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My name is Emily and blah blah blah.

:.I have a lot of personal, family, and friend issues of my own so a lot of times, I can probably relate to you a lot of times if you have personal, family, and/or friend issues.

:.I can offer a lot of information, help, and advice on family and friend relationships, love lives, depression, stretching/flexibility, weight loss, violin, being organized, dog training, forensics (public speaking), keeping up with school/extracurricular activities, eating disorders, writing (stories and poems), and probably a lot of other random stuff like what to drink when you eat something spicy and why.

:.Although I can help a lot of you guys on the above subjects, I don't tend to take my own advice so it can become quite an awkward/ironic/contradicting situation for me or make myself sound like a complete and utter hypocrite.

:.Hannah Whitall Smith once said, "The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right." I agree 100% of it. Advice is advice and it is given when asked for. I give it and I leave it at that. It's up to the questioner/advice seeker to take it.

:.That point leads onto my philosophies in advice giving:
1. Advice is given when asked and no time else, unless your friend is about to irritate a black bear, then you should definitely advice your friend to back away and run for his or her life.
2. Advice is not critical, not judgmental, and definitely not biased. Advice is advice and should remain neutral.
3. Advice is to help, not to get 5s on every answer. As a result, my advice ends up being quite blunt and frank with a hint of rambling mixed in.

If you have general questions on the topics I can be a lot of help in (as listed above), most likely, they will be in my FORUM

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:.If you want to ask me a question directly...
a)if it is not urgent and can wait a week or so, inbox me.
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I'm in San Diego on vacation for two weeks. I've been planning on getting my cartilage pierced while I'm here. I've also almost managed to talk my mom into letting me get a little stud in my nose. Here's my question:

Will anyplace let me get both piercings at the same time? If not, how long would I have to wait to get the other one? If it's more than a week, is there a way to get around the rule, like going to two different places to do it? Is there any way they would know that I had one piercing done not too long ago?

Ok, so that was more than one question, but I don't want any problems.

I believe that you can get up to as many piercings as you'd like at once. My friend had her ears pierced three times at once. I'm sure they'll let you have you ear and nose pierced.

As for the nose, make sure you get it pierced with a NEEDLE!!! Why? Lower risk of infection, it's much more quicker than the gun [guns are made for the ears, which are thinner than your nose, thus it may take more than one try to actually get a piercing through] it hurts less [only studs can be used with the gun and the stud will be brutal since it will be forcing itself through such a thick layer of skin & besides, needles are sharper], and the needle will make the piercing more exact than the gun. And the nose usually take 8-10 weeks to fully heal. Don't mess with it. Don't touch it. Don't take it out. Just don't make any contact with the stud except for cleaning! If you leave it alone, clean it like you're suppose to, and let it take time healing, you'll be fine.

~Emily
15/f

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