Piercings

[Jay_Bunny]

A tattoo/piercing place here in Richmond has an apprentice there who is doing free piercings while he is still in his apprenticeship. So my husband and I went there last night and each got an industrial. I used to have one but had to take it out for surgery. It feels so great to have it back. The guy was great and really knew his stuff. It hurt a lot less this time around. My husband and I are thinking about going back and getting more piercings. I figure they are free, and if we don't like them we can always take them out.

So show me your piercings (none of the naughty ones of course ), how long you've had it, do you like it, how long did it take to heal, and how much did it hurt?

[singingtothewheat]

<<<<<<<<<<<< showing my age,
What is industrial?

[Bruce Whitehead]

i have 27... or around there. But nothing worth showing.

Took my lobes out, was close to 3/4 inch at the time for the lower lobes and had the ones above them stretched as well, but they were all encroaching and I was not willing to get scalpelled, but was at that point I was risking tearing. The others that I can show are upper lobes and conch.

The WORST were the conch piercings. I have 3 of them. They hurt like crazy and the cartilidge takes forever to heal. And the way they sit means they are always "rocking" to a degree (against your skull - and having them on both sides means you need to sleep face down or face up *grin*), so they never feel like they heal. You take them out and they heal up within a short amount of time.

That being said... they are still my favorite permanent piercings of any part of the body (when done right) as it looks like there is a silver ball just floating in your inner ear.

My other top favs are nape and trachea... and uvula. Not sure uvula piercing is still happening, but there was a piercer in NJ that was perfecting it years back and it was all shades of interesting.

Now that I say all that, I recall REALLY wanting to get my chin pierced, but never going through with it... really hot piercing.

Bruce

[Jay_Bunny]

Got a picture of my industrial and I'm uploading it now. I've had my belly button done (never again! It got ripped out), my eyebrow (body rejected the piercing and it got infected really bad, had to take it out). I have two lobe piercings on each ear but the backs have closed up so I need to have them re-pierced. The guy at the shop said he really wanted to do a vertical industrial but I'm not sure if I want that done. I told him I'd think about it.

[Jay_Bunny]

The new metal....

[Buttons]

I've had 30+ piercings. I'm down to 3 now (nose, conch and PA). I'm a piercer by trade.

My lobes were at 1.25" at one point. They're now down to about 7/16" but I rarely wear jewellery in them. Conch is at 6g, it was dermal punched instead of being pierced. Heals up MUCH better and faster this way. My PA is at 6g as well. Nipples were done at 10g but took too long to heal so I took them out.

[PyroPython]

Currently have industrial and 2g lobes. Had eyebrow but it got stuck so i had to rip it out and had lip in the center but had to take it out for my job

[Fallguy]

I have had my tounge done three times (all gone now), my left lobe to 0g, and a PA to 2g

[Diamond_1028]

Ive had my belly button pierced,my eyebrow,my lip,my tongue,my ears of course,my antieyebrow,my nose and now I just have my tongue,lip and recently got my dimples. The dimples werent to bad. The lady made me get the right one done first and go back in a week to get the other due to swelling and the right one didnt hurt but got really swollen but the left one did but it didnt get swollen. I just had popsicles and ibuprofen handy. Oh and if you dont have dimples and get your cheeks pierced than they make you get dimples but if you do have dimples and get em pierced they come out deeper. Im one of dem people who can pull off any kind of piercing lolz

[mainbutter]

I'm going to pierce my eyeball, that'd be hardcore

Then maybe get a brain ring, and barbells through my kidney.

lol