for
over a year literally over a year um i
got it done in the summer
of well the fall of 2016
going into 2017 and my parents didn't
find out until 2018 so that's a
pretty long time hiding that thing this
is how my parents found out uh one day
this is literally three days three days
only before i was moving to my residence
at brock university three days
um my dad is looking at photos on
computer because you know
parents that get a little sad knowing
that their youngest baby is leaving
um he's looking at pictures on computer
and he posted one picture
with one of my friends from dance and
we're wearing black crop tops with
army pants without our hip hop costume
and he goes
you have abs in this photo do you have
abs
and he was just generally being curious
right because in the photo
i took out that piercing i wasn't
letting anyone see that on stage so i
took that off
he goes yeah he's like do you have abs
and literally in that moment
i felt like my heart dropped to my butt
like
my heart sunk i felt tingly i don't know
what to do
he lifted my shirt to see i remember
like it was yesterday and i stood there
oh man
what am i gonna do what you want to do
lifts up my shirt and he goes when did
you
get that and i go
over a year ago anyways uh
i gotta go finish pack up my stuff cause
i'm leaving soon and i literally
skirt run dodged
everything to my room as quickly as i
can to try to blow it over you know blow
it over blow it over dinner time happens
right
and i'm eating my dinner but i'm nervous
i felt my heart dropped to my butt like
my heart went it just sunk
i'm nervous i can't even think straight
like i'm cold sweating i'm trying to eat
my broccoli
and they didn't even bring it up so i'm
thinking i'm in the clear
like i leave in three days it's all
gucci needed a moment of silence [ __ ]
we made it
the next day goes now i'm upstairs and
all i hear is
my mom's name being called do you know
that arnold has her belly button pierced
and in that moment i flung up from my
bed
and i was like what do i do do i go
downstairs
do i stay up here do i try to make plans
at a friend's house real quick like what
do i do
and i hear my mom go oh she does
let me go see so she comes upstairs and
she opens my door
your dad told me that you got your belly
button pierced
no what are you talking about what do
you mean what am i talking about
and i was like yeah you want to see it
she's like yeah i want to see it yeah
let's talk about it she must up my shirt
she looks at it
she goes like this and she goes well who
took you
i said
how do i rot him out it's not really his
fault but do i rat him out
to bonded tavon took me
she was like where did you get the money
from and i said well remember my
birthday party
back in 2016. uh i saved that money and
i
went and got it and i've had it for over
a year now
and you're now finding out that awkward
silence of a staring match where you're
looking at your mom
like don't be mad at me i promise
and she's looking at you like do i be
mad but you're also leaving in a couple
days is it worth starting something
and she just got up and left i went off
to university
and never had that conversation open up
again i don't know if you ask me i think
that's pretty impressive
i thought i was going to get in really
really bad trouble but i feel like if i
was
not to be leaving in a couple of things
that i probably would have gotten a
really bad butt woman
i probably would have been grounded like
it would probably been game over for me
um so thank thank you university thank
you for turning 18.
whatever newsflash i decide you know
what
let me just do the same foolishness
again
if i going to get a tattoo and now
technically that is even worse and i got
my second year
ear piercing done and they never even
noticed that one
um but i was like you know what i really
want to go get a tattoo and it's
the main reason being is because i have
i had a scar on my chest that i've been
very very insecure about for years like
literally years upon years from years
and i even looked into scar
laser scar removal and it's literally an
arm and a leg for it because
long story short i recorded my
experience
going to go get my tattoo that morning i
woke up i told my parents i had an
appointment at this place and i'll be
back shortly
and this is how my day went
so i'm getting a tattoo i didn't tell my
parents
i wrote them a note this morning hoping
that like by the time i get home
they won't be mad i couldn't sleep last
night like i was so nervous i was like
how do i execute this plan
how do i do it
and i'm sitting here and i'm like
okay i'm all done y'all wish me luck
just got home i'm not seeing my parents
cars anywhere
i hope they're not home right now okay
guys
so i didn't a bunch of you were asking
me what is the note i left for my
parents so i'm gonna read it
psycho dear dad and mom where do i start
i didn't know how to say this in a way
that would not make you both
disappointed in me
i have decided to take a year off school
lies
after my last exam in june i talked to
my advisor and with all the stress i
decided to drop
out i know i've always been the
overachiever one but university is
really hard on me
i hope you both understand and aren't
too mad i wanted to tell you guys last
night at dinner but i didn't want to
ruin the mood
i do have the intentions of returning i
just wanted a little break
totally kidding i wanted to give you
guys the worst option before i say the
truth
i decided to get a tattoo and my
appointment is that is today at 11
insert big nervous lap um i had this
money put aside since march but i didn't
know
how the both of you would feel sweat
drips down the forehead
i'm finally getting the scar on my chest
cover remember there's always we're not
here
so stay tuned for later they're home
my heart's beating my heart is beating
okay
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oh
we talk about everything we don't hide
stuff from each other
i am so disappointed i thought we were
tight this is
this is upsetting but you're 20.
it was wrong of you to do that you got
my talent
are you gonna write i can act
i'm gonna start crying
the bottom line is my parents are cool
with it
we had a very nice talk we talked about
the meaning and everything
i'm alive she likes it
my dad likes it it's a win honestly guys
i'm very much shocked
because if this was a couple years ago
i probably would not be alive right now
but one of my friends made a good point
you know your parents do change once
their babies leave university and come
back
it's like a whole different experience i
don't know about you guys you guys can
relate
but my relationship with my parents is
completely different now as i'm
like gone to university living on my own
and coming back so
maybe that's the that is what happened
uh
we had this huge long discussion about
it
afterwards and just about how like you
know times have evolved and
people in the christian community tend
to just take bits and pieces of things
and
use it as their own defense rather than
actually looking at the
full verse in scripture and what it
means and
who is it referring to etc so we had a
very good talk and actually there's a
tick tock i watched and
this girl pretty like explains it pretty
well um excuse me
uh yeah what's up i'm just really
curious as to why you have tattoos when
you're a christian
well actually no no i really want to
know because we have this verse the
bible is very clear about tattoos
so why did you do it well actually no no
you have just completely ignored this
verse well you actually bring up a
really good point and while we shouldn't
ignore what is written we also should
not ignore the context in which it was
written
surely god said we shouldn't get tattoos
but we have to consider the context of
who he was speaking to and what was
going on in that time oh i actually
don't know
well in this time god was establishing
the nation of israel
he was setting israel apart from the
pagan nations and in this time the other
nations used tattoos to worship other
gods
so back then tattoos were associated
with pagan worship
but now as christians we're not set
apart by what's on the outside but
what's on the inside
being filled with the holy spirit and my
tattoos don't worship other gods
does that make sense that makes a lot
more sense thank you
you're welcome okay let's talk
i recently posted a video about how i
believe that tattoos are not a sin
and i of course received a lot of
backlash from christians who believe
that they are
and because i never want to be that type
of christian to pretend to know
everything
here are some questions that i have for
christians who believe tattoos are a sin
i'm really lucky to understand where
you're coming from first question is
if you take the verse in leviticus so
literally where god says to not get
tattoos
why don't you take all the other verses
in leviticus literally like the one
about secluding sick people from society
the one about shaving your facial hair
in your hair or women being considered
unclean when they're on their period
or even their husbands being considered
unclean when they lay in the same bed as
their wife who's on their period
also why is the verse about our bodies
being a temple
always used to defend tattoos as a sin
the letter to the corinthians in that
specific verse had nothing to do with
tattoos
lastly you guys say that everything that
we do must be done in glory to god
but some things that we do are not gonna
be in direct glory to god
thank you so yeah we just had a whole
talk about you know
that they were happy that it wasn't just
something i just
jumped away to go and do it
i put some thought and time into it
before i got it done
um they really liked it they loved it a
lot and
from time to time like my dad would come
and he'd be like can i just touch it
i just want to feel it it's like he'll
just rub his hand across it
and he's just like it's so cool whatever
and i did not expect that response at
all i expected them to be very very
upset with me and angry
because of how it was with my piercing
but
there's just a blessing when it comes to
i guess being older
and your parents are older now and
there's just like a mutual kind of
understanding that happens that you know
parenting never really stops but you can
finally see
your child for who they are type of deal
you know
and you can just sit down and have
real-life conversations with them
and just nurture each other and that's
kind of
the place gone with my parents where you
know they kind of just accepted me as
like the woman
i hate that word as the woman i am
now and individual that i'm going to be
a kind and loving
person the heart that matters it's
really the heart
in your mind that matters and i think
i really appreciate it for that you know
because i know there's so much people
out there that
don't have the same opportunity or or
have the same type of understanding that
i got and
that sucks i'm very spontaneous
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