Industrial Piercing Bump

So last year, I decided to get more ear piercings. Before that, I only had 2 lower lobe ear piercings in each ear and one industrial piercings on my right ear. I decided to get another industrial on the left ear and a 3rd lower ear piercing for each ear.

The problem that I had this time around were bumps! Granted, I figured that healing would take a lot longer if I decided to get all four piercings at once (industrial = 2, 3rd lower ear lobes = 2), especially having 3 all in one ear BUT this time I had some issues. I got bumps on all four piercings! I knew one for sure was an infection because of how it looked. The other 3 were questionable because they didn't feel or look the same as the one lower ear lobe bump that I can definitely tell it was an infection.

To treat them all, everyday I cleaned it with saline solution, made sure to clean the crusties off after I showered everyday and the one that I could tell was an infection went down in a couple of weeks so that was no biggie.

As for the other 3...well...those took a lot longer. The other lower ear lobe piercing took another month to go away! It didn't look like an obvious infection but had a bump. I was afraid it was a hypertrophic scar or keloid! So thank goodness it went away after awhile.

The industrial was a whole nother monster!! There were 4 total bumps! One on each side of the piercings! The piercing on the top of the ear were smaller than the one on the side though. I've tried sea salt soaks and it didn't seem to do too much. It did feel good and felt like it kind of helped the infection come out when I put a warm wash rag on it soaked with the sea salt solution. I tried to do it as many times as I could in a week, but with work and all, it just didn't happen. PLUS, when I did it, there would be leftover salt residue on my hair! So it would look all white and weird. If I stayed at home, I didn't care about it and you can kind of rinse most of it off but it was still slightly visible...so I prefer not to go outside with it unless I jumped in the shower first.

These bumps on my industrial piercing stayed on for about a year. After half a year, I was contemplating taking them out and wondering whether I should get it looked at. After tons of research, I saw that having them for about 6 months was normal, if you happen to be unlucky enough to get the bumps. So I figured to not stress it, that it should go away soon. The top piercing did pretty well, those went mostly away within the next couple of months or so (they were just small bumps after a couple of months). I was still doing the saline solution method of cleaning. The side piercing was still large and horrible looking! The side that was outside of the lobe was huge! And that one was problematic because I loved to sleep on the left side and it would occasionally bleed after sleeping. After a few months, I couldn't adjust to sleeping on my right side and would try to carefully sleep on my left. Most of the time it would be ok but a few times, I'd wake up to some dried blood on it. Finally, after almost a year, they're all healed. I don't know why this time around, that I had issues with these piercings because all of my other piercings were completely fine and healed with no problems whatsoever.

My Go-To Eyeliner!

I'm sorry I rarely keep up with this blog. Busy life. I thought school would really free up my time! But instead, after I converted to a career position in my intern job, I've been so busy! And the times I'm free, I'm either playing video games or aimlessly, mindlessly watching tv (I don't even know what I'm watching half the time! Like my brain turned off for awhile). Boy, time sure does fly so fast!!

So this post is to brag about how I found my go to eyeliner now!! I love it!
A little bit about me. I've been trying to find my go to eyeliner that is not that expensive, can create thin lines, is truly waterproof, applies very dark and is smudge proof. Why this is hard for me: my skin is freaking oily and my eyes water like crazy! My eyelids get crazy oily by the end of the day (so does my face). I love to laugh, I'm around funny people and so when I laugh, my eyes tear up a bit, to where the tears chill in the corners of my eyes. I also have always had a problem with eyeliner smudging and migrating into my eyelid crease, probably due to oils and the watery eyes do not help. And recently, for the past year...I've been into think upper eyeliner lines! I've already found my go-to pencil liner, but with these, you can't achieve thin lines...at least I can't. (My go to eyeliner pencil in Covergirl Exact Eyelights in Vibrant Pearl!!)

With all that, I've been searching for a liquid liner for thinner lines. I've tried gel liners and they were really nice, goes on smooth and didn't smudge too bad and was waterproof...but...it's not that dark and doesn't give you that super precise crisp line like a liquid one does.