Hey, first off I'd like to say that, what I did probably wasn't the smartest thing to do. I suggest you think about what you're doing and know the risks before you attempt a "do it yourself" piercing. I always suggest going to a professional over doing it yourself just to be safe. I felt like I could do this piercing myself, which was my choice.
At A Glance Author Draxamus Contact DraxamusTLFM@aol.com IAM draxamus When A week ago Artist I did Studio My sisters bathroom Location Sumner Being interested in piercings, having to retired some of them, I keep slowly desired to get a new piercing. I, of course, didn't have any money to go and get it done. Since I didn't want to go get it done at the mall and take a risk I didn't want to take. I planned to have my sister do it.
My parents didn't really care since it wasn't on my face, like my lip or my eyebrow, so they didn't put up a fight against it. That made things a whole lot simpler. My sister had wanted me over at her house because she hadn't seen me in and while, and since she was the first person to ever pierce me ( my left lobe in first grade, which was taken out later ), I thought she'd be a good candidate for the job.
I got over to her house but didn't get to it right away. I didn't have a problem waiting, as long as I was gonna get it done. I wanted to gauge my ears 0, so that there'd be a good chance that if I really need to get rid of them, that they'd would mostly close, if not all the way. Tunnels, I think look pretty cool so, thats what I was going to go for.
Time came for my sister to pierce, but before that was going to happen I needed to hold ice to my ear for about ten and damn, it was really cold. When we got into the bathroom my fingers were more numb than my ear was, but I didn't mind, I've been through what I thought were much more painful piercings. She chickened out and said she couldn't hurt me, which was weird because she'd done it before, maybe she just felt more responsible now that she was older. What a let down after all that excitement.
Wanting my lobe pierced really bad, I said what the hell and decided to do it myself, I didn't have any trouble doing it myself since pain doesn't have much significance to me. I have a previous bad experience trying to pierce my own lip before because I couldn't get it through that last layer so my lower lip just felt really numb without any jewelry in it, and my thumb ended up hurting cause I used a spiked cartilage stud. Stupid, don't do that, I was just way too ignorant and not very patient. I got ready to stick the lobe stud though positioning it just right, I hoped, and shoved through. I wish I had had the right equipment to do this with but I didn't, and I felt it wasn't too big of a deal, and if it so happened that something bad went wrong, during or way after then I would just have to deal with it. From what I can tell though seems as though it came out even and if its off a millimeter, well I DON'T CARE.
It always seems like it takes longer to pierce yourself than it does at the actual studio. Maybe it was what I using. I had a little bit of trouble but finally got it through with a nice pop. It was a 18g stud so it wasn't extremely difficult. I kept that in for a night and though I'd let it cool off a day before I put my spike labret stud in it. I realized how much of a pain it was to sleep on the side you don't like sleeping on again, well no regrets. The next day with little difficulty was in. So my stud being a super long spike, I think looks awesome for what it is right now.
Now I have both lobes pierced and I'm on the road to gauging them to 0's. My left lobe is 8g with a cut off ink cartridge in it and my right lobe now has a 14g captive ring in it. A little off balance right now but the right will catch up eventually. Don't try stretching you lobe piercing right after you get it, because as i've proved to myself, it can hurt like hell. Remember that you should be as safe as possible, even though it doesn't always go through our minds. I don't recommend what I did but when you really want something and don't have the money for it, what do YOU do? Happy piercing everyone be safe.