sometimes different tatt artist specializes in diff designs..(correct me if i'm wrong..)
dragonfly has a blog site where u can go check out...they have a few tatt artists...they did mention there who is the most experienced piercer n tatt artist n blah blah...
n ur design for rm300+...is a bit too pricey...maybe its too complicated or somethin...

ninelives...the portfolio u meant, isit for piercings or tattz?
cuz the last time i went there, they showed me a bunch of pics but thru their pc la. perhaps they didnt compile it properly...

tatoo portfolio....they don't have one to show me at their branch in mid valley

Prathunam

hey any of u guys got lip piercings.....im planing on getting one but i wanna know if it's painful ....

Hmm, I saw president have one.

din know that i'm now known as president



on the gathering thing, gingerfish - looks like no one's keen for now

i'd try another approach ....and then wait and c step

gatherin?
sigh...finals only endin on 23...n then straight bak to hometown ipoh...
wat do u all usually do there?

get-together, for networking
yam cha

ninelives u got a lip piercing?....how painful was it?

What about those peeps in facebook? Not keen for a gathering?

those guys o'er there are even more inactive than those guys here

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Added on January 23, 2008, 12:33 ami don't know...try to 'cubit' one part of your lips (its outside surface, near to the beard area) with two fingernails gripping the area tight ....do it with force, and all of a sudden

that's how it feels like - 50% of the pain

lips are full of nerve on the inside, try lookin' your own lips in the mirror
the more nerves, the more senses that area of our body...



the most painful piercing i've got so far, besides lobe stretching



This post has been edited by ninelives1980: Jan 23 2008, 12:34 AM

Piercing = pain couple of days.
Tattoo = lagi pain few days.

heheh....piercing pain 2 weeks
and 2 months of pain when u accidentally bump into the piercing area

and for 6 months.....pain .... when u rotate the ring 360 degrees to clean
cos' the lips inner area....it's hard for the 'fistula' to form(the tunnel that forms the hole for the piercing jewellery to go through)


b4 the fistula forms, when u rotate the ring, it feels like gettin' a new piercing in the lip sometimes, especially when the piercing is very new, and the piercing area is still raw, where the lips tear is still very fresh

the pain just comes back, when u accidentally tore your lips due to eating, or bumping or whatsoeva.......or brushing teeth?


but once the fistula forms completely - no more such problems la

it took me close to 6 months b4 it fully healed - as in like betul betul kaw kaw healed

lol....i dun feel like getting lip piercing anymore

lol...ninelives...u r darn knowledgeable...never knew there's such thing called fistula...
my cartilage piercings sometimes still secrete smelly watery thing...sometimes they bleed too...
i wonder how long it takes for them to form fistulas...

if u've had use guns for the cartilage piercing

then normally you'd have to remove it....cos' from what i hear, rarely i hear success stories on healed piercings..those that are gunned....cartilage parts
includin' nose

how to know it's healed you may ask? well, if you pull and push that thing as and when u like, you feel no pain

anyways, ur cartilage piercings is not healed yet.....if it's gunned, i suggest you remove it
and when it's healed, go for the needle

when i took my gunned cartilage piercing out, it took me close to half a year to get fully healed
that's what guns do to our soft bones

anyways, if you decide to keep your piercings, remove it every day during the shower time.....and wash it with antibacterial soap around the piercing area, clean the jewellery and quickly put the jewellery back in.......

continue to do that until it's healed

but is there any bump around your cartilage piercing area? if yes, then better remove it.......if your piercing has been like 3 months or more?

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Added on January 23, 2008, 10:18 pmlip piercing is my favourite piercing
so...i din realli care much about the pain
if it's not my favourite piercing, and to suffer so much pain, i think i rather not
lol

well, if you like it...don't care la...just go for it
no pain, no gain



i've seen some gals in klang valley havin' lip piercing, if they can stand it....we guys can do better don't we?

This post has been edited by ninelives1980: Jan 23 2008, 10:18 PM

I left one of my piercing to close, but I tested it this morning, still can poke thru. Left it without earring for a year jor It's gunned.

damn. i think u guys are talking the hump u get when u use those guns for piercings rite? i have them! on my left ear. i removed my earrings for a long time already.. but i still have that hump. i heard it becuz the gun preassure shots thru the flesh causing it to develop a pale of meat which then becomes a hump. agrh! ninelives, how do i cure it?

btws, 22 feb sounds ok to me. im will fly back on the 21st.
im on facebook n also here and im active! haha. that makes me special.

well, that bump you have from gunned piercings - you could only let it heal by itself, til' it reduces in size
it won't totally disappear whatsoever...unless it's a very new piercing when u took it off



to let the bump heal faster, you could use antibacterial soap and wash it with running water when u shower everyday....til' its maximum-ly reduced in size



i discover this, when i was enquiring on needle piercing......
with needle piercing, there's no bump whatsoever....just clean smooth surface


p.s. so far
attendees list is only gingerfish

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Added on January 24, 2008, 1:17 pmdepends on how long u wear it la...b4 u took it off

and also depending on the area of the piercing

if u take a lip piercing off, one week max and it'll close entirely

most people will have it closed within like 3 days

This post has been edited by ninelives1980: Jan 24 2008, 01:18 PM

omg...like all 4 of my cartilage piercings got humps....
i've pierced two spots twice cuz there were infections...a bit sad to let them all close now...
needle is costly rite?gun is only like rm10...perpair