The first thing I'm going to explain is that I do all of my piercings myself. I don't advise ANYONE to do an extreme piercing themselves, or even pierce their ears themselves unless you take the proper precautions and are prepared to accept the fact that you may get an infection. I haven't so far, but I have been lucky. So please BE CAREFUL.
At A Glance Author mistress_missy88 Contact darkmissy420@yahoo.com When Six months ago Artist Me Studio At home Location In Illinois You're probably wondering when I'm going to get to the point, so I wont waste anymore time. I am 15 and i have been begging my parents for about 2 years to let me get my tongue pierced. They wont let me because of the fact that they think that I am irresposible and I wouldn't take proper care of it. They are very wrong.
I first got turned on to getting my tongue web pierced was when I was exploring around Bme, and I went to look for a traditional tongue piercing and I saw a tongue web piercing. I took first glance and thought to myself "I want that done!" So I did a little research in my area.
I called around in my area to find out where I could get such a piercing done. The places I called didn't want to take the chance of doing a piercing like that because they haven't done it for a lot of people and felt that I should go somewhere that had more experience. I'm not saying that the tattoo/piercing shops in the Dixon/Sterling area are not experienced, but that is a very rare piercing for two considerably small towns.
To prepare I had to get a 14g hollow needle (two sizes smaller than a standard ear piercing.) When you buy these out of a catalog, they are generally pre-sterilized which is a good thing when doing an at home piercing. I then sterilized my mouth with half a capfull of Listerine diluted with one-third water. It's important to dilute Listerine because your mouth has natural "germ-fighters" that can be washed out along with the Listerine, and so your oral piercing it more likely to get infected.
After everything is sterilized, I clamped the webbing of my tongue and stuck the needle through about halfway. When you think about it, when your mouth is open for that long, you tend to drool. So a bit of advice: always keep a towel on your lap and handy to wipe away any access drool. After I wiped away that access saliva, I put the needle all the way through. When the needle was going through, it didn't hurt at first, but when I got to getting through the other side it pinched a little bit. But it wasn't terrible.
I had finally gotten a tongue piercing that was undetectible by my parents, and it was really comfortable when the minor swelling went down. If you're thinking about getting your tongue web pierced, I suggest you do it. You can put many different barbells and rings in it and you can't really feel it if you don't want to. And it's not a very common piercing so if your into being unique that would be the piercing to get. But, take my advice, get it done professionaly if you want the best results.
The aftercare for this piercing is fairly simple and doesn't break your wallet. To clean it, all you do is wash your mouth out with Listerine (diluted with one-third water) once a day, and after every meal wash your mouth out with warm saltwater. I have followed this cleaning schedule all through the healing process and it is now properly healed and looking great. And yes, I did finally tell my mom that I pierced my tongue web myself. She wanted to take a look at it and she actually thought that it looked pretty good. Her and my dad are even thinking about letting me get my tongue traditionally pierced, but I will only get that done professionally because there is an artery in your mouth that I don't feel like piercing. So if you want a traditional tongue done, get it done by someone with good credentials and has experience
Be careful which jewlery you choose for any oral piercing. I went to Claire's boutique and bought a stainless steel ring and asked them if it was prone to tarnishing, and they told me "no." After about a week of it being in my mouth, it started to hurt really bad. I looked at it in the mirror and it was brown with white hard stuff all around it. I went back to Claire's everyday until the saleslady that told me it wouldn't tarnish was working, and i gave it back to her and demanded my money back. After that I went to John Meek's Tattoo/Piercing parlor where he took a look at my piercing and told me to use surgical steel instead of stainless for oral piercings. It only cost me about $5.00 without tax and the pain went away almost immediatly.