Ok. I got my first piercing at age of 14. But that's not the story today.
At A Glance Author alphadyte Contact purity3d@yahoo.com When Two years ago Artist myself Studio at home Location lima - peru A couple of years ago when I saw a blink182 video I just loved Tom's lip ring. So I remember asking my mom if I could get one like that and she said no (as usual), she said I had enough already (nose and eyebrow) I didn't have money. And I was so crazy about getting one and couldn't wait. So I decided doing it myself. Yeah, wrong choice, but I was a teen (still am) and I wanted it so bad! Plus I had done another piercing myself before, so that didn't stop me.
Then I used to poke my lip with a needle but never really did it. I saw those little blood veins inside my mouth in the walls of the lip and freaked out. I knew that stuff was dangerous so I tried to find a 'spot' between veins so that I wouldn't bleed or get hurt, so I finally found one.
I sat there with a needle. Not a sewing needle. But a syringe needle. The thick ones, with a little hole. At that time I was living in Peru so you could get one easily. Then I got come napkins, rubbing alcohol, and a ring (a sterling silver one) yeah BAD CHOICE, DUH! . But as I said I didn't have any money so I just went on and did it.
I took the needle and started pushing it; the hardest part is getting the needle to come out to the other side, damn that hurts. So I kept pushing it and I knew I couldn't take it out, it was the risk of bleeding and screwing everything up. So I was halfway there and kept going. Finally. I saw it coming out and pushed it as much as I could, I couldn't believe it! It didn't hurt much. It was just like biting yourself, so then I got the ring and there was this little broach so put it inside the little hole in the needle, and pulled the needle, leaving the ring inside. It wasn't a lot of work, but I was so nervous.
I was so happy! It was swollen and it hurt a little bit. And loved to play with my tongue and my piercing. The next morning I had an overnight marathon in a cyber café with some friends. Yeah and the last thing we did was get online (laugh out loud) so anyway, I stopped a little bit and went to a site about aftercare and found out that I shouldn't be playing with it or touching it, but I couldn't help it, it hurt but at the same time it was a tickling feeling, it felt really good. I also read about putting salt on it and having ice pops (that was the best part)
After a couple of days it wasn't swollen anymore and everything was fine.
But wait. You haven't read the best part yet -_- (or the worse)
After a month, there was a little bump next to my hole, and the skin had closed and couldn't move my ring. Even though I tried a lot I couldn't get it to move, and the bump was still there, after some months I went back to Peru for vacation and a friend told me I should put (I don't remember the name) but I was a little bar that they sold at drug stores, the bar had like a silverfish cream on it, it was some thing derivate from silver. I never thought it would work, so I put a lot of it over the bump and the hole. The next day I woke up, and it was red and irritated. I didn't know what to do, that silver thing dried my skin to the fullest, it was sore and everything. After some days a little scab grew over it, it was so gross and I was embarrassed of going out. It kept like that for a couple of months, then it healed and the bump appeared again, and I did the silver thing again, then I tried healing it with some anti septic and creams to reconstruct skin. Finally I fixed it but I spent almost all last year trying to heal it. Once I disappeared that bump, I changed of piercing, I got a surgical steel one.
Now my piercing is alright but I had to go through all that, my advice: don't get too rushed about getting a piercing, sometimes it turns out well, sometimes not, what makes you think this won't happen to you? I know, I know the feeling of wanting the surgical steel on you but sometimes you got to think before you go and do it. And most important, give it some aftercare (which I didn't do) good luck.