Submitter comment: Because almost the only things I watch on youtube are things found here, youtube likes to suggest piercing videos for me. I decided to click this one for funsies… Oh dear.

What’s awful: Jewelry types for surface piercings are incorrect (should not be just using a 90degree barbell, but one with TRUE 90degree “bends” from anatometal or IS), CBRs in attempt at permanent corset piercing (If you’re going to try a permanent corset piercing, you should use surface anchors and change the ends on them when fully healed), general misinformation.

How it can be fixed: Just take it all out, stop picking at your piercings (I know, it’s hard, but…), and find a better piercer. 

I could give her some slack if this were posted to youtube like 5 years ago, but it was posted in Jan 2012 and there is no excuse for that amount of misinformation.

The awful mods blog is the dumbest piece of shit blog I’ve ever seen.

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It concerns us because we’re professionals and don’t want to see idiots running around ruining their bodies, because we’ll then have to fix their idiotic mistakes. We write guides, tell people how to stretch correctly, answer 400 questions a day to try and help people and bring correct modification practices, to the masses. Which we’ve done.

And calling plugs ‘gauges’ is NOTHING like calling sexual intercourse ‘sex’. It’s like calling plugs ‘plu’.

Your argument holds less water than a faulty sieve.

The In Depth Stretching Guide.

awfulmodifications:

In depth stretching guide.

What you need: KY Jelly (or another skin safe water based lubricant), correct jewellery, bondage tape, BioOil (or another oil like jojoba, vitamin e or emu oil), a lot of patience and a lot of time.

Let’s start off. Your ears. They should have been pierced for a minimum of 6-9 months before you begin stretching. You should also know what gauge they were pierced at. For the purpose of this guide, I’ll assume they are pierced at 16g (1.2mm).

Starting out: Get some 1.6mm internally threaded jewellery. It can be a labret, barbell, septum keeper. Massage your ear whilst bathing/showering, and cover the jewellery, and the front of your lobe with the lube. Slowly, push the jewellery through. If you meet any resistance, stop, wait a week (whilst massaging daily) and try again. Congratulations, you’ve made your first foray into the world of stretching!

Now, you want to wait a month,  and get some 2mm/12g jewellery. Make sure, it has to be internally threaded/not threaded. Repeat the process again, remember. Any pain, stop, and wait a week whilst massaging your lobes daily. Continue through 2.4mm/10g to 3mm/8g.

Now, we’re up at 3.2mm/8g. It should have taken you three months to get here. Now we want to start taping. You want to get some surgical steel/titanium plugs (or tunnels, your choice!). Lube your ears up, and pop them in. I say pop, but, make sure you do it slowly and carefully. As this is the first stretch up into ‘larger’ territory, you can use a taper. Now, the number one rule of stretching, tapers aren’t jewellery! Get the taper, and hold the larger end against the end of the plug. Make sure they line up. Lube them both up, as well as the piercing, and in one swift motion, push the taper through. As you have the plug lined up on the end of the taper, it’ll slide through into place. Try not to use acrylic tapers, as they have a very bad size gradient and often lead to tearing of the piercing fistula. So.  Now you have a nice 3.2mm stretch.

How do I start taping?! I hear you cry. Well. Here we go. Wait a week. Make sure the stretch is happy, healthy, and not sore in anyway. Carefully cut a strip of the bondage tape, and wrap one layer around the plug. You want to make sure it doesn’t overlap, as you just want one layer on the begin with. Cover the tape and plug in your chosen oil, and put it back in. Now, wait for another week, and do another tape wrap. And then one last time in another week. So, you’ve done three tape wraps in three weeks. Every other day, you want to remove the plug and cover it in oil again to make sure the tape doesn’t dry your lobes out.

Now, because you need to include every mm increment, you may find the most cost effective way of doing this, is using acrylic. As you should be aware, acrylic is terrible for stretched piercings. So, there’s a way around this. Instead of waiting a month before reaching the next g/mm, wait 5 weeks, and do one more tape wrap. This means, when you reach the next mm (ie 3mm to 4mm) you end up with a fraction over 4mm. This means, you can pop a new tape wrap over the new plug, preventing the acrylic from ever touching your ears.

Now, you’ll want to repeat this allll the way up (and I mean ALL THE WAY) up to your goal size. Never skip, never keep going if it hurts, and never use acrylic. Always lube and oil!

So, here it is in a nutshell (from 3mm)

1.       Insert the plug safely, using a taper. Wait a week.

2.       First tape wrap. Oil oil oil!

3.       Wait a week. Second tape wrap. What’s the magic word? OIL!

4.       Wait a week, third wrap. Oil.

5.       Wait a week, fourth and final tape wrap. Oil.

6.       Get the next plug size up (4mm in this case) and do one tape wrap.

7.       Then, insert the plug. Any resistance, stop, wait a week.

So, there we go! The seven step next size tape wrap method!

Any questions, just ask!

(C) Hayflick – Emily Armstrong.

____________________

Bringing this back because some people are still unaware we write guides by the bucket load.

love-mydarling:

awfulmodifications reblogged your post: I really want to pierce my medusa right now.

No, no it’s really…the potential infection, blood loss, nerve damage and extreme scar…

Lol, not really.

I’ve pierced my nose 5 times, angel bites twice, and my snake bites 3 times.

Never had a problem with them, they didn’t bleed, and the scarring is normal.

I’m not an idiot when it comes to self piercing. I’m aware of all risks, and do everything I can to avoid them.

If you really were aware of the risks, or at least cared about your health, you wouldn’t be doing it in the slightest.

The In Depth Stretching Guide.

awfulmodifications:

In depth stretching guide.

What you need: KY Jelly (or another skin safe water based lubricant), correct jewellery, bondage tape, BioOil (or another oil like jojoba, vitamin e or emu oil), a lot of patience and a lot of time.

Let’s start off. Your ears. They should have been pierced for a minimum of 6-9 months before you begin stretching. You should also know what gauge they were pierced at. For the purpose of this guide, I’ll assume they are pierced at 16g (1.2mm).

Starting out: Get some 1.6mm internally threaded jewellery. It can be a labret, barbell, septum keeper. Massage your ear whilst bathing/showering, and cover the jewellery, and the front of your lobe with the lube. Slowly, push the jewellery through. If you meet any resistance, stop, wait a week (whilst massaging daily) and try again. Congratulations, you’ve made your first foray into the world of stretching!

Now, you want to wait a month,  and get some 2mm/12g jewellery. Make sure, it has to be internally threaded/not threaded. Repeat the process again, remember. Any pain, stop, and wait a week whilst massaging your lobes daily. Continue through 2.4mm/10g to 3mm/8g.

Now, we’re up at 3.2mm/8g. It should have taken you three months to get here. Now we want to start taping. You want to get some surgical steel/titanium plugs (or tunnels, your choice!). Lube your ears up, and pop them in. I say pop, but, make sure you do it slowly and carefully. As this is the first stretch up into ‘larger’ territory, you can use a taper. Now, the number one rule of stretching, tapers aren’t jewellery! Get the taper, and hold the larger end against the end of the plug. Make sure they line up. Lube them both up, as well as the piercing, and in one swift motion, push the taper through. As you have the plug lined up on the end of the taper, it’ll slide through into place. Try not to use acrylic tapers, as they have a very bad size gradient and often lead to tearing of the piercing fistula. So.  Now you have a nice 3.2mm stretch.

How do I start taping?! I hear you cry. Well. Here we go. Wait a week. Make sure the stretch is happy, healthy, and not sore in anyway. Carefully cut a strip of the bondage tape, and wrap one layer around the plug. You want to make sure it doesn’t overlap, as you just want one layer on the begin with. Cover the tape and plug in your chosen oil, and put it back in. Now, wait for another week, and do another tape wrap. And then one last time in another week. So, you’ve done three tape wraps in three weeks. Every other day, you want to remove the plug and cover it in oil again to make sure the tape doesn’t dry your lobes out.

Now, because you need to include every mm increment, you may find the most cost effective way of doing this, is using acrylic. As you should be aware, acrylic is terrible for stretched piercings. So, there’s a way around this. Instead of waiting a month before reaching the next g/mm, wait 5 weeks, and do one more tape wrap. This means, when you reach the next mm (ie 3mm to 4mm) you end up with a fraction over 4mm. This means, you can pop a new tape wrap over the new plug, preventing the acrylic from ever touching your ears.

Now, you’ll want to repeat this allll the way up (and I mean ALL THE WAY) up to your goal size. Never skip, never keep going if it hurts, and never use acrylic. Always lube and oil!

So, here it is in a nutshell (from 3mm)

1.       Insert the plug safely, using a taper. Wait a week.

2.       First tape wrap. Oil oil oil!

3.       Wait a week. Second tape wrap. What’s the magic word? OIL!

4.       Wait a week, third wrap. Oil.

5.       Wait a week, fourth and final tape wrap. Oil.

6.       Get the next plug size up (4mm in this case) and do one tape wrap.

7.       Then, insert the plug. Any resistance, stop, wait a week.

So, there we go! The seven step next size tape wrap method!

Any questions, just ask!

(C) Hayflick – Emily Armstrong.

____________________

Bringing this back because some people are still unaware we write guides by the bucket load.

Interested in death, mortician workings, anything funeral related?

I’ve been studying to become a mortician (the body fascinates me) for almost a year now and I work in a funeral home when I’m not piercing people and I decided to make a blog about it! A lot of people are curious about what goes on after a death occurs, so ask any questions you have about death, funerals, cremation, the death industry, anything death related! If I can’t answer it on the spot, I will find out the answer.
(I’m not leaving awfulmods, I’ll still stick around and be an ass to the morons from time to time.)

Follow if you dare. Muah ha ha ha haaaa. >:) I JUST started it, so give me a few days to get it up and going steady.

-Miranda

http://mortuaryendeavors.tumblr.com

The In Depth Stretching Guide.

In depth stretching guide.

What you need: KY Jelly (or another skin safe water based lubricant), correct jewellery, bondage tape, BioOil (or another oil like jojoba, vitamin e or emu oil), a lot of patience and a lot of time.

Let’s start off. Your ears. They should have been pierced for a minimum of 6-9 months before you begin stretching. You should also know what gauge they were pierced at. For the purpose of this guide, I’ll assume they are pierced at 16g (1.2mm).

Starting out: Get some 1.6mm internally threaded jewellery. It can be a labret, barbell, septum keeper. Massage your ear whilst bathing/showering, and cover the jewellery, and the front of your lobe with the lube. Slowly, push the jewellery through. If you meet any resistance, stop, wait a week (whilst massaging daily) and try again. Congratulations, you’ve made your first foray into the world of stretching!

Now, you want to wait a month,  and get some 2mm/12g jewellery. Make sure, it has to be internally threaded/not threaded. Repeat the process again, remember. Any pain, stop, and wait a week whilst massaging your lobes daily. Continue through 2.4mm/10g to 3mm/8g.

Now, we’re up at 3.2mm/8g. It should have taken you three months to get here. Now we want to start taping. You want to get some surgical steel/titanium plugs (or tunnels, your choice!). Lube your ears up, and pop them in. I say pop, but, make sure you do it slowly and carefully. As this is the first stretch up into ‘larger’ territory, you can use a taper. Now, the number one rule of stretching, tapers aren’t jewellery! Get the taper, and hold the larger end against the end of the plug. Make sure they line up. Lube them both up, as well as the piercing, and in one swift motion, push the taper through. As you have the plug lined up on the end of the taper, it’ll slide through into place. Try not to use acrylic tapers, as they have a very bad size gradient and often lead to tearing of the piercing fistula. So.  Now you have a nice 3.2mm stretch.

How do I start taping?! I hear you cry. Well. Here we go. Wait a week. Make sure the stretch is happy, healthy, and not sore in anyway. Carefully cut a strip of the bondage tape, and wrap one layer around the plug. You want to make sure it doesn’t overlap, as you just want one layer on the begin with. Cover the tape and plug in your chosen oil, and put it back in. Now, wait for another week, and do another tape wrap. And then one last time in another week. So, you’ve done three tape wraps in three weeks. Every other day, you want to remove the plug and cover it in oil again to make sure the tape doesn’t dry your lobes out.

Now, because you need to include every mm increment, you may find the most cost effective way of doing this, is using acrylic. As you should be aware, acrylic is terrible for stretched piercings. So, there’s a way around this. Instead of waiting a month before reaching the next g/mm, wait 5 weeks, and do one more tape wrap. This means, when you reach the next mm (ie 3mm to 4mm) you end up with a fraction over 4mm. This means, you can pop a new tape wrap over the new plug, preventing the acrylic from ever touching your ears.

Now, you’ll want to repeat this allll the way up (and I mean ALL THE WAY) up to your goal size. Never skip, never keep going if it hurts, and never use acrylic. Always lube and oil!

So, here it is in a nutshell (from 3mm)

1.       Insert the plug safely, using a taper. Wait a week.

2.       First tape wrap. Oil oil oil!

3.       Wait a week. Second tape wrap. What’s the magic word? OIL!

4.       Wait a week, third wrap. Oil.

5.       Wait a week, fourth and final tape wrap. Oil.

6.       Get the next plug size up (4mm in this case) and do one tape wrap.

7.       Then, insert the plug. Any resistance, stop, wait a week.

So, there we go! The seven step next size tape wrap method!

Any questions, just ask!

(C) Hayflick – Emily Armstrong.

____________________

Bringing this back because some people are still unaware we write guides by the bucket load.