At A Glance
Author	Robby McKey
Contact	wicansk8r666@yahoo.com
When	It just happened
Artist	Myself
Studio	my dwelling

Well, first off, I just pierced my eyelid, and I am here to tell everyone about my experience. I would not consider it to be a smart thing to self pierce, but I did it any way.

So here I was scrolling through BME when I came across the eyelid piercings which used to seem completely unappealing to me, but tonight they seemed rather interesting. So I played around with the idea for about 2 hours or so, venturing through pictures of random surface piercings and what not. I also went to about four other web sites trying to find out about all of the risks involved in this piercing. I found one web site that had an article in it that. I read that article about two other people who had their eyelids pierced, and they were, I believe, the first known to get it done if I am not mistaken, but I may be wrong. I read all of the risks with the damage to the eyeball as well as how two other piercers performed the procedure. The article described how two different artists performed the piercing. It didn't sound so hard, but they made it sound as if it was a life or death risk. Me being the idiot I am decided i'll do it any way. So then I decided I wanted to pierce it, but I couldn't decide whether I wanted to try to be the first that I am aware of to pierce my bottom eyelid. So after pondering with that idea for a few more minutes, I decided screw it I will just do my top eyelid. So I was trying to decide whether I would use a 3/8" captive bead ring or a 1/4" captive bead ring. so i just decided I would lay them next to each other and which ever one I picked up first, I would use that one.

I then proceeded onward to trying to figure out how i would manage to do this piercing in the mirror with only my own two hands as my assistants. I tried using a pair of forceps, didn't work. I tried using my fingers, by holding my eyelashes, and I realized this was the only way that I could pierce my own eyelid on account that I couldn't use my forceps by myself.

Anyway, I opened the package which contained my two inch, sixteen gauge, pre-sterilized, beveled, hollow piercing needle and I thought to myself, "How stupid am I?". I looked in the mirror and tried to decide a good placement but couldn't decide. So I said "screw it" I will do it free hand with no marks or anything. I pulled my eyelashes outward(yes, I know very bad piercing technique, but at the time I didn't care) and i pushed the needle up to give it a little feel, and it didn't hurt. I mean no pain at all. I pulled the needle down and looked in the mirror again and thought " okay I can do this" and pushed the needle up, and up, and up. Finally the needle came through and not one tear came out. I was amazed. I immediately took pictures of the piercing with the needle in it with my web cam. So there I was with a needle in my damn eyelid. I followed the needle out of the hole with the 3/8" captive bead ring, immediately put the bead in , and I ran into my ex girlfriend's room and showed her and she thought it was cute. haha.

I then got some saline (multi purpose eye solution) or something like that, and I rinsed my eye out. I will contnue to do this every few hours or so until I take the piercing out.

Though I do like it, it is slightly aggravating at first, but it will get in the way because at this moment I can not look to my left without blinking rapidly.

The "eyelid piercing" is a great piercing and this has been a great experience, but I would recomend anyone who would like this piercing to get it done professionally. I, Myself am about to start working in a piercing and tattoo shop for my first time, but I have plenty of experience with piercings. I took a very high risk of losing my sight or severely screwing up my vision. I do not recomend anyone else to try this themselves. In fact I hope I am the only idiot who has...but anyway I hope this works out as a good guide for someone looking to get there eyelid pierced or looking for a reason not to get there eyelid pierced.

Thanks for listening. And thankyou BME for always inspiring me to do new things.

Robby McKey