Piercing any part of your body can look ok. But when you have like 7 piercings in just one ear it looks nasty. Why do people do that?
218086
lots of reasons - sometimes shock value, although it's pretty hard to shock people these days - sometimes to stand out and be different - to make a statement - or - perhaps the oldest reason of all - there is someone you are trying to attract and you think - correctly or incorrectly - that this might appeal to that person
535440
don't listen to those ignorant answers before mine.. i have my hood pierced and i am no little girl.. it hurt for a few seconds. it never got infected and it never hurt after that day. so go for it.
72127
How come people show concern about it this much?  Like some other person said, for a big number of the world male population this is normal.  I think this is one of the things that have been recorded on people's mind, I swear.  Why there is not a lot of repulsion toward the female reproductive organ.  As I see it, there are more opportunities for it to be of concern.  A lot more of skin goin this way and the other.  A cavity for breeding of all kind of nasties.  But you know, I am not concerned, because I was not taught in that belief (maybe I should)
97086
The person who pierced your ears really should have addressed this.\n\nWell, it takes about 4-6 weeks for your lobes.  I included a site that is more directed for younger kids, but it gets the message across.  Check it out.\n\nFrom the second site: Initial healing time for an earlobe piercing performed with an ear piercing instrument is typically 6-8 weeks. After that time, earrings can be changed, but if the hole is left unfilled for an extended period of time, there is some danger of the piercing closing. Piercing professionals recommend wearing earrings in the newly pierced ears for at least 6 months, and sometimes even a full year. Cartilage piercings will usually require more healing time than earlobe piercings, sometimes 2-3 times as long. After healing, earlobe piercings will shrink to smaller gauges in the prolonged absence of earrings, but may never completely disappear.
438599
i did all my piercings myself...2 labrets and my tongue. and my  daughter's lip piercings...i'm not suggesting ppl do this themselves!! i did a lot of research on where to pierce according to nerve areas, etc....none of ours got infected. piercings are tender as they heal. small bumps are a sign of scar tissue forming, which is building a "base" to keep the barbell from pushing it's way out of the body (rejection of the foreign body) it sounds like you could be slightly allergic to the metal...sterling silver rarely rejects because it has natural anti-biotic properties. titanium is good too. my advice is to wash it with antibacterial soap 2-3 times a day. and use a triple antibiotic ointment. you can even use the solution they give you for ear piercings. you have to move the barbell up and down, and twist it while washing it, to make sure the entire area is getting cleansed. it's not uncommon to have a "crust" form around it...soft tissue piercings are going to be tender, and take up to a year to fully develop scar tissue and heal. try to keep clothing from pressing or rubbing against it, and allow air to get to it so that it stays as dry as possible. if the piercing site swells to double it's size, gets very red and hot, is draining a lot of pus, and you run a fever, you have an infection and need to go to the doctor for oral antibiotics. good luck with this.
146497
as a body piercer, I can tell you that it wont heal fast, because you pierced it yourself.Sewing needles are made of bad quality metals that usuially cause more irritation to the piercing.\nOnce the swelling goes down it wont rub on your gums as much.\nBut I dont quite understand what you did. Please answer some of the following questions, and I'll change my answer to help you out more.\n1) What type of jewlery do you have in now? What gauge and size is it? Is it a hoop? labet post? earring stud? What material or typer of metal is it made out of?\n2)did you clean anything before you pierced it?\n3)How have you been cleaning it?
547445
Some thing i do with my blisters which people don't approve of, is that i take a sterile one-use only piercing needle, i pierce the thin layer of skin, i take some whipes and get the liquid out. Then with my finger, i flatten the skin layer on the body and i do that during a day i don't need to wear shoes so that the skin dries out. Bandaids are a good idea, but they don't let the area breathe, and it locks humidity, bacteria reproduces in humidity but dies when it's with contact or air. So if you don't want to burst your blister, you can put a bandaid or just leave it like that, but always wear clean clothes on the area where the blister is. If it bursts while your in contact with dirty clothes there might be an infection although it's very rare.
423612
I think that what you are experiencing is normal since you just had the procedure done a couple days ago.  Keep your hands clean when touching your ear-lopes and use an alcohol swap to clean the area each day, and your ears should feel fine in a few more days.  Don't wear the same earrings all the time without removing them ever so often just to let the hole heal around it, not over it.  Too, wear good quality sterling silver or 12 k gold or better posts to prevent infection.  And, lastly don't share pierced earrings with friends
143100
It's not a birth defect. 6 in 1 million people have it. It is a genetic signature of a scent gland humans use to have. It will excrete a pus like substance with a strong odor from time to time. More common in Asian women. Both sides both ears.
412339
My daughter and I both have problems with any earrings .We usually take and stick the part that goes through your ear in some antibiotic ointment befor wearing them and it makes for pain free insertion and keeps our ears from getting infected or bothered as well you can do tthis with any earrings its fast,cheap and easy and it works!!
460398
There are many reasons why a man or woman gets pierced/tattooed. This seems to be a sexist question.  Why question why do WOMEN get tattoos and piercings?\n\nSome PEOPLE choose it as a means of adornment.  This ranges in desire/values from purely decorative to shocking in nature.  It is a choice.  The range of acceptance differs, so will the range of what those who want to "shock" will "wear" as well.\n\nTattooing and piercing have gone quite mainstream so a brow or tongue piercing twenty years ago would illicit more 'shock value' than it does today.  People have resorted to implants and other extreme means of body modification for that now.\n\nWe get many women in the shop who are getting tattoos as GIFTS for their husbands - I am talking 25th wedding anniversary presents, so this is not just for the youth of our society.\n\nMany tattoos are thought out well in advance and have a very special spiritual meaning.  Let's face it, if everyone liked tweed jackets and hush puppies, look how boring it would be!\n\nHair color has gone extreme, even with men.  It is so much fun now, even in conservative environments, people are loosening up and becoming more tolerant.
76419
Trust me, cheap does not mean you will have a good piercing job done. I know a place near the college I went to, and they were doing body piercings for $15. Needless to say, several people ended up having some pretty bad piercings done, as well as very bad infections.\n\nMake sure the place you do choose looks very sterile, and is sterile. If for any reason you feel strange about the place, leave.\n\nPrices vary from place to place too. Just call around and see how much people charge. The place I went to get pierced at is more expensive than going to a tattoo place to get pierced, but I know the place I went to was highly rated, very informative, and sterile. In fact, all they do is perform piercings, so they obviously know their stuff.
588900
Tattoo always means it stays on for life and can only be removed by surgery.\nAnd yes sometimes it doesn't heal proper.\nIs very logical.\nA tattoo is basically a wound, if you want a wound to heal well you need to keep it clean and dry.\nSome places of your body are easier to keep dry and cleaned than others.\nIs why both piercings and tattoos around the bellybutton and mouth area are more known to infect or heal bad.\nBe willing to spend the extra buck for the tattoo person that throws his/her needles away after every customer.\nPlease do, you can't tell what diseases the previous customer has and if you would like to catch them.
210473
that happens pretty often when you get ears pierced.  You should wash the pierced ear with hydrogen peroxide.....use a Qtip and dab it on several times a day. You can find it in any drug store.\nIt is infected, but that should take care of it. It might take a few days but keep a close eye on it.\nIf that does not take care of the problem, see a doctor.
306506
yes keloids are possibles, i have seen 4 people in the last 4 months in the shop that came with this problem to me, the people that pierced them did seem like being qualified, from good shops, but it is not the piercers fault if you ever have a keloid, its mainly caused by hardening tissue and certain hormones. i doubt that you will have this problem, all the people i have pierced never had this problem, and i have been dealing with a lot of pierced people from other shop and even online, and heard about this very rarely.
172051
Yeah it's weird that your aunt would subject you to that kind of torture.  You ask a doctor and they will tell you that you shouldn't put anything in your ear smaller than your elbow.  But as long as you don't expect your girlfriend to clean your ears out with a bobby pin then she shouldn't think it's too weird.  I think your relatives should have kept their fetishes to themselves.
533719
Earlobe piercing does not hurt...\nI have 8 earring in each ear and only the 3rd onwards hurt because they were going through cartilage, I also had a nose piercing which hurt ..\nGenerally my pain tolerance is high.. I take morphine for my medical conditions and can cope with a lot...\nAfter 20 years of plucking my eyebrows I find it does not hurt at all anymore..