Wash your hands very well. Clean the needle with alcohol, peroxide or boil it for half an hour. Clean your ear where you will be piercing, and make sure you do this in a clean environment.
Once everything is sterile take a pen and mark out the angle you want on your ear. Make dots where the holes will go.
You can use a cloth or cork and place it behind your ear to catch the needle once it's through (but make sure it's clean).
Take the needle and pop it quickly through the first hole. You should hear three pops skin, cartilage, and skin. Make sure you have a steady hand and that you go through at the right angle, or the earring will be uncomfortable.
If you used a hollow needle then place the earring in and pull it through. If you used a safety pin then you will have to pull the pin out and put the earring in, do it in one swift motion, it would probably hurt more than if you use a hollow needle.
Do the same thing with the other hole; this will hurt more now that the blood rushed to your ear. The piercing might bleed.
Salt soak for a few minutes and pat dry with a napkin or paper towel (never use a cloth or towel because they hold bacteria).
Clean your ear at least twice a day with an ear cleaner or salt soak until the piercing is fully healed. Turn your earring twice a day to keep the skin from growing on it.
You can change the piercing usually by three months but everyone heals differently, it takes about six months to a year for it to fully heal.
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