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sebastienneThe "things I do not need when I'm three chapters into the reading for a 4,000 word essay due on 06-Feb" list is, perhaps unsurprisingly, quite a long list.
On it are such things as "waking up with one's jewellery embedded in one's face".
It's three-and-a-half years since I got a Madonna/Monroe piercing on my upper right lip. It has never before given me any trouble - I've bashed it, caught it on clothing, scraped the post against my teeth - no trouble at all. So I was slightly surprised to wake up on Sunday morning with the bottom of the labret stud embedded in the inside of my lip. (A labret stud is like a 3D 'T' shape, where the top of the 'T' is flush with the inside of my lip, the 'I' is horizontally through my lip, and a threaded ball or gem screws onto the end.) My lip had swallowed the top of the 'T' overnight, and was about twice the size that a lip really ought to be. NOT FUN. Lots of faff followed which involved my wandering around with a gold ring through my upper lip for a day (for those considering it: not a good look) and the area swelling even further due to being pulled around by the ring so much. The ring was also a smaller gauge than my normal jewellery, so I knew that the hole was shrinking. Still, it was better than taking the piercing out altogether and having the skin heal up over whatever infection or strange irritation had caused my lip to swell like this in the first place. Also, I love this piercing. Taking it out would be like shaving off one of my eyebrows.
Cold Steel in Camden, whom I've already recommended for all your piercing needs, were absolutely brilliant when I went in today with a lip like a balloon with a stupid ring stuck in it. In next-to-no-time they'd sorted me out with a long enough labret stud to wear until the swelling subsides. They fitted it for me - even had to use an evil-looking implement to stretch the piercing back to the right gauge - and all for the cost of the jewellery itself. A note to anyone who gets off on piercing / uses it as an alternative to self-harm, but can't afford or doesn't want a new piercing; do what I did. Because, for £6, I got exactly the same endorphin rush as I do with a piercing. I don't think that I even feel the pin-prick element of the needle, when I am pierced; it turns out that the stretching sensation as the needle passes through is all that I'm responding to.
Am being exceptionally anti-social right at the moment. It's nothing personal. I have a lot of work to do.
On it are such things as "waking up with one's jewellery embedded in one's face".
It's three-and-a-half years since I got a Madonna/Monroe piercing on my upper right lip. It has never before given me any trouble - I've bashed it, caught it on clothing, scraped the post against my teeth - no trouble at all. So I was slightly surprised to wake up on Sunday morning with the bottom of the labret stud embedded in the inside of my lip. (A labret stud is like a 3D 'T' shape, where the top of the 'T' is flush with the inside of my lip, the 'I' is horizontally through my lip, and a threaded ball or gem screws onto the end.) My lip had swallowed the top of the 'T' overnight, and was about twice the size that a lip really ought to be. NOT FUN. Lots of faff followed which involved my wandering around with a gold ring through my upper lip for a day (for those considering it: not a good look) and the area swelling even further due to being pulled around by the ring so much. The ring was also a smaller gauge than my normal jewellery, so I knew that the hole was shrinking. Still, it was better than taking the piercing out altogether and having the skin heal up over whatever infection or strange irritation had caused my lip to swell like this in the first place. Also, I love this piercing. Taking it out would be like shaving off one of my eyebrows.
Cold Steel in Camden, whom I've already recommended for all your piercing needs, were absolutely brilliant when I went in today with a lip like a balloon with a stupid ring stuck in it. In next-to-no-time they'd sorted me out with a long enough labret stud to wear until the swelling subsides. They fitted it for me - even had to use an evil-looking implement to stretch the piercing back to the right gauge - and all for the cost of the jewellery itself. A note to anyone who gets off on piercing / uses it as an alternative to self-harm, but can't afford or doesn't want a new piercing; do what I did. Because, for £6, I got exactly the same endorphin rush as I do with a piercing. I don't think that I even feel the pin-prick element of the needle, when I am pierced; it turns out that the stretching sensation as the needle passes through is all that I'm responding to.
Am being exceptionally anti-social right at the moment. It's nothing personal. I have a lot of work to do.
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Date: 2009-01-26 05:10 pm (UTC)Why do all my favourite people seem to have severe facial trauma at the moment?
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Date: 2009-01-27 12:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-01-26 10:21 pm (UTC)*stops digging*
*posts with Spinal Tap icon*
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Date: 2009-01-27 02:44 am (UTC)Is it OK if I laugh?
Oh, I'd like to be able to afford another piercing. (But my left helix is still healing from last November, so there's that.)
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Date: 2009-01-27 07:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-27 11:50 am (UTC)Also - I never really thought that I "got off" on piercing but I wonder if I do, actually, as I can't seem to stop wanting more.
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Date: 2009-01-27 06:34 pm (UTC)