What I ended up doing was looking up old postings (2004) in the local (city-wide) chat group, about reputable piercers. The highly recommended place was too far in this cold, the second most recommended place has apparently closed now, so I called the third place listed. And then I was stuck, as they said, "Sure, no problem, come over any time this afternoon!". So what could I do but get fully Dressed and head over to Electric Babylon, seeing as I had run out of excuses?Originally Posted by Kendra Irene
It cost $C 20 plus tax per ear, including the ring. They gave the standard 6 to 8 weeks healing time. They said that for a standard lobe piercing, to not use antisceptics, as those would kill the "good bacteria" that help the ear heal; they said just to use sea salt and water to wash away the crust.
Did it hurt? A bit, for a moment, but the pain pretty much went away fairly quickly. It hurt distinctly more than taking a couple of vials of blood (but I have "good veins"), but it hurt much less than (say) a good solid nipple tweak. And the piercing pain was considerably less bothersome than the back-aches that I wake up with far too often these days. Not even as bad as a solid "toe stubbing". It wasn't more than 1 to 2 minutes before the pain was effectively gone.
The pain was different for the two ears, as the lobes on my two ears are a little different in shape and to have the earrings hang down properly the piercings were done at slightly different locations.
