Preferable ear piercing method: gun or needle?

Oh I was only referring to earlobes; I thought this was the context...

Blessings.

Sterile is the big word, yes...; it's important; but the needle does have advantages over the gun which rips the flesh.

As a guy doing it in recent years, I suppose, deciding to do both wasn't difficult for you, no doubt. Because years ago guys would do one ear, but the established and widely practised trend now is for guys to do both.

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Depends on what your going to do. Both, but it is very debatable. People say the needle is better, cleaner.

Ms. Tmercy:

It's cleaner by needle, yes. And people that are double pierced, having gone from gun for the first pair and needle for the second, tend to regard the needle as preferable, too. (Even if it does cost a teeny bit more to get it done by needle in a piercing/tattoo parlor.)

Blessings.

I have 4 hole's in each ear. They used the gun for all of them.

It hurt.

Why pierce?

Yes, it's quite an established custom to have 3 or 4 holes in each ear. Although because you have several pairs of holes already, you might have decided already not to get any more; yet people who do get them with the needle after having had it done with the gun, often find it hurts less, because the needle doesn't rip the flesh so much, as the gun does.

You ask why? which is fine.

Others may ask when? which is fine also.

Hi Ms dliz: You're right about sterility being the operative concept. In North America, it's often the piercing/tattoo parlors rather than the mall jewelry kiosks that favor the needle method, and the parlors are often run by people who positively welcome hygienic inspection and regulation. I don't know how far the situation would be comparable in the Philippines; maybe it is comparable.

Blessings.

PS: monica:

It's well worth paying a bit extra. Some people have never been inside a piercing/tattoo parlor but it's really worthwhile getting a professional who knows what s/he is doing, to do it.

Blessings.

Ms Tmercy: This thread was intended to be just about ears; did you think other piercings, too, were meant? (Maybe someone else would start such a thread, but not me.)

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PS: Donkeyfish07: So are you the only guy in your family with earrings?

Oh I didn't do it recently, I pierced it when I was 12 and haven't worn one since about 19. I only have one ear pierced as well, my left one. I'm not sure if this was a nationwide understanding at the time, but where I live if you only pierced one ear....it had to be the left one. Piercing the right one meant you were gay (Not just a schoolyard saying either, piercing the right ear is literally how men advertised that they were gay at the time, maybe they still do it that way).

I pierced my little brothers as well because he liked mine, but he's the only other man in my family that has any piercings at all.

These days it's very widespread for single and married men, dads, etc to have both ears pierced, anyway.

Does your brother still wear his earring maybe? even if you don't?

Blessings.

My little brother only wore his for a year or so....I haven't seen him wear one in all the years since. I probably would wear one again but I haven't had an ear ring in years and when I go out to town, I never find myself thinking "I must get an earring today". I'm happy with just the one though, I wouldn't feel right with both ears pierced. I just like the old school one ear trend myself.

I'm perfectly fine with guys' earrings, although I've not worn mine for years. Some ppl don't like them for guys, although I think it's a perfectly straightforward thing guys to wear if they want to.


Blessings.

aww, what do you mean? That's the best part!

I guess for many people there's a kind of acknowledged and innocent excitement about going to the piercing/tattoo parlor for another needle experience.

Blessings.

Farouk, do you have a think with needle, piercing, ripping flesh, or all three? I'm trying to figure out this thread....I supposed I'll give you a couple answers.

Guns suck, they put the earing on too tight, so now you have to mess with it to get it comfortable....way less sanitary.

I have two holes in each ear. Right now the bottom is a 2 and the top is the normal earing size, but a decade ago the top was a 2 and the bottom was a 00, then I took the top out and went up to 5'8ths of an inch round hole. You can hardly tell, and if I wear plugs, they're small enough that unless you really look, they pass for regular earrings.

My favorite method of piercing wasn't listed, which is by awl at the doorpost....=P

LOL I was making a joke, I just couldn't help it. I'm actually frightened of needles.