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corazon_de_oro wrote:I'm starting to really want a new piercing... it's been about six months since I've gotten one! Tragus, daith, or second lobes? Hmmm....

I'm also waiting to get a new piercing. Since we have a store here called Off Ya Tree that does any piercing for $25AU (same as the American currency practically).
I'm tossing up between getting Tragus or Tongue next

Well my usual piercer is training a girl to become a member of the APP (she was already piercing before but she's re-training) and she's doing free piercings on certain days. I'm not 100% sure I'd trust her but if she's working under my piercer she's probably pretty good... I'm also thinking about another conch piercing in my other ear. But at the same time cartilage piercings always take ages to heal for me so I might just go for the lobes. Or my tongue web...

how does a second lobe piercing affect stretches? i want to go pretty big 14mm but im only a 6mm right now so should i wait until i get to my goal size?

If you don't get the second piercing super close to your first hole you should be fine.

To the two people thinking about getting their tragus done: I would strongly recommend this as I got about two years ago and I couldn't be more happy with it =] The only slight drawback I've noticed is that it can be hard to have a headphone in past the ring :L
Oh, and it's no where near as painful as people say :L I had to be told mine was done before I knew!

Are you able to sleep on it? I reeeally want it on my right ear as my double helix STILL keeps me from sleeping on the left side after a year and a half... plus I just think it'd look better there for now. Eventually I'd like a conch and a tragus in both ears.

Hey Corazon, just out of interest, what kind of jewellery is in your double helix piercings?
I got my first helix done about 5 months ago, the 2nd one 4 months ago.
The first one has a 14k gold sleeper in it, the 2nd one has a stud in it. I find that the one with the stud on it is a lot more uncomfortable to sleep on than the one with the sleeper in it.
I don't know if it has anything to do with my sleeper just curling over my helix, whereas the stud presses into it while I'm sleeping.

Also, I really am just torn about what to get next. My girlfriend got her tongue pierced for me, so I kind of want to return the favor haha. But I also really love tragus piercings and snakebites.... I plan on getting the labret jewellery that have stainless steel spikes on them to match my labret piercing ( I saw a guy on Monster Garage that had snakebites and a labret piercing once, with pointed jewellery and I just fell in love xD)

Although if I were you Corazon, I'd get my tragus done on the same ear that the double helix is on, so that you still have a good side to sleep on

~Zack

In addition to having my ears stretched to 4g on each side (goal is 00g... at the moment lol ) i have Spiderbites on my right side. I plan on getting my cartiledge done on my left ear (my gf wants to do it herself this weekend but idk lol) and getting my left eyebrow pierced so my piercings are evened out

BroCore92 wrote:In addition to having my ears stretched to 4g on each side (goal is 00g... at the moment lol ) i have Spiderbites on my right side. I plan on getting my cartiledge done on my left ear (my gf wants to do it herself this weekend but idk lol) and getting my left eyebrow pierced so my piercings are evened out

I let my gf do my double helix piercing. It really wasn't that bad. She did hers first to "warm me up" to the idea xD.
We boiled the piercing needle for about 10 minutes, making sure not to touch it with anything unsterile when we took it out. Just put it on some sterile paper towel.
Remember when you're doing the cartilage piercing, you'll hear 3 pops. The first is when it goes through the first layer of skin, then the cartilage, then the last layer of skin.

The main part is just making sure to use sterile equipment, so it would be even better if you buy an online piercing kit that comes with pre-packaged pre-sterilized single use equipment.

A lot of people here will probably disagree with me on doing home piercings, but I believe ear piercings are probably the safest you can do at home. Although my gf trained for a while with a piercer in a hair salon xD she also pierced my eyebrows, she pierced her own nose, lip, belly button and both nipples.

~Zack

well its not that I'm nervous about her piercing me, because she did my spiderbites for me and my right ear. And also she has snakebites that she did herself. its just i've heard getting the cartiledge done hurts like crap lol. but i figure it can't be worse then when i got my lips done so that somewhat makes me feel better lol. and yeah sterlizing it comes first when doing home-piercings. Its not the worst thing in the world if the person doing it has some experience. its also not the greatest thing in the world to do though. I also want to get my bridge done but everyone says it would look bad on me lol.