Well it all started when me and my class mate were bored at school about a year ago. We were playing around with staples and suddenly he had the idea of getting our hands pierced. He wanted to pierce the skin between his thumb and his index finger. At first I was going to do that as well but I didn't really like it so I decided to pierce my knuckle instead (the area between the knuckle of my index finger and the one next to it to be precise).
At A Glance Author Shaggy Contact meli_stefan@hotmail.com When N/A Artist me Studio home Location malta, europe Some other friends had come with me to look for a professional piercer who would pierce it for me but we did not even find one single guy who would. Then me and Ryan had planned to do it together at school. I was really excited about the whole thing and spend a week thinking about it and looking up photos of hand piercings on the internet. Me and Ryan had planned to do it during the physical education (P.E.) lesson since we would have had free time in the court yard. The day had come my friend had brought the needles required and I had brought a bottle of frozen water which we used to numb our hands. the P.E. lesson arrived so me and Ryan lurked to the back of the group in order to remain undetected by the teacher and after about ten to fifteen minutes of numbing with the frozen water I got the needle and started putting it in. it was quite deep when the P.E. teacher decided to give us some push ups. I was forced to stop putting the needle in and do the push ups with the rest, otherwise the P.E. teacher would have noticed. The funny thing is that I was doing the push ups with the needle half way in my flesh. The ice slowly started to lose its effect and my hand started losing its numbness and the needle started to hurt and throb. I decided to take it off and try at home on my own. It was a better idea because I could take my time and do it in peace. I was really pissed off that day because I didn't manage to pierce my knuckle. I had been really looking forward to it. Later on that day at about 4 p.m. I just stuck my hand in the freezer for about 5 minutes and went to my room to pierce it in peace and quiet. I managed and it looked cool. I had to wear a plaster at home so that my parents wouldn't see it because otherwise they would have killed me and thrown me out of the house in pieces. I tried to play around with the needle in order to widen the hole. Later on that night I substituted the needle with a safety pin and I went out. My friends were really astonished and most of them really liked it. Some couldn't b "\Ãw€ë elieve and kept playing with it all the time to see what I felt. Some of the girls remained flabbergasted with their mouths open but I didn't really care at all about what the others thought because all that mattered to me was that I liked it. My piercing didn't bother me at all, not even when at night when I was asleep. I went to school with it, I went out with it, I played guitar with it and it didn't bother me at all. I even went to a concert and in a mosh pit with it and it didn't hurt one bit.
I wanted the hole to get bigger so that I could put a barbell into it. After about 6 days the patch of skin around the piercing started to get swollen and after about two days it grew rather huge and white pus started coming out. It had got infected. Eventually the skin between the two entry hole got torn and lots of white pus came out. I still have the scar on my knuckle. I had done one big mistake; I didn't disinfect the needle before I started to pierce my hand. Anyway now a year passed the scar on my knuckle means a lot to me. It is a sort of symbol through which I can easily relate to the past and easily remember those days gone by. Now I am thinking of doing a surface piercing on my wrist and I would like to get a lip piercing to the side of my lower lip. However I need to know exactly what I should do so that my piercing does not get rejected and infected and so on so if anyone ha some advices please email me. Anyway that is the basic story of my piercing and my emotions related to it!!! P.S. Never attempt to pierce yourself. Always seek professional help.