i have 2 earings in each ear...i would like more but my ears r rather small...so 2 r enough

Left ear, one time, done with a fifth of vodka and a "Vote for Bill Clinton" badge... 'twas awesome!!

Those "disc thingies" are called spools and are supposed to elongate the earlobes. One of the signs of the Buddha is that he has elongated earlobes, from his days as a prince who wore spools.

I have my ears pierced eight times - four in each ear, although they are not symetrical. My left ear has 4 that go up to about mid-lobe. The right ear has the lower two even with my left, then skip a space, then #3. The fourth hole is up on the top part. I used to have my left ear pierced 5 times but the third (middle) hole on that side was one that my friend and I did one day in high school, when I was bored and it closed up several years ago. All the rest were done at ear piercing places like Claire's or whatever.

My first "set" was when I was 6; I begged my mom to let me get them pierced for my birthday and she said okay as long as I promised not to cry. They used a piercing gun, and I remember thinking it hurt (probably not that much, but to a 6 year old it was painful) and fighting back tears. In hindsight, I probably could have bawled my eyes out - my mother wouldn't have yanked the earring out after it was done. The second set was when I was 13 or 14. The remaining piercings (besides the one I did myself when I was 17) were done in college.

I used to wear all different kinds of hoops and earrings. Now I alwas wear one pair of pave diamond hoops and one pair of amethyst tear-drop shaped studs. Both were gifts and I never take them out; sometimes I'll add other earrings though.

My mom got her ears pierced when she was in nursing school -- her co-nursing students chilled her earlobes with ice, then used a needle and put a potato behind the lobe so they didn't stick the needle in her head.

Virgin and none of that born again stuff-real deal here.

baroque said:

I'm thinking and finally decided to get my ears pierced. my right ear is going to be pierced

im going to pierce what is called known as my auricle and perhaps my lobe..

the auricle i am planning will look like this:

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not me in the picture

who else has done this in here...my only fear is the pain and if it will or if it might get infected..but i guess i have to accept that if i truly do want right?

I have my right ear pierced there. It's a little closer to the outer curve of the lobe though. It didn't hurt any worse than when I got the piercings on my lower lobes. (Disclaimer - I also have a nose piercing and some tattoos and a pretty decent threshhold for pain. The piercing I got about half way up the ear on the edge hurt the most out of everything, including the nose and tats.) I've never had any problems with infection, but I am always pretty vigilent using the Bactene and following the cleaning directions.

jone70 said:

baroque said:

I'm thinking and finally decided to get my ears pierced. my right ear is going to be pierced

im going to pierce what is called known as my auricle and perhaps my lobe..

the auricle i am planning will look like this:

[img:$uid]http://bodypiercing.ygoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/Pinna.jpg[/img:$uid]

not me in the picture

who else has done this in here...my only fear is the pain and if it will or if it might get infected..but i guess i have to accept that if i truly do want right?

I have my right ear pierced there. It's a little closer to the outer curve of the lobe though. It didn't hurt any worse than when I got the piercings on my lower lobes. (Disclaimer - I also have a nose piercing and some tattoos and a pretty decent threshhold for pain. The piercing I got about half way up the ear on the edge hurt the most out of everything, including the nose and tats.) I've never had any problems with infection, but I am always pretty vigilent using the Bactene and following the cleaning directions.

thank you! like i've always wanted to get my ear pierced there. your advise is very reassuring and it makes me less worried. lately i've been telling people about getting pierced and the first thing they say is, " oh its going to hurt so much and your going to get it infected" which worried me alot...but if i follow your advise i think i will be okay...thank you very much!

baroque said:

jone70 said:

I have my right ear pierced there. It's a little closer to the outer curve of the lobe though. It didn't hurt any worse than when I got the piercings on my lower lobes. (Disclaimer - I also have a nose piercing and some tattoos and a pretty decent threshhold for pain. The piercing I got about half way up the ear on the edge hurt the most out of everything, including the nose and tats.) I've never had any problems with infection, but I am always pretty vigilent using the Bactene and following the cleaning directions.

thank you! like i've always wanted to get my ear pierced there. your advise is very reassuring and it makes me less worried. lately i've been telling people about getting pierced and the first thing they say is, " oh its going to hurt so much and your going to get it infected" which worried me alot...but if i follow your advise i think i will be okay...thank you very much!

You're welcome. Just make sure you go to a reputable and clean place. It was a long time ago, so I don't remember for sure, but I think they used a stud and a piercing gun to do mine, now they might want to use a needle and a hoop (that's what I had to do with my nose) -- a hoop makes it easier to clean b/c you can slide the hoop around and make sure the Bactene gets into the hole. The hoop I wear now is much thinner than that - it's just a regular earring/hoop. I always take it out when I get my hair cut b/c the stylists always catch their combs on it when they are combing my hair. I am so used to it that I don't do that; I leave it in all the time - in the shower, swimming, sleeping.

i got 43 piercings... salt soaks....warm water with a dash of sea salt or mortons NON iodized salt 5-10 mins with a cup over the earring is best!!

Pierced. One in each ear done when I was 8 years old.

When I was younger I used to wear all kinds of earrings. I remember back in the 80's we thought it was cool to wear mismatched earrings.

I rarely wear earrings now. If my hair is down, it is pointless because you cannot see them. I look silly in big dangly earrings.

On the rare occasion that I wear them, the little monster tries to take them out.

Ouch!

I don't know why, but somehow I have a strong antipathy to jewellery, especially metal jewellery, especially on ears. Can't stand it. I always ask my women if they mind not putting on jewellery, because I find it so "disgusting" somehow... Is that normal?

My ears aren't pierced, of course.

RodeoSchro said:

Mine are hairy, is that what you mean?

But I trim them constantly. I cannot STAND hairy ears. They are simply unacceptable.

The weirdest thing is, I never ever had a hair growing out of my ear until the exact day I hit 40.

Then, BOOM! Hairs were sprouting up all over.

At least my nose is relatively hairless. Except for one hair that will grow right in the center of my nose. And for some reason, I almost never see it until it's about 1/2 inch long.

I know this is gross but I've been wanting to get this off my chest for a long time. Which reminds me, my chest is very hairy, and the dang hair is now mostly gray. Bummer.

I'm afraid to look at the hair on my back.

I'll be glad when Magnum, PI-type hairy chests are vogue again.

And in related hair news, I'm growing a beard! Four days into it. Two weeks is the longest I've ever gone without shaving but this time, I'm going all the way to the end of the year, at the very least.

merry chri stmas

My mother had mine pierced at the age of 6 months. After I turned 16, I started to pierce them myself further, I now have 4 in each ear. On my left I have 3 lobe piercings and 1 tragus piercing, and on my right ear 3 lobe piercings & 1 helix piercing.

EmeraldSkies said:

prb said:

I had mine pierced when I turned 13...one in each ear, but rarely wear earrings (usually if I go out or at Xmas).

I had my ears pierced too when I turned 13. I remember begging my mom to let me get my ears pierced, since all of the other girls in my class had them. I was soooo excited when she gave me the go ahead to get it done.

I had a second hole pierced in both ears around 1990. Funny thing is, lately, I haven't been wearing earrings all that much. I should start wearing them again. I always worry about the holes closing up on me.

Genesia said:

I got my ears pierced at a department store when I was 13. (This was in the early days of free range piercing - my mom actually got hers done at the doctor's office.) They used these earrings that had a point on the end of the posts - they just punched them through.

Unbeknownst to me, they put a piece of cork behind the piercee's earlobe to they wouldn't stab her in the neck - or themselves in the fingers. When that earring hit the cork, it made a terrible squeaking sound. I thought they had done something awful to my ear!

I had the same thing happen to me. When they stuck the earrings in my ear, it made the most horrible crunching sound. What's worse is that is was at the department store, and the place where you sat to have it done was in a prominent place, where people could watch. I remember saying over and over again, "Ow!!" and crying, because that shit hurt. The second piercings I got were done with a gun, which was a hell of a lot less painful and easier (not to mention quicker).

purplemookiebut said:

i got 9 in each ear. got the first set at 17. my lobes are stretched to one inch. i got teal see thru squishy silicone eyelets

9 - wow! I have often tossed around the idea of getting a third piercing in each ear, but haven't done it yet.

RodeoSchro said:

Mine are hairy, is that what you mean?

But I trim them constantly. I cannot STAND hairy ears. They are simply unacceptable.

The weirdest thing is, I never ever had a hair growing out of my ear until the exact day I hit 40.

Then, BOOM! Hairs were sprouting up all over.

At least my nose is relatively hairless. Except for one hair that will grow right in the center of my nose. And for some reason, I almost never see it until it's about 1/2 inch long.

I know this is gross but I've been wanting to get this off my chest for a long time. Which reminds me, my chest is very hairy, and the dang hair is now mostly gray. Bummer.

I'm afraid to look at the hair on my back.

I'll be glad when Magnum, PI-type hairy chests are vogue again.

And in related hair news, I'm growing a beard! Four days into it. Two weeks is the longest I've ever gone without shaving but this time, I'm going all the way to the end of the year, at the very least.

Because I have an allergy to nickel that is in earrings, I have to wear earrings from a company called Simply Whispers. They seem to be the only earrings that I can wear that do not make my ears get all puffed up, pussy and itchy. Does anybody else have this allergy? I remember being happy to discover Simply Whispers earrings. I thought I was the only one who had an allergy to nickel.

I just put earrings in both ears, and have come to the realization that I need to buy some more, smaller earrings. When you have more than one piercing, and you want to wear earrings in all of them, it makes it hard to do that if you have earrings that are too big or bulky.

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Excuse the hair, I didn't get much sleep last night, and haven't showered yet.

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I have eight total, four in each ear: three in each lobe and a daith piercing in each. The daith piercings are permanent obviously, but I take the hoops and studs out of the lobes each night because they irritate me when I sleep.

My ears are... born again Virgins.

I got the lobes pierced on two seperate occasions when I was younger. I had alot of allergies to metals, and for some reason, I could never keep ANYTHING in without it becoming horribly infected. So I gave up.

As I got older, the allergies have since gotten a LITTLE better; I have a 10k hoop in my nose, a bioflex labret stub in my lip, and two titanium bars in my tongue. I'll probably go and try one more time to get my ears done; I'll just have to wear real gold or titanium.

Acrylic said:

My ears are... born again Virgins.

I got the lobes pierced on two seperate occasions when I was younger. I had alot of allergies to metals, and for some reason, I could never keep ANYTHING in without it becoming horribly infected. So I gave up.

As I got older, the allergies have since gotten a LITTLE better; I have a 10k hoop in my nose, a bioflex labret stub in my lip, and two titanium bars in my tongue. I'll probably go and try one more time to get my ears done; I'll just have to wear real gold or titanium.

I have the same problem with an allergy to metals. I have been buying earrings from Simply Whispers, and have NEVER had an issue. I recommend them to anybody who has issues like I do.

www.simplywhispers.com

psychodelicide said:

Because I have an allergy to nickel that is in earrings, I have to wear earrings from a company called Simply Whispers. They seem to be the only earrings that I can wear that do not make my ears get all puffed up, pussy and itchy. Does anybody else have this allergy? I remember being happy to discover Simply Whispers earrings. I thought I was the only one who had an allergy to nickel.

I just put earrings in both ears, and have come to the realization that I need to buy some more, smaller earrings. When you have more than one piercing, and you want to wear earrings in all of them, it makes it hard to do that if you have earrings that are too big or bulky.

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Excuse the hair, I didn't get much sleep last night, and haven't showered yet.

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psychodelicide said:

Because I have an allergy to nickel that is in earrings, I have to wear earrings from a company called Simply Whispers. They seem to be the only earrings that I can wear that do not make my ears get all puffed up, pussy and itchy. Does anybody else have this allergy? I remember being happy to discover Simply Whispers earrings. I thought I was the only one who had an allergy to nickel.

I just put earrings in both ears, and have come to the realization that I need to buy some more, smaller earrings. When you have more than one piercing, and you want to wear earrings in all of them, it makes it hard to do that if you have earrings that are too big or bulky.

[img:$uid]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v626/psychodelicide/2010-11-2922-17-00875.jpg?t=1291130461[/img:$uid]

Excuse the hair, I didn't get much sleep last night, and haven't showered yet.

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i like your earrings. my ears are pierced too, but fortunately i don't have any allergies to nickle. although, the way things have been going one might crop up anyway i've been thinking about double piercing

psychodelicide said:

purplemookiebut said:

i got 9 in each ear. got the first set at 17. my lobes are stretched to one inch. i got teal see thru squishy silicone eyelets

9 - wow! I have often tossed around the idea of getting a third piercing in each ear, but haven't done it yet.

yeah 3 sets of cartilage,tragii,inner conches and the rest are lobes...

I have one piercing in each ear. They were done when I was a few months old. I have a nickel allergy as well, so I stick with yellow gold and sterling silver.

EmeraldSkies said:

psychodelicide said:

Because I have an allergy to nickel that is in earrings, I have to wear earrings from a company called Simply Whispers. They seem to be the only earrings that I can wear that do not make my ears get all puffed up, pussy and itchy. Does anybody else have this allergy? I remember being happy to discover Simply Whispers earrings. I thought I was the only one who had an allergy to nickel.

I just put earrings in both ears, and have come to the realization that I need to buy some more, smaller earrings. When you have more than one piercing, and you want to wear earrings in all of them, it makes it hard to do that if you have earrings that are too big or bulky.

[img:$uid]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v626/psychodelicide/2010-11-2922-17-00875.jpg?t=1291130461[/img:$uid]

Excuse the hair, I didn't get much sleep last night, and haven't showered yet.

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What's up with the face?

XxAxX said:

psychodelicide said:

Because I have an allergy to nickel that is in earrings, I have to wear earrings from a company called Simply Whispers. They seem to be the only earrings that I can wear that do not make my ears get all puffed up, pussy and itchy. Does anybody else have this allergy? I remember being happy to discover Simply Whispers earrings. I thought I was the only one who had an allergy to nickel.

I just put earrings in both ears, and have come to the realization that I need to buy some more, smaller earrings. When you have more than one piercing, and you want to wear earrings in all of them, it makes it hard to do that if you have earrings that are too big or bulky.

[img:$uid]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v626/psychodelicide/2010-11-2922-17-00875.jpg?t=1291130461[/img:$uid]

Excuse the hair, I didn't get much sleep last night, and haven't showered yet.

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i like your earrings. my ears are pierced too, but fortunately i don't have any allergies to nickle. although, the way things have been going one might crop up anyway i've been thinking about double piercing

Why thank you. Hopefully, you won't develop and allergy to nickle. Having a double piercing in both ears is nice (although my dad wasn't too pleased when I got my second piercing - and I'm 40+ years of age now).

purplemookiebut said:

psychodelicide said:

9 - wow! I have often tossed around the idea of getting a third piercing in each ear, but haven't done it yet.

yeah 3 sets of cartilage,tragii,inner conches and the rest are lobes...

I used to work with a girl who had a piercing in the tragus area. It looked good, although I am fearful that it would be more painful to be pierced there than it would be to be pierced on an earlobe.

JessieJ said:

I have one piercing in each ear. They were done when I was a few months old. I have a nickel allergy as well, so I stick with yellow gold and sterling silver.

A dermatologist once advised me to wear 24-carat gold earrings, and I would not have an allergic reaction. But 24-carat gold earrings are expensive!

psychodelicide said:

JessieJ said:

I have one piercing in each ear. They were done when I was a few months old. I have a nickel allergy as well, so I stick with yellow gold and sterling silver.

A dermatologist once advised me to wear 24-carat gold earrings, and I would not have an allergic reaction. But 24-carat gold earrings are expensive!

I usually wear 14k gold and I've been ok with that. Nickel is used in a lot of white gold so I avoid it.