Juneau said:
Man, I'm going to have to spend the rest of the day trying not to picture that...
BTW: thanks for the new sig. material!
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Got my first piercing.
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Man, I'm going to have to spend the rest of the day trying not to picture that...
BTW: thanks for the new sig. material!
hehe, one of my old piercers used that to describe the holes 
He also used to say they smelled like two skunks screwing in an onion patch, which is pretty spot on as well lol. I use wood or bone for that reason. The pourus material absorbs sweat and makes them not smell so bad. Of course, you dont want to use those materials in fresh piercings.
He also used to say they smelled like two skunks screwing in an onion patch, which is pretty spot on as well lol. I use wood or bone for that reason. The pourus material absorbs sweat and makes them not smell so bad. Of course, you dont want to use those materials in fresh piercings.
Ah, how can I forget the onion smell. Sometimes at work, I'll pull out my plug while my friend is on a call, and put it right under his nose while he's typing.
Anyone with plugs will know this term: Ear Butter.
Anyone with plugs will know this term: Ear Butter.
BassManPatsFan said:
Not by too much. You can safely jump 1 size every 4-6 weeks, depending on how fast you heal. So 6 sizes in 9 months isnt that far out of the norm if you have a goal ahead of time. Now, its expensive to buy 6 pairs of jewelry hehe.
At a time I was doing a size a week with no problem. Didn't have any problems until I went from 4 to 2 and 2 to 0.
xcental34x said:
Ya ears are pretty stretchy...and the smaller guages really arent that big of jumps. 4 to a 2 is a pretty sizable jump, and of course any sizes bigger than that are almost exponential as far as one size to another. Think of it like doubling 2. Well thats 4. But doubling 4 is 8, thats kinda how it feels hehe.
Juneau said:
oh ok cool.
Yeah I haven't bought any jewelry since I bought my first pair of earrings at camp. Here in the US a set of 14 or 12 gaugers usually costs about 20, whereas I got mine at camp in Nova Scotia for like $10 canadian which is nothing in comparison. I'm definitely waiting for this coming summer when I go back to buy more jewelry, because I can't justify to myself spending 20 bucks on a pair of earrings when I only use one of em (at the moment). Plus, that's 20 buckarroos that could go to the next bass purchase!
-Alex
Got both ears pierced nine years ago, and still wear earrings. I don't care about the left/right earring code thing...just like the look of both pierced.
Marshall
Marshall
What do you guys with the huge earrings (the ones you could shove your finger through) and eyebrow, lip, tounge, nose etc piercings do with all that stuff when you go for job interviews?
And for the employed ones, how does your boss react to them, especially if your job entails dealing directly with the public?
For the record I have no piercings, and never plan on getting any.
And for the employed ones, how does your boss react to them, especially if your job entails dealing directly with the public?
For the record I have no piercings, and never plan on getting any.
I work at a call center, so all interaction with customers is non-visual, therefore management has no problem with my ear piercings. Odd piercings are par at where I work. One friend of mine has 4 lip rings (2 on each side), and there is one employee with 3 studs in the back of his neck. One of my friends even used to have his wrist pierced.
Plugs aren't very noticable, especially if your hair is over your ears. I keep a plug in my nose and most people don't even know I have my cartiledge pierced.
As for stretching, going from 10 to 00 in 9 months is no big deal. You can get them pierced at 4 if you want. Mine were because I have decent sized lobes and all. 00 isn't even all that big.
As for stretching, going from 10 to 00 in 9 months is no big deal. You can get them pierced at 4 if you want. Mine were because I have decent sized lobes and all. 00 isn't even all that big.
Well I work mostly online and over the phone, with very little interaction physically with customers. I do do sales as well, and occasionally meet a customer or two when they are picking up orders. By then though, I've established myself as a good guy that will take care of them, and usually they dont say a thing about me being all pierced and tattoo'd. The boss thinks its cool, and occasionally uses a picture of me to scare people off hehe. Then again, my boss is only 2 years older than me.
I havent had too much trouble at other jobs, as I used to bartend, and the appearance was actually a plus. I keep myself pretty neat, and certainly clean, and I dont look like a thug. I think all of my work is at least presentable should I choose. Aside from my ears, my labret piercing is the only other visable one. I can cover my tattoos, and my ears really arent that noticable, till you catch light shinning through them.
I havent had too much trouble at other jobs, as I used to bartend, and the appearance was actually a plus. I keep myself pretty neat, and certainly clean, and I dont look like a thug. I think all of my work is at least presentable should I choose. Aside from my ears, my labret piercing is the only other visable one. I can cover my tattoos, and my ears really arent that noticable, till you catch light shinning through them.
my first piercing was my tongue in 1996. i took it out when everyone said, "oh, yeah, you're the guy with the tongue ring!" that got old really quickly. i had had it for about a year.
then i got my left tragus done in 2000. a couple months later i got both lobes pierced at 14g. i've stretched them up to 6g, which was very difficult to get in, for some reason. up to 8g, life was good, but 6g was difficult.
a little over a year ago, i got a prince albert. that has probably been the most utilitarian piercing. if a genital piercing has ever seemed like a good idea to you, i recommend doing it. for most people, it's a frightful thought, and it should be avoided.
i work in the auto industry. i'm an electrical engineer. i used to work in MI (that's the music industry, not michigan), for crown and for peavey/crest. most people i work with either don't notice or don't care. i don't think my current job is any different than peavey in that respect. although they were mostly musicians, the guys at peavey were still engineers.
i wore clear glass plugs for the current job's interview, so they were visible, but not ostentatious. i kept the green titanium 14g ring in my tragus, though. for peavey, i kept all rings in, but at the time they were 14g black rings, and a 16g black ring in my tragus.
i don't think it's shocking, anymore, for someone to be pierced, so we're back to being judged mostly on the content of our character rather than outward appearances. of course, wearing a really good looking suit speaks louder than anything else in a professional interview.
robb.
then i got my left tragus done in 2000. a couple months later i got both lobes pierced at 14g. i've stretched them up to 6g, which was very difficult to get in, for some reason. up to 8g, life was good, but 6g was difficult.
a little over a year ago, i got a prince albert. that has probably been the most utilitarian piercing. if a genital piercing has ever seemed like a good idea to you, i recommend doing it. for most people, it's a frightful thought, and it should be avoided.
i work in the auto industry. i'm an electrical engineer. i used to work in MI (that's the music industry, not michigan), for crown and for peavey/crest. most people i work with either don't notice or don't care. i don't think my current job is any different than peavey in that respect. although they were mostly musicians, the guys at peavey were still engineers.
i wore clear glass plugs for the current job's interview, so they were visible, but not ostentatious. i kept the green titanium 14g ring in my tragus, though. for peavey, i kept all rings in, but at the time they were 14g black rings, and a 16g black ring in my tragus.
i don't think it's shocking, anymore, for someone to be pierced, so we're back to being judged mostly on the content of our character rather than outward appearances. of course, wearing a really good looking suit speaks louder than anything else in a professional interview.
robb.
I don't have plugs, just "regular" earrings (studs or hoops), and it hasn't been an issue professionally. I'm in academia now, but I used to be a teacher and work for nonprofits and city government. If someone's going to judge me by my appearance, my skin tone and dreadlocks will probably throw them off first.
Marshall
Marshall
I've been considering piercing my ears for a while, as I've grown to kind of like the look of (smaller) gauges. The only issue is if I don't like it down the road, the healing process would be long, and they probably wouldn't fully close.
I personally will never get any part of my body pierced because I
1) don't like the look
2) think that when your old you will loook wierd
3) don't got the money to spend on it... haha
1) don't like the look
2) think that when your old you will loook wierd
3) don't got the money to spend on it... haha
I got my left cartilage done when I was 15, both lobes when I was 16 (they have since closed up) and I just got a hoop in my left nostril about 6 months ago. I'm going to probably pierce my ears again relatively soon and put smaller plugs in them. I don't know when though, I need to keep the money for a tattoo before I start making holes in my ears again. Plugs are ridiculously expensive as well, considering what you're actually paying money for.
