Hey wierdos. This is about my experiences with the DIY, Do It Yourself, method of piercing and the thing that have happened becasue of my choice to do it myself and not go to a professional. The reasons I do it this way and the reasons I shouldn't do it this way.
At A Glance Author Cindie Contact egyptianlover35@hotmail.com Artist me Studio my place Location Denver, CO One of the reasons for me to do my own piercings , and I know this sounds pathetic, but I have no car to go looking for places to get pierced up, and have no trusty piercing companion who will look with beings all my friend are tattoo freaks and not so into piercing and things. I also work all the time so its hard to ask the boss for a day off to go looing for these things and what not. Also I'm totally cheap, and will go to almost any lenght to not have to pay for something. I've made my own ghetto fabulous creations just so i won't have to shell out a few bucks. But the most important reason I do it myself, is becasue its a cleansing type realease for me. It makes me feel relieved, good, and happy with myself, and its rather a private thing of mine going to my room, locking the door and poking aorund for a while and listening to music. Sounds like a typical stunt huh? But I still like it.
The first "nontradional" piercing I did was my nose when I was young with a sewing needle and a regular earring stud. The second was a madonna again with an earring and a sewing needle. These are the ONLY successful piercings I have done with just a sewing needle and an earing.
Next was my lip, or labret whatever, again I did this with a sewing needle and an earring, and it was doing quite well...that is until the backing of the earring (you know, those wierd pretzel shaped things?) go lodge into my lip and was completely enveloped by the skin in my mouth. It was TERRIBLE! I was terrified this thing would never come out of my mouth and I'd get gangegreen from it and I'd be HIDEOUS for life just becasue I'm CHEAP and won't get the right jewelry for thirty bucks at the piercing jewelry place! SO one friday night, I decied I needed to get this mass of fake silver out of my lip and and into the trash. SO I was trying so hard to pull the backing off from the insied of my mouth, but its was lodged in there so far I had to pull it out the front of my lip on my face with a tweezers. Needles to say, it was stretched to a bloody 14g by then, so I put I the jewlery the labret that is and was SOO relieved and proud that I had actually did a reall piericng with real jewelry! I know I'm a geek. Sorry. But anyways, I bopught a labret for my madonna, thinking I'd have to do the same procedure, but it fit perfect with no streching at all. HELL YEAH.
Next was the ill fated bridge piercing. Yeah, after a few time of thinking I'm the shit, I decied to piercing my bridge, with what else, but a sewing needle and an earing, yes a real eearing of the bridge of my nose, and I thouigh I was so cool. And it was cool, but I kept having to take it out so I wouldn't get rousted at home or work (because they WORRIED about me piercing myself, because that's self mutilation right? That's more like BULLSHIT FUCKERS...sorry..but i'm tired of lying and telling people I had it done professionally for the sake of what they'd think of me). I waited a few days, three or so and smartass orders a 18g barbell, but it won't go in and does something wierd and bad because all of the sudden half my face is turned into a balloon and the other is all freaking out. I guess I hit nerve, because as wierd as it sounds, I kinda felt like I knew I was doing something wrong and bad when I was poking, and BAMM I'm an eskimo. That sucked SO BAD. I thought I was going to be swollen melon for the rest of my life. I had to some into work, but I made up something about getting punched in teh eyes, because I DID have a black eye and was ALL torn up looking, so they let me have the day off to ice myface. It took two days before my face was somewhat normal, and I so pissed. I wanted that bridge, but i was terrified I'd fuck my face up again.... so I turned to BME.
What a milestone a turning point. I bought a real piercing needle. And forceps! And what do you know, if those sons of bitches don't work greta, but they where so clean and nice! There was even a hole to put the jewelry in behind the needle so its all one clean movement. But I didn't relize this till after I pushed the needle out and blood gushed down my face. But it felt so cool. Bloody mess! I took pictures! I was excited!
Next were the ill fated horizontal wrist piericngs. Lets just say this of thos guys, I used way too small of a gauge and wrong jelery, so they not only started majorly rejeting, but they balls got STUCK on the barbells and I COULDN'T OPEN THEM. So I had to cut the piercings out and drip up out of my skin, and they left these thick, waxy scars. They smelt really bad too. Like I was smelling pus all the time and I couldn't handle it. I then pierced them with a 10g curved barbell, not streight like before, and did them vertically, using the scar as a brace piercing. They did really good, but they do catch on things, and I've had to re-do them each one more time, but after about six months. But they are still cool.
Next was my two 14g cleavage barbells, they did good too, but they migrated out, one I pierced twice, but the other stayed cool until i took them both out and did a singel 10g one,whcih is holding up quite nice, and its proabbly one of my farovites.
The last "new" body piercings I've done were two stomach surface piercings about three inches from my belly button. These guys I cheaped and used emul, becasue I wanted them to be perfectly alined and not all jaggedy and uneven from just giving up and wanting the needle to get out on the other end somewhere, and I don't regret it. These are my FAVORITE piericngs, and I love them. They hurt like sons of bitches, but they are cool.
What I like about DIY things is the relationship you build with that jewelry, and the way you feel about it. But what I hate is the uneasiness you get when you're just randomly proding something hoping not to fuck up some nerve of artery. I'm fucking lucky for the dumbass things I do, and I'm grateful withthe results I've gotten, not all good, but fairly good. Its also very hard for people to recognize your self piercings, scarification, brandings, etc. as not being self mutilation, amd it does hurt your feelings when people say (and oh do they feel they can say anything, those pricks) "OH you make me hurt just to look at you!" and "That's disgusting", but oh well. What can you do? Just pray for their tortured souls. Thanks guys, see ya later.