What happens if I put mechanical pencil led in my ear hole piercing
People will stare at you. More.
first of all aint nobody ask you to say that I’m looking for an answer not a smart (rude) response
What is that you expect will happen? Because nothing biological is going to happen.
(In case you are thinking pencil leads contain lead, they don’t. They are graphite.)
(ETA: when I made my first response, this thread was in Site Feedback.)
If you pierce the skin you could get an infection. If you don’t, nothing will happen.
I’m going to say it’s going to make it really hard to write.
no but my ears are already pierced
I think Jasmine that it might scratch the inner tissue around your pierce point. I think the tip of the lead could get stuck underneath your skin next to your piercing.
Maybe you could get a little plastic prodder, (it’s a couple inches long and looks like a thin chop stick with a curled plastic end) to poke around your piercing that wouldn’t get stuck in your skin. I’ll bet they have them at the piercing table.
Can I ask you why you want to put pencil lead in your ear piercing?
Yeah, I’d like to know too.
Seems to me that a pencil lead would be tricky. Even 0.05 mm leads are thicker than the post on an ear stud or earring. And they are much more brittle. If your holes are not fully closed on the inside, it seems to me that there is some risk of infection.
Suggest that you don’t try it.
The lead is going to break and fall out.
Not that I would encourage such a home experiment.
I’m a native English speaker, and while my dialect does recognise, but not endorse, the “aint nobody” double negative, the rest of the phrase is… uh, odd.
I parse it as
“Firstly, nobody asked you if I am looking for an answer”
… which implies the OP does not in fact want an answer to a question they posted. Then why post the question?
Anecdotally, I have a pierced appendectomy scar. One of the “dissolving stiches” never dissolved, and when I eventually removed it a few years later, it left a shallow tunnel through the scar.
I could stick a very thin earring through last time I tried, so I assume a 0.5mm mechanical pencil lead would go right through easily. But I aint disinclined to try this (did I get that right?)
I’ve only ever seen 0.5 and 0.7mm lead, but both of these sizes are thinner that the 0.8 to 1mm in typical earing shaft diameter. I think 0.05 is significantly less than a typical thin surgical needle (0.16mm / 34 guage). I assume a typo?
I read “I aint disinclined to try” as you saying, “I am inclined to try.”
To me it doesn’t work the same as “Ain’t nobody” which is a nonstandard usage meaning “there is nobody” or “no one”. It uses a double negative to signify strong negation rather than logical cancellation as in “ain’t disinclined”.
I am basing this on American English.
The pencil won’t work any longer. Why would you want to do such a bizarre thing to your ear?
Because I’m a teenager and that’s how we roll? That’d be my guess.
Put a period after ‘that’ and it makes a bit more sense. Perhaps the only thing in the thread that does.
ETA: Never mind
I know you didn’t ask my opinion, but in these troubled and turbulent times, I’m not sure that pencil lead offers you enough of what most of us truly need.
I’d go with the refill from a ballpoint pen, for then (and only then), you will truly be mightier than the sword.
And, unless what you encounter is something like a scimitar, the odds are good that you will be confronting a double-edged sword.
I say … hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst.
Good luck to you.
To us all.
So the answer seems to be that the most likely outcome is that nothing significant will happen other than the pencil lead breaking and you getting your earhole dirty with graphite (and potentially with a bit of the lead stuck in the hole until you push it out with an earring post or similar).
There exists the possibility that you could accidentally jab yourself with the lead and maybe get a little stuck under the skin, which may result in an infection.
As a fashion accessory it’s almost certainly too brittle for any significant length of pencil lead to remain intact in your ear for long.
But if you want to do it anyway, knock yourself out. And let us know how it goes.
FWIW any graphite that got embedded under the skin would essentially leave a tattoo mark. Otherwise while I wouldn’t recommend it I’d suspect it to not trigger much other reaction.
Good point. I still have the spot from the time in grade 5 Pamela Carter jabbed me in the forearm with her pencil. No doubt I deserved it, though I do not remember why. But she left her mark.