[nightinggale]

I had the top of my ear pierced with a gun when I was 14 or so. My cartilage is broken, but thankfully it isn't really noticeable to the eye. Just the scar if you look close. I had to take it out because it made absolutely no progress healing.

Wish I knew better at the time though. I would always, ALWAYS go for a needle. I had my nose pierced with a needle at a proper place, and it barely hurt at all. Top of my ear hurt alot, alot more.

I preach to young people against piercing guns, then when they get all snooty with me about it because I no longer have any piercings in, i tell them to go ahead and fuck up their face. Lol. I just wish the place that did my nose piercing wasn't a bunch of douchebags. It came out, and I could not get it back in and they wouldn't let me come in so they could help me out before it healed up. (It was still kinda new)

Anyways, piercing guns are evil. I wouldn't even reccomend getting your lobes pierced with a gun, which is the common way. I have tonnes of internal scar tissue from all of mine. *sigh* If only I knew the things I know now then...LOL.

Good info, abra it's quite clear you know what you're talking about. I hope a lot of the youngsters take note

[aserto07]

[Blewvane]

Years ago a friend let his sister pierce his ear with a needle and it got badly infected. I laughed at him.

[Gojira]

useless post

[Wiggly]

When I was in high school and nose piercing wasn't a big thing(I was really the only one in school who had one)it was done with a gun

[mellymoo234]

i pierced my own ear silly cow i know now i can't wear earrings at all both my ears swell up and become very sore my own stupid fault but i have a nose stud and belly bar done professionally and i can change the studs whenever i like no problems at all

[choe]

I got my industrial done with a cannula, but piercer put surgical steel there and my ear went horrible. I though it may be allergy, cause my ear got all red so i had to take it off when the headache finally came.

[whitehendrix]

awesome post, abra!!

if i might add something, hoever.

anodizing is a plating, and literally any ferrous or nonferrous metal can be anodized.
it is an electroplating.. so theres a dye in the electrolyte solution the metal is placed in... that dye is what colors the metal.

different classes exist as well, class 1 and 2 platings are typically no more than .0015" thick.. the longer the material is sumberged in electrolyte and subjected to current, the thicker the plating is. that also changes it's class.

for an example, a piece of hman hair is .001" ( one one-thousandth of an inch). a piece of paper is .003".

passing current thru a metal to the point of a color change typlically is a way to change the temper of the metal. typically done with induction harneding, or passing a feroous metal thru a strong magnetic fiels as to inducer current in the target metal. the eddy currents inside generate heat and the temper creep is the color you'll see.

just wanted to share!

[x.MiZzY-HITchick.]

ouch.
Hmmm glad I changed my recent ear piercings on the day I got them done! I mean my ears got gunned with those really long thick studs and they were silver but I changed them later with more comfortable smaller sterling silver ones.