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well it doesn't sound like you have much stuff hanging around so your options are limited. what about using an earring and the gauging it back up when you get around to getting another ball/top? either that or you need something to stick on the end of it but you'll have to get up, look around, and see what you actually have handy.
I don't have a belly piercing, but I've used a pencil eraser in my ear for the same reason. I'm sure you could try it?
@Shel2523: Alas, I have not used a pencil since my school days and therefore have no erasers ("rubbers", I call them). Interesting choice, though.
@elliestan: The problem with using an ear-ring is that they are much thinner than belly bars. I did put one in earlier; it looked hilarious. I also never use the backs to ear-rings so I don't have any of those (and I only have 3 ear-rings, I think..... I miss my tons and tons of jewellery back in my hometown).
Thanks for the ideas! Any more? I have an elastic band and I keep wanting to do something with that but I have no idea what. I also thought about sticking 2 wax strips together but that could be messy and a little too crazy.
"Jewelry Emergencies
Mishaps occur on occasion, even with quality pieces. To minimize the likelihood of losing your jewelry, check threaded ends regularly for tightness, and see to it that captive beads are inserted properly. If you lose a ball, a temporary measure may prevent your jewelry from falling out until you can obtain a replacement:
@julies1949: Thank you. I think I shall have to purchase a rubber for (jewellery) emergencies. And also, I need a first aid kit (containing surgical tape) for actual emergencies, so I should get onto both of those things. This is the first home where I've lived without a first aid kit and it does unnerve me. I also need to test the fire alarm works - maybe a simple jewellery mishap will remind me to safeguard our home properly.
What if you layer a bunch of rubber bands on the end of the piercing like a little rubber band ball....I don't know if that would work but bandaids and surgical tape aren't great for keeping things in place!
When my lip piercing would fall out I would just repierce it later but I think your mouth heals a lot faster than your belly button and people always thought I was crazy when I was trying to repierce my own lip LOL.
@mexicanabeibi: TMI but my SO had to re-pierce my bellybutton after I slept and it came out that time in Italy (as I couldn't keep my hand there all night). It hurt so much, it grossed him out so much and he actually (way TMI) created a new hole to the old one. Yeah. Just... ouch. So that's why I am so nervous to sleep and have it fall out. My nose, my ears, fine, they're just cartilige, I re-pierce them any time that I need to. But my bellybutton is very different - it's flesh and it closes fast.
Anyway, I tried the elastic band but it was hurting and itching loads so I'm just gonna sleep without it and decide in the morning on what can hold it in place during a whole day out striking/marching/rallying in the streets.
When did you get your belly pierced? I can leave mine out for weeks and it will not close. I took it out in hopes it would close but ended up putting the ring back in because it looked better then the hole i was left with
Update: I woke up this morning and there it was - the end of my belly bar, in my bed. It had been there and I'd slept right on top of it without noticing. So, mystery solved, and I was able to put it back on, yay!
@gizzy123: I got the piercing when I was 17 - precisely 4 years and 3 months ago. I usually only remember I have ear piercings (I have 5, I just use the main 2 on a regular basis) about once a year and test if they're still there out of curiosity - they always are. My nose can go a few weeks/months easily too but it hurts to put back in and has to be semi-pushed through to re-pierce a little at the end. But my bellybar I have only had out that one time it came out in Italy and, as I said, it closed up in a matter of hours. So gross.
oh man, I've had mine forever-- since 1992! (fun fact: we didn't even have piercing studios at that time, we had to go to people who were doing this from their homes. how scary, I can't believe the risks I took back then.) OMG, I can't believe how old this makes me sound. like a grandma telling the kids all about her first piercing. jeez.
well, anyway, the point of my (long winded) story is that even after 19 years, it's still not easy to change jewelry. I still "lose" one end of the opening when I put the jewelry back in again and have to poke around for a while until it finds its way back out again. Gross. also, TMI.
@VickyAurea: I'm the opposite! My belly button will stay open forever!! My nose would close instantly lol. One time I took it out for an interview and when I got home to put it in, I still had to pierce through the hole!
@janie-janie: LOL, I thought your story was awesome! My sister is 30 and she had a family friend who was a medic in the navy do it with all his medical equipment lol. This was right when piercing your bellybutton was super popular I guess she was like 18.
I had to leave mine out for a few days after I had my lap. in March, and it didn't close...but as soon as the incisions were no longer gross, I put a clear plastic retainer in there to hold it open (I didn't want to put a regular bar in there and risk having it mess up the healing process). I've had mine pierced since I was 18--going on five years now.
I lost the top to my bar when I was staying at DH's house (before I moved in) once. I just put a Band-Aid over it to hold it in place, and it worked pretty well.
I second the surgical tape/band aid post. I have a belly button piercing too and played rugby thru high school (ya.. this post is going exactly where you think it is..), had it torn out during a game and had to get surgical tape from the first aid kit to keep it from getting dirt in it. It was not pretty. What about duct tape? Do you have any of that? Maybe you should consider asking some of your new neighbours if they have anything you could use.
@KarenA: No, I don't have any tape of any kind but I will have to invest in some now that I realise this could happen again. I'll invest in first aid stuff, too. We live in an appartment building and I have no idea who our neighbours are. People don't knock on each other's doors or even say hello in the corridor here - not that I ever see anyone in the corridor. Hundreds of people live in this building but I don't know any of them. I used to bake cakes for my neighbours back when I lived in a house and not a flat.
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Hello,
I'm hoping that some bees with piercings or some non-pierced but creative bees can help me out. Even really silly ideas may turn out to be the only thing that works so please give me any ideas you have.
I have my bellybutton pierced. I moved cities a couple of months ago, bringing minimal jewellery and so I only have one belly bar here. Unfortunately, this evening the top must have screwed off and fallen off, as it is now lost. I noticed when my belly bar fell out. I know from past experiences of my belly bar falling out that leaving it out is not an option for me - the piercing will close in just a few hours. I need to go to sleep now but I'm worried it may fall out. In the past, this happened to me at a campsite in Italy and with no shops around I had to make do with blutac on the end to hold it in place but still mostly needed to hold a hand to my tummy. I won't be able to go to the shops before going to work (actually to the strike) tomorrow and I don't want to be striking with my workmates with one hand permanently on my tummy.
Other than blutac, which I have found to help a little but still need my hand to hold it in place in the past, what could I use as an end to my bellybar until I can buy a new one in a day or two? I've thought about tape but I don't have any. I don't actually think I have blutac either. I really need your creativity, bees! Or if you have flesh piercings, has this ever happened to you and what did you do?
Thanks for any ideas, however ridiculous they sound to you! I need all ideas, however silly.