stretching problem….
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Sunday November 4th, 2007 @ 7:46 PM
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so, a week ago i went to a tattoo and piercing shop and bought some acrylic crescents and the piercer lady put them in for me. i had 14g crescents in before, but now i’m in spain where they do millimeters instead of gauge. but i got 2.0 millimeter ones. or they were supposed to be. but i realized the next day that one is bigger than the other, like significantly. i assume it’s 2.4 millimeters. so now a week later my ear with the 2.0 millimeter crescent is fine, but the other one is still kinda sore and pusing. ordinarily i would go back to the shop and ask to exchange it, but my spanish kinda sucks. i figured i’d just let it heal, and it would eventually. what i’m getting concerned about is that under my ear there’s a lymph node, i think, that is kinda swollen and hard and painful. is that something i should super worried about?
The joy of Imperial and Metric Systems…I think personally we should just throw them BOTH away and come up with something better, what that is…Who knows…
14ga = 1.6mm, 12ga = 2.0mm,etc.
Acrylic honestly is not something that is an ideal material to stretch your piercings with, and leave that in. For starters the more prominent acrylic out on the market cannot be autoclaved. Also products like Alcohol and Disinfectants will break the material down and cause it to crack,etc.
My advice to you is to go back to the shop or another shop and have them put in either a CBR/BCR, Circular Barbell, Labret Stud that is either Steel or Titanium and treat your ears as if they were just pierced (ie: salt water soaks, for ten minutes, gently remove discharge, etc).
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3 Responses to “stretching problem….”
How can you replace the metric system with something better? It’s already as logical as a measuring system can be.
N on November 6th, 2007 at 5:17 amI agree with you, N! Warren’s just grumpy because I *make* him use it here, because, you know, everyone else in the country does.
It took me some time to get comfortable with the metric system when I first moved to Australia six years ago, but now it makes so much more sense than working out bloody fractions of an inch when measuring body jewellery!
Lori St.Leone on November 6th, 2007 at 5:24 amIs it N? Are you sure? Perhaps this is a form of measuring that is by far superior to the Metric or Imperial systems, we just haven’t found it yet
Lori: I can bounce back an forth between the two fairly ok, sometimes I forget though lol But I will say its rough for us when we have to order jewelry from the companies using the Imperial system cuz then we have to do the metric to imperial conversions
Warren on November 7th, 2007 at 8:13 pmLeave a Comment