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I have 9 holes in my ears, and I wear earrings in them every day. When I was younger, in the 80s, I had a thing for wearing some intricate, flashy crazy shit in my ears.... huge hoops, dangles, silly charms. I got into making jewelry just to keep myself in earrings, lol.
When I was working, I switched my crazy earrings for simple gold ones: A small stud in my cartilage piercing, and small gold hoops in the next two piercings down. I never take those five earrings out of my ear, usually. The lowest two sets of holes I wore small diamond studs or small hoops in the higher hole and larger hoops in the bottom holes. Sort of a graduated look if they were all hoops.
A few months ago, I quit my job and went back to college full time. I also had a bit of an epiphany, really deciding that I wasn't old (I'm only 33) and that I wanted to quit acting like I'm old.... and dressing like I'm old. I switched out my earrings with piercing hoops... Captive ball rings in surgical stainless steel in the cartilage and top two holes in 16 gauge and captive ball rings in 14 gauge in the bottom two for every day wear. I change the bottom two holes out like I always have, and currently have a huge collection of sterling silver earrings to grace those two holes. I favor hoops of all sizes and anything that dangles... wire, mostly, and those really neat chain earrings that go completely through my ears and hang down loosely. I love those.
9 holes in my ears gives me plenty of places to indulge my earring fetish. My doctor always teases me when she schedules my yearly head ct and mri because she knows I'll have to take them out. *grins*
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