At A Glance
Author	Sam R
Contact	sam_scientist@hotmail.com
When	A month ago
Artist	Me
Studio	My bathroom

I saw some pictures and I was hooked, a Trans-lobe piercing. I could just see my 1" lobes with big barbells through them...

so on a nice warm day, I had started off by shoving an old 1" tube in my ear, I planned to go to school and drill a nice 12 Ga hole right in the side of it, and I did. the SSS was hard to drill, I broke one of the teachers drill bit, but what ever.

After drilling I filed down any sharp edges and polished the jewelry. I put it in a my bag and wend back to working on school stuff. My shop teacher is really cool about letting me do things other than school work in the shop.

I had read a few (two to be exact) BME experiences about Trans lobe stuff, and I felt ready to do it. I saw one barbell going from the bottom of the lobe to just behind the anti-tragus, that looked kind of weird, and I figured then i cant listen to music with ear buds, so no.

The other one was a barbell going from outer lobe to just below where a second lobe piercing might go.I had first planned on the last idea, but I ended up cheeping out and having to buy a small barbell, damn, I hate being poor. I decided on one nice barbell from the bottom of my lobe to the inside of the earring. I first planned a 14 Ga bar, so I drilled a bit bigger of a hole so I could have a nice area to aim at.

I went into my bathroom, set up a bit of a cloth table on my sink so as to not loose anything down the drain. I tied my hair back, because of obvious reasons, and put on a black shirt, because I had no real idea of how much this was gonna bleed.

I put on some gloves, after washing my hands with medical disinfectant. I then put everything I was going to use in 99% alcohol. After about 10 minutes of swirling the mix around, I rinsed everything off in distilled water, then put it on some paper towel.

I then popped the old tube out,(it was a small glass jar I put colored liquids in, really trippy earring) lubed up my ear with some vitamin-e oil, and popped in my new drilled tube. After shoving on some O-rings, I used a flashlight to make sure that no blood vesicles or other crap was in the way. I lined up the hole, and drew (with some ink) a small black dot where I was going to pierce. I poked the needle to my skin just to line it up, and...

POP!!!!

As if my ear had just said "LETS DO THIS!"

I felt the tip go through the first layer of skin.

I then stopped and said, well I guess I'm doing this now, so I gave a big push and I got another POP and a clink of the needle hitting the other side of my tube.

"Cool! that didn't hurt at all" I said to myself. And it really didn't. With such little flesh and nerves and stuff going though my lobe, no pain at all. I then slid the 12 Ga needle out of my new hole, and slid in a nice new barbell. I grabbed the pliers and screwed on the ball, real tight! It was a real pain to hold a small metal ball with needle nose pliers while looking through the mirror, then trying to get it to thread into a tiny moving bar, what a pain in the ass. It seemed like hours before I got the damned thing on.

The hole bled a bit, but nothing my Joy couldn't overcome. I then took a few Q-tips and wiped away some of the blood, then with the other end, I put some vitamin-e oil all over, it kind of stopped the bleeding. I took a second to look at my ear, I smiled a lot, then cleaned all my junk with alcohol again and put it all away. I cleaned off the sink, and then took a piss, piercing things makes me have to pee apparently.

To this day my ear it great, a few weeks after piercing my Trans lobe, I noticed the hole was kind of loose, so why not shove a 12 Ga stretching nail in it... no problem.

I love my Trans lobe, I will do maybe a few more on both ear now that they are both 1".

It's cool getting the odd looks at school, at my local piercing shop, and all over town, maybe I'm a bit of an attention whore...

I did use semi-proper cleaning and work habits by the way.

Thanks for reading this.

Sam