Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I got my ears done the first time when I was 9/10. I think people are more scared of the pain than anything else.

LleeLlee said:

yeah, the pain is something that i think about. right now i'm travelling so getting it done right now may not be the best idea with having to be in planes, trains, and lord knows what else.

But then there are no good places to go where i live.

JasmineFire said:

they're a hoot, i swear--i remember when i was getting my 2nd tattoo done there was a woman standing in the doorway waiting for her turn (her appointment was after mine and the tattoo artist was almost done with me). she was set to get her very first tattoo and she was just staring at me in amazement...she asked me "ohmigod, doesn't that hurt???" thinking that i'd be sitting there and crying like a damned baby or something.


septum piercings are easy to hide--all you need is a septum retainer. i wear mine to work all the time. all you do is put it in yer nose, flip it up and it's basically invisible. noone will know you're pierced except for you.


thanks...and yeah, i already know how much stretching hurts--a couple months ago i took my retainer outta my nose in order to attempt to practice changing my jewelry and i couldn't get it in, so the piercing closed up a little. i had to go back to saint sabrina's to get it re-stretched. it hurt worse than when i first got it, mostly because they leave this metal rod in your piercing for a couple minutes and inch it through your nose, little by little, so it'll stretch to the proper size.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

there are people at my school like that. hell, there are people in my own family like that! it can be such a disconnect at times. tattoos can be so beautiful, they really are a work of art. I love watching tattoo artists create their art, it's facinating. Tattoos aren't for me but I will always stop to admire a particularly well done tat, especially full sleeves. i love those.

The first time I changed my navel piercing they stuck a (clean, sterile, disposable) needle through it to keep it open during the procedure. It didn't hurt any but the belly is so fleshy anyways.

This thread is getting me all excited to get my piercing!

I've had mine done, and like them, but BEWARE: they can make it very hard to use a stethoscope! Especially while it's healing, but just period. I had to have one taken out for this reason while I was vet-teching.

Depends on the shape of your ear, though.

Otherwise, love 'em.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

that's definitely something for me to consider.

my tragus is so big, though... did you have a hoop or a barbell in yours?

JasmineFire said:

A hoop, but a barbell would have been bad too. Just having something sticking out of the back of your tragus. . . I mean, imagine your pinky is a stethoscope earpiece, and stick it in your ear. . . for mine, there is no way that anything on the back of the tragus wouldn't get a lot of pressure from an earpiece.

It's an issue for me with earbuds/in-ear headphones too. Espeically during healing, but I still find them to be uncomfortable.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

oh man, i just tried it and there is no way and earbuds bother me as it is.

Maybe i need to get a helix piercing done instead.

JasmineFire said:

Yeah, or if I were to do it again, I'd do a rook.

Ear buds are a problem for me also. I have a daith piercing in each ear like this one:

HereToRockYourWorld said:

i was looking at the rook online. i like it and it looks like it wouldn't get in the way of anything. I think that i might go to a piercer and ask about it and if my ear is the right type for it.