Hot steamy water also helps to loosen your skin, making the piercing a bit less painful.
He shows me a photograph of a gorgeous baby with blue eyes every bit as piercing as his.
It's a 107-minute race for survival, shepherded by a score every bit as piercing as the strings in "Psycho".
My parents were terribly conventional, so even getting my ears pierced was a bit of a mission growing up.
The story picks up again on Day 17, when the rescuers' drill bit pierced the roof of their refuge, starting the clock for their eventual freeing.
The face has filled out a tiny bit, the figure a bit more, but the piercing eyes and granite jaw remain as formidable as ever.
Long wires run out of it, piercing some discs like kebab bits on a spit.
Bits of dissonance, piercing overtones and gently jarring electronic sounds spike the undulant harmonies, but so subtly that the overall aural impression is of beguiling consonance.
Her 10-minute "Elegia a Al-Mu'tamid," an elegy to a forgotten 11th-century poet-king, is like an aural fabric of piercing sustained harmonies, restless melodic bits and gurgling instrumental bursts.
