Is there any way you can pierce your ear at home?

Answer 1

Yes but please don't do this. Its not sterile and you won't make a proper, clean hole. Go to a professional body piercer! (not the mall. they use a piercing gun and it is not clean or sharp enough to do a good job.) You will have fewer risks for infection and other complications if you leave it to a professional. (It will also hurt tremendously less and heal faster when a professional piercer does it for you)

Oh, and to the person above, you are NOT supposed to clean piercings with alcohol or peroxide. It scars the raw tissue inside and your body tries to close the hole instead of healing properly.

Answer 2

About 30 years ago, when I was about 16, one of my dad's friends pierced my ears with an ordinary sewing needle! If I remember right, he just sterilized the needle with alcohol. He used waxed thread so it wouldn't stick. He numbed my ear lobes by rubbing them between his thumb and forefinger for a minute, then just punched the needle through and made a loop in the thread by tying a knot and cutting off the rest. I had to make sure to pull the thread through the hole fairly often, just like they tell you to turn your post earrings that places like Claire's use. The piercing didn't hurt at all, although there was a disgusting sort of crunching noise as the needle went through the cartilege. I must've kept the holes disinfected somehow, but I don't remember that part now. And I don't remember how long I left the threads in before trying to wear earrings.

In this day and age, I wouldn't really recommend this to anybody - especially if you're a kid and it would make your parents mad. There would be some risk of infection, also. Ear piercings at the mall aren't that expensive; just go get it done there, eh?

Answer 3

Of course you can! How do you think people peirced their ears before body peircers?? We just go to professionals because they have to follow a standard. You can buy your own peircing gun or you can do it the old fashion way.

Take an apple or other hard food item, you should use a thick sterilized needle that way the hole is big enough to heal and not close up. Use Iodine or peroxide or buy some special antiseptic thats alcohol free., alcohol is not good. Clean the surface to be peirced real good, with alcohol.
I have some lidocaine in ointment form. It would work PERFECTLY for you...Too bad you dont live in the Orlando area...haha

Answer 4

you get a needle
numb your ear with ice
get a potato
cut the potato in half
put the potato behind you ear
(making sure your ear is still numb)
and POKE!
then put in a pair of 14K gold earrings
i'm not saying that this works, getting your ears pierced at a pro place is always the best choice.
btw, i've never tried it, just heard of it!!!
good luck!

Answer 5

i would suggest doing this but,
you can heat up a needles and put a lemon wedge or potatoe slice behind your ear (make sure you have a pair of earings). pierce your ear with the needle then put in the earing.

Answer 6

I did I used a needle, but i made sure to numb my ear with ice so i cant feel it. The hole was too small so i had to let it close!

Answer 7

buy a ear piercing kit from the store they only cost a couple bucks

Answer 8

sure, i pierced mine at 14 yrs old, i frozed my ears with ice ,
took a sewing needle, soak it in alcohol and pierced my ears.
put a 14 karot gold earring in it and just alcohol ears daily til gets well.

Answer 9

Yeah, get a safety pin if you're doing it yourself. Do you have someone else doing it? You can also use any needle or a sewing needle. May be painful. I suggest a profesdional. I did my own with a new safety pin like last year and it got infected.

Answer 10

Don't do it! There are lots of places that can pierce, and keep infection at bay.