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Yowie - 06 Dec 2007 10:20 GMT

Hi everyone,

Joel got another tattoo on Tuesday - here's a link to the pictures:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yowie9644/sets/72157602737394456/

Joel's tattoo artist swears Joel makes his life hell on pupose, he *hates*
doing bears because they are all fluffy!

Whilst there (it took about 3.5 hours for Joel to get his tattoo finished),
I got them to re-pierce my ear, properly this time. It sounded alot worse
being done, but the process hurt less, and the recovery - of two days so
far - has been far less painful this time around. I've got the right sort of
piercing placed correctly in a normal piercing point, and an appropriately
sized and shaped peice of body jewellry has been placed their to encourage
healing and recovery, and I'm using a cleansing solution that is natural and
promotes pain reduction healing rather than irritation and stinging (warm
salt water, not alcohol!)

I slept on it the very first night with not even an 'ouch', just a different
feeling from the other ear.

This is what happens when you go to a trained and qualified proffesional
(who had clearly experienced piercings in many places herself) rather than
some random 'retail assistant' with an ear-lobe gun at the local drug store.

Of course I paid nearly 4 times as much money at Joel's tattoo parlour as I
did at the drug store, but has cost me more than four times *less* pain and
sleepless nights. If ever have the urge to puncture parts of my body again
(I doubt it), I'll go there first, whether I have to wait for an appointment
or not.

Yowie

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CatNipped - 06 Dec 2007 16:11 GMT

> Hi everyone,
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> solution that is natural and promotes pain reduction healing rather than
> irritation and stinging (warm salt water, not alcohol!)

OUCH! When I had my ears pierced my friend, a registered nurse, told me to
wash them in the saline solution used for cleaning contacts - it keeps the
wounds clean while promoting healing (alcohol and peroxide actually inhibit
healing since they kill new cell growth as well as bacteria).

Hugs,

CatNipped

P.S. Joel's tatoos are *gorgeous*!

> I slept on it the very first night with not even an 'ouch', just a
> different feeling from the other ear.
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> Yowie

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Ginger-lyn - 06 Dec 2007 17:31 GMT

> Hi everyone,
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> Yowie

Ouch -- I must have missed the post about the first one going awry. I'm
so glad you got it done right.

I've always wondered about those piercings in shopping malls and such,
and figured I'd forego ever doing one there. When I got my ears
pierced, I was 14, and my mother (who had pierced ears, too, and I had
been begging her for two years before she relented) insisted we go to an
actual, factual doctor to have it done. Bet nobody does that anymore!

I got tired of wearing earrings a few years back (or rather, wore them
sporadically), so the holes eventually grew back together. I keep
thinking about getting them re-pierced; after all, what else am I going
to do with my 50-some pairs of earrings? But I haven't done it -- yet.

I've also decided, before I die (whenever that may be), I *am* going to
get a tattoo. Just a small one. Somewhere on my body, where it hurts
the least! I already know what I want, but I may have to design it. I
want just a small kitty head (what else?), a black one, that looks like
Sabra (and Pinky, actually, since he looks a lot like Sabra). Maybe
I'll do it for my 53rd birthday next year.

Glad you are healing, and purrs for perfect healing on the way.

Ginger-lyn

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Yowie - 06 Dec 2007 21:35 GMT

>> Hi everyone,
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> thinking about getting them re-pierced; after all, what else am I going to
> do with my 50-some pairs of earrings? But I haven't done it -- yet.

Don't go get them repierced with a the traditional ear lobe gun. Go to a
piercer and see if they can open up the original holes - ince you wore
earrings regularly for years, the holes themselves are probalby perfectly
intact, they've just filled up with sebum, a waxy material designed to
protect the skin - it washes/wears off normal skin but of course it can't go
anywhere if stuck in a very small tunnel that you don't wash or brussh off.

How do I know this? I was in the same position myself, I had let my lobes
'heal over' after 20 odd years of constant earring wear and wanted to open
them up again, but was wary that if I went and got them re-done, they
woudn't be in the exact same place. So I asked Joel's tattoo guy to do them
manually rather than via the gun.

He just stuck a very sharp needle through the original holes (very gently,
didn't hurt at all) and said they weren't 'healed over' but rather full of
sebum, and then showed me (I didn't reallywant to see, but blokes like that
sort of thing). As it wasn't a piercing, he didn't charge me. He's a nice
bloke.

> I've also decided, before I die (whenever that may be), I *am* going to
> get a tattoo. Just a small one. Somewhere on my body, where it hurts the
> least! I already know what I want, but I may have to design it. I want
> just a small kitty head (what else?), a black one, that looks like Sabra
> (and Pinky, actually, since he looks a lot like Sabra). Maybe I'll do it
> for my 53rd birthday next year.

Taught skin over a layer of muscle is the least painful place to get a
tattoo, and since there are less nerves in the back than anywhere else, if
you want the least painful experience, may I recommend the scapula (shoulder
blade)?

Yowie

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Ginger-lyn - 17 Dec 2007 20:40 GMT

>> I got tired of wearing earrings a few years back (or rather, wore them
>> sporadically), so the holes eventually grew back together. I keep
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> sort of thing). As it wasn't a piercing, he didn't charge me. He's a nice
> bloke.

Sounds like :-) Thank you so much for the advice, Yowie. I had no idea
about this. I will definitely ask about this.

>> I've also decided, before I die (whenever that may be), I *am* going to
>> get a tattoo. Just a small one. Somewhere on my body, where it hurts the
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> you want the least painful experience, may I recommend the scapula (shoulder
> blade)?

Oh, yeah -- the less pain the better. I'm not sure about the shoulder,
since I have a lot of pain in the muscles of that area. Would that
affect it? If not, sounds good to me (although I dress more and more
like a middle-aged woman, so I'm not sure anyone would ever see the
tattoo that way! lol!

> Yowie

Thanks, Yowie.

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Yowie - 17 Dec 2007 23:42 GMT

>> Taught skin over a layer of muscle is the least painful place to get a
>> tattoo, and since there are less nerves in the back than anywhere else,
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> middle-aged woman, so I'm not sure anyone would ever see the tattoo that
> way! lol!

Ther eis little muscle over the top of your shoulder blade, so should be
bothered by the tattoo.

Joel describes the pain as like bad sunburn.

Its not something I would want to do, but oddly, found getting my ear
peirced (which takes far longer to heal than a tattoo) perfectly OK. Go
figure.

Yowie

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Monique Y. Mudama - 06 Dec 2007 18:15 GMT

> Whilst there (it took about 3.5 hours for Joel to get his tattoo
> finished), I got them to re-pierce my ear, properly this time. It
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> promotes pain reduction healing rather than irritation and stinging
> (warm salt water, not alcohol!)

Is it in a different place than the original? I'm trying to picture
how you could pierce the same area with an angry, infected piercing
hole already there. Or did it stop being angry when you removed the
earring?

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Yowie - 06 Dec 2007 21:27 GMT

>> Whilst there (it took about 3.5 hours for Joel to get his tattoo
>> finished), I got them to re-pierce my ear, properly this time. It
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> hole already there. Or did it stop being angry when you removed the
> earring?

Its slightly below the original site. For those in the know, its in the
traditional 'helix' position, the first one was not a standard ear piercing
site for a reason (painful, kept ebing knocked about, I couldn't wear
glasses because the arms of the glasses knocked it etc etc)

Yowie

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Enfilade - 19 Dec 2007 01:09 GMT

I'm glad you've finally got a piercing you can be happy with.

Here's a humourous image...do you know how you give a nose ring a
saline wash?

my friend Amy walks in and says: "are you drowning in a coffee mug?"

--Fil

> Whilst there (it took about 3.5 hours for Joel to get his tattoo finished),
> I got them to re-pierce my ear, properly this time.

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