❤️Tragus Update❤️

This is the swelled up piercing with the original stud in it. My piercer said it was not infected or anything. When I got the stud changed out it bled ALOT for about two or three days.

***TRAGUS UPDATE***

I've had my Tragus pierced for almost three weeks now. It's been a rough first few weeks... I was pierced with either a 16 or 18 gauge stud with a flat back. The stud was very short and didn't allow much room to accomadte for the swelling. After about a week or so, the swelling got really bad. It was to the point where I almost took it out because of the pain I was in! I called my piercer and he said I could come in and he would put in a longer stud for free. So I went in the next day and got that done ASAP! Oh my! I did not know what pain I was about to endure!! The process of changing the jewelry hurt ten times worse than when I initially got it pierced, since there was so much built up pressure from the short stud. I have a moderate pain tolerance but this was pretty bad! When all that tugging and pulling was finally over, he said to come back in a week or so once the swelling goes down and he'd put the original stud back in. He gave me the stud and sent me on my way. I don't think I want to go through anything like that again, so I'm just gonna keep this longer stud in for awhile. What if it swelled again? Then I would be back at square one. 

This is my Tragus with the new jewelry in. The swelling is completely gone, and there is no redness or irritation around it anymore.

Peace!

RuthieAnnie❤️

Piercings

     There seems to be a recurring theme with teens nowadays, including myself. That theme is the interest in tattoos and piercings. I do not have a tattoo yet, but I plan to get one soon. I do, however, have some piercings. I have my single lobe piercings, my helix done on both ears, my Tragus on my right ear, and my belly button pierced. This makes a grand total of six piercings. 

     I got my lobes pierced at Claire's with a gun when I was about nine. It is not good to get cartilage pierced with a gun because it will shatter the cartilage in your ear potentially causing it to collapse. I also got my helix piercings done with a gun at Piercing Pagoda at my local mall when I was sixteen. The helix and love piercings are the only piercings I have gotten done with a gun. My belly button and Tragus were both done with a hollow point needle at a tattoo shop. They were my most painful piercings. Not because of the way they were pierced, but because of their location on my body. Both are pierced through thick skin/cartilage which causes more pain.  My lobes were the least painful. I'd say they were a one or a two out of ten. The helix piercings come next at about a three. My belly button was about a four or five, and my Tragus was also a four or five (the Tragus was the same pain wise but it was a different kind of pain).

I have a list of all the piercings I want to get in the future... Daith, rook, triple lobe, mid-way helix, maybe tongue or tongue web... The list goes on! Yup I'm a piercings junkie now! If you have any suggestions on piercings I should get, or questions about piercings in general, leave a comment below and I will get back to you ASAP.

Later!

Ruthie

     This is a picture of me with my current piercings. Helix, Tragus, and lobes.