Ear Piercing

Ear piercing

I’ve struggled for ear piercing for many years because I was worried about the abnormal scaring. I saw a girl who had attend a clinic with a large and red lump on the earlobe. I was curious about that and learnt that was the hypertrophic scar resulted from ear piercing. After several years observation to make sure my body did not easily produce hypertrophic scaring. I had my ear piercing finally and now I can wear all sorts of earrings.

Formation of a nice hole from ear piercing is a long process. It’s not just the quick punch. Our body needs time to allow the wound to heal and to leave a hole as we desired. Nowadays, people mainly use piercing gun to fire the ear piercing stud through the earlobe. The ear stud can be beautifully set with gemstones in stainless steel surgical metal in 20 gauges.

Stages

The formation of a hole or tunnel on the earlobe goes through 3 main stages.

1. The inflammatory stage
After piercing the earlobe, an open wound is induced. Inflammation and tenderness are the common consequences.

2. The growth stage

Our body produces cells and protein to heal the puncture and the edges of the hole contract around the piercing, forming a scar tissue around the post of the stud. Therefore, to have a nice hole formed, we needed to turn the studs slowly and regularly. Otherwise, the scaring tissue would contract around the post and introduced new problems. This stage takes 6 to 8 weeks.

3. The maturation or remodeling stage
Cells lining the piercing strengthen and stabilize. This stage takes months or years to complete.
After the hole nicely formed and matured. You can wear any kind of earrings.

Pierce or Clip-on earrings

Body modification is popular nowadays. Ear piercing is the commonest type of body modifications all over the world. When traced back, ear piercing has the history for over 5000 years. This had been confirmed by the mummified body in Austrian Glacier area.

In the past, wearing earrings had been considers as the status of wealth and richness. For quite a long time, people had to pierce their ear to wear earrings. Until the clip-on type earrings produced, people can wear earrings without ear pierce. Nowadays, earrings are available in two basic types, pierced and non-pierced, and from there they branch out into a wide variety of shapes and styles.

Of pierced earrings, popular styles include simple stud earrings, hoop earrings, dangle earrings and the slave earrings. Many pierced earrings attach to the ear with a wire running through the earlobe rather than a post. Non-piercing earrings include the clip-on type earrings, ear cuff, magnetic earrings, stick-on earrings and spring hoop earrings. The clip-on type earring is the most popular among other non-piercing earrings.

To me, piercing earrings are still more attractive for several reasons. First of all, there is more trendy and fashionable design. Also, it’s more secure to wear the piercing earring as the spring of the clip-on is easily loosened. The spring attachment or screw in post would make the earlobe aching for prolonged wearing.

The most important drawback for piercing earring is the risk of infection or having abnormal scaring for ear piercing.

Stud Earring Transformation

Stud earring is one of my favorite earrings. Stud consists of a post and an ornament such as diamond, gemstones, pearl and metal etc. It is piercing type of earring that passes through a hold in the ear lobe and secured by a fastener that attaches behind the ear.

From daily observation, more and more male wear earrings. It seems that male prefers diamonds studs. For female, they wear earrings of all sizes and types. The choice types is basically personal choice. I love studs very much because they can be transformed to very different style easily.

With a pair of studs, I can modify it easily to a different look and that save me money. Here’s one of my project. Hope my project give you an idea to transform your studs to other lovely jewelry

Stud Earrings and Ear piercing

How do people have their ear pierced in the past? Before the invention of the ear piercing gun, people are using needle to pierce the hole on the earlobe. They use ice cube to cool down and paralyzed the pain sensation of the earlobe. With the numbness sensation, the technician to sterilized the needle by fire and pierced the earlobe as quick as possible.

How do people have their ear pierced without the ice? It’s simple. People use ginger to rub against the earlobe till it turned red and hot. Then follow the common piercing process.

Stud earring is not only jewelry but it is part of the ear piercing tool. Starter stud is slightly different from common stud in the way that they have sharp point that is designed to penetrate the earlobe. The starter stud is usually made of surgical steel, titanium, 24kt. Gold plated steel, 14kt. Gold etc to avoid any allergy. By using the piercing gun, the prepackaged and pre-sterilized stud is fired through the earlobe with the clasp attached in a very shot time. The process is said to be painless as the speed of the firing is much shorter than the time for our nerve to recognize the pain sensation.

No matter which type of ear piercing was chosen, the pain cannot be avoided after the piercing process as infection is common especially if the aftercare is not taken properly.

Bracelet and earring set is perfect for matching

Do you like the citrine bracelet we introduced earlier?

It is good to have a matched set of necklace with earrings or bracelet with earrings. The bracelet and earring set can save your time in matching your outfit.

However, do not match for more than 2 items, otherwise, you appearance would be too robot or too rigid.

Let’s see a pair of earring matched well with the citrine bracelet. They are made up of 925-sterling silver.

Jewelry - choice of earrings

Paris Hilton’s Matches of Earrings

Paris Hilton, she is an American socialite, heiress, singer, model, actress and fashion designer. Paris is known for her appearance in sex tape in 2003, and the DUI arrest and driving violations in 2007, besides her high profile personal life.

No matter you liked her or not, here, we are more interested on the jewelry and accessories she wore in different occasions. From the photo collections from internet, you can have an idea on her choice of jewelry and accessories. She had her jewelry matches well with her hair style, dress code and the occasion. I guess nobody has the objection that the styles of earrings need to match with the dress code and hair style.

Do you find any hint for the style of earring she had chosen?
Here are the tips:
Short hairstyle with small earrings.
Long hairstyle with larger earrings.

See how Paris Hilton dress and wear at the Chopard 150th anniversary part at Cannes – floor length gown vs hair style and earrings.

How to choose the gemstone

If you search the jewelry and their trend, you will properly find that the majority are designed with precious or semi-precious stone. Diamond, jade, ruby, emerald and sapphire are considered as precious stones. They are mainly set in a more sophisticated way and of course they are more expensive. If you like the richness of color, with more trendy design as in the costume jewelry and less expensive, the semi-precious stones such as aquamarine, amethyst, aventurine, moonstone, lapis lazuli, rose quartz, turquoise, tourmaline and many others.

You can choose jewelry by their design and the color of gemstone. One more thing you can consider, the stone related to your birth, i.e. “Birthstone”. Do you know which stone is you’re “Birthstone”? he following table gives you a quick reference.

Dangling Earrings with Faceted Tiger Eyes

The gemstone of tiger eye is actually a family member of quartz. The yellow and golden brown stripes resembles an eye of tiger that was believed to offer courage, energy and luck. Tiger Eye is the anniversary gemstone for the 9th year of marriage.

This time, we would like to share with you how the tiger eye gemstone could be used to make a unique and lovely earring.

Antique Style Earrings

Antique brass is a term used to describe a finish which may appear on any metal item. An antique brass earring is using brass with finish appears worn with time, is darker than natural brass, and absorbs more light than it reflects. It gives a special feeling for memory.

Handmade Brass Turquoise, Agate Earrings

Blue and orange are complementary colors. The combination with orange and blue always give a brilliant look that matches your clothing easily.
To own one is good for this summer.

The earrings from Pinkicollection are really unique and handmade.

Spring Garden

Pretty and fresh jewelry in pastel shades are ideal for tea parties, picnics and lazing in the sunshine.

Cherry Quartz Earrings

Is this beautiful?

These earrings were handmade of brass, pearls and Cherry Quartz.