i'm kinda bored and i just decided to tell all my bloggers about my piercings! haha, don't read if you don't wanna.
this one's my tragus!you see that little bit of cartilage right in front of the ear? yup, that's called a tragus piercing. pierced it at inks, far east plaza. the piercer's real good! knows how to calm you down and all.
initially it wasn't me who wanted the piercing, i just accompanied darling there. she got cold feet so i decided to get one as well, just to make her feel better.
on a scale of 1 -10 with 10 being the most painful, tragus's like a 2.5. this was done free hand. the piercer cleaned the ear, marked the spot, placed a piece of cork behind my ear and then pierced the needle through it. before the needle could come out, she put the barbell in, then took the needle out. seems like a long process, but it only took like 3.87 seconds! :) then she put the bead on the barbell and, tahdah! tragus!
aftercare's okay, the normal alcohol-clean-regularly thing. no swelling and stuff. but my tragus is a bit off center, suspect my ear was in the midst of rejecting it.
this piercing's called a rook. its supposedly the thickest part of cartilage on your ear you could pierce. i was a little apprehensive to pierce at first.
this one was pierced at a tiny piercing shop in MBK, Bangkok. but seriously, this piercer is damn good! i saw her doing von's, connie's and darling's piercings. she's confident and she does it real fast.
the piercer cleaned the area with a spray, then marked the spot. then she bent the needle into a slight curve. this piercing's a little different, she clamped the area and suddenly, hey! they barbell's in my ear! all you feel is a little tugging! she then screwed the bead on and rook!
after the piercing, it gets a little hot and you always feel kinda stoned cause of the adrenalin and all, but i love it! nothing better than sticking metal in myself!
aftercare for the rook is a bit more tedious. you have to clean it more, plus water traps in there easily. my rook got infected and swelled cause i slept on it, but i used surgical spirit from guardian, and the swelling went down in about 2 - 3 days.
i heart piercings! :) always have, ever since the secondary 2/3 days of multiple earlobe piercings. i always thought that piercings were done by the gun, until i was introduced to the world of body modification, that i found out that gun piercings are bad for your ear!
the first ever piercing i wanted was a tongue. and after that rook, i'm hooked! i want more more MORE!
at first, i liked the look of pieces of metal in odd parts of your body, but the rook really made me more enthusiastic about 'em. i can't explain it, but i just like that feeling of being in a daze, that stony feeling you get after you've pierced something, and of course, i do love how they look!
plus, until today, i've never realised how ugly my ears actually looked.
and, and! i submitted my photos on bmezine! :D
sigh, i am running out of places to pierce.
alright. enough of piercings.
ciao!
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