Many regard drinking as a essential part of being hardcore and for most this is quite satisfactory. For a beginner quite often the biggest challenge can be choosing what to drink. Many would be hardcore people choose fortified wine, cider, beer or whiskey but in order to be truly hardcore, you should try some of these suggestions
1. Rubbing alchohol
2. White Spirits
3. Household bleaches
4. The stuff that comes out of an action figure when you put it in the microwave
A body piercing is another way to show hardcoreness. Many go for the obvious choices such as lip, eyebrow, tongue, nose etc. The truly hardcore person is not restricted to this. I recommend having 6 inch nails though you wrists and feet. In addition to the shockingness of the hardcore, the religious imagery mkes you even more controversial.
Smoking is of course a corner stone of the hardcore and indeed many hardcore people would even go as far as to indulge in illegal substances. I have two recommendations to improve hardcoreness in this field. Firstly I recommend that you do not take illegal drugs, but rather lace regular cigarettes with polystyrene beads. I also recommend you smoke cigars without removing the plastic covering.