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osarabaWell. My tat's doing better -- no more flaking/scabbing, it doesn't bother me to lay on it anymore. However, I've woken up in the middle of the night on two separate occasions because I scratched it in my sleep -- and while it didn't hurt, it was sensitive enough for me to wake up. It itches every so often, but I haven't been scratching it at all (except those two times in my sleep). One of the annoying things about it is that I can't exactly tell where the tat ends and where the normal skin begins, so when anywhere near the top/center of my back itches, I'm afraid to scratch 'cause I can't tell if I'm scratching the tat or what. I mean, I can tell where the center of the tat is, but not the edges, so... ::sigh::
And I really wanted to get my right ear pierced in two spots of the cartilage (as an Industrial, with the barbell to replace the CBRs after the piercings have healed), but I'm not so sure I can afford it right now... it's so disappointing, 'cause I really did want to do it! In other news about my ears, the third cartilage piercing from the top (of my left ear) has stopped being irritated/infected. But apparently the fourth from the top (the one right in the middle) doesn't want to be left out, so is now acting up instead. That's the one that has always been sensitive, but now it's very sensitive, slightly red/swollen... Not to mention, I really want to stretch my second and third lobe piercings so that they're at least an 18-gauge. Right now, I think they're a 20ga ('cause they were pierced with a gun); I'm hoping the 18ga hole will allow for more drainage when they get annoyed, and so help them to heal fully.
I was looking through a few tat/body mod magazines recently... and in one of them (Extreme Body Mod), there was a profile on a piercer who specialized in ear projects. Ooooh! So cool! I love ear projects! They're so pretty -- I like ear piercings more than any type of piercing (which is pretty ironic, considering that ear piercing is so common). But anyway, there was one that really caught my eye -- it was a CBR (Captive Bead Ring -- a hoop with a ball that is pinched between the two ends of the ring) pierced through the helix (outer rim of ear) closest to the head. The ball/bead of the CBR was actually one of the ends of a barbell. The barbell then went through an inner-conch piercing (basically, the cartilage that's right behind the lobe). It was just sooo pretty! I'd love to get that done, but I'm sort of nervous about the bleeding involved with a conch piercing. I'm not squeamish about blood by any means, but... more bleeding indicates more safety risks than a normal lobe piercing, helix piercing, or even a tragus piercing (that little nub of skin in the middle of the ear that extends from the skin of your face)... 'cause there are actually veins in the conch of your ear... and although there are a lot of people who have them... I'd still have to think about it quite a lot before really considering it.
Then again, I don't think I'll get the project I described above. Since I'm going to have an Industrial in my right ear (a barbell through two points of the cartilage), and since my left ear is pretty crowded (for my tastes), I wouldn't have anywhere to put it that looked nice (again, for my tastes). So I think that after the Industrial in my right ear, the only thing left to consider (on my ears) would be... a conch piercing in the middle of my ear (where my fourth piercing is on my left ear). If I do get it, I'd probably end up getting it in both ears... in the same spots.
But this is completely future planning. I'm no where near doing this right now. All I want now is the damn Industrial!
::eyes glow green:: Money, I need money...
I've also been thinking about what to do for my next tats... but I'm not decided yet. The ideas are still fluctuating; the only thing I definitely know I want is a faerie. Ah, the decisions...
god, can you tell I'm bored... o.O*
And I really wanted to get my right ear pierced in two spots of the cartilage (as an Industrial, with the barbell to replace the CBRs after the piercings have healed), but I'm not so sure I can afford it right now... it's so disappointing, 'cause I really did want to do it! In other news about my ears, the third cartilage piercing from the top (of my left ear) has stopped being irritated/infected. But apparently the fourth from the top (the one right in the middle) doesn't want to be left out, so is now acting up instead. That's the one that has always been sensitive, but now it's very sensitive, slightly red/swollen... Not to mention, I really want to stretch my second and third lobe piercings so that they're at least an 18-gauge. Right now, I think they're a 20ga ('cause they were pierced with a gun); I'm hoping the 18ga hole will allow for more drainage when they get annoyed, and so help them to heal fully.
I was looking through a few tat/body mod magazines recently... and in one of them (Extreme Body Mod), there was a profile on a piercer who specialized in ear projects. Ooooh! So cool! I love ear projects! They're so pretty -- I like ear piercings more than any type of piercing (which is pretty ironic, considering that ear piercing is so common). But anyway, there was one that really caught my eye -- it was a CBR (Captive Bead Ring -- a hoop with a ball that is pinched between the two ends of the ring) pierced through the helix (outer rim of ear) closest to the head. The ball/bead of the CBR was actually one of the ends of a barbell. The barbell then went through an inner-conch piercing (basically, the cartilage that's right behind the lobe). It was just sooo pretty! I'd love to get that done, but I'm sort of nervous about the bleeding involved with a conch piercing. I'm not squeamish about blood by any means, but... more bleeding indicates more safety risks than a normal lobe piercing, helix piercing, or even a tragus piercing (that little nub of skin in the middle of the ear that extends from the skin of your face)... 'cause there are actually veins in the conch of your ear... and although there are a lot of people who have them... I'd still have to think about it quite a lot before really considering it.
Then again, I don't think I'll get the project I described above. Since I'm going to have an Industrial in my right ear (a barbell through two points of the cartilage), and since my left ear is pretty crowded (for my tastes), I wouldn't have anywhere to put it that looked nice (again, for my tastes). So I think that after the Industrial in my right ear, the only thing left to consider (on my ears) would be... a conch piercing in the middle of my ear (where my fourth piercing is on my left ear). If I do get it, I'd probably end up getting it in both ears... in the same spots.
But this is completely future planning. I'm no where near doing this right now. All I want now is the damn Industrial!
::eyes glow green:: Money, I need money...
I've also been thinking about what to do for my next tats... but I'm not decided yet. The ideas are still fluctuating; the only thing I definitely know I want is a faerie. Ah, the decisions...
god, can you tell I'm bored... o.O*
