So this whole experience happened about the last day of summer school. At around 12.30 A.M. summer school finally ended. I have been wanting to pierce my lip for about a month since regular school ended and I had already bought some jewelery and a needle from a website.
At A Glance Author Andy Contact Andy@bme.anon When A month ago Artist Andy Studio Andy's Bathroom Right after I had skated back home i knocked on the door and it turned out that nobody was there, so I had to take the spring out of my room's window and clime in like some sord off thief. So after I climbed in I started watching TV. and I remember that I told my self that I was going to pierce my lip. So I remember reading some where that you should eat some thing before so it wouldn't get infected so since I had been taking cooking classes I made myself an angus steak burger, one of my favorite foods.
After tenderizing the meat with my fist and putting some steak sauce on it I heated the buns and then fried up the steak. So I started eating and then after I finished I went into my drawers to get all the jeweler and the needle so right after I got the supplies I went into my bathroom and I got some alcohol and I tried my best to sterilize the needle and after doing my best to sterilize the needle I sterilized the retainer thing that I was going to put instead of a captive bead ring I had since that one was straight it would have been easier to put on since the only experience ive had before in piercing was doing my left and right earlobes.
Since nobody was going to be there for a couple of hours I decided to smoke up maybe just one or two bowls of bud I had just to relax me. After toking up I went into the bathroom a little mellowed out. So I picked up the needle and I never realized that it was that big since I ordered it 12 gauge since the retainer was suppose to be 14 gauge (which looked more like it was 16 gauge) I put it into the opposite end of the needle so it wouldn't hurt my fingers when I pushed it through. After I just poked my lip with the needle realized that it was gonna hurt more that I thought so I went into the kitchen to go into the fridge and got some ice. I put the ice on my lip and held it there for about a minute until I couldn't feel it any more. After I poked the needle on my numb lip I realized that it would probably hurt a little less if I did it while my lip wasn't freezing.
The smaller pain I would have felt while it was numb would be more psychological pain instead of doing it with out numbing it that would be more physical pain that for some reason I could block out. After waiting a while for my lip to regain it normal thing I picked a good spot to pierce it and then I picked up the needle and as I was doing it I decided to turn on the radio to calm me down because the bud didn't work. Alright now im listening to KROQ and im looking at myself in the mirror while still buzzed holding a needle with a damn retainer in it and I realized just how stupid I was considering doing the procedure myself.
So after having my realization I put the needle up to my lip and I started to force it in my lip and after getting it in about 1/8 of the way in I pulled it out and I was bleeding slightly. So I decided to not do it today and just wait for tomorrow. I also realized that I couldn't feel my left side of my lip as much as my right side and that I could bite it and it wouldn't hurt as much as the other side so0 that sord of freaked me out. After a day passes it around 10 in the night and I remember tat I was gonna do my lip today. So I remember I left all the things in the bathroom so I resterilezed everything and I turned on the radio again. After I got the courage and realized how cool it was gonna look I put the needle to just on the side of where the scab was from the other day .
I told my self I am going to do this and I started pushing it through and I heard that popping sound u always hear when u penetrate the skin (I love that noise!!!!!) after that I just started to shove the needle in slowly and then at about half way I started to look at my eyes in the mirror and tell myself "im gonna do this" after that I just took a big breath and forced it in and could feel the tip of the needle with my tongue so I finale did it and I then realized that I didn't do it straight so after that I just told my self that it doesn't matter so I left the retainer in and lived happily ever after ... until my parents found out....
So after they found out I relized that it was infected and red and ugly. So had to take horrible tasting antibiotics and get yelled at by my parents so I relized that it was a bad mistake and I will never do it again. So this is a waring to all you self piercers : DON'T DO IT.