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Sep. 19th, 2010 05:54 pmI'm in kind of a weird mood right now. I don't know how to describe it. Lots of wiggling whirling thoughts and emotions, but nothing that I can easily put into words.
I am working on some jewelry requests to send to Bill at Frozenfire. I want to get some double flare 10mm and some single flare 7/16 (which is 11mm). I feel that this will be a very good size for me, big enough to have a large selection of jewelry, and large enough for some designs I like that can't be made in smaller sizes, but small enough to not be blatantly obvious. Maybe some day I will go larger than that. I never had a solid plan or a goal before, I was just going to stretch until I felt it was right.
I like the way my ears look right now, especially with the stretched seconds being roughly half the size of my firsts. I'm sure that among bodymod communities it's not unusual, but where I actually live it isn't common at all. I've never seen someone in person with double stretched lobes, and I've gotten a few "even her second earrings are stretched!" I kind of like that sort of attention to be honest, especially since I hated my appearance for so long. Now, I look mostly how I want to, with relative freedom to change my own body, and that freedom has allowed me to stretch my ears. I am near my goal for both sets, though I am considering a conch punch on my right ear to "balance" both ears.
My left has my industrial (another piercing that I get a LOT of comments on, all positive), but my right only has the two lobe piercings. It gives me a little bit of a lopsided feeling. I don't dislike the asymmetry at all, in fact I prefer it, I think it is much more attractive than having the exact same piercings on both sides. But my right ear still feels sort of naked. A conch piercing at maybe 4g or 2g would be large enough to balance with the industrial.
I can't afford it right now, though, and I still need to be careful as far as work is concerned, as technically I'm allowed only two piercings per ear. So far, between the two district managers I've had, and the area manager (the one that enforces us hiding tattoos), none of them have made comment about my three left ear piercings. And no customers have ever said anything negative about them. My previous manager, the bitch at the store I started at, did write on my 6 month review that I did not "follow dress code properly". I read it and rolled my eyes- it was the only single negative point she could figure out to put on my review, and I got a full raise, so I put it at the back of my mind.
A month later or so, she finally mentioned it and asked if I was curious what that comment referenced. I told her I knew exactly what it meant but that obviously it wasn't a big enough deal for her to say something directly to me. Then I asked "so does that mean you want me to take one out then?" And she being a massive hellbitch, said yes.
So, within a week of me stretching that second lobe piercing to that size, I was having to take it out and put it back in every day. Which of course lead to it becoming very irritated, swollen, hot, and seeping pus/lymph. So I decided I'd only take it out when she was at the store, and lucky for me, I only saw her for a max of 2 hours a day. Within a week, I stopped taking it out (and my ear settled down when I stopped having to fuck with it all the time) and she never said anything again.
My new boss doesn't care and hasn't ever said anything about my ears, and on the review she wrote, it didn't mention anything to do with dress code at all. The new DM doesn't care either, if he's even noticed my ears. And all I get is compliments from my customers, and sometimes I get to share knowledge and help them if they seem interested or willing to listen.
So, here I am, pleased with my ears and my general appearance in a way I never was as a child, a teenager, or a young adult. It only took me 29 years to get here.
So, my birthday is October 27, and I am hoping for some cash. I'm not expecting a ton because I know times are tough for everyone, but I am sure that my parents will be happy to do that for me, as will my grandmother. I also get five pay days in October, so I can combine that extra cash with anything I get for my birthday, and begin my collection properly. It's an exciting idea, and I am going to ask for 5 or 6 pairs of jewelry to be made.
That's enough for now I suppose. I need a snack, and I'm marathoning Stargate: SG1 on Netflix, and I need to browse Bill's page to make a list of jewelry to submit to him for a quote.
I am working on some jewelry requests to send to Bill at Frozenfire. I want to get some double flare 10mm and some single flare 7/16 (which is 11mm). I feel that this will be a very good size for me, big enough to have a large selection of jewelry, and large enough for some designs I like that can't be made in smaller sizes, but small enough to not be blatantly obvious. Maybe some day I will go larger than that. I never had a solid plan or a goal before, I was just going to stretch until I felt it was right.
I like the way my ears look right now, especially with the stretched seconds being roughly half the size of my firsts. I'm sure that among bodymod communities it's not unusual, but where I actually live it isn't common at all. I've never seen someone in person with double stretched lobes, and I've gotten a few "even her second earrings are stretched!" I kind of like that sort of attention to be honest, especially since I hated my appearance for so long. Now, I look mostly how I want to, with relative freedom to change my own body, and that freedom has allowed me to stretch my ears. I am near my goal for both sets, though I am considering a conch punch on my right ear to "balance" both ears.
My left has my industrial (another piercing that I get a LOT of comments on, all positive), but my right only has the two lobe piercings. It gives me a little bit of a lopsided feeling. I don't dislike the asymmetry at all, in fact I prefer it, I think it is much more attractive than having the exact same piercings on both sides. But my right ear still feels sort of naked. A conch piercing at maybe 4g or 2g would be large enough to balance with the industrial.
I can't afford it right now, though, and I still need to be careful as far as work is concerned, as technically I'm allowed only two piercings per ear. So far, between the two district managers I've had, and the area manager (the one that enforces us hiding tattoos), none of them have made comment about my three left ear piercings. And no customers have ever said anything negative about them. My previous manager, the bitch at the store I started at, did write on my 6 month review that I did not "follow dress code properly". I read it and rolled my eyes- it was the only single negative point she could figure out to put on my review, and I got a full raise, so I put it at the back of my mind.
A month later or so, she finally mentioned it and asked if I was curious what that comment referenced. I told her I knew exactly what it meant but that obviously it wasn't a big enough deal for her to say something directly to me. Then I asked "so does that mean you want me to take one out then?" And she being a massive hellbitch, said yes.
So, within a week of me stretching that second lobe piercing to that size, I was having to take it out and put it back in every day. Which of course lead to it becoming very irritated, swollen, hot, and seeping pus/lymph. So I decided I'd only take it out when she was at the store, and lucky for me, I only saw her for a max of 2 hours a day. Within a week, I stopped taking it out (and my ear settled down when I stopped having to fuck with it all the time) and she never said anything again.
My new boss doesn't care and hasn't ever said anything about my ears, and on the review she wrote, it didn't mention anything to do with dress code at all. The new DM doesn't care either, if he's even noticed my ears. And all I get is compliments from my customers, and sometimes I get to share knowledge and help them if they seem interested or willing to listen.
So, here I am, pleased with my ears and my general appearance in a way I never was as a child, a teenager, or a young adult. It only took me 29 years to get here.
So, my birthday is October 27, and I am hoping for some cash. I'm not expecting a ton because I know times are tough for everyone, but I am sure that my parents will be happy to do that for me, as will my grandmother. I also get five pay days in October, so I can combine that extra cash with anything I get for my birthday, and begin my collection properly. It's an exciting idea, and I am going to ask for 5 or 6 pairs of jewelry to be made.
That's enough for now I suppose. I need a snack, and I'm marathoning Stargate: SG1 on Netflix, and I need to browse Bill's page to make a list of jewelry to submit to him for a quote.
