My 12mm and 14mm Plug Collection

In my last post, I waxed lyrical about how I look after my stretched ears, and today I'm here to show you what beautiful things I wear in them. I try to buy as much as I can in my local piercing shops, but as you can see, I am a big fan of the online store Crazy Factory. This post isn't sponsored, I just really really like Crazy Factory, and I wanted to share my collection. I've been waiting for my most recent order from Crazy Factory to arrive so I could write this post, actually.

I'm going to show you my 12mm and 14mm collections because I'm proud of both collections as they stand. I am presently wearing 14mm jewelry and all my 14mm plugs are stone except for one pair of stainless steel tunnels which aren't pictured because they look exactly like the 12mm ones - just bigger!

NOTE: For all the gauge size users reading this, 12mm is 1/2" and 14mm is 9/16".

12mm

Stainless Steel Tunnels: Wildcat Ink North 

Flowery Acrylic Tunnels: Wildcat Ink South 

Clear Silicone Tunnels: Crazy Factory 

Red and Green Foil Finish Acrylic Plugs: Crazy Factory 

Blue Stone Plugs: Crazy Factory 

Glass Plugs: Crazy Factory 

Opalite Plugs: Wildcat Ink North 

14mm

Opalite Tunnels: Wildacat Ink North

Sparkly Black Stone Plugs: Crazy Factory

Rose Quartz Plugs: Crazy Factory

Glow In The Dark Glass Plugs: Crazy Factory

Tigers Eye Single Flare Plug: Crazy Factory

BONUS!!! Handmade Pyrite Dangles/Hangers

I made these Pyrite hangers for wearing with fancier outfits, and I'm in love!! They've a T-bar closure for ease and a little extra detail.

So there you have it! My plug and tunnel collection in all its glory! I hope you enjoyed this post, if you did I would love to hear which pair or pairs you thought were the prettiest in the comment section! 

<3 

Amy 

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None of the plugs in this post were gifted, provided for review or anything else. I parted with a lot of cash for these! 

Crazy Factory Mini Haul

Since I've started seriously modifying myself (stretched ears, multiple piercings) I've been using Crazy Factory to pick up a lot of my jewelry, though to be fair, I have been wearing tunnels and nothing more until now, since I was trying to get to my goal size. 

So I went on Crazy Factory last week and picked up a few little bits, and I'm going to show you them today! There will be clickable links to all the items, so if you want them, you can find them easily! This post isn't sponsored or supplied by Crazy Factory, I just really like them, they're very affordable and they do great stuff! 

First, I picked up some plain steel single flare tunnels in 10mm (00g) with black O-rings. They were €1.39 each, and obviously I needed two, so the total was €2.78. You can find them HERE 

Then I picked up a silver septum clicker with clear stones, the bar that goes through the piercing s 1.2mm and the jewelry is 7mm in diameter, for a nice snug fit on my tiny hobbit nose. I have the exact same style of clicker in blackline with peridot stones and I love it, but I wanted something that would go with everything. I only ordered one, but they sent me two, so I don't know what to do with the spare. If you have your septum pierced and you want the extra one, tweet me @redlips_redhair and I'll send it to you! You can find it HERE for €4.49, and there are a bunch of stone color options to choose from! 

Finally, I picked up the coolest plugs I've ever seen, glass spirals! I got them in a turquoise color, because I'm a creature of habit and I'm very aware of the colors that suit my skintone and hair. The cool thing about these plugs is that you have to order one for the left and one for the right, since they're made to sit a certain way in your ear. Find the LEFT HERE and the RIGHT HERE. Each one was €4.99 and there are four colors to choose from! 

So that's my little mini haul from Crazy Factory, I am a huge fan of this store, it's super reasonable price-wise, the shipping isn't extortionate (over a certain price is free, actually!!) and it arrives super quick. You can also earn Crazy Cash points on your purchases to redeem against orders. 

Find Crazy Factory on www.crazy-factory.com and on twitter @CF_Piercings!

Amy 

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My Septum Piercing Experience & Clickers!

Wearing my everyday hinged sleeper 

I got my septum pierced a few months back, and it was a pretty scary prospect for me. I've got a few piercings, and they were all pretty painful. My conch ring was awful, took 16 months to heal and put me off cartilage forevermore, my nipple was sore as it was being done but it never bothers me much 8 months later. 

So I decided I was getting my septum pierced, and that it was going to be a solo adventure. In the past, I've always had somebody with me for moral support, and in the case of my nipple piercing, the person who came with me was getting the same thing done after me. So I was fine. But this time? I'd be alone... That was the scariest thought. So I took myself off to Dublin Ink and was seen by a lady piercer who made me feel so at ease from the minute I met her. 

When the needle went through, I was surprised, it pinched, but there was no outright pain like in past piercing experiences. She popped the barbell in and that was the piercing done! I healed it mostly flipped up and within a month it was fully healed. I was delighted. It cost me €25 as Dublin Ink do a special offer on all standard piercings. 

What I will say is that I have a tendency to wiggle my nose if it's itchy or I'm cold or anything, and doing that moved the piercing and that pain was horrific. That was the only pain I experienced with this piercing. 

Generally, I wear a hinged sleeper ring that I picked up in Wildcat North in it which is about 8mm in diameter, for a pretty unoffensive look. If I forget to put my retainer in when I go to work, this little hoop doesn't really get much negative feedback. 

Clickers are my loves though, I have a few, and I find them great for making a look more dramatic. I've picked up most of my clickers from Crazy Factory, which is a super cheap, good quality and reliable site for all things body mod related! My favorites are pictured below - silver with peridot, black with peridot, silver with aurora borealis stones, a mini moustache, my retainer for work, and some circular barbells with all kinds of balls for the ends. I picked up one crazy one in Wildcat South, a giant silver tribal style with clear stones. 

Clickers work on a hinge, so you pop it open, slide it though and then click it shut. They're cute and way less fiddly than ball closures or circular barbells. You can swap out a clicker without needing a mirror or endless patience the way you do when those little balls are involved!! 

Anyways, that my septum piercing experience and my favorite clickers for you. If you're thinking of getting a septum piercing, I say do it. They look great on everyone and they heal super fast with no awful pain. 

Amy 
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