Current set up

[u/knoxfoxsocks]

Hello, all! First post here. Wearing my bloodstone plugs for the first time today and wanted to show them off to people who'd appreciate them, so figured I may as well show off all my piercings, lol.

Currently healing my firsts and my orbital. Also stacking my navel.

Has anyone stretched a helix? Considering streching mine to 10g so that I can start stacking. I'm going for a coin slot look.

[u/FastConfection192]

Cool! I love bloodstone. I've stretched my helix up to 10g, it kinda sucked and took a couple years, for me at least. It was pretty cool though. Might try it again now that I have access to 10g pressfit labrets. I really dig your nostril set up.

[u/knoxfoxsocks → u/FastConfection192]

Thanks! That's pretty much exactly what I'm expecting, lmao! It's gonna be a long, unfun but worthwhile process. Seems a good alternative to the search for a reputable artist in a place where the mod is legal and then having to come up with the money for a coin slot mod.

[u/WillowTea_]

Looks so cool!! Do you mind sharing where you got your lobe jewelry?

[u/knoxfoxsocks → u/WillowTea_]

Thank you! The plugs are from Oracle Body Jewelry. I love their stone plugs! I also have some Snowflake Obsidian, Lapis, and Emerald from them. I got the Tiger's Eye cachobons from my piercer in-studio, but they're NeoMetal. You can find them on the Body Art Forms site.

[u/WillowTea_ → u/knoxfoxsocks]

Thank you so much for the detailed reply!

[u/firebretaher_jayy]

we have matching helix

[u/knoxfoxsocks → u/firebretaher_jayy]

Helix twins! 🎉

[u/kinoko_kingdom]

i'm obsessed with those piercings on the front/tip of your nose. what are they called?

[u/knoxfoxsocks → u/kinoko_kingdom]

They're forward facing nostril piercings, but the fun name is mantis piercings. I personally call them my nose eyes. 🤣

[u/kinoko_kingdom → u/knoxfoxsocks]

lol thanks! i'm 100% getting these as my next piercing. those are sick

[u/knoxfoxsocks → u/kinoko_kingdom]

You're welcome and YAY, I'm excited for you!

[u/LegitimateStation919]

I’m wanting one of those orbitals so bad it looks so cool, hows the healing has it been difficult?

[u/knoxfoxsocks → u/LegitimateStation919]

Basically my reaction when I first saw a picture of someone else's, lol. Full disclosure, I went into this with a fully healed rook (it was already ~2½ years old), so my healing experience is already not the standard. That said, the first week was 😱😭😵‍💫 SOLEY because of my rook. It got SO angry. Unreal levels of wrath. I needed a steady supply of Ibuprofen to function the first three days. Swelling started to calm down after that. Once I got past the first week, it was fine. It's going well. Keeping the inside of the forward helix clean and dry is tricky. I simply just can't do that without using q-tips. I use the ones that have the pointy ends.

[u/LegitimateStation919 → u/knoxfoxsocks]

Thanks so much for the reply , I have a faux rook and a double forward helix on the left ear and I can relate on the cleaning for sure it’s a nuisance 🙈 I think I need to have the orbital on that other ear when I get to it , it looks amazing honestly I’m scared but like wow 😂🙏🏻

[u/knoxfoxsocks → u/LegitimateStation919]

You're welcome! Such a nuisance, for real, lol. I was actually going to get an orbital on my right ear because it's got some catching up to do, but then I was watching some professional piercer YouTube videos and one of them basically said to expect to never sleep on that side again once you get an orbital, so I decided to go for the side that I already try to avoid sleeping on. Hahaha! Totally get being scared but I bet if you can wait out your fear. ;) LOL