Can You Get A Sleeper Ring In Your Lobe Straight Away After Piercing?

[spathiphyllum]

Can you put a sleeper ring in your ear lobe straight away appose to a barbell stud or a labret?

[Prudie]

I would say as long as it's gold or some other non irritant metal and thick enough to maintain the hole width as it heals. Most hoops have a much narrower wire that might cause the skin to grow over it. Just a guess mind, years since I had my ears pierced.

[Pyxis]

I believe so.
I believe there are special ear-piercers that will deliver a ring straight through the newly-pierced hole, at the same time the hole is pierced.
However, they may not be common, so you may have to make lots of enquiries.

[spathiphyllum]

Pyxis, that sounds like a 'gun' method. I'm kind of against them as i've seen them mess up my friends lobes and nose!

Cheers both.

Yes prudie, would be expecting it to be surgical stainless steel or silver.

[chrissa1]

Many years since I had my ears pierced but I thought you had, to have a ring in straightaway, to stop the hole sealing itself up again.

[spathiphyllum]

you do have to have something in straight away, i'm jsut curious if it has to be a barbell first to allow heal time then you're able to change it or if you can get a ring straight away

[kvalidir]

Yes you can have a sleeper, you can have anything you fancy for that matter that will fit through the hole.

[spathiphyllum]

I had a helix once and they wouldn't let me, but that's cartilage where as the lobe is just some flappy skin so i was quite curious

[kvalidir]

I have my lobes pierced 3 times the two higher of which I've done myself and I just stuck whatever sterile gold earring I fancied through and they healed perfectly, sleepers are certainly no problem.

[TonyV]

In my experience wherever you get pierced some thing needs inserting to stop the "hole" healing