I first saw an industrial online, trying to educate myself about piercings at the tender age of 12, I was rather special those days. Loved the look of it, but never thought about getting it due to age/parent issues and procrastination. Then I moved away from home, but it wasn't such an occupying thought in my mind until 3 months ago. One of my best friends offered to take me to my favorite studio and buy me a piercing if I payed for the bus since she's usually broke. I couldn't resist.
At A Glance Author happyrandomite Contact happyrandomite@bme.anon When A month ago Studio Youth Calabaza Location Fundadores, Centro de Monterrey MX One of my ears is more rounded off and almost flattened at the top and looks less feminine and I figured this would be just the thing to distract, plus I have a 8g, 4 lobes and a helix on my left ear and nothing but a 2g plug on my right so again, just the thing to balance it out.
So off I went, to the big bad downtown and specifically Fundadores, which by the way if you're in Monterrey and people don't bother you is a great place to get pieces and other punky things. It's technically low-class but I'd prefer there over anywhere else I can think of because everyone's very helpful and sanitary (depending on where you go, the place is huge I wouldn't recommend any shop there) I went to Youth Calabaza--the piercer there is great, I trust her implicitly because she's fast and gets things right the first time.
Went in the store and presented the piece I'd boughten on a whim awhile back. The piercer inspected it and said it would do, and started the lengthy process of sterilization. I then pulled out the bill, hopped in the chair, and braced myself for enormous pain. I can stand any pain if it's a means to an end but even so I have zero pain tolerance. The only reason I can endure these things is because for no real reason whatsoever I self-pierced both my nipples multiple times when I was 13....I think it was boredom. I wouldn't recommend it it can screw them up pretty bad. Thankfully mine are still intact. Anyways, knowing that, if I endured that, without numbing, I can take professionally done piercings. So....cutting to the chase she marked it up, took an intensely long time to sanitize everything and then poked a long thick hollow needle through my ear.
I was quite happy directly after this because I can honestly say her wiping my ear down with q-tips and disinfectant stuff was more painful. It didn't hurt, at all. I attribute this to her being extremely fast. Piercing, barbell insertion and screwing on balls took less then 30 seconds. I didn't bleed, it wasn't even red. I love her to death everyone should have a piercer like her.
The only thing I regret about the whole thing is that I bought the piece beforehand, which was shorter than I would have liked which forced me to settle for a less horizontally positioned industrial because I didn't have money to buy a new piece. She did a pretty good job for having too short a bar though.
Aftercare's been a bit tough because I suck at it. It barely hurts so I forget it's healing and I tend to treat it more roughly then it should be. I go to sleep on the left side every night and wake up on my right with my healing ear almost folded in half every morning. People are constantly bumping it. I twist it incessantly when I'm not paying attention. I do clean it very well, but not consistently, and in spite of all this it looks fine, barely hurts and has no infectious bumps or scars or anything. Joy for me....I think my ear was made for it because it was and continues to be too easy to be real. Definitely my easiest piercing.
I tried putting spikes on the end but they cut into my ear so I put the balls back. I plan on putting a spike on the bottom part when it's fully healed. That's another good point--don't mess with the ends or change the jewelry. You want to do the L.I.T.H.A. method, don't mess with it; it's just not worth it. The fastest way to heal it is to clean it faithfully and other than that don't touch. At all. In short, I would definitely recommend it but do your research and make sure you have a quality piercer--it's ultimately up to their expertise and your aftercare. Also don't twist, bump, or sleep on it because not everyone gets away with it like me, I've seen some nasty failed ears from poor aftercare one girl had to remove her upper cartilage on both ears due to infection with some really ugly scarring so, aftercare is important! Infections are bad and none of us want cauliflower ear now do we?
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