I received my ears pierced later than most of my pals—17 years outdated, to be precise. I used to be concurrently excited and terrified, having no thought what to anticipate pain-wise however wanting ahead to lastly sporting precise earrings (i.e. not clip-ons). Although the strategies utilized by the mall retailer I went to in 1996 at the moment are frowned upon (piercing weapons have turn out to be passé), it did not harm practically as a lot as I anticipated, and over the following couple of years, I received three extra units of holes up my lobes. Khloé Kardashian, then again, has been ready for much longer between piercings, and in that point has apparently developed a little bit of a phobia.
Little sister Kylie Jenner posted a video to quite a few social media platforms documenting Kardashian’s newest piercing appointment, and her anxiousness is palpable. “Made @khloekardashian get a second piercing 😂 i’m so happy with her !!!!! she has at all times been fearful of piercings lol so this was massive,” Jenner wrote within the Instagram caption. We see Kardashian, sporting an outsized Balenciaga jersey and visibly freaking out as piercer Harrison McCall makes an attempt to do his job with what seems to be a fairly large viewers of family and friends.
Kardashian pulls away a number of instances, quietly cursing and saying, “I do not know if I can do that,” as Jenner et al. attempt to encourage her and guarantee her it will not harm. “It is over in two seconds. Maintain my arms,” Jenner says. Kardashian covers her face—exhibiting off her lengthy French manicure—in a mixture of worry and embarrassment, her eyes searching for both reassurance or permission to again out.
“I promise you are gonna be like, ‘Wow, that was nothing,’” McCall says as Kardashian lastly lets him close to her ear for greater than a second. He has to take a deep breath, and as she exhales, eyes closed, he proceeds with the piercing, and the world doesn’t, in reality, finish.
Kylie Jenner
