How not to start a morning #1307

[truepenny]

As I was combing my hair preparatory to performing hairstick-fu and getting it the fuck out of my way, the comb caught in the captive bead in the upper of my two cartilage piercings and sent it--the bead, not the entire ring--spinning out into the hall.

It did not actually hit a cat, although it would have been funny if it did.

I found it again, yes, by stepping on it.

Which is actually good, because I had no hope in hell otherwise.

Although I had been toying with the idea of replacing one or both of the captive bead rings with something else, this is not the way to go about it.

The good news is that I don't seem to have actually hurt myself. I'm just unsettled and annoyed.

I don't expect the day to improve much from here, either. (p. 86 of 302.)

Comments

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

I'm glad your ear is still attached to your head and is in one piece, and that the cats chez truepenny have no more to complain about than usual.

I'd offer to send chocolate, but I realize that's not as much a panacea from your point of view as it is mine.

[gerbilicous.livejournal.com]

I actually did the same thing last winter to my highest non-cartilage piercing -- caught my bead on my hair during the night and then accidentally yanked it out when I stuck the mess in a pony tail on my way out the door. Unfortunately, my episode DID cost me a chunk of my ear and hurt like I hadn't expected anything to hurt until childbirth. It was a really small ring, however, and it healed very well. Other than a slight indent, you can't even tell there was ever a chunk missing. I never did find my bead, though...

Eyebrow piercing story

[muneraven.livejournal.com]

Forgot to take the barbell out of the eyebrow. Stylist caught it on the upswing with the comb while simultaneously telling she wanted to cut my hair in a more feminine style.

Fortunately my eyebrows shot up at her lack of understanding of boyish lesbian hair issues JUST IN TIME, thus saving my eyebrow from being torn off.

Lesson learned: Better a scuzzy inner-city barbershop than a low-cost surburban chain haircut joint. Truly urban hair-cutters know about piercings AND lesbians.

[newroticgirl.livejournal.com]

One of my brother's dogs has twice managed to lick a captive bead out of an earring. Those things are so dang hard for me to get back in! I remember having to get a CAT scan and they made me take out all 7 piercings (4 of which are the captive bead type) and it took me and my boyfriend at the time a LONG time to get them all back in. There should be a dexterity test maybe, before a piercing. :D