Also, how come we can't replace it with another earring, isn't it the same concept?? Isn't 4 wks a lot??
2006-08-23 15:33:04 · 18 answers · asked by Lovemylifefriendsfamily 4 in Beauty & Style ➔ Skin & Body
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2006-08-24 10:44:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to allow for the skin trauma to heal. You have suddenly pushed a sharp object into your flesh so it needs a little time to get over it. The skin has to heal around it which is why its so important to keep it clean for these first four weeks. I would say six weeks is better before you start messing with it. The rings that they pierce with are usually medical grade steel which is the best thing for new peircing. Some earings that are cheap metal will give lots of irritation.
If you really MUST change it, make sure you have super clean hands and you have thoroughly cleaned the pierced area. Make sure that the new earing is either gold silver or surgical steel. If you have an allergy to cheap metal, this can give you MAJOR trouble so be on the safe side and use good jewellry! Clean clean and clean! Don't touch the peircing too much but keep it clean. The less you mess with it , the quicker it will heal and then you can change your earings as much as you want.
2006-08-23 22:42:06 · answer #2 · answered by punkvixen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume you had your ears pierced with a gun rather than a needle. The earrings used with the gun are special...they are thicker than normal earrings and the back clicks into place to keep them from being too tight. If you switch to regular earrings, you could wind up with smaller holes or an infection and if you take the earrings out altogether, the holes will close.
The alternative is to have your ears pierced with a hollow needle, then you can wear whatever earrings you want right away.
2006-08-23 22:39:20 · answer #3 · answered by sueflower 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They tell you to leave the first piercing in so long to make sure your ears don't simply heal up if you forget to put the earrings back in. You could replace it with a similar sized earring, but it is a good idea to keep to studs untill you are used to the piercing and the piercing has healed as much as it is going to. Hoops and dangles are heavy for a new piercing, and tend to snag on things. Also, some people are allergic to the types of metals used for earrings, and most first piercings are hyop-allergenic.
2006-08-23 22:38:13 · answer #4 · answered by ratherscaredstiff 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will heal itself and close up! You need to let them heal fully with the holes. It will really hurt changing your earrings if you do it too soon. I am speaking from experience. The more sensitive your skin is, the more of a challenge keeping the holes can be.
It's been 3 years and still if I don't put earrings in for a few days, it becomes difficult and painful to reinsert them.
2006-08-23 22:35:17 · answer #5 · answered by city_savvy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't take out your earring for another earring they tell you to let it in your ear because it is a sterilized earring and that just what the directions say to do. You don't want to ear to grow a weird scar do you? Also plain and simple so that your hole won't close. Your skin is trying to heal itself so leaving the earring in your ear then the skin will heal around it thus leaving a hole.
2006-08-24 00:24:21 · answer #6 · answered by Nat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the holes close up reallyreally fast if they don't have time to heal. With other body piercings, often if you take them out and leave them out for more than a day, they close up. And then if you try to get an earring or whatever back thru the hole once it's closed up it's a) really painful and b) virtually impossible. You'll have to get them repierced.
2006-08-23 22:37:49 · answer #7 · answered by acct4em 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
think about it hun.. your ear is just living its happy closed tissue life and then BAM some foriegn metal is jammed through it.. 4 wks is the amount of time the skin and ear lobe tissues need to 1. overcome the shock of the piercing and 2. become used to this foriegn object that was "magically" placed there... dont worry it will heal fast is you clean it when you are supposed too..
2006-08-23 22:42:40 · answer #8 · answered by kaeleigh_w 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so ur ear gets used to the hole. if u take out that earing and keep replacing it with others the hole shrinks then opens and damages the tissue around the hole.
it just stretches and pulls it out of place when u take earings in and out in the first couple weeks. wait for the ear to get used to having no skin in an area.
2006-08-23 22:39:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i had to keep it on for 6 wks! it's so the hole doesn't close! if you take it off the hole isn't complete so your gonna have a tough time putting another earring through it.
2006-08-23 22:40:06 · answer #10 · answered by hElpPlz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so the skin in and around the ear can get used to the new hole
2006-08-23 22:36:56 · answer #11 · answered by Phoenix 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋