[zoey]

Absolutely, mumble. I would rather my piercer be hesitant than just pierce away because I asked. He predicted that my navel piercing would reject and he was right. I trust him.

I would get my nipples done if I wasn't concerned about breastfeeding in the future. Eh. We'll see.

[mumblestutter]

too bad zoey. but i kind respect a piercer who won't do a piercing that will be trouble down the road.

got the nips done a few weeks ago. totally not as much pain as i was expecting - wish i'd gotten them done years ago

totally empowering too! yeah, it hurt. but everybody says female nipple piercing is the most painful piercing. and it wasn't that bad. now i feel like free to put holes wherever i want b/c, apparently, i have a pretty decent pain threshold.

i haven't been able to work out for a while now though. i tend to be pretty high energy & can't wait to get back to that. think it should be fine in another week. i think i'm going to take a REALLY long walk to day & get rid of some energy.

[zoey]

I wanted to get my conch pierced but my piercing said that my conch had a weird shape so he wouldn't do it. Bummer.

He also refused to pierce my neck because he dislikes doing surface piercings.

[culturehandy]

Well I went off and got my left conch pierced. Seriously, I have to stop this!!! The staff at the shop asks what I'm getting done whenver I come in. All smiles and such. heh.

[zoey]

I've had a few piercings over the years. I have/had:

-double earlobes (both) (stretched to 2g and then back to normal)
-cartilage in right ear
-snakebites (double lip piercings)
-left nostril (retired)
-navel (retired, due to improper cleaning techniques)

Guess that's it. So currently 7 holes. I've been missing my nose piercing but with the snakebites, I felt like it was too much/threw the symmetry off.

Sometimes, I feel like I want to take out the snakebites, but I know it's mostly because I feel pressured to conform to other people's idea of beauty so I try to fight that off.

If I were to get another piercing, which is getting more and more unlikely, I might try a septum or possibly a Christina piercing.

[culturehandy]

depends where you go. The place I go to get all my work done is less than $100.00, you're paying for the jewelry more so. Barbells are generally more expensive than hoops.

I've got a craving for someething else, I don't know what. I've got so many holes in my body. I was thinking of getting my left conch pierced and giving me a matchin set.

Freck, yup, said friends dick is fine now and the piercing is all healed.

[neverending]

I got pierthed today guys!!!

Here it ith:
[img]http://i32.tinypic.com/54yusw.jpg[/img]

Yay!

Sorry the picture is so big but you know, it's more awesome that way, right?

You just gave me an idea. Putting the industrail in one ear and what you have in the other ear. Yours look great. I want one! Ahhhh......how much did it cost?

[neverending]

So, I got my other nipple pierced yesterday. It was over in a flash. Now for the saltwater soaks to start...yay. But the newfound symmetry is hot!

I know what you mean, i got my nipple pierced on New Years as a resolution sort of thing. It didn't hurt at all. The hole closed now but i'm going to get it redone.

[neverending]

My nose piercing barely hurt to get done, but man did I have a headache later!

Awesome Freckle, hoope you love yours as much as I love mine! And also, make sure to keep it super clean if you get a cold in the next half year, or you might end up with a tiny infection.

None of my piercing hurt. I love them! My navel piercing got infected about the month after it was done but 1-2 weeks later it was cool. I saw a dude on youtube with the industrial piercing and that's the one i want done next.

[freckleface7]

pictures posted at FB now under an album fittingly titled : 'My Nose! '
also my new profile shot, but you can't really tell from that bc it's so small.
you'll also see from the closer shots how fitting my name here is

[yuefie]

Yeah, I didn't think the Neosporin thing sounded right which is why I asked around. I only used it the first day because it was all I could get my hands on at the hotel. I have really sensitive skin which is why I didn't want to the use the Dial anti-bacterial hand soap on my face. The Cetaphil anti-bac soap is made for facial skin and sensitive skin at that. That and the salt water thing seem to really work for me. The people who's opinion I trust the most (including my honey who has had both eyebrows, both nipples, and several holes in his ears done) all said that the salt water helps not only as an antiseptic but seems to aid in the the healing process as well. Yesterday and today it has been itching like mad, but at least that means it's healing up. I was a bit worried that I would be infection prone especially since my eyebrow bled worse than the lady had ever seen and also 'cause the second holes in my ears never seemed to properly heal. But like I said before, almost no oozing or crust at all, not since the first day. Hmmm, I think I should start putting saline on my ears and maybe I'll be able to actually wear earrings in them without them flaring up after an hour.

One of the people I talked to told me that infections in facial piercings are commonly caused by people touching their face without realizing it and also people not thinking to change their pillow cases more often. I'm crazy about bed linens anyway with having to fight acne my whole life, but I did catch myself wanting to touch my face a lot the first two days.I've only bumped it once on the first day and freaked myself out but good. The hardest part for me has been not turning over on to my tummy and smooshing my face in to my pillow like I tend to do when sleeping. I've had to get used to sleeping on my left side.

[freckleface7]

posting pix at FB momentarily..

[ketto]

The reason not to use alcohol is because it dries out the piercing so it doesn't heal properly, I suspect the same goes for neosporin.

The piercing shop I went to told me to use saltwater at home but also gave me a container of the dial antibacterial soap to wash with a q-tip and warm water. I think it's pretty common. I had an infection on my vertical labret about a year after it was pierced that i could not get rid of. I used the dial soap every night and it was gone in 3 days.

Freckle, I've forgotten my stud is there too. Last summer I was jumping into a lake and I plugged my nose too high and ended up giving myself a nosebleed. It didn't really hurt but I guess I poked something.

[freckleface7]

no I still haven't uploaded the pix yet yuef, bc the mr has a pia digi camera & tho I've left it sitting on paper that says " PLEASE UPLOAD ME" w/ arrows drawn all around it seems to not be noticed.
tonight I guess I will just have to nag.

we were told specifically not to use neosporin or alchohol. - wonder why?
the contact saline (generic at that) drip is working wonderfully & already there's only a tiny bit of redness that isn't even noticable unless you are up close. but the itchy. ugh !
countless times I've totally forgotten the stud was there & rubbed at it & felt it move and scared myself.
weirdly enough though I find myself being super careful w/ the rest of my face right now too- like my eyebrows & dimples & lips. either those are spots I'm thinking about for next (1 piercing is enough- more tatt's yes- piercing NO) or you Busties have totally invaded my brain!

[yuefie]

Hey Freck, did you post piccies on FB yet? I've been waiting to see. The lady who did my eyebrow piercing said to wash with dial antibacterial hand soap (um, no thanks) and use antibiotic ointment on it. But everyone else I talked to, including people with multiple piercings and someone who used to do piercings, said keeping it clean with salt water is a much better option. I used the Neosporin the first day because I was at a hotel in LA and all I could find in the gift shop there was the Neosporin. But since I've been washing my face with Cetaphil Antibacterial bar soap and using this saline solution (and lookie, it's a coupon) I picked up at Target. I just squeeze some on to a q-tip to clean it and so far it's been doing wonders for keeping the crusties/oozies at bay. In fact I've hardly seen a thing, my eyebrow has been pretty clean. But hotdamn if it doesn't itch like a mofo!

[angie_21]

Can I just say something gross.. my nipple piercing gets infected about 4 times a year. sexy. Every time I get a cold, go camping, or get too overworked out right before my period, it incubates a tiny infection, all it does is ooze a bit for a few days. I think maybe I should be taking this as a sign that my immune system is not running so hot right now. Even worse, the only thing that makes it better is hydrogen peroxide or my benzoyl peroxide zit creme. ....Oh yeah, never ever take my advice on how to care for a piercing. Do not do what I do.

Keep using the saline and don't be lazy like me, and I am sure you will be fine And I think for noses you are supposed to avoid swimming for about 6 weeks, that what they told me.

[freckleface7]

they didn't say anything to us about swimming or not, but he did give me a sheet w/ "suggestions" (actually titled that) on how to care for them. fortunately neither of us is big swimmers but more ocean splashers & don't have any immed plans to make the drive. but for how Long are we to avoid the water?

frecklette had a dr's appt today so I had the dr check it out (just hers) & he said it looks good.

the saline drip seems to be a good cleaning system & the dr said that was probably as good as it was going to get.

thank you all for your info & encouragment - you all rock !

ps: I cannot imagine a man's dick becoming infected like that- but then again- you decide to go there & expose yourself to the piercer & you sort of have to be open to whatever longterm care/maintenence comes with it I suppose. is your friend ok?

[culturehandy]

Yes, as someone who has a number of piercings, itching is good.

And I actively use q-tips to clean the crusties, so long as the q-tip was wet and the piercing was freshly soaked. Don't ver, ever EVER pick at dry crusties (no matter how satisfying it may be).

Eeeeck, Angie I was so paranoid about my nipple getting infected....a friend of mine has his cock pierced and his got infected. He was telling me his dick actualy hurt. eeeeck!!

[angie_21]

holy crap, I paid like $70 including the stud, and don't have a clue what I tipped but I hope it was reasonable. My piercing took probably half an hour, though. At the place I was at, the guys seems pretty relaxed about tips, I think a lot of kids that get piercings and tattoos can't afford a whole ton for tipping on top of the piercing.

Don't worry the pain and itching goes away a lot faster than you'd expect. Itching isn't bad, it just means you're in the initial healing process. For cleaning, I think they just told me to soak a washcloth in saline and hold it to my nose for 5 minutes, and once it was less senstive to also run lots of hot water over it in the shower. And they told me to avoid paper products and cotton swabs, because the fibres can get into the piercing and irritate it. And hopefully they warned you - they are not lying about avoiding swimming pools and lakes for at least a month afterwards. I speak from experience, it involved a nipple piercing and much pus and blood, even though I tried my best to keep it covered with a waterproof bandage. I felt quite dumb going to my doctor with that problem!

[freckleface7]

no headache for me but frecklette's head has hurt off/on sinse then.
it's mostly the slight stinginess that won't quite go away. and the fact that twice I've forgotten it was there & scratched my nose & scared myself half to death!

I cleaned it just now for the first time.. dripped contact saline solution onto it w/ a washrag underneath w/ my head tilted for about 5 minutes.
it got most of the crusty dried blood washed away & feels cool & better now, minus a little itch as it dries that I am trying desperately to ignore right now as I sit here & type this.
- do you think that's ok?

I just took umpteen million shots of myself w/ the mr's camera & damnit but I am just not photogenic!
there is 1 or 2 that are slightly less than hideous (my nose looks long & beaklike which it is not) so will try to get them linked soon.

and now bc I am curious.. what did your piercings run $$ wise?
ours were $40** each but it included the stud, then I tipped him $10** too.
- did I cheap out? I'd be terribly embarrassed if I did but the guy only worked a total of maybe 3 minutes tops on each of us!