Well, I've pierced my ears six times now, it went great... I pierced the lobes only though, never anything else (though I plan to try the top next). Mainly, because the jewelery store said they couldn't find more spots to pierce in my lobes but I wanted to.
My experience is that when I pierce myself, it heals in no time and without any fluids or any pain or any redness or swelling, in sharp contrast to when they pierce it with a gun at the jewelery store. That's just awful, it swells up and takes months to heal there.
What I did was keep the earrings that they pierced with when I was 8 at the jewellery store, but I've also done once without, I'll tell about that later. I open the piercing-earring up, and I place it to soak in Miramistin (spelling?) because it kills even syphilis, but for lack of it I've sometimes used Chlorohexydine (spelling? Sorry, I'm Russian). The good part about those are that they kill bacteria, but fungus too.
I wash my hands and soak them in that stuff, and I do the same with the earrings. I rub the earrings then clean in that stuff and put them to soak some more in a fresh portion of it (miramistin). Then, next day, I wash my hands thoroughly, I wash my earlobe, and I put miramistin on my hands and earlobe. I also put lidocaine with a tampon on my earlobe on both sides and wait about 5 minutes. You can do without the painkiller lidocaine (if you have none, or are allergical to it or don't know if you are allergical to it), but you pierce straighter with because you don't feel any pain that way. I've done it twice with, four times without, believe me you can do either way. The pain from piercing your ear is next to none.
Anyway so next I take the earring and I see to it that it goes straight through the earlobe, not under any angle. To this, with my right hand (I'm right-handed) I push the earring through and with my left I hold the earlobe a little stretched out and at a straight angle to my head - so I can see it all better in the mirror (oh yeah, you'll want a mirror with good lighting).
When you push it through, you'll first have some difficulty pushing through the first layer of skin, then it's soft like butter for a bit, then you have to push through the tough skin again. It's like trying to stick a needle through a piece of leather, that's the pressure you've to put on. Don't be tempted to wiggle around with the tip inside the ear, that takes ages to heal. Just put all force you can on the earring you're sticking through and then it should go through the earlobe at once, that's best.
Anyway then I put on the back of the earring on when the earring is trough. I disinfect the back (clip) of the earring just like I do the earring, and then I pour some more miramistin over it. I do that daily for the next week and it doesn't even go red. Rotate the jewellery a little bit after that and make sure to let the water run over it when you shower (if that water is clean where you live).
I've also successfully used a surgical syringe and golden earrings once, but you'll need either surgical steel or a good quality of silver or gold and you'll need to sterilize everything really, really well, but that's rule number one anyway.
Of course I should add, I eat really healthy. Lots of vitamins and proteins, and dieting is ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN during the time a piercing is healing first (the first two-three weeks for an earlobe piercing), believe me.
What you'll need most of all are iron nerves though, if your hands begin to shake you'll never get the earring through the slippery wet earlobe... Anyway have fun playing around.
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