Miss Earrings Talks About Earrings

Miss Earrings Talks About Earrings

September 8th, 2010 @ 1:12 pm by Mrs. Earrings
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Well it certainly has been a hectic weekend down here, what with the earthquake in the South Island, the floods in the North (my uni campus is basically a lake right now!) and recuperating from our family road trip. But onwards and upwards with the blogging! I would be remiss if I didn’t spend some time talking about earrings on this blog, seeing as they are my moniker.

For a while I have had four piercings in my ears: two on each side. The first set (the “normal” ones I guess you could call them) I got at age 10, then a safety pin and a high school bathroom lead to my third piercing in my right ear at 16. Then last year, while sick with swine flu (note: don’t EVER do something like that when you have swine flu) a friend did my fourth one in my left ear. However this fourth piercing isn’t lined up or matched up with its partner on my right side (the third piercing—are you following this?). I was never bothered by that, because I don’t particularly care for symmetry, until Mr E gave me these studs for my last birthday in the hope that I would wear them in my third and fourth piercings for the wedding (my ’normal’ holes will have pretty dangly earrings in them):

They look bronze-ish in the photo, but in real life they are more of an antique rose colour. Well, because my piercings are unbalanced, the studs just looked out of place. I really want to wear them though, so the solution was to get a fifth piercing in my left ear, in between the two holes that are already there so that it matches up with the third piercing on the other ear. The lonely fourth piercing can be all cool with its own kind of stud (just a simple silver one, methinks). Phew.

Originally the plan was that all us girls in my family (my two sisters, my mum and I) would get piercings done together, but they all chickened out at the last second. I was good this time and went to a proper place to have it done.

I chose a stud with an amethyst (Mr E’s birthstone) for the piercing to be done with:

Preparing myself:

Attack of the piercer!:

Yay, all done:

All that just so I can wear those pearl studs at the wedding!

Anyone else have multiple piercings in your ears? If you do, will you be wearing earrings in all of them for the wedding, or will you take the earrings out?

*all photos in this post either by me or by my long-suffering sister and MOH

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14 Responses to “Miss Earrings Talks About Earrings”

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BrianneG (message) 938 posts, Busy bee

I certainly don’t remember my first set of holes because my pediatrician did it when I was a baby. The second set came on a whim on my 14th birthday while shopping for a present with my mom. My cartilage piercing was from a random trip to the mall with friends in junior year of college, but after a year it came out because it never stopped hurting and I couldn’t sleep on that side.

My mom actually got a second set of holes when she ws 50. She had breast cancer at 47 and after her mastectomy they put her on a drug called Tamoxifen (?) that changed her body chemistry. After years of bad reactions too all sorts of metals, suddently she could wear all the jewelry she’d been denied. So she got new holes to match mine. She also got a nipple tattooed on her reconstructed breast, so she’s all kinds of hip now.

9/8/10 @ 1:38 pm (reply)

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mjchexum (message) 485 posts, Helper bee

I have 5 piercings in my ears as well. 3 on one side, 2 on the other. They were symmetrical but the 3rd one on the other ear was in a really weird spot, like way far out on the edge of my ear, so I let it close up. So I usually do what you did I’ll wear 2 matching pairs, and a loner stud, or I’ll wear some dangly earrings and 3 studs. I enjoy my uneven piercings

9/8/10 @ 1:40 pm (reply)

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Miss Locket (message) 2,837 posts, Sugar bee

Ahhh the self piercer! I totally did that when I was in middle school too and….I think they are symmetric for the most part, but I hardly ever wear studs in them anymore…I do have other piercings in my ears though and will be taking them out because they would looks silly…I have a double tragus piercing in my left ear, cartilidge in my left, and an anti-tragus and rook in my right ear. It will be sad to take them all out (not to mention a pain),but I don’t see them looking anything but silly in photos.

9/8/10 @ 2:16 pm (reply)

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Miss Elephant (message) 6,182 posts, Bee Keeper

I had 5 holes, but have let the one at the top of my cartilage close up. So I’m thinking a pair of dangling earrings and then a set of diamond studs that Mr. E gave me for our 1 year anniversary.

9/8/10 @ 2:53 pm (reply)

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Lindsy (message) 237 posts, Helper bee

I have 7 holes, 3 on each side on the earlobes and then one by itself on the cartilage. For my wedding, I wore a pair of chandelier earrings in the first set of holes and the earring that i always wear in the cartilage. I felt like it would be too much to wear earrings in all of the piercings and wouldn’t look as nice in pictures.

9/8/10 @ 3:18 pm (reply)

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MrsSl82be (message) 7,970 posts, Bee Keeper

I have 4 holes in each ear, and my mom and I are going to go soon to get our 5th! I wore earrings in the 1st,3rd, and 4th holes and left the second empty, since one side is closer to the 3rd than the other so it looks all crowded if I have 4 in that ear. Looked good, and I love that I don’t have to pick which pair of earrings, i get to pick 3 or 4!

9/8/10 @ 4:13 pm (reply)

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SnuckyFox (message) 64 posts, Worker bee

I have this asymmetrical earring problem as well, but mine isn’t so easily solved. My ears are crooked, and the person that did my first set (”normal” ones) didn’t seem to notice. However, the person that did my second set did notice and decided to make the earrings line up from a distanced perspective. So now each piercing in the second set has a different distance in relation to the first set, but not far enough apart to add another piercing in between to make it symmetrical.

9/8/10 @ 4:16 pm (reply)

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Moffy (message) 200 posts, Helper bee

At one point, I had 7 in my left ear and 1 in my right! But I’ve narrowed it down to 3 in my left and 1 in my right. For our wedding day, I didn’t put in fancy or different earrings (my “normal” holes always have my mom’s diamond earrings that I never take out, and they were my “something old”). My other two earrings in my left ear, I left my tiny diamond studs that are also always in. They are smaller than the “normal” studs. =) I love this post!! Can’t wait to see the pearls you wear on your wedding day!

9/8/10 @ 4:17 pm (reply)

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Mrs. Pug (message) 3,753 posts, Honey bee

i stopped at the “normal” two. i’m such a wimp!

9/8/10 @ 5:51 pm (reply)

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jordynrose (message) 6,351 posts, Bee Keeper

I have five holes total, but will only be wearing earrings in the first two. Boring!

9/8/10 @ 7:49 pm (reply)

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Miss Glasses (message) 2,741 posts, Sugar bee

Those are really pretty earrings but I have to admit I cringed throughout most of this post. I got my ears pierced at the ripe age of 17 and my ears HATED it. It was so painful and it turns out my body is allergic to fake gold and silver. I so wish I could wear pretty dangly ones like you have on in the last picture

9/9/10 @ 3:06 am (reply)

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Miss Earrings (message) 2,477 posts, Buzzing bee

@Miss Glasses: can you wear real gold and real silver though? I can only wear the real thing as well- anything containing nickel is bad news for me! I find it hard to find “fashion” pretty dangly earrings in NZ that I can wear. Hence why I got the silver ones in the pic from Bali because it is easy to find real silver ones there

9/9/10 @ 3:22 am (reply)

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