i think i'm going to get plugged.
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I think your hair is full enough
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but my forehead starts SO far back.0
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no but I heard they are stinky0
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it takes a long time, is very painful, and once you go past a certain size they dont shrink back.
one of my holes is overly big now, annoying.0 -
no but I heard they are stinky
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Took me over 6 months to get to 12mm. I did it myself.
If you wear silicone plugs instead of metal, there is very little to ZERO smell. I've had metal and glass and plastic plugs... The only ones that haven't smelled AT ALL have been my new silicone ones.
I'm stretching up a third one now, at 4mm and remembering how much of a pain in the bum it is
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Like above poster said, metal stinks. I'm at a 00g. It's painful depending on what size your coming from and going to. Ears will be sore for a week or so. Now that I'm making bigger jumps, I wrap medical bandage tape around a taper until it's as big as I can jam in there without pain. I'll let it stretch to there and add more tape a couple days later. More of a slow stretch so they aren't so rough when sleeping and such.0
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I take my plugs out before I shower every night, and soak them in salt water so they don't stink. I'm at a 00gauge right now, but am trying to shrink to a 0gauge but it's not working. I personally think they're hot, wish my man would get some but he doesn't even have an earring. I buy all my jewelery online because it's damn expensive in a piercing shop. If you buy the wooden plugs, make sure you massage with oil every single night or they'll dry out and crack. I personally like the metal ones that look like barings. What else do you want to know...the first ear is easy to stretch, then your body gets smarts and hates you, so the second ear is a little more stressful. Of course it's going to hurt, but it isn't unbearable or else no one would have them. Rach is right, use medical tape to make them bigger and bigger...I just used a claw and went right to 00gauge, but I was lucky and didn't have any problems.0
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Can I ask, in a total non-hater way, just from curiosity, why you want to do that? It look SO painful. And irreversible.0
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I love the look of metal too, but I think I'm gonna start saving them for "special" occasions hahah0
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I have absolutely no idea what you fine women are talking about
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tattoos hurt more, plugs are asthetically pleasing to me. I like how naughty they look. Especially because I'm a straight laced secretary.
Determinedbut...I have jade green ones that are my "special occasion" ones lol and black with white slashed through them. my metal ones are every day0 -
Lucky: I think mine look beautiful!
This was back at 10mm (00g)
I'm at 12mm (1/2") now and am not planning to get any bigger
I simply love the way it looks. I have tattoos too, and I don't think stretching is any weirder than tattoos!0 -
Lucky: I think mine look beautiful!
This was back at 10mm (00g)
I'm at 12mm (1/2") now and am not planning to get any bigger
I simply love the way it looks. I have tattoos too, and I don't think stretching is any weirder than tattoos!
so do you have a hard time with flared ones? That's why i like my metal ones so much, they're screwed in lol I find I lose my flares a lot more, that's why i started taking them out every night...yours look great though0 -
I can't even begin to imagine. I had my ears re-pierced 18 months ago, and I am not exaggerating when I say it took 10 months for me not to be in constant daily pain from it. I should have remembered from the first time round. I suddenly realised about 14 months after having them done that I wasn't crying every time I switched earrings any more. It was that painful.0
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I can't even begin to imagine. I had my ears re-pierced 18 months ago, and I am not exaggerating when I say it took 10 months for me not to be in constant daily pain from it. I should have remembered from the first time round. I suddenly realised about 14 months after having them done that I wasn't crying every time I switched earrings any more. It was that painful.
did you get them pierced with a gun? if so, that's why...google why you shouldn't do that, it will disgust you lol...next time go to a piercer at a tattoo shop, it hurts WAY less, and healing time is 4 weeks.0 -
I can't even begin to imagine. I had my ears re-pierced 18 months ago, and I am not exaggerating when I say it took 10 months for me not to be in constant daily pain from it. I should have remembered from the first time round. I suddenly realised about 14 months after having them done that I wasn't crying every time I switched earrings any more. It was that painful.
did you get them pierced with a gun? if so, that's why...google why you shouldn't do that, it will disgust you lol...next time go to a piercer at a tattoo shop, it hurts WAY less, and healing time is 4 weeks.
Nope, with a needle. In a tattoo shop. They still took 10 months to heal.0 -
Plugged? Painful stretching? o.O0
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The metal ones in that picture are single flare to lay flush with the lobe, and the back has a rubber band holding them on.
They're comfy and very very pretty, but they can smell if I don't wash them every day, and since I'm stretching a third hole now, they were irritating the **** out of the new stretch when I was trying to sleep ):
The ones I have now are "saddles" in a flesh tone... semi soft silicone.
They don't fit as nice, but they're essential for work ):0 -
nice, i don't wear "o" rings anymore, I found the discharge was to much from my ear, and the smell was terrible...i just buy flares and screws now...but i like the flesh coloured ones. I bought clear ones, and those looked pretty damn cool too.0
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I don't understand what you mean by "get plugged" or why you'd have to make an appointment. Are your ears not already pierced? I am up to 5/8" now and I did it myself. Some hurt a little some not at all. Just let your ears heal in between. And it's not totally permanent, a lot of people's ears shrink considerably.0
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This isn't about plugs but I feel that the people posting in this thread will be knowledgeable about my queries:
I have an industrial in one ear and two cartilage piercings in the other. I haven't worn my earrings in years, but I would like to start again. I am pretty sure I need to get them re-pierced. Is it more/less painful the second time? Does it cost the same? Can I use my old earrings? and do you guys think I should get all 3 piercings redone at the same time, or one ear then the other so I at least have a side of my head to sleep on comfortably?
Sorry for a million questions.
Oh and I will of course be getting them done in a tattoo place with needles, no guns for me!0 -
My thoughts exactly...Plugged? Painful stretching? o.O0 -
It doesn't hurt too much if you do it properly and do it slowly. If you do it too quickly the hole will split and then it won't look right if you shrink it down again. It also takes ages to heal if it splits, my mates did and it went really manky. Mine are currently 12mm on the right and 8mm on the left. Tempted to go bigger but will prob want to shrink them back at some point! Did mine myself too.0
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This isn't about plugs but I feel that the people posting in this thread will be knowledgeable about my queries:
I have an industrial in one ear and two cartilage piercings in the other. I haven't worn my earrings in years, but I would like to start again. I am pretty sure I need to get them re-pierced. Is it more/less painful the second time? Does it cost the same? Can I use my old earrings? and do you guys think I should get all 3 piercings redone at the same time, or one ear then the other so I at least have a side of my head to sleep on comfortably?
Sorry for a million questions.
Oh and I will of course be getting them done in a tattoo place with needles, no guns for me!
I've got scaffolding in one ear that runs top to bottom and a normal cartilidge piercing in the other. I don't have my scaffolding in all the time but can easily repierce it, same with the other. The scaffolding does hurt to repierce at the top of my ear but that's just the angle of it. Hurts about as much as having it done when I do it but means I don't have to ask my mate to keep piercing me!0 -
I thought this post was going to be about cheese..0
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repiercing is always more painful then the first time, in my experience. I had my rook done again last year and it hurt about twice as much as the first time. Healed faster, though. Maybe try switching the ears. If you're really worried, put the industrial on the opposite ear and vice-versa, That way you aren't piercing the same scar tissue.0
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It doesn't hurt too much if you do it properly and do it slowly.
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It doesn't hurt too much if you do it properly and do it slowly.
This is a clean post!! Or it was...0 -
also, i have both ears stretched to zero (tiny, i know!). I waited at least two weeks before going up sizes, and i started at 10g. I love them. I don't regret getting them done at all. Also, i use facial cleanser to wash my ears every night so they don't smell, even though i have metal tunnels. Or maybe i've become immune to the smell ... :O0
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