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Post by canola4life on Feb 26, 2003 21:27:32 GMT -5
one thing you might want to consider (i hope you want to consider it) is healing time. a standard cartilage piercing takes an average of 12 months to heal completely, whereas mine (a rook) takes about 8 weeks because it's nestled. a daith might take even less time, and lobes run around 6 weeks. traguses also take about a year.
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Post by .Hunting:High:and:Low. on Mar 6, 2003 0:51:42 GMT -5
Currently, I have 5 regular lobe piercings in my left ear, 3 in my right, and I'm currently thinking about getting the "standard" industrial done at the top of my right ear as well. A coworker of mine has a vertical one done and it is the coolest piercing I have seen... Although he also has said it is the most painful, so I don't think I'd want to get the vertical done... Plus, the horizontal industrial looks very cool to me. Now I need to get the guts up to do it (believe it or not, I'm less afraid of getting another tattoo than to get that industrial done!).
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Post by KattyKatie on Mar 6, 2003 14:20:40 GMT -5
You know what I will never understand? How people can stand to get their eyebrows done. I mean, it looks cool and all, but having a needle that close to my eye doesn't really appeal to me. I mean, its gotta be scary right?
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Post by .Hunting:High:and:Low. on Mar 6, 2003 19:02:04 GMT -5
I never got the eyebrow thing either... Or the tongue ring. No offense to those who have it, but it's not my thing... That and I hate when people with tongue rings play with it while they talk to you... LOL
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Post by canola4life on Mar 6, 2003 19:52:10 GMT -5
the industrial is a really slow healer, but if you're willing to baby it and deal with rarely sleeping on that side of your head, i think it's a beautiful pierce. one comment on something i saw reading over the first page, beside the fact that you can get the clit itself pierced. the hollow needles they use don't actually remove a chunk of skin (that would be a dermal punch), but rather they cut a C shape and push themselves through it (it's the way the tip of the needle is beveled.) my rook has been acting up lately, with some hypertrophic scarring forming first on the bottom of the hole but now a littl eon the top too. it's happened once or twice before, and i'm pretty sure it's because since it healed witha curved barbell in, it's irritated when the jewelry moves when i sleep too heavily on it. i had my piercer order a 1/4" internally threaded straight barbell to replace my current longer CBB. i went in yesterday after talking to him and deciding we could change the ewelry despite still having a little bit of scar tissue left... bad idea. he took the CBB out, put the barbell in, and realized the scar made the tissue just barely too thick to screw on the ball. out it came, and back in with the longer curved barbell. it was swollen from all the fighting, and i'm gonna have to wait about 4 weeks til it's pristine. piercing will teach you perseverance. my ear just looks wrong without two small balls of metal peeking from either side of my rook ridge. we'll try again.
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Post by KattyKatie on Mar 11, 2003 17:09:36 GMT -5
I have a question... has anyone here ever had a tongue piercing that got infected?? I know its gross, but I'm supercurious as to what it would be like....
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