"I've definitely done the "whacked ear" thing.  If you can still hear, you are probably ok :)"

"My newest and weirdest hoop injury - one of my silver minis cut my nipple.  Well fortunately not on The most sensitive bit.  Hahaha wow I feel silly!"

"Got my first black eye last week playing with my minis, & the funny part is, I don't even remember exactly what I was doing when I bumped it. It didn't seem like anything major at the time, but the next day I was pretty severely…"

"That was a bummer deal:( I thought for sure it scratched my eye permenantly...But I don't think that was as bad as the time i skinned my eye with a cloth hoop with sequens on it. That actulally left a scab on my face. The hoop won that battle…"

"my worst was a killer bruise on the left side of the nose from who knows what kind of hoop experiment move. however .. 9 pairs of sunglasses (and counting) have met their fate (a toll for living in florida) a side of a tv a window and a lovely room…"

"my friend amanda was putting together some of the poly pro the other day and was carrying it from her garage to her living room. her dog ran into it and it came and smacked her right in the eyeball. Tube to Eyeball... she was having a hard time…"

"I have noticed that the little bitty minis, much as I adore them, can sneak into that eye socket much more easily than the big hoops. Luckily none of my bumps have been serious, but it does give me pause. The smaller diameter makes them riskier in…"

"I was taking my super-light minis out for the most basic of spins and hit myself in the eyeball HARD. It was the day before a super-glam bellydance performance and I had nightmares of being half-blind & gross-looking. I just laid on the floor of…"