#so anyway at 4 the peer pressure and gender norms got to me and I got my ears pierced | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

black-rose-writings · 10 months ago

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I'm thinking about getting my ears re-pierced, so I'm doing some research on it and I found this really funny thing.

An article from a jewelry store (it's the first thing that pops up when I googled surgical steel alergy, which I am pretty sure I have) says, in the same sentence that nickel allergies (which are typically the cause of bad reactions to iron-based alloys) are very rare and then they say 10% of the population has some form of it. That's not very rare. That's 1 in 10 people. In medication side effects lists, 1 in 10 is considered common.

So, yeah, fucking stupid ass jewelry website trying to sell their stupid ass jewelry by misleading their readers/customers.

#irl stuff #jewelry #piercings #earrings #I say re-pierced because I got my ears pierced when I was like 4 #with a piercing gun and surgical steel earrings #which is actually pretty late for a girl to get her ears pierced here #most parents have their babies ears pierced before they're 1 #especially when in the early 2000s #millenial parents may have a bit more sense and respect for their literal infants bodily autonomy than gen x did #apparently people assumed I was a boy a lot because I had very short hair and no earrings #the phrase 'oh she's a girl? but she doesn't have earrings' was something mom heard more than once #so anyway at 4 the peer pressure and gender norms got to me and I got my ears pierced #queue 3 years of battling horrible eczema behind my ears because of an allergic reaction #and my parents not wanting the holes to close so I had to keep wearing earrings #I got golden ones after that which irritaded my skin much less #and then when I was in first grade I lost one earring and stopped wearing them all together #lo and behold the eczema stopped being an issue #I tried qearing earrings occassionally as a teenager #but I could never get more than a few days before the skin behind my ears became irritated again #by now I'm pretty sure the holes did close #but I'd like to give earrings another shot #I will need to do a lot more research and probably get allergy testing before I get there

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