I pierced my ear again (again). Oddly, I wanted a barbell through the mid-back of my ear and a hopp going through the top of my ear (through two holes), but because of safe piercing policies, the shop (Cold Steel) will not pierce horizontal bar bells so they gave me a hoop and they will not pierce two holes and connect them with one piece of jewelry, so they pierced the desired hoop location with two barbells...all three to be replaced later (basically, swapped). Oddly, I like the barbells at the top though...I might keep them. The piercer (Julie) said in a week or two when any swelling has gone down, I can go back and she'll replace the barbells with shorter, fitted ones for free.