Title: Unplanned Lip Piercing
Author: Georgia
Complications: Getting the Captive Bead Ring was a little hard to get through the hole
End Result: Been a few days, its doing great!
Happy with the Result: Yessum, I am!
Date Done: July 14, 2004
Story: I�ve been planning to do my own nipple piercing for a few weeks. I researched about it online (how I found this site) and decided that I could do it myself. I again looked online for piercing needles, as cheep as I could get them, and some jewelry. I found some needles on gothauctions.com and some jewelry on gothicauctions.com. After the captive bead ring came in the mail I started to get ancy about it. I didn�t want to wait for the needle. So I decided to find something else I could use. I looked all around the kitchen, where sharp things usually are, and I found an unopened bag of skewers (long, sharp metal things to poke a turkey with) I was like �Great! Those will be perfect!� cause they are about the same width of a 14 gauge needle, they�re just not hallow.
Anyhoo, I got everything else ready I needed: Prep solution (I got from hospital), skewer, cotton balls, paper towels, rubber gloves, tongs from kitchen (the kind with loops in them), captive bead ring, and the phone in case I hit an artery or vein and couldn�t stop the bleeding. Then sat down, put prep solution on my nipple, clamped it with the tongs, got the skewer ready and gave a small push to see what it was going to be like. Wow, I can take a lot of pain, but without a hallow needle it would have been hurting so bad. So I cleaned everything off and I looked in the mirror. I thought maybe it would be neat to have a side lip ring. So, I prepared everything again and made marks where I wanted it. I clamped it and held it tight for a minute to get it a little numb and took the skewer and started to shove it through the outside of my lip. It went through pretty easily and with barely any pain. And I sat with it in my lip for about 5-10 minutes to let it stretch a bit. Then I took the CBR and put it to the end of the skewer and pulled it slowly while I pushed the CBR into my lip, trying to follow it through. I made it till near the inside of my lip and I couldn�t find the exit hole. So after a minute of trying to find it I knew I had to make a new one before I made my lip swell anymore than it was. So I took a breath and pushed hard. It popped through and I put the ball on. And I�ve been cleaning it regularly and it�s doing great!
Needle: A skewer
Gauge: it�s about the same size as a 14g
Purchased: dollar store
Cost: pack of 6 for a $1, but I didn�t buy them
Jewelry: Captive bead ring
Gauge: 14g
Purchased: gothic auctions.com
Cost: $3.00
Aftercare: sea-salt soaking
Purchased: grocery store
Cost: $0.50
TOTAL COST: $3.50
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| Bio: I�m 19, I live in West Virginia, I want to be a professional piercer someday. If anyone wants any info about how-to pierce or anything related, just e-mail me at [email protected] and I�ll see what I can do! |