Who doesn't want a piercing now-a-days? Especially teenagers. I fell into the basically "alternative" lifestyle 2 years ago, but it's more extreme now. Now that I've found the world of body mods. Regular old ear piercing at 13, a center labret at 14, what more for this year? Since I found BME and body mods I wanted a triple labret. So the day after my 15th birthday, some mates and I went to the mall where a friend of a friend was going to pierce me. We talked to him before and he said he'd do it, and when we went back he said he'd pierce me for a new belt ('cus that's how David works). The next day was just... terrible. I was thinking so hard and hoping so much that everything would go well because my bottom lip would finally be complete, but that backfired. School was awful and so long, and when my mates and I went to the mall to get David we ended up waiting 3 hours for him only to find that not only would he not pierce me, he didn't even bring the needles.
At A Glance Author Yuna Contact snowtigermar@yahoo.com When A week ago Artist Vikki Studio school Location California The next day I was fed up. My parents wouldn't give in to let me get pierced anywhere professionally and all my other mates who pierced were 50 miles away and were out of needles, or so they said. So at school I pulled out the rings I bought for my labret, stared at them for a bit, then asked my best mate Brittany to pierce my lip. Our materials were safety pins, not sterile, not the right gauge, and some overly-priced rings from the mall. Two labret rings could not come out of this. Would not come out of this. So we improvised.
"Let's do your eyebrow. It'd be easier.." Easy they say. Well, the labret plan failed miserably, so why not my next alternative, a vertical eyebrow ring. At this point, I was adrenaline-rushed, pissed off and open to anything. "Okay, just do it fast," I say. Brittany couldn't do it, she was too squeamish. We had gathered a crowd at our lunch area for this daring feat, and since Brit couldn't do it -- Vikki (who has an extremely immense pleasure for pain and suffering) took the safety pin and jammed it through my poor eyebrow. Besides the popping sounds and the crowd's faces going green, I think everything went fine! Vikki snapped the safety pin closed (the bell had just rung) and we all went to class -- decided to put the ring in later. After school Brittany took the safety pin out and attempted to put the way-too-big 14 gauge metal ring though the 18/16 gauge hole. Not only was the gauge too big, but the pin was too far through, preventing anything smaller than an inch long to go through it. So, Vikki came outside and re-pierced a smaller length, and yet another hole, with the same safety pin.
After this whole ordeal, the adrenaline wore off and the crappy piece of safety pin through my brow was hurting. A lot. Brittany and I went to the mall to try and get a free eyebrow ring off our friend who works in a silver shop. No luck, but I ended up buying a 16 gauge black curved spiked ring -- for the sole purpose of getting the safety pin out of my eye and still having something to show. We walked to a bench in front of David's store (bad idea #1) so Brit could put the ring in. She unfastened the safety pin and started pulling it out (bad idea #2). The ring wouldn't fit for some reason or another (probably too-big of a gauge), so we pulled the pin out a little more (worst idea) and... my eyebrow started bleeding. Not that little dribble of blood most people get... no.. it GUSHED down my cheek and then started spurting little drops. Brit freaked out and I just kind of stared at the drops of blood that spurted close to a foot away from me. We both ran to the bathroom and gra bbed some paper towels to stop the bleeding. It eventually subsided to a small dribble, then 2 red dots. Brittany tried to put the ring in still, only to make my eyebrow hurt a LOT and start bleeding again. We both gave up and decided not to keep irritating my eyebrow... and each other.
It's been a little less than a week. My eyebrow bruised terribly for 2 days and I still have a stinging pain from where the pin used to be. This was a really stupid thing to do, not to mention desperate. No one should ever use a safety pin and sadomasochist friend to get something pierced. You might end up with extreme blood loss and 2 small scars to show your "victory". Don't ever try this.
So, kids, what have we learned from this? Friends don't let friends pierce eyebrows.