Pimp of the month February

Christmas Pimping!

So now it’s the season to be jolly and all we thought we’d show off a few of the awesome designs we’ve seen so far with lots of ideas about how to decorate your hearing aids and implants for the Christmas season!

Hope you enjoy seeing all the funky and crazy designs that people have come up with!

Our facebook now has 400 and more members so if you’re interested in finding out more and chatting to fellow pimpers please check out: http://www.facebook.com/groups/pimpmyhearingaidsandcochlearimplants/

Children In Need!

Today is Children In Need day here in the UK.

Schools are doing dress down days and crazy spotty days.

The theme this year is “Show your Spots” So why shouldn’t we show our spots on hearing aids and cochlear implants!!

Just a few photos of those that have Pimped their hearing aids to show your spots for children in need and pudsey bear!

  

 

Hope you love our spots!

Nail Foils Tutorial…

Lots of people on the Facebook group have been talking about how fiddly it is to stick nail foils on their hearing aids and cochlear implants, so I thought I could do another step by step tutorial for those people who are just getting started!

1) Take of the mold and take out the battery.

2) choose your nail foils! You can buy hundreds of different designs from shops and online from Amazon and Ebay.

3) Choose a nail sticker about the right size and stick it down, don’t worry if it’s too wide as you can cut it to the right shape.

4) Carefully cut the sticker to size so that it doesn’t cover volume controls and most importantly microphones!! Sometimes you can do this before you put the sticker on and sometimes afterwards by carefully trimming the edges.

5) Use the same process to cover the rest of the aid! Make sure you can still open the battery door and nothing is covered over!  You can cover just one side of the aid or all of it! As long as you’re careful!

6) If you have a radio aid shoe you can also decorate that!

You’ve now successfully pimped your hearing aid or cochlear implant!!

Other things you could consider “doing up” would be your radio aid, box for your hearing aid, i-com or oticon streamer… Some people have also started colouring their tubes using a sharpie!

Tube Riders

Over the last few weeks, the lovely people over at Pimp My Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants have been working on ways to have fun and make everyone love them.

Today I wanted to show you about Tube Riders, these can be brought from the US but are rather limited on the designs you can buy.

The lovely Kelly on our Pimping Facebook page came up with the fantastic idea of using shoe charms and adapting them to fit on Hearing Aid and Cochlear Implants.

I got these awesome Hello Kitty ones from Kelly

I have since brought a few and adapted myself which have gone down a treat with my daughter!

Now I thought I would show you what I did yesterday!

We are going to the Warner Brother’s Studio Tour – The Making Of Harry Potter today and my daughter wants to dress up as Hermione.  So we needed to pimp up her hearing aids for the day.

So I purchased some Shoe Charms which arrived yesterday !

But guess what my daughter choose for her hearing aids!

Sorry Harry, Ron, Draco and the sorting hat! She chose Hermione and the HP Logo.  I also purchased some nail art from Ebay with the Hogwarts coat of arms on, which I have also put on her hearing aids (and her nails of course).

I will be soon listing a few tube riders, specifically Christmas ones, for sale soon.

Video By Ni !

When I first started the Facebook Page for Pimp My Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants it was because of Ni that it has developed!

Ni originally started the pimping on the National Deaf Children’s Society Facebook Page which you can find here http://www.facebook.com/groups/10588896091/ which sort of took over the page, so I decided to create a page so that we can show off our Pimping!

Now with over 250 members we have gone from strength to strength and Adults are pimping their own and Parents are pimping their kids Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants!

Ni has created a brilliant video to showcase just a few of the pimping so far!

I hope you love what some have created so far!

If you would like to find out more about being a Deaf Teen then i highly recommend following Ni’s Blog over at http://nigallant.blogspot.co.uk/

Welcome to Pimp My Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants

Hi and welcome to the new blog

By creating a blog to help pimp hearing aids and cochlear implants we will be able to reach a lot more people.

To start things of I have created a poster!

Hope you like the blog and if you would like to sign up for the newsletter I would love that!

Sarah