As you can see in the before-and-after below, like so many people these days (seriously, I see so many people removing their stretched earlobes every day now), Pen Di’Panda decided he’d had enough. A couple more somewhat disconcerting photos of his taking a pair of scissors to his lobes continue after the break!
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102 responses to “Earlobes Be Gone!”
awesome. in the fourth photo down there is someone in the mirror who looks really cheerful about what is happening!
wow!
make sure you post a healed pic !
Haha, that person in the fourth pic is my little brother. He wanted to be the one that cut my earlobe off, but I wouldn’t let him. I’ll be sure to post healing pics. I’m taking a few every couple of days.
oh my gosh, the amount of blood makes me feel slightly dizzy. it’s amazing he could perform that on himself. does he have both lobes stretched, and at what size is he?
also, is any one else slightly concerned that they appear to be just ordinary scissors/he’s not wearing gloves?
*giggle*
He looks maniacal, and I fucking LOVE it.
Uh, I just tried posting a comment, but it dissappeared.
Um, anyways. The person in the fourth picture is my little brother. He wanted to chop of my earlobe, but I wouldn’t let him.
I take a new picture of it healing up every few days, so I’ll be sure to keep everyone updated.
Now thats fuckin hardcore.
ouch!.
i shrunk down my lobes from a 5/8″ to about a 2g. mostly because my ears hated me when they were bigger. they were always always dry and cracked and peeling no matter what i did to them.
Daniella – When you’re doing home procedures on yourself, there are cleanliness issues, but you’re not facing cross-contamination or major foreign bacteria like in a studio setting. Personally it doesn’t concern me.
Wouldent be my first method of removal; im at one inch i guess id just do the old “splinter” technique. Friends have done it worked fine.
wow i find it funny that this bothers me and the stuff about amputation doesnt hahaha
Eeh that 4th pic goes straight through me.
I love the last one, and his chest piece though.
the scissor pictures made me go, “uhh nuhhhhh.” out loud and shudder. they aren’t even medical scissors. they’re craft scissors. ow ow ow ow ow.
i’d be scared to death of major infection or blood loss. someone has MAJOR balls
What keeps me from being squicked out about the pics is the fact he’s smiling and shit. It looks like he’s having a gross ol fun time haha!
:O
hardcoooooore ((:
Ohhhh my fucking god 😡
oh god! Scissors!? I thought the pictures before the cut were cool until I read SCISSORS! what the hell was he thinking?
Ouch.
God damn. That is all.
Damn, that’s hardcore! Just cutting your own earlobe off like that!
oh fuck! oh…….fuck!…wow…the last picture looks so good with the blood running through his chest tattoo.
Shannon- I never thought about it like that. I suppose, but the prospect of doing such a procedure with scissors (surely they’d be blunt? D:) scares me.
Wow,he’s got balls,most the blood seems to come from the second snip,he looks dead chuffed,i suppose having no lobes is a mod in itself…
as for the scissors ppl are moaning about,the seem shiny clean,i really like the bloody reflection on the 4th pic 🙂
i, for one, would rather cut off my own earlobe with scissors rather than a scalpel – it seems like it would require less effort and control? maybe i’m wrong, which is fine because i don’t plan of cutting off my own earlobe any time soon.
i remember in an art history class we watched a clip from a van gogh movie where he slices off half his ear – which was fine and dandy until he licks the blade! at least this kid is smiling and licking nothing 🙂
Why not get a scalpel? They are very cheap and are easily accessible. Hell my biology course in University gives a new blade to us every week for our labs and they are guaranteed sterile until removed from package. Scissors just seem too blunt to be a good cutting tool. Even though you made a good point about major bacterial being in the vicinity of a studio, there is still the chance there could be some household bacteria on those scissors that have in all likely hood been in the person’s house for awhile. Which CAN be considered harmful and dangerous.
It just seems silly to use scissors to me :/.
Well, so far I’ve got no creepy crawlies living inside of my ear. I’m keeping it really clean too, with a sea salt soak, before I go to bed to get rid of any nasties that might be living in my ear, and with some anti-bacterial soap while in the shower.
Oh and the scissors were really quite sharp.
WHY!!! Oh god why…..
am i the only one who thinks the last one of him and his sexy tattoo with all that blood running down his chest is hot?
What is this splinter method?
It makes my ears hurt just looking at it. Damn.
Well, as long as he’s happy!
Looking forward to seeing healed pics though.
Id also like to know the “splinter method”. I need to close my ears down to a more professionally acceptable size (im in school for Radiation Therapy and I need to do all I can to keep patients comfortable and trust me)
When someone told you to grow a pair, I guess you grew a whole bunch!
Kudos… I really want to try this now (and that’s not sarcasm.)
Did you clean it up in the third pair of photos?
Very little blood.
I agree with 27, I’d have definitely invested in a scalpel, but each to their own!
I doesn’t seem it would look to good healed, being hacked off like that. but I may be wrong.
i would have went with a scalpel but the out come is still sexy.
Ouch!!! Removal, sure. But with scissors?!
I agree with the rest of you though. Balls to the max!
fire penguin!! im so glad you’ve been modblogged. but really… scissors? c’mon. scissors. tsk tsk.
Sadness! No more lobe nibblin for his SO!
Speaking from personal experience, a DIY usually is done with whatever tools are on hand. Sometimes pain is half the fun? I give major kudos, though. Like others have said, it takes balls.
Between scissors and scalpel, surely there’s “X-acto knife”? Certainly enough people I know (myself included) have done unintentional self-injury with those…
But yes, this had me cringing a bit. Hopefully they were at least nice sharp quality sewing scissors. Friend of mine cut the end of a finger off with those, not a whole joint but enough to look funny long term. Snip!
Ah, dude.
Why is it that so many people lately are removing their lobes?!
Not that people shouldn’t if they wish, of course, but I’m curious.
He looks like he is getting off in the 2nd picture!
That’s fucking awesome 🙂
He’s crazier than me… yes he is
Wow, this is funny to me because yesterday my husband made a joke about how if someone got tired of their lobes, they could just snip them off with scissors! I don’t think I could inflict that kind of pain on myself.