Double, triple pierced ears, etc.?

[GP]

Silly Bunny

The only way I know to hide a piercing hole when you are not wearing an earring is to cover the hole with makeup. If you go for a long time without wearing an earring the hole will get smaller, but as soon as you put in an earring it will open the hole to the size of the post on the earring. The amount the hole will shrink and how long it will take depends on both the person and how long the ear has been pierced.

GP

[Lookout]

Silly bunny:

The only other possibility I can think of to hide a hole is to place it in a crease. Some people (I'm one of them) have longitudinal creases on their lobes and, when they are not wearing an earring, the crease hides the hole.

Not likely very helpful for a second or subsequent piercing, but it may help. The other possibility is clear plastic posts which are not very visible.

[jenn9999]

Hello sillybunny
I like wear earrings but i don't like visble holes. In former i wear earrings for nonpierced ears, but these were very uncomfortable. For special occasions i pierce my own ears with tapered diamond studs and remove them after a day. Piercing my own ear with this tapered stud afforts less pain to me than wear earrings for non-pierced ears.

[silly bunny]

Hi Jenn9999


[I like wear earrings but i don't like visble holes. In former i wear earrings for nonpierced ears, but these were very uncomfortable. For special occasions i pierce my own ears with tapered diamond studs and remove them after a day. Piercing my own ear with this tapered stud afforts less pain to me than wear earrings for non-pierced ears]

What exactly do you mean? How do you pierce your own ears and how often? What are tapered diamond studs. You may have the solution![/quote]

[Jenn9999]

Hi Jenn9999


[I like wear earrings but i don't like visble holes. In former i wear earrings for nonpierced ears, but these were very uncomfortable. For special occasions i pierce my own ears with tapered diamond studs and remove them after a day. Piercing my own ear with this tapered stud afforts less pain to me than wear earrings for non-pierced ears]

What exactly do you mean? How do you pierce your own ears and how often? What are tapered diamond studs. You may have the solution!

It was the idea of my daughter, in the age of 13, she would get her right ear double and triple pierced. I don't allowed it, then she pushed two sharpend studs through her ear. My daughter had to remove the studs, two days later nothing was visble. Occasionally my daughter pierced her own ear with this studs again and remove them, until I allowed her a triple pierced ear. One day we were at a wedding party, my daughter wear a pair of my earrings for non pierced ears, they was very uncomfortable for her. She made a proposal to me and pierced my ears with sharpend diamond studs for the next festive occassion, after the occassion i remove the studs and 2 until 3 days later nothing was visible. Since then, for festive occasions when i will wearing earrings i pierce my own ears and remove the studs later. I pierce my own ears 4 until 8 times a year.

[east_girl_88]

We did my daughter first set when she was 1 month old. Now she is 4 and I I thought she was ready for her second set. Today I took her to the the mall. When the lady pierced her first ear, she started to cry and refused to get the other ear done. Can she stay with only her right ear double pierced? How can I convince her to get and her left ear done?

P.S. Sorry for my english, but Im not a native english speaker.

[Guest]

Has anyone seen this picture? it's been on this forum for quite a while but I have only just seen it. She looks amazing. Is it safe to have more than one piercing done at a time?

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z186/duvel1622/bmepb547860.jpg

[Road Ranger]

I have just found this having put a request for advice and opinions elsewhere on the website. I have just one piercing in each ear (conventional) at the moment and have had since I was 12. My husband loves earrings on me and has nagged me on and off for years to get them pierced again. We have been married for 20 years. He recently bought a home ear piercing kit with some silver plated studs and said that he wants to pierce my left ear (only) just behind the hole that I already have. I know that I could have both done as well (should I?). He has also bought a really tiny gold stud (about 2.5mm) which he wants me to wear.

He hasn't got any earrings and I wouldn't want him to have his ears pierced although this isn't an issue.

Should I let him do it? Is it safe to use one of these kits? Is silver plating OK for piercing with? I'm very conventional and none of my friends wear more than 1 pair of earrings although they used to a long time ago. Is it still fashionable? I'm not sure...

Does anyone else have a partner who is so mad about earrings?

My wife had 1 hole per ear when we were married and I always hoped she'd get 2 per ear. I finally convinced her after years of asking and she let me pierce her left ear a second time. After 5 months, she let me do her right ear again! It was (and is) fantastic! I have since asked her to get a 3rd hole, but she says no, it's too much, but it would really be exciting! I know there must be a lot of other husbands out there that feel like I do. I like to pick out her earrings when she dresses and hate it if she doesn't wear any....

[uri]

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It was the idea of my daughter, in the age of 13, she would get her right ear double and triple pierced. I don't allowed it, then she pushed two sharpend studs through her ear. My daughter had to remove the studs, two days later nothing was visble. Occasionally my daughter pierced her own ear with this studs again and remove them, until I allowed her a triple pierced ear. One day we were at a wedding party, my daughter wear a pair of my earrings for non pierced ears, they was very uncomfortable for her. She made a proposal to me and pierced my ears with sharpend diamond studs for the next festive occassion, after the occassion i remove the studs and 2 until 3 days later nothing was visible. Since then, for festive occasions when i will wearing earrings i pierce my own ears and remove the studs later. I pierce my own ears 4 until 8 times a year.

I used to pierce my own ears and take it out, years ago, but that's was for sexual thrill. I would first have them pierced professionally with a gun, take them out, then use the sharpened studs to do it again myself. I was a soldier part of the time, and couldn't were earrings to the army, so after some time I pierced two myself, kept them open by driving in an earring for time to time, and pierced several others, most I've let close.

But I was turned on by the sensation, for adornment only, if I could, I'd leave them permanently.

[Guest]

Is it OK to pierce my 4 moths old daughter's left ear 3 times and her right ear 2 times?

[Guest]

Is it OK to pierce my 4 moths old daughter's left ear 3 times and her right ear 2 times?

At 4 months old your daughter's ears are still very small. You could certainly pierce her ears once now with no problems. I would wait six months to be sure there are no problems with her first holes, then give her a second piercing in both ears shortly before her first birthday. Toddlers, rather than babys, are the ones who cry and scream when their ears are pierced, so I would hold off on a third hole until she is 4 or 5 years old. Then you can make a big deal out of the occasion.

[uri]

I was sure she meant four years, not months.

[Guest]

I was sure she meant four years, not months.

Most stores and kiosks that sell earrings will pierce babys' ears as soon as they have had their first immunization shots, normally at three months old. In some areas it is quite common to see baby girls with pierced ears, particularly amongst certain ethnic groups.

[Paul M]

Does anyone else have a partner who is so mad about earrings?

As a male of the species, can I say that I am fascinated by ear piercing and hinged sleepers. this goes back a long time to the early seventies when I would see girls come into school with their newly pierced ears sporting a pair of gold sleepers. I'm not sure where this came from as my mum did not have pierced ears and I did not have a sister. I would hear "XX has had her ears pierced" and the girls would group around the latest piercee. I remember in one lesson a girl called Linda said to her friend that she had to turn her sleepers, wow!

My girlfriend (who became my wife) had pierced ears, and one night having taken her earrings out, plucked up the courage (my heart was pounding at the time) to ask her if she still had her sleepers. She said that they had broken but asked me why I liked them; I replied that they would look like she had just had her ears pierced. Anyway nothing more was said until we went on holiday and having unpacked, she handed me an envelope and inside was a new pair of gold hinged sleepers, which she let me put in her ears. 25+ years on and she will still wear sleepers for me, I love seeing them in her ears and she likes me to turn them and gently tug on them.

She also likes wearing two inch hoops and gold ball studs, and does like me to play with her studs "to twiddle the knobs" as she calls it. I did buy her a pair of piercing studs, but because the post is that tiny bit bigger, I struggle to get them in her holes and she finds it uncomfortable to wear them. A few weeks ago, we went out and she had actually forgotten to put any earrings in that day, and I thought that when we got home I would put her big hoops in, but she came in and put some earrings in. She said later that I should have, I would love to go out with her with the big hoops in, but she said she could not.

She had her ears pierced at a jewellers in 1974 long before the "gun and stud" method of piercing, by means of a device called the Simplicity Ear Piercer which in effect pushed a needle through the lobe and the sleeper is then inserted manually and fastened, other models push the needle and the sleeper in one operation. she described it as a burning sensation when the needle went through. Even back then ear piercing was still rare and she had to make an appointment, I suppose this was to ensure the device was sterile. This is what fascinates me, this method of piercing compared to today's method, back then there were no gloves, no marker pen - the jeweller would just spray something on and then pierce in the place he thought was right. Occasionally, one of the devices comes up on e-bay and always gets sold.

I have asked my wife if she would like to have her ears pierced again but she said no, until last week when she let me put on the spring clip sleepers and suddenly said she would have another hole done if I would like her to. Wow! We've not said any more yet.
She doesn't like men with pierced ears, so I'll never have one done and she doesn't like me wearing the spring clip sleeper. I missed my chance many years ago when I went on holiday on my own to Jersey and stood outside a jewellers that offered "ear piercing - while you wait" which quite amused me.

Our daughter had her ears pierced when she was about nine, and after that most of her friends had theirs done. This was her decision although she had asked about it when she was about 7 but when told it hurt, she decided not to. I would like to have been with her when she had them done but I have seen piercing done quite a few times at Claire’s. When she was about three, I asked my wife if she was looking forwards to seeing J with pierced ears and she said she thought she was, but would take her to have them done if I wanted her to. I couldn't have done that to her little lobes. My wife would not have had them done in the way our niece was taken at age 4 and had her ears shot through, I don’t think she had any say in the matter as her mum had
wanted them done from about one year old, apparently she screamed. Even two years on when we gave her some little hoops she thought it was going to hurt and started crying. I am completely against babies and toddlers being pierced just because the mother (usually) wants it, but that is another argument.

Looking at the web, it seems I am not the only man fascinated by piercing and liking sleepers, there is a thread "Ear piercing before the gun was invented" on Female First.
It would be good to hear of any other husbands who like ear piercing and sleepers.
Paul

[Guest]

I have asked my wife if she would like to have her ears pierced again but she said no, until last week when she let me put on the spring clip sleepers and suddenly said she would have another hole done if I would like her to. Wow! We've not said any more yet.
Paul

Hi Paul

Do yours wife a doublet now.

My will have her ears done next week.