Never try a hand-web piercing at home. Mine wasn't such a nice experience, quite bloody and painful in fact. It was about three years ago though it only let me list two. I was in seventh grade and of course being young and stupid had nothing better to do. So I decided to get a nail, brand new, but still, for God's sake, I used a nail to pierce my hand web. The nail was similar to a 14 gauge needle in length and size. The web pierced was the one in between the middle and ring finger, I did it on my left hand. Though not an efficient method of cleansing, I took peroxide and cleaned the entire area. I did not numb the web though, I never have numbed anything. I don't know why. That is probably the reason that my piercing I have done to myself have always taken a very long time.
At A Glance Author anonymous Contact sear_me_mcmxclll@hotmail.com When Two years ago Artist myself Studio my room Location my house First I started by slowly pressing the nail into the web, twisting left and right and just tearing my way through the web. It wasn't so painful but it took about one and a half hour. I must have hit a blood vessel in the process or something of that nature because about halfway through blood started welling up under my skin because the nail was so tight in the skin it didn't have room to escape. So I took the nail out and blood started draining from the hole. Well I, being young and ignorant, figured the blood was just from the fact that I was piercing my hand-web. So I grabbed a paper towel, let the blood stop flowing and began again on the opposite side this time, underneath my hand. Another mistake. This proved to be very painful. Using the same method as before, twisting and turning all the while applying pressure, as soon as the nail started in I felt immense pain. Then again, stupid as I was, I figured, "Well of course I'm going to feel pain, I am putting a n ail through the web of my hand." So I kept going. I finally did get the nail through after about 45 minutes of slowly working it through. The head of the nail is, "indented in," I guess you would say. So I used that to aid myself in putting in the jewelry. I had my ear pierced at the time, a 10G horseshoe barbell. So I had the gold stud I first was pierced with lying around. I dipped that in peroxide and left it for about thirty minutes and took it out to dry the jewelry off. I also put my hand over the sink and poured peroxide on my hand. It wasn't bleeding, but it was somewhat white around the nail. I put the end of the stud into the indention of the head of the nail and started easing the nail through. My hand had dried and the peroxide helped to wet the nail and my hand and make pushing the nail through slightly easier. I put the bottom on the stud and left it there for a good day or two until the worst thing that can happen with a piercing happened. While messing around at school with one of my friends his book bag caught th e top of the stud and ripped it clean through my hand. The rip didn't take but about a week or two for healing, but it hurt extremely bad and was very sensitive to any touch, especially hot water. Hot water at first, it actually felt better after getting used to the water. Hot, salt water seemed to help in healing time. I never did attempt that again, that wasn't my last piercing I gave myself but of course, I have none of them now. It healed up with a scar so slight that if you didn't know what you were looking for you could not find it. Knowing of it, I still can hardly find it, so the scarring wasn't a problem to me. I do plan on getting a triple-set of mods done: a tongue splitting of about one inch, a lingual frenectomy, which is having the tongue web cut to free up the tongue and make it seem longer, and to get a venom piercing, which is two off-centre tongue rings. After I turn eighteen, I'm going to look into that.
Point being: Don't pierce things yourself, unless you have apprenticed with a piercer and have knowledge and experience, you aren't doing the job correctly. If you still do something yourself, use a piercing needle, BMEshop sells them, use correct cleansing materials, and put the correct type jewelry in.
I have learned now not to perform piercings myself and I urge all others to learn this quickly as well. The money and wait is worth the end result. If I had this piercing and all of my others done by a professional, I would probably still have them now..