my newest piercing! I have my tragus pierced on my right side. I was so nervous to do this one because I had a horrible piercing experience with my tragus…it hurt SO bad being pierced and the guy literally took 40 minutes to get the ball on the hoop all the while tugging on a fresh piercing trying to get the ball on. I always loved this piercing but like I said I was nervous because it seems pretty thick but I hyped myself up for nothing, it was a pop from the needle going thru, the jewelry insertion was a pinch of pain (not bad though.) The worst part was the alcohol or whatever it was to clean it up at the end …that stung horribly. Virtually no pain since being pierced and I absolutely love it!
Done by Phil @ Slingin’ Ink in Scranton PA while visiting my bro. After my tragus experience I have only gone to two piercers: Phil, and local to me Tony @ Rock ‘n Willy’s. They have been piercing and perfecting their technique for YEARS and have been 100% WONDERFUL to work with.
Update: piercing was done on 9/12, it was absolutely fine looked like this for about 3-4 days. I was cleaning it twice a day with H2O spray and being careful not to touch it/bump it…after the 3rd day it swelled like crazy and just immense pain throbbed through my ear, woke me up out of my sleep. I was absolutely MISERABLE for a whole day…my ear was twice it’s size with the swelling…I wanted to saw my ear off to get some relief from the pain.
I went back to my local piercer and he told me it was absolutely normal just to keep cleaning it, maybe doing actual sea salt soaks with hot water, take some ibuprofen for the pain, and if it was really as bad as I said it was to crush up an ibuprofen and make a paste with water and put it on my piercing. I immediately did a combination of all 3 when I got home and continued with the sea salt soaks a couple times a day and I’m now two days since that horrible day and it’s helped a ton! The swellings better than that first day, the first day you could barely see the bottom ball. I can now see the bottom ball but my ear is still pretty swollen. Knowing the pain I had the other day with this, had I ever expected to go through anything like that I most likely wouldn’t do the piercing again…hoping I can heal it up so I don’t have to lose it because I do really love it.
Posted by jenkylynne on 2011-09-15 01:18:24
Tagged: , rook , piercing , body , modification
