DISCLAIMER- DO NOT DO WHAT I DID. IT WAS MORE STUPID THAN STUPID CAN BE. NOTHING WAS PROPERLY STERILIZED, OR DONE PROPERLY EITHER. USE THIS AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT NOT TO DO.
At A Glance Author Punkkitten Contact Punkkitten@bme.anon IAM punkkitten932 When Six months ago Artist me Studio room Location NJ Now, onto my stupidity and such. I was sitting around my room on a Friday night, bored, thinking about what to do. I wanted a piercing, but didn't know what...and in my house, asking the parents is out of the question because they'll say no. Since I like being original...I decided on doing something I did once before...are you ready for this?
I pierced the side of my left wrist. The side closest to my body. I had done it once before like I mentioned, and let it last for a week before I thought it was going to get stuck permanently. I figured "hey, why not. I've never seen it before on anyone personally, and the first time I did it was quite interesting."
I got all the things I was going to do it with: a hat pin, safety pin, 18g paneling nail, peroxide, 14g CBR, and the earring I was going to put in if the CBR didn't work (a hoop earring...bad me.) I started with the hat pin, and I knew this time I was going to make it deeper than the first time. It was hard holding the skin between my fingers and trying to put the hat pin through. Well, the pin was too thin and bent before it even punctured skin. Onto the safety pin. That got a little farther before it too bent. Last resort- the paneling nail...
For about fifteen minutes I worked with the paneling nail to get it to come out the other side. I pushed and pushed, then finally put a yearbook on the bed to push on, since it was a hard surface, and pushing with my fingers just wasn't working. A couple minutes later, to my relief, it popped through the skin and I had my hole. It throbbed for a second, then I washed it with peroxide, then water. Now to get the CBR in. I figured, since I pierced it at 18g it wouldn't be TOO hard to get the CBR through. Wrong.
I put the CBR in one hole and tried to push it out the other side. Didn't work at all. The "exit" hole closed itself off. I took the paneling nail and stuck it through again to open it. I tried six times to no avail. I finally gave in to using the hoop. It was like a 20g or something...went through, no problem. Closed it, washed it again, then safety-pinned my sleeve together so it wouldn't go up in the night and my parents wouldn't see it. I kept it uncovered but hidden for a few days, then started wearing a band-aid over it around the house.
Some of my friends were disgusted that I did it again. Others thought it was the coolest thing ever. One of them even did it themselves (even though I advised her not to). My gym teacher saw it, found it interesting. My English teacher saw it too, asked if it still hurt. They were cool about it unlike some teachers would have been, so it was all good.
Around the second week I had it, I knew that it was migrating out. Being stubborn like I am, I wasn't going to remove it. I knew it'd leave a nasty scar the longer I left it in, but I kind of wanted it there, you could say. My friends insisted that I should remove it, but I had my mind set for another week. Finally, exactly a month after I did it, I painfully said good bye to it. When I returned to school on Monday, everyone was surprised to realized I took it out on my own. My best friend thought she was going to have to take it out herself just because she didn't want it to get infected.
Somehow, I also successfully kept it hidden from the parental units and everyone else in the family for that period of time. My mom hasn't asked where the scar on my wrist has come from either, so that's a plus.
I didn't learn the first time, didn't learn the second time. I want it professionally done the third time I do get it though. I did end up seeing a picture of one on BME awhile back. I'm luckier than lucky that it didn't get infected. I'm positive it wouldn't have been a pretty sight if it did. I cared for it by putting peroxide on it and washing it off with water. When I did finally remove it, it was pretty close to complete migration. Maybe a week and a half and it would have been hanging on by a thread of skin. I was attached (literally).
Again, I advise you not to do what I did. It was stupid, and not everyone will be as lucky as me. Don't email me to tell me I'm a dipshit, because I already know it was idiotic. Take this as an example of what NOT to do.