felicefawn:

About an hour ago I finally plucked up the courage to split my gum webbing and re-pierce my philtrum. Even as it is now,  I’m so happy with how it looks. I’ll be sure to take some photos of it once it’s healed and I’ve got my new jewelry in it. ^_^

Oh look, a Tumblr famous person essentially telling all her followers that ‘HEY IT’S OKAY TO SLICE YOUR OWN MOUTH OPEN AND PIERCE YOURSELF’.

Newsflash guys. The girl above is an idiot. Don’t do it. You’re better than that. I mean really, practically performing a frenectomy on yourself when it has to be done in sterile conditions as the risk of infection is so high? And then going an piercing right next to it?

Why don’t people with so called ‘fame’ do something fucking good with it.

felicefawn:

Just ordered all the equipment for my medusa piercing. I’ll be piercing at 16g and then downsizing to 18g jewelry when it’s healed, so even if I don’t decide to keep it long term, it won’t leave much more of a scar than I already have from my previous one. The only thing I’m not really looking forward to is having to cut my gum webbing with a scalpel prior to the procedure, as mine is so big that it didn’t allow room for my last one to sit correctly. It will be worth the pain though. ^_^

Felice Fawn has a huge cult internet following. This is basically saying ‘OI KIDS, IT’S OKAY TO DO THIS’, when it’s obviously not.

Also, you should never need to perform a frenectomy for a philtrum piercing, angles can help it sit just fine, but considering it’s a self pierce from someone with no training it wouldn’t happen.

Also. 18g. That’s 1mm across. That is no way NEAR big enough to make a good enough ‘anchor’ on the hole. It’s just screaming for a cheesewire effect and having it ripped all over the place.

TL;DR: Idiot Tumblr Famous Girl is Idiot.

because-austincarlileisperfect:

My ears absolutely refuse to stretch up from a 2 to a 0.

I’m gonna murder someone.

It’s been 2 months now, and I’ve tried 3 times.

I’m so beyond tired of waiting.

You’re forgetting the almighty, magical and mystical 1g or 7mm. These can easily be bought from your local reputable piercing shop, or online at www.bodyartforms.com. A 2mm jump is too big for all ears, which is why your ears won’t stretch, despite waiting a good amount of time. Buy something single flared, in titanium, surgical steel or glass, and you should be good to go!

awfulmodifications: fangs-: Self pierced my 3rd lobe yay. Can’t believe I did it myself. Fuck yeah ~ Because idiot’s gunna idiot. What’s awful: TERRIBLE initial jewellery, poor quality, butterfly backed (perfect for trapping nasties against the new healing piercing), and that it was self pierced by a clearly non-professional in non-professional means with non-professional equipment. Shoving a dirty needle through your lobes? Not cool. Modification: You do it right, or not at all.
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fangs-:

Self pierced my 3rd lobe yay. Can’t believe I did it myself. Fuck yeah ~

Because idiot’s gunna idiot.

What’s awful: TERRIBLE initial jewellery, poor quality, butterfly backed (perfect for trapping nasties against the new healing piercing), and that it was self pierced by a clearly non-professional in non-professional means with non-professional equipment. Shoving a dirty needle through your lobes? Not cool.

Modification: You do it right, or not at all.

Source: fangs-

The story of my belly piercing

ir0ncunt:

LET ME START OFF BY SAYING THAT I DO NOT PROMOTE DIY PIERCING.

Ok.

Back when I was 15 and stupid, I thought it would be a smart idea to pierce my belly button- not professionally of course, but by myself.
I used a safety pin that I fooled myself into thinking that I had sterilized it.  
Once I had managed to pierce it after a few painful hours of slowly trying to do it, I bled about 3 litres blood and almost passed out.
I kept the safety pin in there for about a week, and it quickly became infected and looked as if it were rejecting - so I took it out.  

As you can see from this photo- that little scar next to the top ball is where I had first pierced it, I’m almost 18 years old and I still have this scar.
After that I would re-pierce it all the time and not insert any jewellery, because I didn’t own any proper bars. 

It got to a point where I was dared to do it at school and someone had bought me the jewellery if I managed to not pussy out, mind you the jewellery wasn’t even a long bar for swelling. So I did it, after icing my stomach for an hour, I pierced it and bled everywhere. Of course the bar didn’t fit, It was too big for such a small hole. So I put in this copper wire - not even remembering that I have sensitive skin and am allergic to anything that isn’t pure metals. After I had stretched it with the wire I put in a small lip bar. Yes, a lip bar. It quickly got infected, and the hole swelled over the bar and sealed it with the infection. For obvious reasons- I panicked. I couldn’t get the bar out, and my whole stomach broke out into a red itching and oozing rash. I went to my school nurse and asked her to remove it, she couldnt because the hole had swallowed up the whole bar. She said that I’d have to get it surgically removed or else I’d go septic. I went back to class and tried to clean out the infection and cut down to where the bar was and I and blood came pouring out, excusing myself from class I ran back to the nurse and she put on her gloves and yanked it out the opposite way (ball part was pulled through through the whole piercing). She gave me wipes and referred me to a doctor, I was excited. I put in the actual navel jewellery, that was too short for swelling, and left it in there. The infection quickly subsided after days of carefully looking after it and cleaning it.

All I have to prove from this story, are some nice abscesses, a wonky belly ring, and a mint scar. 

Don’t do this at home please, don’t be stupid 15 year-old me.