The story of my vertical lobe piercing all started as most do, with searching BME in the hope that something would catch my eye and be the next big thing on my list that I just had to get done.
At A Glance Author josh Contact josh@bme.anon When Six months ago Artist steve Studio The piercing shop Location Taunton, south west UK And the more I thought about it, I'd had a fair few piercings done over the last three years, but I'd never had anything done on my ears. Now I live in a very small town, and I like to pride myself that most of my piercings to date have been ones that I've never seen on someone before, I think its nice to have something that sets you apart from the rest of the crowd so to speak, which I think is what left me really liking the idea of having a vertical lobe piercing. So as usual I did a bit of research on them, and read as many experiences as I could find and checked out peoples pictures, and after a few days my mind had been made up, I wanted one.
A day or two later I made the call to my piercer to see what experience he had with them, and just my luck he said that he hadn't ever actually done one before. But all was not lost, he told me to pop in when I was around so he could take a look at my ear and see what possibilities we had to do something.
So payday came around very slowly and I was off to Taunton to pop in to The piercing shop and see what could be done. After a quick poke around with my ear he said that my ear would be fine, and popped out the back to get all set up. After a few minutes I was called out the back into the room and told to take a seat on the bed. The nerves were starting to build, I think it was worse because I'd never had anything similar done and didn't know what to expect at all. But I was put at ease and things were explained, he also said that he would be doing the piercing free hand because it would be a lot easier to control the needle so it was central, and he could hit the marks he had made. So before I knew it I was led down on my side, and taking deep breaths, waiting for him to start. He asked if I was ready, and I said yes I was. here we go. I must admit it actually hurt quite a lot more than I was expecting it to, I didn't really feel the normal pinch on entry and exit which shocked me a lot. And it seemed like it took forever to get the needle through, although on reflection I presume it actually took around 10 seconds, but trust me it seemed like a lot longer at the time! The barbell was put into place and was tightened very well, and we were all done. I hoped down off of the bed, and he asked if it would be ok to take a photo, I agreed as I'm never one to turn down a photo opportunity. After I had paid my money and gone through the aftercare I thought I deserved a hot chocolate after all the excitement, so popped into a coffee shop for a sit down.
The pain didn't start until later that night, around 4 hours after I'd had it done, but I can tell you when it started it really did hurt, it was the kind of pain that made me want to shut my eyes if you know what I mean. Sleeping that night was a bit uncomfortable too, and stayed that way for around a week and a half. After that I could sleep on it without too much pain, and it seemed to be getting better which is always nice to see. I didn't do anything special with the healing, I just used salt water to give it a clean every night and remove all the crusties, which seemed to keep it happy.
Its been around 6 months since I had this done, and it still seems to give me a bit of hassle every now and again, I think maybe a couple more months and it should have healed up nicely. I also recently swapped the bar for PTFE which seems to have done it the world of good, so fingers crossed it will keep doing well.
If you are thinking about getting one of these, then I would say go for it, its very different and I do get a lot of people commenting on it which is nice too. So in the end all the pain was worth it because I have my very own, very unique vertical lobe.