At A Glance
Author	killerkilliam'
Contact	killerkilliam'@bme.anon
When	It just happened
Artist	via me :)
Studio	my..bathroom
Location	British Columbia, Surrey

The gorgeous lip ring. It seemed so perfect for me, in all of its glory...I invisioned it a lot, sometimes even wearing a fake one and admiring it in the mirror when I was alone.

So I began to beg my mom(this began about two months ago.) She gave me the usual no, wait til your older, It will get infected and so on. Then I went on to ask my Dad, who is an even harder person to crack.

"No, and thats final. I dont want to be looking at my daughter in disgust."

I went on to argue with him and how he doesnt have to look at me, its my body ect.

That one the little word that was supposed to stop me from getting it done, and after all the time I had spent thinking and researching it? That got me really down. Being sort of new to piercings(ears,cartlidge,navel all done proffesionally), there wasnt much I thought I could do about it seeing as I had only ever pierced cartlidges. When my parents said no, that was it. I got so mad, I figured I just do it in spite. So later that night, around 2am I thought about doing it myself, not really believing I actually would.

Everyone was asleep, so I pulled out some ice cube tongs to use at clamps, an elastic, an ear stud and a sewing needle(about 16g.) I was not the smartest about this, only putting everything in a cup of dragon mist cleaner to sterilize it. Not a smart move, and I highly recomend you get it done proffesionally since there are so many things that can go wrong, like hitting a vein or getting a keloid. I used an ice cube to numb it for about 5 minutes, marked the spot I wanted, put the "clamps" on and then wrapped the elastic around the end so they wouldnt fall off.

So I took the needle and started to push it through. Keep in mind I didnt think I was actually going to do this, so I just stood there thinking about other things and pushing. It didnt really feel like it went through, but then my finger started to hurt so i took a nail file(dont ask), put it under the needle and proceeded to push more. I saw the tip of the needle, and then it popped and went through.

No pain.

No blood.

I have to say, I was really surprised. So I put the lip stud in and tryed and finnally got a small backing on. The stud was way to short so I decided to go buy a real one the next day. The next morning I told my parents it was fake.(After,I had boughten a fake magnetic one and a real one, so it was more believable and I showed them the fake one.)

I was even more surprised when they believed me, none of my friends thought they would! A morning later I took the ear stud out, it just hurt to much. That day I went and bought a labret stud with a little black spike on the end. That night I had to repierce it. And let me tell you, that did hurt. It even bled a tiny bit. it also took forever to get it in since it had been pierced outside-in but the stud had to go in inside-out so I went back and forth and put the needle again a couple times. I finally got it in, needless to say the inside of my lip was pretty butchered and raw...and after two days the stud was still to short and got seriously imbedded in the back of my lip, so I had to go to metrotown to buy a slightly longer post. I just had to be extra carefully whenever I was around my parents, like talked, eating and expecially smiling because the little spike poked out when the back pressed up against my teeth.

Fast forward today(well, this only happened about 5 days ago) and its doing pretty well. My parents havent figured it out yet, its not infected our really red, and its on its way to healing. Im a little worried about getting a keloid (Keloids are scar tissue that forms because the body over-defends itself as a result of trauma or surgical incisions..its a hard shiny bump, and can only be removed with surgery.)

So, for anyone that is thinking about getting it done, if you have thought about it, researched it and have taken in all the risks about how it could get infected and leave a nasty scar, and you stillllll want to do it yourself; go ahead! Its your lip, But it would probably be smarter to do it professionally.

~<3