Coffeehouse chat.

[Olympia]

Hahaha, well you know, just to have a potato around! Can never have too many potatoes!
I think you freeze it first and it helps the numbing. I also think it's easier to pierce if there is a sturdy potato behind your floppy ear.

[eaturbyfill]

Originally Posted by Olympia

Hahaha, well you know, just to have a potato around! Can never have too many potatoes!
I think you freeze it first and it helps the numbing. I also think it's easier to pierce if there is a sturdy potato behind your floppy ear.

Ohh, I didn't know it helped with numbing. I thought people just did it for ear-support. xD

[Olympia]

Here we go again.

Yea, well if you freeze it first it'll numb your ear Elizabeth.

[Sakura8]

Elizabeth, that was my first thought too, that the potato was like some kind of support so you didn't stab into your head or something. o.O

[djembekah]

Elizabeth where did you get your ears pierced?

[eaturbyfill]

Originally Posted by TheCrabbyTabby

See? If you do it yourself, your setting your self up for a possible infection!!

I had it done at professional places every time, just local shops.

[thekoimaiden]

Haha! I'm the oddball here. Never had any piercings! Don't really want any either. I'd be afraid of getting a branch stuck on them when I'm in the woods.

[djembekah]

did you get it pierced with a needle or with a gun Elizabeth?

i know a thing or two about piercings. and tattoos. i just do what i want- except too scared to pierce anything on myself

[Sakura8]

I had them pierced in 3rd or 4th grade but they got infected and closed up. Pierced them again later and then got a second set in junior high. But I almost never wear earrings unless it's something really special like, oh say, Hugh Jackman's concert on Broadway.

On top of that, they're pierced lopsided too.

Elizabeth, I get infections really easy too even when I wear sterling silver. One of the reasons why I never wear earrings.

[eaturbyfill]

Originally Posted by djembekah

did you get it pierced with a needle or with a gun Elizabeth?

i know a thing or two about piercings. and tattoos. i just do what i want- except too scared to pierce anything on myself

It was always guns. I felt like they were stapling my ear, lol.

Edit: That's how I am, too, Sakura. My parents paid for the sterling silver ones to try to keep it from getting infected.. but nope. Still did xD I had them pierced when I was little, about 12, and about 15. The hole is still there, except grown over; I'd have to re-poke it.