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I want a new piercing...

71 replies

Meta4 · 17/10/2012 13:21

I don't know what, or why - but I keep thinking about it. Is 29 too old for a new one?

Any suggestions welcome... Failing that talk me out of it please!

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theowlworrier · 18/10/2012 17:09

Ahhh, I have retired most of my piercings. My fave was my septum (hospital made me take it out when I went in to have DD and I forgot to put it back in for about 2 weeks. May get it redone at some point! I have to say, the nip was my absolute least fave. I retired it fairly quickly (about 18 months) but it gave me nothing but problems. It still does tbh, although not with bf. Just general tenderness.
I did have a smiley for a while which was cool. Also my verical labret and 2 toungue piercings. And a monroe. All gone now, just my tragus and one other remain! Hmmm... getting ideas now. i have always wanted surface piercings done by my collarbones.

SchrodingersMew · 18/10/2012 20:15

But what did you use?

mrscumberbatch · 18/10/2012 20:26

I would have loved clavicle piercings but broke my collarbone so ridiculously that they would have looked all over the place.

Septum was the sorest for me. i kept it in for a few months but it was a slow healer and I caught a cold. Goner!

For a surface piercing would you get a microdermal or an actual surface piercing? (with an entry and exit point.)

SchrodingersMew · 18/10/2012 20:34

Mrs I loved the clavicle piercings and miss them and my hips very much. :( Sorry about your collarbone, that must have been agony!

Septum was okay for me and it's still open (I have EDS and my skin doesn't heal very well, once a fistula has eventually healed it's usually there to stay with me!). Ouchy at catching a cold!

I've had all surface piercings and still have the Christina but I think microdermals are better, much less chance of rejecting but I don't think they look as good. :(

Would you not even get a microdermal now?

mrscumberbatch · 18/10/2012 20:42

There's not many microdermals that I've seen that don't look 'angry'. The only place I'd put them is on my face as I'm quite active and i am prone to wearing wooly jumpers which are microdermal anaethema.

SchrodingersMew · 18/10/2012 20:47

Ahh no, wooly jumpers would be killer! I haven't seen too many that don't look angry either, that's why I haven't went for one yet as my skin is very slow to heal. I've had a few surface piecings on my face and they worked out the best tbh, the healed much better than anywhere else.

mrscumberbatch · 18/10/2012 20:53

They're so small as well that any welts etc are really obvious. I'd maybe consider a dermal anchor to get something a bit bigger in

SchrodingersMew · 18/10/2012 20:55

I don't think many places do dermal anchors anymore, I think they're thought as as outdated which is a shame.

mrscumberbatch · 18/10/2012 20:58

They're not outdated as such as there's still a reason to choose a dermal anchor over a microdermal. I reckon John in Nirvana would probably do them if you ask him nicely.

I'm saving up for my sleeve though. That needs done first. Coverup alert!

Nightwish · 18/10/2012 21:07

I don't think dermals look that nice really.

You are never to old for piercings if you want them though.

My mother seems to feel that I should be growing out of them by now, with my son being 3, but I do not agree.
I am 21 and I have an aunt who is in her 40's with more piercings than me and she is bloody awesome!

On my to do list; both nipples with bars (once I have had next DC and finished with breast feeding), leaning towards a septum but thin gauge, I would also like snakebites with rings or vertical labrets in snakebite position.

I do find though that people judge me for my piercings and have been asked to take them out for a number of employers. Maybe its the fact I have spikes in them all shrugs.

I wouldn't go for any other hard cartilage ear piercings though, I had a scaffold and it started growing a huge red lump around it which I had to take out in as was pregnant with DS.
I have two nose piercings, one with side. And a labret. Normal ears too but they don't really count as I had them since I was five.
I agree with the receding gum line form the labret, I have had it for 5 years and mine are not so good but I can't bear to get rid of it!

SchrodingersMew · 18/10/2012 21:13

I reckon he would as well, he's brilliant. It's him who has stretched my tongue umpteen times and fitted proper jewelery. Not many people would do that. I have a lot of respect for him.

Nightwish That lump would have been hypertrophic scarring, it's really common especially in cartlidge piercings. It's a shame as tea tree oil normally clears it up.

Vert labrets are my favourite, they are beautiful. :)

Nightwish · 18/10/2012 21:28

Unfortunately I was riding a motorbike at the time and was taking a helmet on and off multiple times a day which was agony and I think made it go bad.
I wish I had kept it because it was awesome but being pregnant I left it for ages but got fed up with everyone telling me I had to take it out so did so .
Thanks for that though Schrodingers, I just looked at some pictures and it seems that you are right!

I have a bit of a problem with bad piercings though and of the people I know with vertical labrets more than one has it wonky... it really bugs me.
And another friend who goes to my piercer (very good) said he struggled to get the needle through her lip and it was agony, put me off a bit.

mrscumberbatch · 18/10/2012 22:23

Ahh, I didn't know you had your tongue stretched but he's entirely who I would have recommended. He's done all of mine :)

I had a vertical labret that grew out. I took out out before it could tear. Waited till it healed up and had it done again, the scar tissue anchored it and it was no problem.

SchrodingersMew · 19/10/2012 00:24

Yeah I did, mostly stretched it myself or with heavy jewelery but in the times it needed a push, I went to him. I got it to 12mm then it started tearing the webbing and I couldn't get a plug long enough. Gutted, I loved it.

He's probably who I would reccomend to anyone tbh. Very level headed and experienced.

It's great you managed to keep your vert, they are beautiful piercings imo, most people just wait until it grows out and causes horrible scarring, that's why a bit of research goes a long way! :)

SummerRain · 19/10/2012 10:00

Schro... I just used the earrings themselves. I'd already done several of my own ear piercings the same way.

I have yet to see a surface piercing that hasn't looked red and angry, even months after being done.

SchrodingersMew · 19/10/2012 12:03

That couldn't possibly have been sterile and must have hurt like hell!

Some people don't take to surface piercings but I have seen many of them that don't look angry and have looked very pretty.

mrscumberbatch · 19/10/2012 13:28

Argh!!! The thought of piercing my ear with only an earring makes me boke. How can it be sharp enough?

You must have the pain threshold of a masochist lol

SummerRain · 19/10/2012 18:58

Nope, bizarrely it hurts way less than needle or gun. The first time I had it done someone else did it for me and I honestly didn't feel it go in... Only piercing other than my second nipple piercing I can say that about.

I have a picture of dd 5 seconds after it was done grinning ear to ear... The first one stung her but the second she didn't feel at all.

She had her first infection in 4 years last month and that was because she'd shoved a back on too tight... Other than that no problems.

I stretched one of my diy piercings to 1.6 to take a larger ring and it responded way better than the gun piercings I did the same with.

AuntieMaggie · 19/10/2012 21:46

I have a double forward helix and I love it. There was a girl that came in with a picture of the triple forward helix with the different sized stones while I was there and they wouldn't do it at once and said it wouldn't look like that straight away.

I had mine done at the same time. The second one was difficult to pierce and has been temperamental but I love em. Thinking of helix adn second lobes next...

AuntieMaggie · 19/10/2012 21:55

OMG just looked up microdermal and now I want one!

Sl1nkyMalinki · 19/10/2012 22:28

Oh now I want a triple forward helix! No way am I going to be brave enough for that so maybe just the one :D

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