Last year my friend pierced her lip. When she came to school with it, it looked awesome and I immediately decided that I wanted one. I had looked at lip piercings in the past and liked them, but now I felt a huge urge to actually get one myself.
At A Glance Author hihi When A week ago Artist me Studio in my bathroom Location at my house When I got home I asked my parents, and of course they said no. My mum is the type that believes that my body and soul belongs to her. Both of them thought that if I got a piercing it would look stupid and I would get horrible life threatening infections. I persisted in asking, and I tried my best to persuade them to let me get it done.
I cleaned the whole house countless times, cooked dinner, showed them information about the piercing, but they wouldn't budge. They were adamant on thinking that lip piercings were 'so horrible'.
I got sick of asking. I thought, if my friend could do it herself, why can't I?
For about 5 or 6 months I spent time researching it, looking at pictures and watching videos on YouTube of people piercing their lips. I told my mum about my plans to pierce myself and surprisingly, she didn't sound like she cared at all. She probably thought I had no plans to really do it and was just threatening her.
The next time we went to the grocery store I bought my supplies. I originally wanted to get some hollow piercing needles but the closest piercing place is about 3 hours away, and I know for a fact my parents wouldn't take me there. I bought a pack of big safety pins, gloves, hand sanitizer, Listerine, and sea salt for later cleaning. I had also bought a 14 gauge stainless steel ring the same day.
When I got home I put all of the stuff in my room and looked at more pictures of piercings while I waited for everyone to go to sleep. At about 2 my brother finally went to bed and I went to the bathroom with my bag of supplies. I got two paper cups and filled them with alcohol. I soaked the ring and one of the safety pin for half an hour. While I waited for them to soak I cleaned the counters with hand sanitizer. I read an magazine while I waited for the ring and pin to soak. When about 40 minutes passed I washed my hands and dumped the alcohol in to the sink and tipped the needle and ring on to a folded paper towel. I used some Listerine for about a minute and then cleaned the counter one more time. I also dumped some alcohol in to a fluoride cup and put some q-tips in it. Then I used hand sanitizer and put my gloves in. I cleaned below my lip with alcohol and the picked up the safety pin. I was kind of debating on whether I really wanted to do it, and I just stared at the safety pin for a couple of seconds. But I already went far enough and I could do it right then, so I went for it.
I leaned really far in front of the mirror and positioned the needle. My hands were shaking and I could barely force myself to breath.
I pushed it in really slowly. Surprisingly, it didn't hurt much, and I'm the biggest baby in the world. I closed my eyes when I felt it pop through the other end. I was waiting for my face to go numb or for blood to start spraying out of it all over everything. I felt so weird looking at my reflection, with a safety pin sticking out of my lip. I slipped the safety pin out and pushed the ring in. It didn't hurt much, it was just a little hard because it was a little bigger than the safety pin was. I stared at my new piercing in admiration and went to bed.
The next morning, the first thing I heard was "I really hope this is fake". My mum was hovering over me staring at it in disapproval. I asked if she liked it and she just sighed and told me that I was gonna probably get keloids and infections and have a scar for life. She didn't make me take it out though.
While I was getting ready for school I cleaned it. It was a little swollen and red.
When my dad saw it, he looked like he was trying to hold in the urge to strangle me. He told me that it looked stupid, and when my brother saw it he didn't hesitate to call me an idiot, and say that it looked hideous.
The reactions of people from school were annoying. Everyone asked me if it was real, if it hurt, and if I did it myself. Halfway through the day I walked past the dean and he saw it and told me to take it out. I said no and he told me that I have to go call my parents to take me home but I just walked away.
I've had it for about four days now, and so far it's been doing good. I clean it every morning and evening, and after I eat. The swelling is gone, and it looks awesome.
My advice though, is to never pierce yourself without thoroughly researching it. Just cause somebody else's self done piercing turns out alright doesn't mean yours definitely will.