My name is Polly, and I am *clears throat* an impatient teenager. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to my left lobe and I promise I'll treat it well from now on.
At A Glance Author Polly Contact Polly@bme.anon When It just happened Artist Alex O'Neill Studio Some ledge upstairs Location Warringah Mall. Below is the story of its modification, or punishment.
About a month ago, I had two tongue piercings, and one hole in each lobe done with (the horror!) a gun when I was 10. Since then, I have gotten another tongue piercing, my nipple, a navel and inverse navel, my nape, and 9 more ear piercings (6 more on the right, two on the left) and a Monroe. All professionally done except ears, which was done by a safety pin loving friend/ex girlfriend of mine.
Two months ago I became close with an ex-manager from my work and she was talking about how she had order a set of tapers/plugs from ebay and it got me thinking about my (at that time) boring two holes which I never wore earrings in. Finally one pay day I went to the mall with my best friend and we bought what we were told was a 3mm metal curved spike. Now instead of having a hot shower and using some vaseline, we sat in the food court and shoved the piece of metal through my defenseless ear. It took 15 minutes because I kept swearing at her. It hurt. Alot. Alot more than my Monroe.
But eventually the pain went away, I could rotate the bastard and all of a sudden it seemed so... small.
I should have waited.
Why didn't I wait?!
ALWAYS WAIT!
A week later I bought a black 4mm//6g curved spike and again... my best friend crammed it through with no problems! Well, one problem. It seemed so... small!
School was interesting and I got alot of questions about it. "Did it hurt?", "Why would you do that?!", "How big are you going to go?" and of course I got alot of "Ewwwww". I wanted to keep going. I didn't want to wait.
I should have waited.
A week later... 6mm//2g blue curved spike with no immediate problems, except that once it was in it seemed tiny compare to what I browsed on the internet. But I was proud dammit.
I proudly showed my new mod to my ex-manager to which she unimpressedly replied "Yeah, just wait till you blow out your ears". She was at 4g and 6g and even though I had already out-stretched her I felt the need to keep going. I wanted to prove that my body was bullet proof. That I could do anything. That I knew more about it than she did.
FIVE DAYS LATER. I purchased a black straight 8mm//0g spike. From a dingy stall. I waited until Alex (afore mentioned best friend) arrived at the mall to show the new piece tool of torture. Her eyes lit up and I prepare myself for the pinch.
This one hurt a lot more than the others. We put this down to the fact I had two new piercings on my ear right next to the stretcher and I tried to ignore the throbbing pain. But it still hurt. Alot more. And it kept hurting for about... 6 hours after. It was sore to touch, and swollen, but was not very red. This was not normal. I was caving to the pain. Alex was staying at my house so I asked her to remove it while my step mother was in the room. She pulled.
"Hey its bleeding!"
Oh shit. I bolted to a mirror and sure enough, I had a trickle of blood reaching my chin already.
I stared at what looked like a ruby red earring where my beautiful stretcher once was and I wondered what the hell I was going to do. I tried to mop up the blood and managed to stick a cotton bud through my over-stretched ear.
Yeah, my step mother now thinks I am an idiot because she saw blood trickling down my face and I will be the first to admit... I was stupid. I didn't research, I just did something that looked cool. Stupid.
This was 3 hours ago, I downsized to the 6mm//2g spike and I am lucky I didn't blowout my ear. I'm waiting a month before I put back in the black spike. Never stretching too fast ever again.
I keep rotating it out of habit and it hurts so much. But at least now I know what never to do. And due to lack of money the best cleaning I can offer my poor, tortured ear is an awkward salt soak and antiseptic gel from my navel piercing.
NEVER STRETCH TOO FAST. IT ENDS VERY BADLY. MY SITUATION WAS NOT THAT BAD. FAST STRETCHING COULD END VERY, VERY, VERY BADLY.