Pierced -- Ouch!

[QueenBee]

I got my belly button periced it hurt at first but now i dosn't, It took me so long for my mom to let me do it cuz I was 16 at the time and you need you parents consent and I have my ears done those are all the percing I have.

[Dan Rugh]

[quote][i]Originally stated by her ^^ up there ^^[/i]
[b]I was 16 at the time and you need you parents consent[/b][/quote]

Well, when I got my ears pierced it was June 18th, and my 18th birthday was the next day. My mom didn't care about signing for it because she knew I was just gonna do it the next day anyway if she didn't. Heh.

[Guest ACW]

Okay, I have a peirced ear, but the girl I'm dating has gone overboard with her peircing. She has 3 in each ear, 3 in her lip, 1 in each eyebrow, one in her nose, one in her bellybutton. She's also gotton her "chest" pierced and her reproductive organ pierced :p. She did most of them herself. Not to mention 3 tattoos. This girl loves needles.

[Pressure]

[color=purple][size=1]Are you TRYING to get tetanus?

Now, don't think I'm in any way against piercings.

I want 11 more myself.

But the ways that some of you are piercing and cleaning your piercings is frightening as all hell!

Ravenstorture was right. I can't stress this enough. You [b]must[/b] extensively research your piercing, your piercing parlor, how to clean your piercing, healing time, possible risks, and if you can, your piercer.

I say this not to preach, but from experience.

If you want a piercing done, for the love of god, do not so what I did.

I have wanted my labret pierced for the longest time. I've wanted it pierced ever since I first saw it done. About a month and a week ago, I woke up a bit earlier than normal, so after I'd gotten all ready for school, I had about ten minutes before I had to leave for the bus. At one point in time I had my ears pierced, but my skin rejected the earrings I put in later, so I let them close up. The place that I got them pierced didn't use needles. They did what Zeh said. They used a piercing gun and piercing studs. The stud was solid gold and sharpened so it'd go through my ear. Well, I'd lost one of the studs after the holes closed up, but I still had one lying around. As a matter of fact, it was laying on the bookshelf next to the mirror I was looking into. My mom had of course, said 'no' I couldn't get anything pierced. Well. I rarely listen to my mom. I checked the clock, got a lighter, and sterelized the stud. I went to the mirror, centered it. And pushed.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

The piercing was fine the first day. The next day my lip had swollen to twice it's normal size. You couldn't even see the ball on the end of the stud anymore. And the skin had swollen over the backing of the earring. Which was a normal backing. I remembered having to turn my earrings in my ears, so I figured it was the same for my labret.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

The metal backing serated my skin. Now, a month later, I still have a ring around the hole from where the backing was. It's scarred the skin on the back of my lip.

Two days after I stupidly pierced my labret myself I went to a nearby tattoo parlor. The instant my piercer looked at my lip he shook his head and said, 'I could give you novels and novels of why that was a bad idea.'

The earring I used was about an 18 gauge. He said he was going to put a 16 gauge in. He said that bc I'd moved the earring so much, I'd stretched my hole to about a 12 gauge.

Also, I'd used a gold earring. You are not supposed to put gold in until after it's fully healed.

Anyways, they fixed the piercing. Gave me proper instructions on how to care for it, and scared the living hell out of me by telling me everything I'd done wrong. They said that the only thing I couldv'e done worse, would be to pierce it with a rusty nail.

- You can't use gold until the wound heals.

- Sterelizing it with fire is the stupidest thing you can do. The fire could have broken the seal/bond on the metal, causing it to break apart, so I'd have little metal chunks floating around in my skin.

- I'd been cleaning it with peroxide. Hydrogen Peroxide breaks down living tissue. The wound would have never healed.

- I'd grossly enlarged the hole prematurely.

And I myself found out later that I hadn't pierced it straight. It was a bit slanted. I fixed this myself by pushing on it with my tongue during healing, so it's straight now.

But anyways.

Please. Please. Please Children. Research the piercing until you don't want it anymore. If you can research it enough to teach it to someone else, then you know enough to be worthy of setting foot into the tattoo parlor.

Make sure that you'll like the piercing on yourself. For example. I like me with a stud. I don't like me as much with a labret ring.

Best advice I can give for that, is buy a falsie. Wear it around. Tell people it's real. See their reaction. See if you like it.

But please, I'm begging you, do NOT pierce yourself. Guaranteed you do not know as much as a qualified piercer. They had to actually go to school for this stuff.

Above all else I must say, have fun.

You only live once. If you want it pierced, get it done. Get it done right. So you can enjoy it. Piercing is fun. You'll be suprised how little it hurts. You'll be suprised how much you love and cherish your new piercing. If you love your piercing, ignore what people say about it. It's impossible to go overboard!

My friend Damien is nuts. I love him to death. He has 33 piercings.

- All three parts of his nose
- Six in each ear
- His nipples
- Three in each eyebrow
- Three in his top lip
- Three in his bottom lip
And
- All four sides of his belly button done

Damien is also a qualified piercer.

I want 11 more piercings myself. [ at least ]

- My bridge
- My septum
- Two in my left eyebrow
- Two in each lobe
- Two in my right cartilage
And
- And industrial in my left ear

I've also been toying with the idea of surface piercings. *.*

Ever since I was a little girl I've wanted a barcode tattooed on the back on my neck.

I'm thinking of a surface piercing either above or below that tattoo. Id also like a surface piercing right below that dip in my collarbone. I saw this beautiful girl with a surface ring piercing in the middle of her forehead. It wouldn't look right on me. But it looked great on her.

-shiver-

Piercings and tattoos are very sexy.[/color][/size]

[stardust]

I used to.When I was little,I got my ears pierced.My sis and I got into a fight,and she attacked me and ripped at my ear ring.Anyways,we were sitting around wrapping gifts, and all of a sudden, the ring fell out!It had split through my ear lobe. I had to go see a plastic surgeon to get it stitched up.But I was little, so I don't remember much of that.

[Kaola Su]

I definately agree with that Pressure. Now I know when I was like 14 I did that kinda stuff too, but dang people, it can wait! Don't do it yourself. No offense but that is very nasty and unclean too. Even if you think you are cleaning it good enough, more than likely you aren't. I actually got blood poisoning and had to be put into the hospital from piercing my own ears with what I thought was an extremely clean needle! It is extremely hazardous to you and blood and staff infections are not hard to get from doing stuff like that! Now I love body art of any kind so I wanted to rush into it too, but now that I am 18 I can do what ever I want when ever I want to my body. Don't be stupid and do it yourself! and for the girlfriend who has her genetals pierced, I really hope she didn't do that herself. Professional piercers know the sopts to pierce in b/c they are several places that can paralyze that part of your body in pretty much anywhere you can pierce. I know you can your whole face, genetals, nipples....probably not ears or bellybuttons.

Piercings are extremely dangerous unless you are a professional. I recommend you do a ton of research also, especially on the hazards and when you go to get them done, please carefully read the pamplet or paper that you have to sign. I think in all states in the U.S. it is completely your own fault if something happens after the piercing is done.

Love, Kaola

[Guest Zeh]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Pressure [/i]
[B][color=purple][size=1]
- My bridge
- My septum
- Two in my left eyebrow
- Two in each lobe
- Two in my right cartilage
And
- And industrial in my left ear

I've also been toying with the idea of surface piercings. *.*[/color][/size] [/B][/QUOTE]

What do ya mean 'industrial'? And i'm guessing surface piercings are just anyway, right?

I went and got the top of my ear pierced again today, didn't hurt at all. I'm doing the same thing i did last time, spraying special antiseptic on it atleast twice a day. (I do it atleast ten.)

(They call them piercing guns? Seemed more like i was getting clipped, like a whale :p)

[Hybrid]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Pressure [/i]
[B][color=purple][size=1]

I have wanted my labret pierced for the longest time. I've wanted it pierced ever since I first saw it done. About a month and a week ago, I woke up a bit earlier than normal, so after I'd gotten all ready for school, I had about ten minutes before I had to leave for the bus. At one point in time I had my ears pierced, but my skin rejected the earrings I put in later, so I let them close up. The place that I got them pierced didn't use needles. They did what Zeh said. They used a piercing gun and piercing studs. The stud was solid gold and sharpened so it'd go through my ear. Well, I'd lost one of the studs after the holes closed up, but I still had one lying around. As a matter of fact, it was laying on the bookshelf next to the mirror I was looking into. My mom had of course, said 'no' I couldn't get anything pierced. Well. I rarely listen to my mom. I checked the clock, got a lighter, and sterelized the stud. I went to the mirror, centered it. And pushed.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

The piercing was fine the first day. The next day my lip had swollen to twice it's normal size. You couldn't even see the ball on the end of the stud anymore. And the skin had swollen over the backing of the earring. Which was a normal backing. I remembered having to turn my earrings in my ears, so I figured it was the same for my labret.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

The metal backing serated my skin. Now, a month later, I still have a ring around the hole from where the backing was. It's scarred the skin on the back of my lip.
[/color][/size] [/B][/QUOTE]

How did you pierce you lip with an ear stud? ear studs are too small arnt they? but I don't know much about ear piercings.

Anyway, I got a labret piercing, which ive had for about six months, it didn't really hurt when i got it done, but it was throbbing for about a week after. I was surprized at how little amount of blood their was when the needle went through, their was a slight trickle and thats it.
My lip piercing is first piercing ive ever got, and is still the only one, but I'm thinking about getting the right side of my lip pierced aswell, but I'm still undisided.

[Pressure]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Zeh [/i]
[B]What do ya mean 'industrial'? And i'm guessing surface piercings are just anyway, right?

I went and got the top of my ear pierced again today, didn't hurt at all. I'm doing the same thing i did last time, spraying special antiseptic on it atleast twice a day. (I do it atleast ten.)

(They call them piercing guns? Seemed more like i was getting clipped, like a whale :p) [/B][/QUOTE]

[color=purple][size=1]Isn't it pr[URL=http://www.bmezine.com/pierce/01-ear/A30622/high/8j4pml7l.jpg]e[/URL]tty?

That my dear, is an Industrial piercing.

-coos-

Surface piercings. Hell. They can be pretty much anywhere you want them to be. Obviously, because they only go under the first few layers of skin, as opposed to going straight through. My favorite surface piercing is the Anti Eyebrow.

I love it. It looks so much like a te[URL=http://www.bmezine.com/pierce/04-eyebrow/A30301/high/face1.jpg]a[/URL]r drop.

I want two on both sides.

I didn't list these before. Because I just discovered them today.

[b]Hybrid[/b]-
Yes, earring are too small, that was the problem. It's why the backing mangled my skin.

Well, my number of piercings left to go is up to 15.

^_______^[/color][/size]

[Guest ACW]

I have a question. I think I'v only seen my girlfriend do this, but mabey others do it to. Do guys or girls who get their nipples pierced sometimes stick the neele thru thier shirts/sweaters into the hole so that the main part of the ring is on the outside? Just wondering, cauce my girfriend dose it.

[Dan Rugh]

[quote][i]Originally said by him ^^up there^^[/i]
[b]Do guys or girls who get their nipples pierced sometimes stick the neele thru thier shirts/sweaters into the hole so that the main part of the ring is on the outside? Just wondering, cauce my girfriend dose it.[/b][/quote]

Heh. I think I've seen Lenny Kravits do that before. I don't know of any other non-celebrities that would do that, though. :)

[Kaola Su]

This is a sample of a surface picture for you. Like Pressure said, they can pretty much be anywhere where that you have skin! The othert is an industrial piercing on the ear.

I found this in the picture in the link below in my signature, for those of you who want to learn more about piecings and tattoos, this is the most excellent site to get your info from!

Also in this 1st picture the piercing does not go horizontally like it looks like, but if you look at the very bottom of the picture you will see that they actually are 2 piercings that go vertically. The second picture, the top one across the top is the industrial.

Kaola

[Guest Zeh]

Thats neat, having it go twice through your ear (or is it the one going through the 'nib' thing in your ear?). In the surface piercings, is the other part of the stud under your skin?

Getting a labret piercing would bother me too much, otherwise i'd have one... I think i'll stick to my ears for now o_O. When the one i have heals, i'm gonna get another one the same, just below it.

There's so much to piercing i didn't know, i would never of thought there were as much to it, as there is. Thanks for clearing that stuff up Pressure, and Kaola.

[Kaola Su]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Zeh [/i]
[B]Thats neat, having it go twice through your ear (or is it the one going through the 'nib' thing in your ear?). In the surface piercings, is the other part of the stud under your skin?

Getting a labret piercing would bother me too much, otherwise i'd have one... I think i'll stick to my ears for now o_O. When the one i have heals, i'm gonna get another one the same, just below it.

There's so much to piercing i didn't know, i would never of thought there were as much to it, as there is. Thanks for clearing that stuff up Pressure, and Kaola. [/B][/QUOTE]

Yeah, it goes through the ear two times.

Next Question: yeah the whole length of the bar is under neath your skin!

Cool huh!?

Also no problem! I wouldn't have even thought of all that other stuff if it wasn't for Pressure, but yep yep, there are probably more than 300 places to get pierced at! And almost 20 can fit in you peepee, (Guy's private parts) and 10 probably in your kitty (Girls parts!) Thats a lotta piercings!

Kaola

[Guest Zeh]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Kaola Su [/i]
[B]Next Question: yeah the whole length of the bar is under neath your skin![/B][/QUOTE]

[i]Bar?[/i] Now i have a real high tolerance for pain, but that really aught to hurt.

[Kaola Su]

Yeah it is more for people wanting to do it for religious or spiritual or other reasons like that...but not always. Yeah that under skin pierceing, there is a very large bar underneath that person's skin, just like a tongue ring, it connects the two balls which are holding it from coming out of your skin! It is all really interesting too!

Kaola

[Ravenstorture]

[color=darkgreen][font=gothic]Mmm, surface piercings....

When I was talking about getting my back done, this is what I was talking about.

One thing you need to worry about for non-cartilage and especially surface piercings is GROWING OUT. This means that the peircing almost moves through the skin, leaving a trail of scar tissue. Ultra-smart body mechanism that forces foriegn objects to leave the body. It happens quite a bit with surface peircings.
Navel piercings do it too.
If that sounds scary, though, look up the dental after effects of labret peircings. Basically they wear away the gums and eventually teeth. Slow process, however. I do far too much kissing to get any oral piercings.

Anyway, here is the back pic.[/font][/color]

[Patronus]

I have my left ear pierced and that's all...I want my center lip, my belly button, my upper ear, and my tongure pierced oO


Just imagine what I'll look like

[Terpischore]

[color=b60039]::shudders:: Agh, I don't get how everybody can have all of these peircings and not think about how something is IN your skin and the skin is just conforming around the bell...man if I had one of those things and I reached around my back and touched it....I might freak out! The only things that make me cringe is now surface peircings and nose/lip peircings...it just looks weird to me. I myself have 1 peircing in my ears, I got them when i was 13..yay..but I dont want anymore..i'm happy with what I got.

Where i got my peircing, they did a needle instead of a gun. I've heard that a needle is less painful and more accurate. My sister got hers peirced w/ a gun and the lady screwed up and she had to wear one earring for three weeks to let the other one heal so she could go get it peirced again...*breath* So i think that a needle is more accurate...my ears turned out fine.[/color]

[Kaola Su]

Whoa! Raven is that really you!?!? That is bad butt! I wouldn't do it but that really is cool. How long did that take for all of them to get done?

[Krillen]

Well, believe it or not I had my ear pierced a while back in 2nd grade. I thought it looked cool...yahhh...

I wanna get my eyebrow done though, that would be cool. I really like the one that looked like a tear drop, Alice.

Anti Eyebrow.