Ding dong, the nipple rings are gone!
May. 7th, 2004 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danaerisIt's disappointing but for the best.
The details:
I went to Body Manipulations on 16th at Guerrero. Their facility was clean (though not as clean as Tribal Ways), and the guy I saw seemed very knowledgeable and handled the problem promptly and properly.
The left ring was almost all the way out already. Not offended particularly, but migrating out. The right one had been migrating on one side, but not the other, which accounts for why it seemed more tilted than I remember it originally being.
According to the guy I saw, I was not rejecting the metal. However, his shop does not have access to european surgical steel, so when I get them repierced I should go for the titanium.
It was apparent that the cause of the migration was the use of 14g rings on large breasts. The rings curving down along the breasts pushes the rings up and outward, which caused the migration. Next time, I should use 12g barbells.
Tribal Ways was concerned about inserting threaded barbells into a fresh piercing, but apparently there are barbells with INTERNAL threading. So this isn't a problem.
So in two months at the earliest, I will probably return to Body Manipulations and get them repierced with titanium barbells. Once those are thoroughly healed, I can use my rings with blue beads, which I've kept.
When I first got these piercings, I was conflicted about them and did not have the right motivations. But when and if I repierce them, I know I'll be doing it because I know what I'm doing and I want them. So I think this is for the best. The piercings be a symbol of my own independence and right to choose.
The details:
I went to Body Manipulations on 16th at Guerrero. Their facility was clean (though not as clean as Tribal Ways), and the guy I saw seemed very knowledgeable and handled the problem promptly and properly.
The left ring was almost all the way out already. Not offended particularly, but migrating out. The right one had been migrating on one side, but not the other, which accounts for why it seemed more tilted than I remember it originally being.
According to the guy I saw, I was not rejecting the metal. However, his shop does not have access to european surgical steel, so when I get them repierced I should go for the titanium.
It was apparent that the cause of the migration was the use of 14g rings on large breasts. The rings curving down along the breasts pushes the rings up and outward, which caused the migration. Next time, I should use 12g barbells.
Tribal Ways was concerned about inserting threaded barbells into a fresh piercing, but apparently there are barbells with INTERNAL threading. So this isn't a problem.
So in two months at the earliest, I will probably return to Body Manipulations and get them repierced with titanium barbells. Once those are thoroughly healed, I can use my rings with blue beads, which I've kept.
When I first got these piercings, I was conflicted about them and did not have the right motivations. But when and if I repierce them, I know I'll be doing it because I know what I'm doing and I want them. So I think this is for the best. The piercings be a symbol of my own independence and right to choose.
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Date: 2004-05-07 05:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-07 06:30 pm (UTC)Maybe I'll have them pierce my eyebrow soon. Still pondering that one. I am absolutely decided that I want it, I'm just not sure if it is too soon at a new job to do it now.
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Date: 2004-05-08 08:22 am (UTC)And...eyebrow piercings frequently look really odd I think. I tend to think that only certain types of face/eye structures look good with them, though I have no idea which do and don't without it being pierced first. *shrug*
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Date: 2004-05-08 12:38 am (UTC)Personally, I like heavier gauge jewelry...
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Date: 2004-05-08 08:21 am (UTC)And yes - there are barbells with internal threading...
Sadly I won't be there to hold your hand, but I'm sure you'll be ok :) As you say, its independence among other things.
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Date: 2004-05-08 02:41 pm (UTC)I'm confused. The mode of failure appears tied more to the overall diameter of the ring than to its thickness. Any small ring bearing a bead will tug forward at the edges of its piercing more than a larger ring. Picture something like hoop earrings.
Maybe I'm just not visualizing it right.
Yes, a 12g barbell will solve the problem but because it is straight, not because it has twice the cross sectional area.
If carrying little blue beads between the piercing and the ends of the bar it may still cause the forces leading to migration.
Yay, a good Saturday early afternoon spent thinking about nipples.