• On Life and Love

    Danglies and Double Flares

    I’m still on this ear-gauging tip — with a recent sob story of trying to move from 6g (4 mm) to 4g (5 mm) after only 6 weeks, woo boy — but I still have lots of normal 18g (conventional) dangly jewelry. I hate to let that sort of thing go to waste, so I bit the silliness bullet and tried putting one of my danglies in my second ear piercing: Surprisingly less weird than I thought it’d be. I kinda like it. I felt a bit like a Bajoran. After my rather painful and bruising attempt to stretch to 4g this past weekend, I ordered myself a nice pair…