Self-decor update.

[tugrik]

As I posted in an earlier entry I'm nearing the completion of a piercing-style I wanted to wear. The left ear now bears a 0ga stainless steel grommet. This weekend I'll be ready to go up to 00ga and be done with it. All that remains now is to find a grommet I like in that size as well as the proper gapless segment-ring to put through it.

My local shop, "Body Exotic" of San Jose, has the grommet. It's not as fancy as I'd like, but it'll do (and it's cheap). The ring I'm looking at is right here, though I'd much prefer to find it locally, and maybe in blue titanium or niobium instead of the too-pricey yellowmetal. I'm hoping kattything or other SanFran-area friends can help me find a shop with more jewelry selection than what the tiny San Jose stores have.

When done it should look like a mechanical decoration -- a notable but not oversized metal-lined hole with an unbroken hoop that spins freely in it. I've got no other 'self decor' plans other than the usual hair braids I like to wear. I'm still hoping some of the friends who said they'd send things last year find something fun to send. The braids at the 'con worked rather well, but were a bit blandly populated. All I had to tie-in at the moment were some wooden dragon-beads, some shell-bits given by a friend, and a small clay bead my roomate gave me that I was very careful with.

As much as I want to get a simple tattoo, I simply can't decide on the design or (more importantly) the motivation enough to actually go do it. Someday, maybe.

Comments

[smackjackal.livejournal.com]

Or you could browse for and buy the pieces of jewelery that you want on-line and then take them to the shop with you when you go.

[electricgecko.livejournal.com]

I'm probably not the one to ask about local shops; I've only been to one, and they didn't have a particularly large selection of harder-to-find jewelery in stock at the time.

However... are these what you're after? :) I've currently got an order in with these guys, actually. Never ordered from them before, but they look reputable, and their selection of rarer pieces/sizes is excellent!

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

Okay... you rock. You utterly rock. *noses through the site, tail alash*

Tatoo

[xot.livejournal.com]

Getting the wrong tattoo would be a bad thing.
A great fun alternative is Hena, especially fine for Con going, as they can last a week or more. By the way, I happen to have some skill in the area. (Not a whole lot, but some.)

Re: Tatoo

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

I can do henna/mehndi.
Lemme know if you want. I don't have good luck with redheads though, and it takes heat, heat, heat and more heat to set right. So if I mud you, plan on doing it in a sauna.

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

Coool. Found and ordered. :)



Two sets: one blue, one bronze. T'give me options.

[sassinak.livejournal.com]

Those are waaaay excellent! Can't wait to see 'em on ya.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I am looking at the navel jewelry they have and being mildly covetous. Not quite covetous enough to be glad I don't have a credit card, but covetous... of, say, this or this or this...