Piercing Crazy

I'm looking forward to tomorrow's post.  It will be our first tutorial, so stay tuned.  For now, I decided to give you a little taste of our lives.

Melanie took her teenage daughter to get a second hole pierced into her ears.  The piercer (is that a word?) proceeds to pierce almost the very edge of her ear.  Melanie, of course, wants the piercing fixed.  The (I'm going to use this word again) piercer explains that she can't fix it because the earring needs to stay in for six weeks.  No, we don't want the awful piercing to heal that way, we want a new piercing done correctly.  But that earring needs to stay in for six weeks.  ????  Whatever.  Melanie being Melanie decides that she will just do it herself.  She buys a $5.00 piercing gun, some earrings, and leaves.

Now, she has never pierced ears before, but it can't be that hard, right?  It is scary to pierce someone's ears. Worrying about inflicting pain on another person, and making sure you don't mess it up, is anxiety inducing.  She re-pierced her daughter's ears, and they came out fantastic.  Now, we still have a piercing gun.  What to do?  What to do?  Hmmm, I've been wanting the third whole in my ears pierced.  Why not?  All three of us; Melanie, Teenager, and Myself (nicknames for children's anonymity to come later), decide we want the cartilage on our ears pierced.

Remember how I said piercing someone's ear is scary?  That was just the lobe, where it barely hurts, now we're talking cartilage.  This is where the fun comes in.  We run out, and buy new earrings, which don't fit the gun, so we run out and buy MORE earrings, that do fit the gun.  Now we stare at each other wondering who is going to go first.  This is the point where we both chicken out, and try to bribe Teenager into being the guinea pig.  Yes, we actually did that.  I've had my tongue pierced, we both have tattoos, and we have both given birth without epidurals, and we're so scared to pierce the cartilage of our ears, that we're chasing Teenager around.

Melanie finally decides, she is going to go first.  She sits down, I bring the gun toward her ear, at which point she flinches.  I'm already scared to pierce her ear, and she flinches, lol.  We are full of giggles, and feeling like silly teenage girls, so Melanie decides she can pierce her own ear.  She grabs the gun, and heads to the bathroom.  She lines up the gun....and....chickens out.  She did, however, get the gun stuck on her ear. I try to help get it off, and realize, it's really stuck, so quickly before either of us can change our minds, and when she is not expecting it, I jam that earring into her ear.  Now, we have our first victim, who claims, it really wasn't that bad.  So now we pierce my third hole in each lobe, and a cartilage piercing.  A cartilage piercing for Teenager, and the second ear cartilage piercing for Melanie.  Now we looking at each other wondering what else we can pierce.  Thank goodness we were out of earrings.  I am thinking I could use a couple more.  Maybe next payday, hehehe.  Anyone want a piercing?

Melanie's first cartilage piercing.

                                               

Melanie's second cartilage piercing.  Done without the gun, btw. It didn't fit.

                                               

Teenager's cartilage piercing.

                                                 

My third hole.

Third hole in my other ear, and cartilage piercing.

Came out pretty good, if I do say so myself.