Well everyone knows piercing yourself isn't the best idea, especially if you don't know what you're doing and you don't properly sterilize. Which is what I did. I was sitting watching conan and thinking about piercings because I'm always thinking about piercings. Anyway I was thinking about how I had just increased my labret from 16 gauge to 14 gauge. So I was wondering what I'd do with all my 16 gauge jewelry and for some reason I thought "ooh get another piercing" and then I noticed a pin sitting on the mantel, I have no idea why it caught my eye. But then I thought ok, I'll pierce my nose...it seemed like a 16 gauge labret stud would be PERFECT. But then I realized how piss my fam. Would be if I pierced my own nose! I mean they've been pretty awesome about my piercing obsession and my sisters' so it's all good. but that my shut the whole thing down you know? First of all I already have a facial piercing that I love and a nose piercing would throw off my whole line down the center thing (I'm thinking of a vertical bridge piercing). So then I decided to pierce my own ear cartilage.
At A Glance Author anonymous Contact anonymous@bme.anon When A month ago I have no idea where this idea came from, I'd never THOUGHT about having anything pierced on my ears. My lobes aren't even pierced! Well they weren't...haha. Anyway I was then standing in the bathroom with a pin from one of those charity ribbons, and I had the labret stud and...well I poured a bit of saline on both and then I took the pin and put it to a random spot on my ear (no I didn't mark it). And I pushed. And nothing happened. And I pushed and it broke the skin. And I pushed and it went through layer after layer of cartilage and it was RIDICULOUSLY painful. It took about 6 minutes to get the pin all the way through.
I was incredibly proud at this point and then I pulled out the pin (OWWWW) and tried to get the labret it. It wouldn't even consider going and at this point my ear was totally pissed off. I wasn't gonna give up so I took a thumbtack that seemed thick and shoved that in...it was more painful than the first time...still the stud would not go in. And then I dropped it. So I tried harder but nothing.
My ear was really really mad at me and it was red and it hurt hurt hurt. So I got some ice and tried to soothe it. It didn't really work cause I didn't leave it on long enough.
I realized that the 16 gauge was not going in. So I ran around the house looking for earings. Like I said my lobes weren't pierced and the only sister living in the house with me at the time is not too into jewelry so I couldn't find one.
But I found a sewing needle that seemed thick. So I shoved that through and that hurt like nothing else...I planned to follow it with a 16 gauge ring...but getting the needle all the way through hurt so freaking much. And then the ring still wouldn't go in...so I was upset and I gave up feeling defeated. I sat back down in front of the tv and saw a little earing stud. I went back into the bathroom and shoved it in with insane pain. It hurt more than anything ever. But I got it through. And I covered it with my hair so my sister wouldn't see...and then the next day I bought a pack of earings myself. Piercing yourself is not a good idea...everyone knows that. But it can be fun. The piercing hurt soooo much but it also made me feel good. It was a piercing and the endorphin rush was INSANE. And it was free. Of course I might pay the price for my lack of real sterilization. I started cleaning 3 times daily with saline...I'm not really prone to infections, for example with my labret, I stopped cleaning it after like the 3rd day...I just swished with listerine when I brushed my teeth as always. I did pretty much the same thing here, it was just the first few days I cleaned it more than once a day.
It's been almost a month now and it's all healed up pretty well except the cartilage still hurts if I hit it too much. I clean it about once every 4 days with saline. I don't think this si a good idea for anyone else to do unless they know their body very well. I know that I tend to heal well and it would be ok but some people will have a ton of complications after following the same procedure.