body piercing for travel (Score 1)

An IT friend of mine decided to get some piercings, including a nipple, and (I believe) a large ring in the nether regions (not, I believe) a Prince Albert. The first time he was about to fly for work after this, he was about to step through the metal scanners at the airport, when he remembered the new metalwork.. and decided to go to the gents first. Fortunately he had opted for rings with some type of screw-on ball fitting, to ease with cleaning them (or the pierced hole) or something..I didn't ask. I don't know if the type of metal would have triggered the sensors or not.. but I don't think he was looking forward to having to strip down far enough to show them what the metal was...

There are some interesting viewpoints expressed here.. mostly US, I guess. Personally, I would have to wonder if you are a creative person, why you would want to work for a company which assumes that suits somehow makes for better IT skills, and hence expects their IT people to wear them. Clean tidy casual should be the requirement for anyone not dealing personally with customers, and what is suitable for them depends on the customer. Anything which makes people less comfortable is likely to distract them from doing what they are paid for.. the good use of their good minds

Coverable tats probably works best anyway, as I believe tats fade faster with exposure to sunlight. Of course this assumes that you can find a tattoo that you think you will be happy with for the rest of your life (including change in body shape over the years).

As an observation, I worked as a consultant in NY in the securities industry, and while the company staff all wore suits, nobody seemed to have a problem with the Aussie wearing dayglo (smart) casual clothes, or having a plaited ponytail. On day one of the system going live, I wore a jet-black dress shirt covered in kaleidoscopic patterns, but they still insisted in me being in all the pics taken (departmental, whole company blah blah), in among all the suits.