Be honest how much does

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getting your ears pierced really hurt. I want to get them done but I a coward. I get my eyebrows waxed is it worse than that.
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No, waxing is way worse. Ears throb a little bit but a couple of paracetamol does the trick.

Do it!

Thanks tea. You've given me some confidence. I really want them done. D.D is going to come in with me. You'd think I was going in to have a baby. I'm getting my bleedin ears pierced. T.G. I can only give birth by c/section. Imagine me in labour.

It's all relative. If it's just the lobes, it just feels like a hard pinch which lasts a second.

The other bits of your ear ie helix etc, do hurt a bit more, and because they use a syringe rather than a gun, the process isn't as quick.

Sometimes the anticipation can be worse than the actual event.

Barely a scratch, honestly!

The actually piercing is barely anything at all, but they might burn a little bit after. Only like an itchy insect bite though, nothing you've not experienced before and be able to ignore with is.

ease* not is!

Take paracetamol about 20 mins before you go in. That will take the edge off it. But it's not that bad anyway

I don't have my ears pierced but I get my eyebrows waxed regularly and I love it! It's all over in a jiffy!

It doesnt hurt as much as/any more than waxing eyebrows IIRC!

My memory from having my recent ones done and what my DD said is that the actual piercing is so quick it doesn't hurt. Afterwards, the piercings felt hot and a bit sore, but definitely no more than waxing. I put some cold cotton wool on them and then went to sleep, may have been a little bruised the next day if touched but certainly no pain.

It doesn't hurt. It felt like a small elastic band being flicked on each lobe to me. Afterwards you have to clean them daily- I used tea tree oil. If they get infected I imagine it would be sore, but mine were fine.

I'm rubbish with pain, and only got mine done a few years ago. It's really not very painful at all, and it's over really quickly. I didn't take any painkillers either (never occurred to me to be honest!) and it really was fine. You do need to be quite diligent about bathing them in salt water a couple of times a day - don't buy any of the weird solutions that jewellers etc recommend, and don't twist the earrings - that just breaks the new skin that's forming. I'd recommend gong to a piercing place (ie somewhere that does body piercing etc too, like a tattoo parlour) as they really know what they are doing, since they pierce things far more complicated than ear lobes!

Thanks everyone for the advice and reasurrance. Definanlty going to get them done.

If you take ibuprofen beforehand it helps with any swelling too.

Don't go to Claires or a hair salon, go to a reputable piercing shop that does not use guns! I'm sure people will come along saying that they had their own gunned and it will be fine but a lot of the time it's not. I can give you more info on this if need be.

Use a quarter of a teaspoon of rock salt to 250ml of boiling water to bathe them twice a day. Tea tree oil is way too harsh.

Do not twist them as any dirt or grime will just get forced in the hole.

About as much as having an injection. Initial sting and then it's over.

Oh it doesn't hurt at all having it done

Mind you I have 4 holes in each ear, my nose lip and belly button pierced