Alright so just like most teenagers want to try and do at some point, I've gotten my ear pierced.
Just a simple, small stud. (Oh and by the way, we still work on ye olde principle "Left is Right and Right is Wrong" )

But anyway, I do martial arts and it's a fresh pierce (got it yesterday) so was wondering how to cover it up.

Applying a fresh plaster on my ear three times a week for just 2 hours is gonna get annoying and probably at some point even slightly costly.

So what should I do?
Just put a bit of masking tape on? (As funny as it sounds, im sure i remember people putting tape over their fresh studs...however I have no idea if there is such thing as stud tape or similar)

And I got kickboxing tommorow (well, in less than an hour it will be today ) so if it's not too much trouble, hate to be bossy but hoping for a couple of quick responses/pieces of advice.

Did somebody want a Stud?


.....backs out.

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try just a simple Band-Aid to cover it. That having been said, you may be asked my your teacher to take it out regardless. if you were in my school, i'd make you take it out. not because i'm a jerk, but because i wouldn't want to see it get caught in something and have your earlobe get torn. hope a bandage is good enough, but if your instructor says it isn't then just try to understand it from their point of view.

Sorry but who here knows someone who has had a stud ripped out their ear?
Even more so who knows someone who had a taped up stud ripped out their ear?

Martial arts doesn't involve ear biting a ripping...

So long as its a stud and taped it will be fine. If you take a whack on it it may sting but thats about it.

I trained with a lip stud for 2 years and I never taped it up and it never got it caught on anything because it is a stud.

Personally I do agree with removing these things once they are healed enuff to remove, but I don't see why you should be made to take it out when it is fresh because that is just cruel.

Thanks to everyone that's replied--

@Mule
LOLL

@Dmccarthy
I can see your point of view, and maybe even accept it if it happens...but

@Ryusui_Ryu
I totally agree with you.

Sorry but who here knows someone who has had a stud ripped out their ear?
Even more so who knows someone who had a taped up stud ripped out their ear?

Martial arts doesn't involve ear biting a ripping...
That just sums it up basically.

And of course, once it has been in long enough I'll be MORE than happy to remove it for the session...just got to wait 4-6 weeks


Again thanks to everyone for their responses, together, I've pretty much made up my mind

Just one thing to remember when I had my ears peirced is to when you do put on and remove a plaster before training, remember to constantly clean it with surgical spirit or you will risk an infection.

I had that and it was really gross!

Okay so I just had the lesson. Bit of a funny story.
At first I took my own plasters. I took the first ones I could find out the cupboard-- bad mistake. They were so cheap I couldn't even stick.
Then I tried another one of my plasters just incase the first one was faulty. Turns out they weren't
Thirdly I asked one of my Senseis and she gave me some tape. I sweated that off after the initial warmups (About a gazillion sit ups and press ups LOL)
[B]And lastly[/b] I got another bit of tape from the same person. Only God knows what happened to that LOL when we were doing the 'Seiza'(?) at the end I bowed and my ear brushed my hand-- my EAR not the tape (I also looked around to pick it up as to not litter the dojo but apparently it vanished from the face of the earth, well, Dojo)

So I guess that teaches me a lesson to use more expensive plasters next time


PS. Thanks to Lesley for the advice. I followed it just so you know

[quote][B]And lastly[/b] I got another bit of tape from the same person. Only God knows what happened to that LOL when we were doing the 'Seiza'(?) at the end I bowed and my ear brushed my hand-- my EAR not the tape /quote]

More like stuck to someones foot

Ryusui_Ryu wrote:
Sorry but who here knows someone who has had a stud ripped out their ear?

Yup, I do - but not in MA - in a bike accident!

Lesley - I can go one better, the first pair of earings I had after I had my ears pierced had tiny butterfly backs on them; and I didn't look after the piercings properly - so my ears healed over the backs

Ninos - what were you using as tape - some kind of micropore?

Leave 'em in and leave 'em bare - the other students have to have something to aim for along with the other legitimate targets like new tattoos and sunburn...

LOL some funny and some disgusting replies so far

@Wu Ming
I'm not sure exactly, I can only describe its appearance.
Clear in colour, with like...bars going across horizontal and vertical.
It's hard to explain but im sure some of you *might* get what I mean

Fiximol/Fixamol something like that...

The best medical sticky stuff you can get. Dunno where you can buy it but its real good. But if you look in the chemists or on the net you should be able to find some good sports strap up tape.