My eyebrow experience was much unlike the experiences I had piercing my ears. Not caring about safety and not wanting to pay a ton of money has forced me to pierce myself, or have other friends do the deed. For some reason I just do not feel the need to support someone who makes me pay them seventy-five dollars for a ring that goes through my body. I had pierced my ears by myself so I figured nothing could go wrong with piercing my eyebrow the same way. My ears turned out fine and I was eager to put another hole in my body. I suppose I could say that piercing myself is somewhat addicting, as is any form of body modification.
At A Glance Author jix Contact jix@bme.anon Artist don't know/myself Studio dont remember Location DC I had wanted my eyebrow pierced for a while, but the thought of piercing it myself actually disgusted me in a way. I know, if I pierced my ears why should I be grossed out about piercing my eyebrow? I do not know I guess it just had something to do with it being near my eye, or for that matter any sharp object being near my eye.
It was raining outside and I was still eager to pierce my ear. Lack of entertainment pushed me to pierce my eyebrow at this point. A few friends of my were over and after saying "I'm going to do it" followed by "Wait no I am not" for an hour I decided to go through with it. I put ice in a bowl beside me and put it on my eyebrow to numb it. I pierced it and put a barbell through it that I had previously bought when actually considering having someone pierce my eyebrow for me (seeing the extremely high prices while checking it out urged me to do it myself). The pain was not that bad actually, I was going to be ok, or at least that is what I thought. We sat down, watched TV for a while, then my friend glanced at my face which was practically taken over by my growing, swelled up eyebrow. Well it wasn't that huge, but it was red and growing. It felt OK to me, but my friends advised me that this was not a good sign. I put ice on the huge bump as an attempt to decrease the puffiness. It worked for about an hour but as soon as I took it off it began to swell. I thought the piercing looked hot and told myself there was no way I was taking this baby out. I decided to sleep on it and wait till the next morning to make the decision on what to do next.
Well sleeping was a pain. I could not sleep on the side I usually sleep on due to the pain of my new piercing. It was finally starting to hurt. Not once had it hurt up until this point, which I found to be odd. I don't know why that happened. I was tossing and turning so much during the night that I had time to think about what I was going to do, and the pain pushed me to make myself go to the shop a few blocks away from my house the next morning. I woke up that morning, and dodged my parents. I didn't feel like hearing lectures about how I shouldn't pierce myself. It was cold out so the piercing was extremely sensitive. I practically ran into the store and of course by the looks of me they knew what my problem was just by looking at me. The piercer on duty at the time (I forget his name) said to me "You know, you should never pierce yourself". This was turning into the piercing from hell, I never thought it would come to this. The guilty side of me agreed with him, maybe I should have spent the money to get pierced. It would have saved the time and the pain that I wasted doing it myself. So I told the piercer that I wanted to keep the piercing, that I really liked it and didn't want to lose it. He said it was already irritated enough and that it should be taken out, but if I really wanted to gamble with the idea of keeping it that it wouldn't be that bad compared to that of other piercings. The good thing was I didn't have to buy new jewelry. He said that taking it out so soon and replacing it would cause the piercing to get even more infected. He cleaned it up and recommended a few solutions I use to reduce the swelling. A few months went by and it finally healed. Looking back at the situation now I realize maybe I shouldn't have pierced myself. I guess ears are ok because they are so basic but when you get to other body parts it gets more complicated. I still don't know why it didn't work out, maybe the barbell wasn't clean or something. The one thing I do know is not to pierce myself again and go to a professional so I won't screw up my body anymore! Be careful when self piercing!