Curiosity; changes for summer.

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I've been thinking about getting a piercing; I'm also thinking about getting it in such time as it can be somewhat healed by June, at least to the point of not being an angry red and bleeding.

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Comments

[envirobitch.livejournal.com]

I'm a fan of unobtrusively unusual piercings. As far as ears go, that tends to mean somewhere on the inside, chosen as per ear-type. Here's my favorite one for boys:
http://tattoo.about.com/library/blhiramorbital.htm
only, you should have less bland silver/black jewlery, and not with the ball

[carmiendo.livejournal.com]

orbitals are sweet.
http://tattoo.about.com/cs/pear/l/bl011104d.htm is also really cool.

brian, your quiz sucks for lack of options. here are some incoherent details that may help you decide:

any large or hooklike earring will get caught in your hair all the time in an enormously annoying way. you won't get pierced with something like that, but keep in mind that you probably shouldn't include them in your final plan.

if you are going to want to play with changing it around, lobes are the way to go. most anywhere else you can't or shouldn't really change the jewelry yourself.

studs tend to annoy me because i think they're girly and unhardcore. then again, there are more options than just rings.

i feel incoherent and that's bad right before a final. off to get some food!

[hmdavid83.livejournal.com]

another word of advice: get pierced with a needle (aka go to Puncture) rather than a piercing gun like they use at the mall and whatnot. At puncture they seem to only do rings for new piercings which from what i've heard make it easier for the piercings to heal. Lauren had her lobes done at puncture and has the standard rings that they use in, so if you're curious take a look at hers. If after that you want to switch to studs i think that would look good too, but for the initial piercing do it right.

[hmdavid83.livejournal.com]

also, as far as the where bit, ear lobes heal a lot faster and are far less painful than other ear piercings. You may want to start there, and once you have a sense of what you're in for go for cartiledge or something like that. doing fresh piercing ear care for 6 weeks on lobes is annoying, doing it for 6 months is a royal pain, so unless you're really sure that you want the more complicated slower healing piercing i'd wait until you have a good sense of what you'd be in for. Also, you can't go swimming (or submerge your head) with a fresh piercing which means 6 weeks for lobes vs. 6-9 months for other ear piercings, so given that summer is approaching you may want to keep that in mind.

[partly-cloudy.livejournal.com]

Something else to consider is that the ear piercing may not entirely heal. Mine were pierced when I was in elementary school, and although I stopped wearing earrings within a few years, they never fully healed-- I probably couldn't shove a post through them, but there are still external marks on each ear, front and back.