STORY RATING: * * * * * (5 out of 5 stars)
Title:"Studs From hell"
Author: Emily
Complications: I had some bad swelling in both ears and some REALLY bad scarring and blood bubbles on my right lobe third hole
End Result:The third hole in my left ear is completely healed, but the right ear third hole was a bitch, wouldn't heal, so it resulted in me taking the jewelry out and letting it heal, and I still have a small bump as a scar in the back
Happy with the Result:I was very pleased with how my left lobe turned out, but my right I was very disappointed
Date Done: Left Lobe early December 2001, right lobe January 1, 2002
Story:I have a large love for piercings and when my mom refused a tongue, navel, or cartilage piercing I remembered those bastard studs from my most recent piercing a year earlier, almost, for my second holes.
The studes are stainless steal, sugerical steel (I think), are grayish in color and at the end are sharp and pointy to rip through flesh (like my poor lobes).
I got my first and second holes in my lobes on both ears with a gun and I kept the studs from my second hole for the very purpose I'm building up to.
I cleaned the crusties off with anti-bacterial soap and soaked them in the Claire's Ear Solution for about a month. I did'nt mean to do it for so long, I just kept forgetting about them till suddenly I did!
When I had finally pulled my courage together, and remembered about them, I pierced my lobe a third time in my bathroom but only the left ear because I'm right handed and it's easier to push the stud with your stronger hand than your weakest. I did clean my hands with anti-bacterial soap before doing either and after I had pierced I used some Claire's Ear Solution on my new hole. I used a HiC box drink not only to help keep me from fainting or freaking out, but to use as an ice pack without looking 'odd' to my parents.
I waited a bit for my left ear to heal so I could sleep on that during the night before I did my right ear. My right ear was like the left, in that I did it all in the bathroom and cleaned my hands, etc, but ek, problemo! Unfortunately, my left hand not being my stronger hand, I pushed the earring in part of the way and had to stop and then push some more. I think what caused my later ear troubles in that hole was that I (think) I pierced it at an angle, and an odd one. I kept the hole in my right ear till early June of that year.
My left is perfectly fine and I'm upgrading soon from a 18G CBR to a 14G horse shoe once my gauges get here. E-mail me for information or questions! Thanks!
Needle:Clarie's Stud gun Sharp earrings (I reused the sharp studs from when I got pierced via gun for my second hole done only a year earlier)
Gauge: About 18G
Purchased: Claire's (a year earlier)
Cost:Free minus the original $16.95 I paid for my second holes
Jewelry Those Studs which I later switched to 18G CBR's two and half months after healing
Purchased: Studs-Claire's and 18G CBR's-Hot Topic (wasn't cheap)
Cost:Studs-original cost 16.95 and 18G CBR's- $8.99 per gauge (so about $19 bucks together with tax)
Aftercare: Claire's ear cleaning solution and anti-bacterial soap (mostly soap)
Purchased: Clarie's
Cost: None, I had all aftercare at home provided for via parents
TOTAL COST: About $19 for the CBR's
This is my right ear before I took out the third hole jewelry, my left ear is identical minus the fact that now it has three holes and the right only two
Black CBR=10G
Blue and Green Horse Shoe=12G
Silver CBR=18G
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| Information: The stud story was the second time I had a form of self-piercing that was successful. About two years before Amanda author of one of the nipple story, tried to pierce my right lobe a second time (before I got it done with a gun), but the needle (a sewing pin) was too small in Gauge and the stud I was going to place in the peircing after the needle went in was too large. Damn! Eyebrow, was actually just kind of a mistake, I really wanted a smiley, but oh well, read the story! |