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Conch!!!! "]

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 9:34 am
by IcarusLives
Yesterday I got the single coolest piercing there is (in my eyes). I got my conch pierced at about 4.4mm (just bigger than 6g) and got a 4mm tunnel put in it. The tunnel is originally for a stretched lobe, but it fits all the same :L
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More pictures to come in the pics section :D

Re: Conch!!!! "]

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 3:21 pm
by corazon_de_oro
What's in there in the picture? Did they pierce it with a bunch of needles instead of one 6G needle? :shock: Anyway, congrats on the new piercing.

Re: Conch!!!! "]

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 5:12 pm
by IcarusLives
Yeah the place I went to used to do punching but it was really unpopular so they stopped, he just put in 4 needles instead :L He told me it was three though :/
Thanks very much :D I'm so happy with it cause it hasn't bled or anything =] But it was the single most painful experience of my life :L :L I think I'm just going to get one more and then stop =[

Re: Conch!!!! "]

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 5:33 pm
by corazon_de_oro
Whoa, I've never heard of anything like that... he should have just used one 4mm needle... I wouldn't go back to that piercer TBH! But hopefully it'll heal well and you won't have any problems.

Re: Conch!!!! "]

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 5:39 pm
by Acacia
IcarusLives wrote:Yeah the place I went to used to do punching but it was really unpopular so they stopped, he just put in 4 needles instead :L He told me it was three though :/
Thanks very much :D I'm so happy with it cause it hasn't bled or anything =] But it was the single most painful experience of my life :L :L I think I'm just going to get one more and then stop =[
Say what??! :shock:

Re: Conch!!!! "]

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 5:52 pm
by IcarusLives
Thanks! =] I hope so too :L

The piercer DID say it was a really barbaric way of doing it, but it was perfectly safe :L I was ok for him to go ahead with it, but it was the sorest thing I've ever done :/ He just put in four needles (I think it was a 1.6mm and 3x 1.2mm), rotated them a bit, and shoved the tunnel in :L Good fun really xD

Re: Conch!!!! "]

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 5:55 pm
by corazon_de_oro
Ouch, my ear hurts just thinking about it! I guess as long as everything was sterile it's not too dangerous but it just seems unnecessary when they make 4mm needles...

Re: Conch!!!! "]

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 7:07 pm
by IcarusLives
Hahaha, I'm not surprised :L I didn't even want to see the picture until we were out of the studio :L I don't regret it at all, and even though I didn't sell it very well, I would definitely recommend it =]

Only thing is, I wish I had a slightly longer tunnel in it, cause I can't move it at all and have to do soaks to clean it :/

Re: Conch!!!! "]

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 7:20 pm
by corazon_de_oro
You shouldn't be moving it around anyway so that's a good thing, haha. Unless swelling is making it uncomfortable, then you might need a longer tunnel.

Re: Conch!!!! "]

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 7:34 pm
by IcarusLives
Uh oh :/ I thought keeping them moving was a good thing :L In that case I'll stop trying. I'm lucky it's not uncomfortable, cause the tunnel is pretty much the same length as my ear is thick at that point :/