Taking care of one’s body and being confident in one’s appearance is very important. Keeping hair healthy, making sure eyebrows are well-shaped, and preventing piercings from getting infected all play a major role in maintaining a good appearance. For some girls, they had to learn this the hard way.

“I got my bellybutton pierced freshman year at Good Family Tattoo,” senior Sarah Sheffield said. “It turned out very nice and it didn’t hurt too badly. But when I went to my soccer game I had to take it out. So later that night when I got home from my game I tried to put my bellybutton piercing back in. I had to shove it through because it was already starting to close up, and when I did, the piercing ended up being very crooked. Five months later I had my friend re-pierce it because she has had good experience with learning how to pierce things. It turned out good; it just hurt really bad and took a while to heal. I regret taking it out, I wish I let it fully heal in the first place.”

It’s very important that when dealing with getting a bellybutton pierced that it is professionally done to assure that it will turn out good. According to Body Piercing magazine, keeping a bellybutton piercing in for one year is important because it usually takes about that long for it to heal. Also, make sure to clean it thoroughly everyday to avoid infections because this area is prone to getting infections easily.

Along with steering clear of infections, Redbook said it’s also important to make sure to keep hair healthy by avoiding things like hair dying multiple times, bleaching or applying a lot of heat to it.

“I use to have very long hair from never straightening it or using heat products the summer before freshman year, then I dyed the ends bleach blonde,” senior Kiki Wennstrom said. “After I was sick of my ombre and needed a haircut I just had to straight cut off the blonde. I wish I knew that by bleaching the ends of my hair that I would be killing all of the proteins and vitamins. I fixed my hair by not dying it to such a light color like I once did before.”

Next to hair being a favorite thing for girls, eyebrows have become a big obsession this past year. The site “College Fashion” believes making sure to keep them full and natural looking with a slight arch is the look everyone is trying to pull off recently. It’s important to make sure to not pluck them too thin or make them look too unnatural.

“When I was younger I use to pluck my eyebrows so they would turn out to look very thick with no shape,” freshman Gabriella Michaels said. “When I started to get older I started to understand how to do my eyebrows correctly. I now get my eyebrows done at Ulta, but it took me a few months to grow them out to how thick they use to be. I would recommend girls to always get your eyebrows professionally done unless you really know what you are doing, and to also always go with the more natural look.”

Many girls have had their own rough pasts with hair, piercings and eyebrows. Luckily, most girls have learned from their mistakes and know how to maintain fleeky eyebrows, healthy hair, and healed piercings.