Ear Piercing.

Jama · Guest

I want to get my ear pierce but my season starts full blown in about a month and don't want it to get infected. How long do you have to keep them in for?

Trey · Posted: Apr 07, 2007 7:16 pm Post subject:

pierce both, it looks off other wise...a month should be fine.

conwest · Posted: Apr 07, 2007 7:27 pm Post subject:

yeah you should be fine. I was good after like two weeks. Just make sure you use rubbing alcohol to clean it out.

Trey · Posted: Apr 07, 2007 8:11 pm Post subject:

.....and pierce both..... Evil or Very Mad

Jama · Guest

Yeah I'll pierce both. So in a month I could take it in and out?

brianl289 · Frontside 180 Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Posts: 310 City: houston

when i peirced both of mine they took a while to heal. but i went with a 14 guage my first peirce. so thats prolly why. just go with the smallest size or whatever they normally do and youll be fine. i went from a 14 guage to a 10(big mistake i was rushing) and they were healing but still never got infected when they got wet with poopy lake water. just wash them twice a day and your good.

PIRATE · Kickflip Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 2651

YOU can ride the next day, just make sure you clean them. iTs not like your sitting underwater, if you wash your ears with soap and bactine and your earings you should be fine...... Also skipping gages isn't crap, I went from 14-10 and then 10-6.... 10-6 hurts a little, but dont skip anymore after 6

tad · 360 flip Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 5031

how big is a 6 ? .. ive always wanted to gauge mine but whats usually the stopping point if you dont want nasty looking lobes when you take them out?

TWG · Kickflip Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 3258

i streched mine to 1/2 inch about 6 years ago and still can fit a pencil thru one ear. slowly they are closing but think about it before you strech.

scottyb · Posted: Apr 08, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject:

i just have cool clip ons. cant keep the girls off me.

conwest · Posted: Apr 08, 2007 5:11 pm Post subject:

ScottyB, hahaha

bjr · Posted: Apr 08, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject:

Do it now and u will be fine....back in 7th grade i got mine both of mine done during the summer and all was good.

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Apr 08, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject:

Trey · Posted: Apr 08, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject:

I had double zeros about 4 years ago. People still know my ears are pierced. It does kind of make me uncomfortable in the professional world...it's only natural for people to judge, I guess. Confused

Ctipping · Posted: Apr 09, 2007 4:43 am Post subject:

Jama, don't clean them with rubbing alcohol. It kills all cellular growth, bacterial and otherwise. The problem is, while it's killing the germs n whatnot, it kills the new tissue growing.

Jordan Sprague · Posted: Apr 09, 2007 8:11 am Post subject:

don't pierce them..wait

Ctipping · Posted: Apr 09, 2007 11:02 am Post subject:

mine was originally done when I was 12 in some chick store haha...it was free...
but they told me to clean it with alcohol. it bled for two months. I let that grow in before my 13th birthday, and last year I re-pierced it with a safety pin at about 14g. amazingly, it did not infect, and I just cleaned it with saline solution, healed fully in under a month. I've just given my other ear the same treatment, and we'll see how it turns out.

ozwest · Posted: Apr 09, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject:

el · Backside 180 Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 1739 City: The Sea

I'm told the semi-official threshhold, point-of-no-return to normal looking ears is anywhere after 2 gauge, but I think it depends on the person. I had a friend who had 2's and then took them out and within 3 weeks they were back to normal.

And I was riding regularly just after getting my ears pierced with 14's, no problem. I just washed them with gentle soap every night (and whenever they got crusty) and they did fine.

brianl289 · Frontside 180 Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Posts: 310 City: houston

im at a 10 but i think im going to go to 8 tomorow then we'll see if i want to go to 6. i think my mom will flip haha