What is an ear piercing?
Ear piercing initially refers only to the hole in the ear, and not the jewelry for it.
Before one can decorate one's ear, it must first be mutilated. Usually, it remains a small, inconspicuous hole, which is then covered with
It is fired with a pistol designed for that purpose, not with a Walther P, and also without a silencer.
After a shot with a Walther, it remains questionable whether there will even be an ear left to decorate.
Of course, for the truly adventurous, there is also the option of using a safety pin and a potato to make the holes, or with a
Cocktail skewer, to accomplish.
After piercing, the hole should be filled immediately, otherwise it will close up again very quickly.
Jewelers and piercing studios generally use surgical steel for this, but in principle you could just leave the cocktail stick in.
It's a matter of taste.
Once the ear piercing has healed, it can be further modified. With stretching plugs.
Using stretching spirals or other methods, you can, as the name suggests, stretch your ear piercing to a desired size. It's important to proceed slowly; rushing the process can lead to torn ear piercings.
For those who can't wait and are relatively pain-tolerant, there's also dermal punching. This involves using a skin punch to create a perfectly round hole in the earlobe.
But for those who tend to be more sensitive, there's help available. Fake piercings are now made from various materials and in many styles.
Designs offered.
For a fake piercing, you only need the small one,
An inconspicuous hole. To the observer, however, it looks like a stretched piercing.
