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Does it hurt to get your ear pierced?
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Reply 22
the lobes don't hurt.... with the gun, it's more the noise that made me shakey.... i'ma big baby.... childbirth, I can hardly wait!
didgeridoo12uk
just to clarify...
if you do it yourself with a needle... will hurt quite a bit, as its unlikley you will have proper needles... and u risk infection etc etc etc
if you get a piercer to do it, hardly any pain at all, very very sharp clean needles
if you do it yourself with a needle... will hurt quite a bit, as its unlikley you will have proper needles... and u risk infection etc etc etc
if you get a piercer to do it, hardly any pain at all, very very sharp clean needles
Kittennffc
Yeah, NEVER do it yourself!!
If you don't, you're going to do more harm to your ears than anything else. It's worth paying to have it done professionally.
If you don't, you're going to do more harm to your ears than anything else. It's worth paying to have it done professionally.
I'd just like to add a little bit in there - "NEVER do it yourself (if you have no idea what you're doing)" ;D I pierce myself and it's been fine. I have clamps, latex gloves, sterile needles, a load of high quality jewellery that I can get autoclaved at my local piercing studio, and sterile piercing markers. It rarely works out cheaper to do it yourself once you add up all the supplies, so I don't do it to be cheap, I just enjoy doing it. I find piercings less painful when I'm doing them myself.
However, I wouldn't recommend self-piercing unless you know what you're doing of course, I just wanted to add that, haha :P
Glad to see no one suggesting guns this time
Reply 24
my ear lobes hurt more than cartillage, all of which were done by gun =]
Reply 25
Well u have all put me off now.
I cried like a little baby when I had my lobes done with a gun when I was about 12. Are guns really unhygenic? That was a horrible experience anyway. It put me off for years but I've had a few cartilege piercings lately with a needle and they were fine, it's like someone else said, the pain comes afterwards when you knock it accidentally. I nearly killed my friend who kept stroking my hair the other day.
Reply 27
You'll forget the pain, but you'll have the result forever.
WarmSound
I cried like a little baby when I had my lobes done with a gun when I was about 12. Are guns really unhygenic? That was a horrible experience anyway. It put me off for years but I've had a few cartilege piercings lately with a needle and they were fine, it's like someone else said, the pain comes afterwards when you knock it accidentally. I nearly killed my friend who kept stroking my hair the other day.
Yep. Not to mention the studs are too short and crap quality, and that they cause a lot more trauma being forced through your ear than a sharp needle does. Anddd the fact that the people using them generally don't have the first clue about piercings, and will then tell you to use Claire's crappy aftercare solution and rotate your earrings twice a day. Ergh.
Reply 29
Ears: yes for a second but that's all.
Tattoos: Can't talk about everyone and where you get it can increase or decrase the pain I.E. on bones hurt more than on flesh. Also if your getting a big tattoo the needle will get hot and you'll begin to feel it. Although by time you begin to feel the hotness you should be used to the needle. Some places let you test if you can handle the pain of getting a tattoo. By using a needle on you, as if to do a tattoo but without the ink.
Hope this helps.
Tattoos: Can't talk about everyone and where you get it can increase or decrase the pain I.E. on bones hurt more than on flesh. Also if your getting a big tattoo the needle will get hot and you'll begin to feel it. Although by time you begin to feel the hotness you should be used to the needle. Some places let you test if you can handle the pain of getting a tattoo. By using a needle on you, as if to do a tattoo but without the ink.
Hope this helps.
Reply 30
My lobes didn't hurt at all because it's done so quickly you don't have a chance to register the pain. my tragus did hurt but that was because he had trouble putting the bar through once having pierced it. Tattoos it depends on the person and where it is. People have different pain thresholds. Generally I'm a baby about pain but mine was ok. If it got too bad all I had to do was say stop and he would stop to give me a little breather. And in the end the result is worth the pain.
Reply 32
I had my ears pierced in a salon and they used like a stapler type thing. It didn't hurt in the slightest. I've had worse injections!
Reply 33
I am generally very sensitive, but when I had my ears peirced at 9 it didn't hurt much at all. (Of course that might be because I expected something horrific
) I was really nervous, but when they did it it was much less painful than I had imagined. I had mine done with the gun, and they never got infected. The main thing is to choose a place that has a good reputation and to use gold or gold-plated earrings at first. The ones with electro-plating are only a bit more expensive than non-gold, and that way if you have a nickel allergy, as I do (they're pretty common) your ears won't get red. (The ones that say hypo-allergenic or surgical steel still irritate my ears, but many people with nickel allergies are fine with them.)
) I was really nervous, but when they did it it was much less painful than I had imagined. I had mine done with the gun, and they never got infected. The main thing is to choose a place that has a good reputation and to use gold or gold-plated earrings at first. The ones with electro-plating are only a bit more expensive than non-gold, and that way if you have a nickel allergy, as I do (they're pretty common) your ears won't get red. (The ones that say hypo-allergenic or surgical steel still irritate my ears, but many people with nickel allergies are fine with them.)Reply 34
ooh saying that it didnt hurt when i got mine done..it did hurt my sister a LOT because the gun was too slow so there was a moment when it was half through and kind of stopped..that hurt a lot. but as soon as it goes through the pain goes away.
If you get yourself really scared beforehand, probably the shock of getting your ears pierced will make you feel no pain! because when you're in shock or really scared you dont feel pain as much i dont think
If you get yourself really scared beforehand, probably the shock of getting your ears pierced will make you feel no pain! because when you're in shock or really scared you dont feel pain as much i dont think
PastPerfect
I am generally very sensitive, but when I had my ears peirced at 9 it didn't hurt much at all. (Of course that might be because I expected something horrific ) I was really nervous, but when they did it it was much less painful than I had imagined. I had mine done with the gun, and they never got infected. The main thing is to choose a place that has a good reputation and to use gold or gold-plated earrings at first. The ones with electro-plating are only a bit more expensive than non-gold, and that way if you have a nickel allergy, as I do (they're pretty common) your ears won't get red. (The ones that say hypo-allergenic or surgical steel still irritate my ears, but many people with nickel allergies are fine with them.)
) I was really nervous, but when they did it it was much less painful than I had imagined. I had mine done with the gun, and they never got infected. The main thing is to choose a place that has a good reputation and to use gold or gold-plated earrings at first. The ones with electro-plating are only a bit more expensive than non-gold, and that way if you have a nickel allergy, as I do (they're pretty common) your ears won't get red. (The ones that say hypo-allergenic or surgical steel still irritate my ears, but many people with nickel allergies are fine with them.)Try not suggesting things until you actually know something about them. Gold plated jewellery is one of the worst things to use in a fresh piercing - plated jewellery of any kind is crap. Titanium is the best thing for a fresh piercing - glass, PTFE, niobium are also okay, and steel is fine for most people, but if you're sensitive to nickel stick to titanium (steel contains nickel so of course that's irritating your ears...). If you must be pierced with gold, it should be 14k or 18k, and definitely not plated crap.
Also, places that are actually good will NOT use guns.
Reply 37
^ ditto
Reply 38
Kate.
Try not suggesting things until you actually know something about them. Gold plated jewellery is one of the worst things to use in a fresh piercing - plated jewellery of any kind is crap. Titanium is the best thing for a fresh piercing - glass, PTFE, niobium are also okay, and steel is fine for most people, but if you're sensitive to nickel stick to titanium (steel contains nickel so of course that's irritating your ears...). If you must be pierced with gold, it should be 14k or 18k, and definitely not plated crap.
Also, places that are actually good will NOT use guns.
Also, places that are actually good will NOT use guns.
I think it's a little unfair to say I know nothing about it, considering I am talking from my own experience as well as from those of my friends and family. I think it's great that you have your own opinions, but there's no reason to belittle mine.
Reply 39
I don't even know where I could it pierced. Are there 'piercing' parlours, as opposed to tattoo parlours? Can it be done in the high street, or is it an undergound thing, in some dark damp alleyway?
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