- Christ.
- Oh my god.
- I wasn't expecting that at all.
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- Kristin here. Love the talk shop about boobs.
So, I read a BuzzFeed article
about a 17 year old high schooler in Florida,
who didn't wear a bra to school
and was asked to put Band-Aids over her nipples.
The idea behind putting the Band-Aids on the nipples
was that it's supposed to cover the nipple so you can't see,
but she was a wearing a really baggy shirt,
so I don't really know what was to be seen anyway.
Also, they made her put on like an additional t-shirt
and jump up and down to see how much her boobs bounced,
which is so ridiculous.
It was this big controversy with the school,
the school came out and said
that they had mishandled the situation,
but the girl still should have been wearing a bra.
So, there's a lot of outrage
about forcing women and girls to wear bras,
when really it's kind of your choice about whether or not
you want to wear an undergarment that no one sees.
But like beyond that,
asking someone to put Band-Aids on their nipples sucks.
As someone who has sizeable nipples,
the idea of putting Band-Aids there
and then taking them off.
I mean, you've taken off a Band-Aid
that's been stuck to your arm hair before,
now imagine it's your nipple.
So I thought, you know what,
I'm gonna make a video about it.
I'm gonna show everyone how awful it would be
to be asked to put Band-Aids on your nipples.
I'm gonna wear a baggy t-shirt to work tomorrow
and I'm not gonna wear a bra
and then at some point during the day,
I'm going to put Band-Aids on my nips
and see if anyone can tell.
And then at the end of the day, I'm gonna take them off
and then ask people to come look at my nipples,
people I trust who are consenting to this,
I'm gonna ask them to come look at my nipples
and kind of describe what they see.
I also wanna say that no one asked me to make this video,
I just was up really late,
reading an article and got really excited.
So, we're gonna see if anyone can tell
that I even put Band-Aids on my nipples
and then we're gonna see how much it hurts to take 'em off.
We're gonna do a rerun of this outfit.
You may remember this from the outfit
that Jazma styled me in and now I'm gonna wear it
because it's the baggiest thing that I own
and can wear as a complete outfit
and we're gonna see what it's like
to have moderately sized cupcakes and no bra.
In order for me to do this thing
where I'm wearing Band-Aids on my nipples,
we actually had to ask Research to see if it was safe.
And like apparently it does cause skin irritation?
- It's not gonna cause any long term damage,
which is why we were like, "yeah, sure, go for it,"
but FYI there's a lot of people
on a lot of breastfeeding blogs that are like,
"don't do it," like, it will hurt.
It could rip your skin off, the adhesive.
But that's like worst case,
not everyone has that experience.
- Can you tell whether or not I'm wearing a bra?
- Um, no. I can't tell.
I try not to look at my friends' breasts.
- Yeah, it's cause that's a thing that you learn to not do.
- You sound mad at me.
Do you want me to look at them Kristin?
- No.
Can you tell whether or not I'm wearing a bra right now?
- No.
- You can't tell?
- You're not wearing a bra?
- Truly can't tell?
- I really, truly can't tell.
But, it's also pretty warm out,
so we don't have cold temperatures to bring nips out.
- Oh, I mean, nipples can find a way.
I'm gonna put on my Band-Aids now.
I got two for lefty and then two for righty.
Let's do this.
See, the thing is the circumference
of my boobs is quite large,
so actually two Band-Aids is not quite enough
to really cover the bullseye.
Alright, oh that's going right on the areola.
Alright, let's do righty, c'mon righty.
If I had to do this in high school,
my mom would have been so mad.
Alright we're done, we've put the Band-Aids on
and as you can see, there is no fucking difference.
But now I have Band-Aids on my nipples.
Can you tell that I'm not wearing a bra today?
- No.
- Okay.
- No, because your shirt's really big,
so I wouldn't have even noticed.
- Yeah. Would you guess that there
are actually Band-Aids on my nipples right now?
- No, I wouldn't guess that, no.
- Okay, cause I'm wearing Band-Aids
on my nipples today to see.
- Nice. Are you comfortable?
- I mean, I don't know.
We're gonna find out later.
- Okay, we're gonna find out.
- I mean, have you ever worn Band-Aids on your nipples?
- Yes. I wear them everyday.
- Wait, what?
- I wear them everyday.
Lately, literally for over a year now,
almost a year and a half,
I've not worn a bra and I like only,
if I want to look seamless, I'll wear Band-Aids over them.
- One thing I've noticed is that if it's cold,
these Band-Aids don't really do anything.
Like, you can still see.
- You can still see.
- Like, can you see my nipple right now?
- I can see, yep.
- So basically, if it's warm, it doesn't matter.
But if it's cold, nature finds a way.
- Yeah, I mean these Band-Aids aren't steel.
Like, they're not made of steel.
- No, they're not small Band-Aids either.
I used pretty decently sized Band-Aids.
- Literally, I have this shirt on underneath
because I was just gonna wear this today,
like this crop top, but my Band-Aids show through the shirt.
- Oh my god, yeah I can see your Band-Aids.
- So, I don't know if you can see it on camera,
but they are right there, see up and down?
- Yeah, I can see it, I can see your Band-Aids.
- Yeah, I mean you can still see my,
it's funny cause you can still see a nipple through that.
- Yeah, so basically it's kinda pointless.
- It doesn't hurt for me,
I mean it has a little bit of a pull, but it doesn't hurt,
but it does leave a red mark
for a couple hours after you take 'em off.
- You can't even tell I'm wearing them to be honest.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, it's actually really seamless.
- Yeah, it's pretty seamless,
but also so was not wearing a bra earlier.
- It's really hot out,
so if I had to wear Band-Aids on my boobs,
I'd be really pissed.
Like, it's sweaty and hot.
- It's a little sweaty, righty's gettin' a little itchy.
- Yeah, oh my god. Poor boob, poor righty.
- I know. I feel like instead of covering up the nipple,
what it's mostly doing is like when you try
to put White Out over a wrong test answer.
Like, we know it's under there.
- Yes, we can see it.
- It's sad though because I do it because I choose to
and not because of society and nipples.
And when I read that article about the girl,
I was so mortified for her.
It's just like it's part of our body and it's not like
- It's your choice.
- Yeah, it's my choice, yeah.
- Like you, you are putting Band-Aids on your nipples
because you're choosing to,
fully knowing what may or may not happen.
- A hundred million percent.
- So I've been wearing these Band-Aids for a few hours now
and they were comfortable at first,
but now they're starting to get a little irritating.
We walked to lunch today and it's really hot outside,
so I was kinda sweaty, so I was thinking that the ends
of the Band-Aids would start to curl up,
but they are firmly locked in place.
So, this is a pretty heavy duty adhesive.
There's no way to tastefully
and professionally touch your boob at work
and yet when there are Band-Aids on them,
that's all you want to do.
Okay, I've made it to the end of the day.
And now, I've gotta take these Band-Aids off
and see just how painful it will be.
These are pretty secure,
they haven't actually peeled up or anything,
so this should be fun.
Okay, okay ow.
I have three more to go, this was a bad idea.
Ow, it hurts.
I have to stick my thumb really close
to very sensitive tissue
and I keep clipping it and it keeps hurting.
- [Jen] Ohhhhh.
- And I did it again.
- [Jen] I hate painful nipple talk.
- Really?
- [Jen] I feel like it's like when you know, like,
I feel like I'm living vicariously through you.
- Ow. Okay, two down, two to go.
Ugh, fun, this was a fun thing.
Okay, alright, ta-da.
It did not feel good taking these off.
Um, they are very red.
Oh, yeah, there's a lot of redness,
you can definitely see where these were.
It's not quite as bad as I thought it would be,
but oh it burns.
Here are the Band-Aids, I've clumped them together.
I feel like I just got a fresh wax in a place with no hair.
So, I'm gonna have the other ladies now,
come in and take a look at my nips
and see if they can see what I'm seeing.
And we can talk about how this is a ridiculous thing
to do to your boobs if you don't wanna do it.
So, I took my Band-Aids off about 15 minutes ago.
- Yep.
- So, heres what's goin' on, right basically now.
- Christ.
- Oh my god.
- I wasn't expecting that at all,
like I knew that you said it was irritated,
but it is red, it's like welted.
- And there's an indent,
there's like indentations of where the Band-Aid used to be,
I can see it as if it was emblazoned on your nip.
- Oh yeah, actually now that I'm seeing it,
do you see cause it's shiny?
- Right there, yeah.
- You can see the little flecks of skin that it's taken off.
- Yeah.
- Okay, so full disclosure,
I sometimes put Band-Aids on my nipples
when I have to like wear a dress or whatever,
it never does this to me.
But like, you must be
- I think I have bigger nipples than you do.
- Fair, fair.
- It's like when you scratch a piece of skin for too long
and then you just start to remove the skin.
- Yeah, it looks like that.
- No one should be told
that they have to do stuff like this,
that inflicts literally an indentation into your skin.
- Yeah, and like to be fair, this doesn't hurt you
and it hasn't hurt other people, but it can.
- It can.
- I was expecting like a little bit of redness,
just like a little bit, this is like a welt.
- That's a welt.
- Yeah, it's like a mild sunburn.
- It's like a little burn.
- It's like my boobs had too fun of a day in Cancun.
- Except they didn't.
- Without me.
- Well, did you talk about the bounce test?
- Oh yeah, I talked about the bounce test too.
- Oh, the bounce test.
- They made her jump up and down
to see how bouncy her boobs were too.
Like, I'm not even simulating any of the humiliation
and the anxiety and the horrible feelings,
I'm just doing the damn Band-Aids.
- Let's put some Band-Aids on your damn foreskin,
let's just like wrap that sucker up
with some Band-Aids, rip it off.
(ripping sound)
- Yeah, see how you like it.
- I just involuntarily crossed my legs.
- Are you guys banning gray sweatpants for men at school?
- Exactly.
- Doubt it.
- So, I think what I have learned today
is that you two are great friends
and will be excellent moms.
- I will kill someone for you.
- Oh, well.
- Yeah, look at that.
- Jennifer's taking off her earrings.
- We'll die on this hill, we will.
- To be clear, no one forced me to do this,
I did it myself as an experiment,
but I appreciate how angry you are on my theoretical behalf.
Obviously, some people do choose to wear Band-Aids
on their nipples for like whatever reason they want to.
- But it's my choice.
- It's your choice.
So, uh, putting Band-Aids on my nipples to see
if they are painful to remove later, lady tested.
- Lady ouch.
- Lady ouch, lady they hurt, they did hurt.
- We're back, why?
- Okay so, it's been like 16 hours or so,
it's the next day and I wanted to show you
what my nipples look like today.
- I'm nervous.
- I wanted to show you what my nipples look like today.
- Let's be real, you just wanted
to show us your nipples again.
- Maybe. But also, I do wanna show you my nipples
so you can see.
This is what this nipple looks like.
- It's still there. The welts are still there.
- Oh my god, it's like a tattoo.
(laughing)
- Kristin.
- You can see where the white cotton part
of the Band-Aid is.
- Yeah, oh my god.
Oh, hell no.
I don't have on hoop earrings today y'all,
but you know what I would be doing.
- Oh my god, that one's worse.
Oh god, Kristin. I am so mad.
First off, I didn't know that you got irritated like this.
- Yeah, it's actually, the one thing I noticed this morning
was like, "wow, this is actually worse on day two."
- It's worse on day two.
- It doesn't hurt, like it kind of feels a little bit,
like it feels sensitive like a little bit like a sunburn.
- You look like you had an allergy.
- This is unhealthy and cruel and unusual.
- Yeah, so basically, this doesn't happen to every nipple,
probably, but it does happen to at least some nipples.
- Some, yeah.
- At least two nipples that I know of, this happens to.
- I'm sorry Kristin.
- It's fine, I mean it doesn't actually itch,
so it's not like an allergic reaction,
it just is a reminder of the patriarchy.
- God damn it.
- You're a good friend.
She's throwing things for 'em.
- Damn.
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