How to Get Three Earrings in Your Ear

Your ear is a clean canvas that can be pierced in a near-endless variety of combinations. Depending on your threshold for pain and your body's ability to heal, you may want to get your piercings in one sitting or in multiple sittings. Piercings may take weeks or months to heal, and multiple simultaneous piercings may prolong the healing time. Regardless of how many piercings you receive, proper care of your piercing is a necessity.

Instructions

1

Visit a reputable ear piercing studio and speak to a trained and licensed piercing artist. Make sure that they follow basic safety precautions such as wearing gloves and using sterile equipment.

2

Choose a single ear piercing for your first sitting, and select a hypoallergenic piece of jewelry, like titanium. This gives you the opportunity to see how your body adjusts and heals. Some people take longer to heal than others, and you do not want to put your body through undue stress with too many simultaneous piercings.

3

Care for your piercing over the following weeks. Wash your hands with soap and water before touching it, change your pillowcase regularly, and clean the piercing site with an antiseptic solution.

4

Monitor the piercing site for signs of infection, such as a fever or swelling or redness that extends beyond the piercing.

5

Return to the piercing studio once your piercing has started to visibly heal. Based on your own comfort level, you may get your next two piercings at once or one at a time. If your first piercing is taking a long time to heal or has become infected, it is safer to space your piercing sessions further apart.

6

Leave your piercings in place continuously for four to six months.