Lizzie wants piercing!

Jun 12, 2011 19:31

Lizzie wants to get her ears pierced! Ahhh, she's growing up so fast ( Read more... )

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iamradar June 12 2011, 23:31:24 UTC
I share your experience with getting mine done young and it hurting like hell. (This was 1989)

However, 2 years ago I had my ears re-done at Claire's and the gun was very different than the one of my youth. It hardly hurt at all, and the earring posts I chose were gold rather than anything else (because I'm actually allergic to most everything else, which is why I rarely wear jewelry of any type).

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iamradar June 13 2011, 00:15:35 UTC
I can give that a shot...but I really am hella allergic to practically every metal. The next time I'm up your way, I can give 'em a test. :D

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lovmelovmycats June 13 2011, 00:22:17 UTC
This is interesting. Did they go through the old holes, or do new ones?

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lovmelovmycats June 13 2011, 00:22:37 UTC
Ouch! :(

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lovmelovmycats June 13 2011, 00:19:52 UTC
She is growing in responsibility by leaps and bounds. But I still help her with her hygiene. I brush her teeth at night, she brushes them in the morning. One for her to do for her independence, one for dental health. While the piercings are healing (few months?) I plan to do the cleaning. Once they are healed, I think she can take care of them easily enough. Her big responsibility while they are healing will be to keep her hands ( germs) off them.

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ide_cyan June 13 2011, 01:05:01 UTC
Fun historical fact: piercing guns were originally meant for tagging livestock.

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lovmelovmycats June 13 2011, 02:19:17 UTC
Yikes!

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lovmelovmycats June 13 2011, 02:19:02 UTC
Mmhmm, thank you!

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ide_cyan June 13 2011, 01:01:00 UTC
Surfing by via friendsfriends to vote for the needle people. I have multiple ear piercings, most of which were done with guns at the mall (the first, regular two when I was about seven, the rest when I was a teenager and paid for them myself). None of those was entirely satisfactory -- the basic two lobe piercings are too high, and the others are angled weirdly (guns lack precision), and one kind of nicked the cartilage. The cartilage (helix) piercing I got on purpose at a needle place was done far, far more professionally, and was actually less painful than with a gun, and had jewelry that was more suitable to healing without trouble ( ... )

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lovmelovmycats June 13 2011, 02:18:34 UTC
Thanks for the info and the link!

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