At A Glance
Author	Donald
Contact	Donald@bme.anon
When	A week ago
Artist	Myself
Location	Canada

Before I did my labret I hadn't really thought about facial piercing. There was a time when I was 13 when I thought getting my eyebrow pierced would be the greatest thing that happened since radio was free, but because I have sane parents, they didn't let me. Besides that, I had never really thought about any facial modification. Satisfied, I thought, since last year when I pierced my nipple, I didn't really think I'd be getting anything else done any time soon.

Which brings me to the spontaneity of it. My girlfriend and I had been wandering about Toronto for a few hours, checking out leather / fetish stores when we passed a random store that had some glass smoking pieces in a display case that caught my eye. Amongst them were a few flat backed studs and large gauge rings for stretched lobes. We walked past and I began thinking about the studs, I've always been a fan of body modding and appreciated it's beauty even if I didn't practice that heavily, and I started to ponder going back and getting one, just in case I decided I needed to pierce something that I couldn't put a barbell or ring through afterwards. We kept walking then suddenly I thought, "Labret, I want it." And yeah, I'm very impulsive so simple as that we walked back and I purchased a stud with a little spike on the end that I thought looked cuter than the ball variant.

When I finally got I told my mom about my small purchase and told her I was probably going to pierce it at some point during the next few days she kind of scoffed and told me either way it was my body.

Later while I was sitting in my Bunkie, just chilling, listening to music, and thinking about the stud, I decided right now was the time to do it. So I collected my supplies, which amounts to a slightly thicker than average needle, and set it on a paper towel and set about cleaning and sterilizing it.

I'd like to say right now that I'm a bit more well researched then the, sadly, average DIY'er with a safety pin and patience. And knew pretty much everything I needed to know about the actual procedure and aftercare before I started. So I was going into this prepared. I hoped.

So anyways, I cleaned and marked my spot while thinking about what it would feel like, I cut myself to cope with depression and the pain that I would or wouldn't feel with a lip piercing momentarily interested me.

I started inserting the needle, pulling my lip out and starting from the outside. I felt a slight pinch that was really concentrated as I pushed the needle in. I kept pushing thinking that the needle was just pushing against and not going though when the needle came through the other side with an abnormally loud pop. I was surprised, I had felt almost no pain, and what I did feel could almost not even be classified as such.

I put the stud in and rinsed my mouth out with salt water while cleaning the outside area again.

Since that point, which was really only like, a week ago. I've been meticulously cleaning it. For the first 2 days my lip was swollen and my bottom gum was kind of irritated. But the irritation went away, and my lip's swelling has gone down too. I also had a bit of a problem relearning how to chew food with a tiny metal circle in my mouth, which wasn't that hard.

And yeah, I'm still meticulously cleaning it whenever I do anything oral related, like smoking or eating, and I am quite happy with my impulsive choice in retrospect. The only thing that kind of bummed me out was a recommendation that I read in an aftercare article that said I should avoid oral sex, which included kissing, for a month afterwards. I'm sorry, but I don't think I could go a day without kissing my girlfriend, so I'll have to be careful with that, but beside that I've pretty much fallen in love with it. Plus my parents were fine with it. Which just made it that much more painless, although I doubted they would be bothered. My mom did make a bit of a face when I was describing the piercing process to her. But that was just amusing.

I think my labret piercing pretties up my face in a way I wouldn't have thought of doing normally. I'd recommend anyone thinking of getting their labret done to do it if they thought it was the right choice. It's relatively painless, cute, and it's just a great piercing to have. Plus it's awesome if you have an oral fixation, like myself, and love playing with / tonguing things. :)

Here is a photo of my piercing, I apologize for the inherent bad quality of a webcam image, but I left my camera at a friend's house a while ago and still haven't picked it up.

Happy Modding :D