Body & style
One hole of a hobby
Belly button and tongue
piercing can be a one
time occurrence, or it
may evolve into an
addiction that leads to
the compulsive piercing
of several body parts.
For some college
students, a piercing can
be the first sign of
rebellion while starting
a new life away from
home. Whether a
person gets pierced to
alter appearance, fit in,
mark a special occasion
or sexually gratify,
piercees share a
common bond in the
unique decoration of
their bodies.
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Photos by Danielle Hickey
Emerald
The white, the tan and the ugly
UV rays wreak havoc on the
skin of those who are unable to
resist frequenting tanning beds
Helen Schumacher
Pulse Reporter
Eugene’s frequent cloud cover
sometimes sends students searching
for UV rays in other places. For
some, this means spending an occa
sional 15 minutes in a tanning bed.
However, this machine-made sun
shine can become an obsession.
Junior Pamela Hobson goes tan
ning on occasion and once worked
at a tanning salon in West Linn. She
said customers sometimes tan be
yond a healthy glow.
“There was one lady who would
try to go to a bunch of places a day,”
Hobson said. “She’d try to bring in
treats — cookies and magazines —
to try to get us to let her tan. We
called her Leather Lady.”
Most tanning salons limit cus
tomers to one session a day.
Express-O-Wash Tanning employ
ee Cheryl Sutton said she sometimes
has to turn customers away from the
business, located at 595 E. 13th Ave.
“We have tanners that come in
every day and tanners that want to
come more than once a day,” Sutton
said. “There are people that buy
packages at multiple salons so they
can tan more than once a day.”
While any amount of tanning has
the potential to be harmful, Sutton
recommends a dose for those inter
ested in achieving darker skin.
“Once you’ve got your base tan,
you don’t need to tan more than
three times a week,” she said. “Or
even two times a week to maintain a
healthy tan.”
For some, the benefits of tanning
are not aesthetic.
“For a lot of people, tanning is a
source of stress relief,” Sutton said.
“It’s their quiet time.”
Inger Janemark, who works at
The Sunshine Station, located at 631
W. Centennial Blvd., said her cus
tomers feel better about themselves
after they start tanning.
“I think a lot of people go tanning
because it feels good,” Janemark
said. “It releases the same endor
phins that being in the sun does.”
Nonetheless, there are physical
consequences to habitual tanning.
Hobson said the way someone’s
skin looks can be a telltale sign of the
frequency of their tanning sessions.
“Their skin is really leathery and
orange — very fake looking,” Hob
son said. “They can be young and
have wrinkles around their eyes.”
Sutton added another negative side
effect for those addicted to tanning.
“We have had to tell people, ‘You
can’t tan here anymore,’ because they
Payne
continued from page 3B
vids ain’t. A common animation term
is “shot on twos,” meaning that in a
typical 24-frame per second shot,
most cels are held under the camera
for two frames. This is common for
TV animation, which can’t afford the
expense of 24-fps motion.
Then, we have hentai. Most hen
tai shows I’ve seen look to have been
shot on sixes or eights, not surpris
ing given the low budgets and a stub
born insistence that there is only
motion when the characters do the
nasty or when the staff miraculously
remembers that, yes, they are
indeed making an animated feature.
And speaking of the staff, nowhere
else is there as much shame in the
work that they do. Perhaps rightfully
so, seeing just how low-rent these
works are. Voice actors in Japan have
successfully lobbied to have their vo
cal tracks suppressed on a number of
older hentai titles, after the actors
went into more mainstream (read:
good) work. As an aside, it’s too bad
that suppressing “Party at Kitty and
Stud’s” wouldn’t help Sylvester Stal
lone’s flagging career.
Contact the editorial editor
at patpayne@dailyemerald.com. His
views do not necessarily represent
those of the Emerald.
make the beds smell,” Sutton said.
“They’ve processed their skin so badly
that their skin smells burnt.”
Contact the Pulse reporter
athelenschumacher@dailyemerald.com.
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