ANY LADIES HERE NOT HAVE PIERCED EARS?

[Skittles]

anyone else besides me find poking holes in your earlobes just....I dunno......GROSS? Pierced ears without earrings - NOT ATTRACTIVE. I just CRINGE when I see BABIES with pierced ears. I find it especially ironic when I hear people with ear piercings commenting negatively about OTHER KINDS of piercings. :O

Of course, I don't own a SINGLE PIECE OF JEWELRY so I'm well aware it might JUST BE ME.

[FreeperSlayer]

1. You go girrrl!

I've always considered piercings and tattoos to be a form of self-mutilation; but hey, it's your body.

[Maple]

2. Mine are properly pierced

because screw-back and clip-on do self-piercing.

Nasty.

[jonnyblitz]

3. as someone with 11 piercings i have heard it all..

People with pierced nipples cringing over people with pierced tongues etc etc etc....when i got my nipples pierced about 5 years ago 2 cheerleader types were getting their belly buttons done and they were mortified about me getting my nips done.

Piercings (and tattoos) arent for everybody. I dont expect everyone to like them but i dont expect to be marginalized and harassed because of them either...

oops..sorry this thread was to the ladies with pierced ears. My bad!
:hi:

[Skittles]

5. oh no

I wouldn't harass anyone - I just wondered if I'm alone - I don't know another gal without pierced ears.

[ForrestGump]

12. I know some with holes that closed over

Through not using them for some number of years.

(yes, I'm talking about ears - why do people always think the worst of me?)

[corarose]

4. My ears are pierced but I haven't wore earrings for 15 years

I got sick of infections and the pain.

[Maple]

6. Hmmmm

Never had either.

It's been nice to wear earrings for years now, without the agony in fact.

[corarose]

8. I am allergic to metal and gold

I had expensive earrings and they still made my ears blow up and fill with pus (yeah disgusting & painful).

[Skittles]

9. ER...........................

I believe the word is PUS. Unless a FELINE GREW IN YOUR EAR ! :evilgrin:

[corarose]

14. Thanks

You know I am bad at spelling.

I don't wear jewelry at all period.

[Skittles]

16. well then

we ARE alike corarose! :D

[Maple]

10. So am I

but there are special earring for that...work like a charm.

[corarose]

15. I bought every kind

Expensive, cheap, etc. Nothing worked and when I use to wear bracelets they would infect my hands.

I have a watch that I painted the back of it with clear nail polish and that works.

[Maple]

18. You didn't buy the kind

that said....'for people allergic to metal.'

There are lots of people with the problem...so they make em just for us.

As to watches...you have to get plastic backed, or coated ones.

[jus_the_facts]

31. Same here....can't wear earrings or bracelets......

.....even plastic will break my wrists out...I had my ears double pierced but in my teens I started getting an allergy which would make my ears HURT and fester within a couple hours...so I don't even want ANY earrings anymore...I can wear gold rings on my fingers and gold watch but that's it...not even gold necklaces anymore...and a gold watch is too damn expensive so I don't own a watch and only have one ring!x(

...oh and the first time my Mom took my earrings out after the few weeks of having to keep them in....I fainted...and had a seizure...they thought I might be an epileptic untill the catscans came back....and the doc said it must have just been an inner ear thing accompanied by fear...I guess I was about 10yrs old at the time!:eyes:

[soothsayer]

7. I don't have any piercings

I figured I'm so clumsy I'd constantly be ripping them accidentally, or they'd get infected all the time, plus it's just another thing to try to match to one's outfit and that's hard enuff (why don't they have grownup grr-animals?)

[Maple]

13. They don't rip accidently

I've worn them for over 30 years, and never once had a problem...and gold goes with everything. Casual or formal.

[soothsayer]

19. I bet I could get a hoop caught in something---hairbrush, my sleeve,

a tree branch. Egads, the possibilities are endless!

Good point on the gold, tho.

[Maple]

22. Sure...I've done so

The earring comes out. Not your ear.

[soothsayer]

26. Who knew?

Makes sense. Still sounds scary to me. I am a serious klutz.

(no mountain climbers in my family, obviously. scaredycats all)

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

11. I have my ears pierced

but rarely wear earrings anymore. i guess when i was 11 everyone else was getting it done. I think I turned out ok regardless, Skittles. :D

[Skittles]

17. whenever I see women putting on dangling earrings

I think about people decorating Christmas trees.

[Maple]

20. But it's okay for women

to wear girdles, high heels, pantyhose, tight clothes, thongs, uplift bras, make-up and veils??

[Skittles]

32. EXCUSE ME

I DON'T WEAR ANY OF THOSE RIDICULOUS THINGS EITHER.

[Maple]

33. LOL Neither do I

So leave my earrings alone. :D

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

23. I don't wear dangling earrings, i hate them

just small studs occasionally.

i laughed at your visual.

[Kat45]

21. I don't have pierced ears!

I thought I was the only woman besides my mother to not have them. And I love jewelry too. Just never got them done when I was younger; I don't really know why.

Although, when I was in my thirties I decided to do it because I wanted to wear cool earrings. Unfortunately, I'm so clumsy at being precise about things, that whenever I tried to put earrings in, I would poke my ears several times before getting it in the holes. It didn't take long before my ears and the holes were really sore and I couldn't put earrings in at all. I gave up on it and let them close up.

[grasswire]

24. nope

My very New England mother always frowned on it. And Gad, look at what women put themselves through for subjective vanity's sake. The shoes! And girdles? Who wears those?? After five years of suffering in pantyhose in Washington D.C., I'll never wear them again unless it's a wedding or funeral.

And why don't men start chucking neckties?

[morningglory]

25. I am an old fashioned "girl"

I only have one hole pierced in each ear!

[inthecorneroverhere]

27. earrings

My mother wouldn't let me have them done when I was under her watch. She never had her ears pierced. I was maybe one out of 3 or 4 kids in the school who didn't have them. Most of the girls I knew had little bitty earrings put in when they were a year old or so. Then, they always wore little gold hoops and the like in 5th grade etc.

So, at the age of 33+, I had one hole done in each ear. Had it done at a professional piercer's because I don't think the gun they use at the jewelry stores is very sanitary.

I like the look of 'industrials' and some of the interesting ear piercings with the stainless steel barbells and the like. Don't have any more than just the 1 hole/ear though.

I have sensitive ears and need to wear either surgical stainless steel, gold, or silver. Can't wear the costume jewelry stuff. One ear is really easy. The other is sometimes a little bit of a pain.

[Nikia]

28. I had mine done when I was three

My mother thought it was cute and I evidently was talked into it pretty easily. Unfortunately, my holes actually started to get bigger and I stopped wearing earrings by the time I was seven for fear that earrings would rip all the way down my ears since they were headed that way. I thought that the holes were closed up until my friend got married and I was in her wedding. She was a very "Bridezilla" type of bride and thought that all the bridesmaids should wear matching earrings and I'd have to get them repierced if I couldn't manage to poke the earrings through. Luckily, the earrings went through my ears. I think that the holes closed up a bit more though after that.

[SiouxJ]

29. It's not that I find it gross

I just never got around to doing it. It's not really important to me. Actually, earrings have always given me a headache so I guess that's why. :shrug: It's funny when I get pierced earrings as a gift. I guess people just assume. I never have been big into jewelry. I always have told my boyfriends I'd rather have CD's or concert tickets than diamonds. Really. I do have my priorities :-).

[GoddessOfGuinness]

30. No piercings here...

Got enough holes in my head.