I actually had no intention of doing this piercing on myself, I wanted to pierce someone and my friend agreed that I could pierce him but his parents would flip if they saw it so we had to find a nice little place that you wouldn't really see. After searching through bme I found the tongue web piercing (I'm not sure if it actually has a name if it does, sorry) so I brought the idea up to my friend and after a little persuading he finally agreed.
At A Glance Author Yuki Yubari Contact Yuki Yubari@bme.anon When It just happened Unfortunately our plan didn't really have the best follow through due to the fact that as soon as I got through one tiny layer of skin he flipped out, jumped off the counter and refused to let me proceed and would not be swayed by any level of coaxing. Bummer. So after my wimpy little friend left me, trailing a slew of insults I threw at him in my anger, I was seriously miffed. I had been quite looking forward to doing this hence my research and begging. I dragged my irked self to my mirror and examined, for the first time, my own tongue web. Mine looking much larger and pierce-able that his did. After about half an hour of me pocking and feeling around with my tongue I finally decided that F*** him I will take away the shred of masculinity I left for him, I decided to do it on myself with the same tool and in the same place that he wanted. Tee.hee.hee.
I decided since this was my own tongue, my surroundings should be very sanity. I wiped off my entire counter in Lysol disinfectent wipes multiple times, soaked my safety pin and jewelry in bleach, hydrogen peroxide, Listerine, and boiling water. I cleaned my face of all make up and brushed every inch of my teeth to rid my mouth of as many germs and bacteria as possible. I also swished with Listerine around three times before, a few times during and twice after. I put on some music and got to it. I inserted my hands into fresh rubber gloves before inserting them into my mouth to position my tongue in the best way possible. I grabbed my safety pin and tried to quickly poke it through. It wasn't as fast as I would have liked but it was fast enough. I had read about people having tent effects with there needles because of the skin in the area but I didn't have so much trouble with that myself. To help get it through I pushed and ground the safety pin aground my gloved finger until the safety pin was all the way through and a hole was definitely made. At the precise moment when I was celebrating my small victory I was called to put away groceries and had to remove that safety pin and go do that.
When I returned I was still wishing to pursue this so I repeated my procedures and it went quite smoothly (the skin was upset a little and sore but it worked out fine). I hooked in a small gauge cbr without the bead and went on with the rest of my night.
When I woke up I was greatly annoyed to find that in my sleep the ring had slipped out and the hole had closed. So I went of to school in a little tiff and decided to repeat it with different jewelry after school. During the day I could defiantly feel where my holes had been and my tongue was just very raw the whole day though the raw feeling lessened marginally as the day went on so I felt my tongue could take it if I did it that night.
Unfortunately my thirst for extreme sanitation had been dampened by my lack of patience. I wiped my counters and sink down with a hand towel (ew) and quickly dipped my safety pin and jewelry in peroxide, bleach and Listerine before setting them on my dirty counter. I skipped out on my oral hygiene routine almost completely, swishing Listerine for thirty seconds and that was it. I quickly found a dot indicating where my hole had been and rammed the safety pin through. I worked it into my ban-aid protected middle finger ( skipped out on the gloves as well) and wiggled it around to be sure the hole would stay open. I slide out the safety pin and tried to put the cbr back in it. Unfortunately I had to keep putting the safety pin back in and working it around because I could make my jewelry go through completely. After ten minutes of that it finally went through and I spent another ten minutes trying to close the ring so there was no opening but it was to no avail. I decided to try to put rubber earring backs on the ends and then spent thirty minutes trying to make that work. Note the trying. It never happened. I decided to try different jewelry but my selection was extremely limited so I decided to ram an 18 gauge into my sensitive 22 gauge and put clear earring backs on that. It ended up working just fine with the whole ramming thing and I spent a successful fifteen minutes getting the rubber backs on. It felt a lot bigger in my mouth defiantly annoying but it also could sit more comfortably in a down position so I decided it was right.
I have yet to show any of my friends but intend to do so tomorrow and will most definitely rub it in my weak ass friend's face. I'm not sure if it will swell, it's very raw and sensitive right now so it's questionable.
It didn't bleed at all so I think that's a good sign but who knows.
Don't do this yourself its stupid my tongue is probably going to get a major infection and fall out so if you want to get it done kiddies go to a pro!
Don't do drugs in school!