2007-02-08 02:52:25 · 6 answers · asked by manda lou 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
It gets all squished up into your ear lobe. Unlike piercings on other parts of the body (belly button for instance) when a hollow needle is used and flesh is actually removed.
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2007-02-08 02:59:33 · answer #1 · answered by Away With The Fairies 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Nothing happens to the skin. You are just poking a hole in the skin so you are not removing any. Take a peice of paper and poke a hole in it with a pin. No little peice of paper is removed or ripped off, a hole is just pushed into the paper by the paper fibers seperating and forming a hole. The same principle applies to the ear skin, the earring back is pointy for getting your ears peirced like a pin. The point when quickly pushed against the skin, will cause the skin cells to seperate and allow the pointy back to enter, it has no choice really. So the peice of skin that you are asking about just gets torn apart but is essentially still there.
2007-02-08 11:06:11 · answer #2 · answered by Dale d 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. All piercing ears does is make a small hole-sized separation in your skin. It doesn't actually make a hole where a piece comes off like if you hole-punch a piece of paper.
2007-02-08 11:01:55 · answer #3 · answered by LinzyLoo 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is a rip in the skin; it's just like a tear in a piece of cloth, all the fabric is still there but the fibres have been broken.
2007-02-08 11:04:58 · answer #4 · answered by narkypoon 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
imagine pushing your fingers through a loaf of bread...thats what happens you jst make a hole .
2007-02-08 11:06:31 · answer #5 · answered by grumpcookie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it gets submitted to the national dna database, for genetic research and biometric identification.
Beware!!!
2007-02-08 11:01:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋