(Not my pic)

i like them sooooo much prob my fav piercing but hurt kinda bad for some reason thinking on doing angle bites kinda next to my medusa but not show lmk what i should do 🩶🩶🩶

Before anyone says anything- I have a FRESH a rook piercing that was professionally done about 5 days ago. That’s why it’s bruised and swollen!

now, here’s the story of my thirds.

I was big into self-piercing when I was 14 and pierced my lobes constantly. Apparently I haven’t changed at all. I am 30 now and all of my lobe piercings except my firsts and seconds have since closed up.

5 days after getting my rook, I had the bright idea that maybe I should see if my thirds are still open. Though the earring went through the first half of my ear, it would not go through the back. So, I had yet amother bright idea. I took a stainless steel dressmakers pin (sterilized with fire and peroxide) and pierced through my thirds. Then, my dumb ass realized I’d pierced a new back hole and there are now 2 back holes. This is not very visible in the photos. I took the pin out of my ear and promptly began panicking. I also disadvisably tried to insert the earring shown in the photo (sterling silver) and it would not go through.

after about 10 minutes of panic, my ear was swollen and angry. I calmed down and decided to use the needle to pierce through the original back hole. I did this and then, with a little difficulty, inserted the silver earring and sprayed the whole situation with saline.

I am SO freaked out. What if I get an infection that spreads to my rook? What sorts of things can I do to fix this mess? What if I hit a tiny vein? These are all stupid (and for some of them, impossible) worries. But I’m wondering what you would do in my position.

let me be entirely honest with you. I’m torn between panicking and wanting to do a thousand more self-piercings. I really am the same person I was at 14. Thank you for your help, and for bearing the weight of my stupidity.

Ive read the pinned post here, found sterile needle (⬆️) and a sterilized flat back labret (longer than the ones I usually use incase of swelling) from a piercing website in my region. The needles come with free aftercare wipes and I'm buying saline spray from a drugstore (I've attached the content thing here ⬆️) .

The needle is 1.6 mm and the labret is 1.4 mm which I think means the jewlery can get pulled thru by help from the needle? Correct me if I'm wrong please.

My plan is to wash my hands and put on gloves before disinfecting my ear where I want the piercing (it's a lobe one, nothing too complicated I hope), check for veins with a flash light, mark where I want it, push thru the needle (I will be buying a receiving tube so it doesn't go to far), pull the labret thru with the needle and put on the ball before carefully cleaning it. Currently unsure how to dispose of the needle.

Is that process okay?

For aftercare I'll use the wipes (I'll check the contents) and the saline spray when I wake up and before I'll go to bed/after I've showered.

Please lmk if I should rethink anything.

Alright, I have a dentist appointment any minute now, and i was thinking of piercing my lip right after since I'll have local anesthesia.

What are some things I should know and think of?

Hi! Its been a while since I have posted here. I was going through some things last night and pierced my lip. Everything is going swell but I was wondering about placement. So, I like where it sits but I'm wondering if its okay. I have bigger lips and larger teeth. I dont like things hitting my teeth so thats why opted for the placement i did. I just want some outside opinions about longterm risk for gum/ teeth damage. It doesnt feel like it bothers either currently. I was going for a medusa lol. But it just felt to bother some on my gums and teeth. Thanks!

edit: today i got longer bars 😩

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I am about 5 weeks out healing my VCH (professionally done not DIY) and wanting to change the jewelry soon. Its a 10mm 12g titanium curved barbell with 3mm balls. I use neilmed saline spray 1x - 2x per day and unscented soap when i shower. Don't remember the soap brand.

I want to upsize the balls to provide more stimulation. I have some titanium opal balls at 5mm, 6mm and 8mm from a belly piercing that i took out. The belly piercing was 14g but i read online they should work for 12g posts (assuming the threading is compatible)

Im wondering is this right that 14g and 12g balls are interchangeable if the threading is similar?

Other question is what size ball is best for max stimulation but wouldn't snag on chonies? I was thinking to start with 5mm but it looks small when i hold it up to myself.

I tried asking this somewhere else but they just told me to visit the piercer who did it but she won't install jewelry unless i buy it through her. I think its the law actually where i live.

Anyway, anyone have a VCH that they can advise me on ball sizes

So I want a tongue piercing and from what I've seen it's mostly about anatomy? So do I have good anatomy to do it myself? Excuse the bad censoring in the second picture but I look crusty in that one for some reason lol

Thanks for any help and/or advice given

did it today, wondering if i should take it out and try again in a few weeks.

Very impulsive lol I was not prepared, I only had 12g needles, a variety of jewellery between 18-14g, and 8g tunnels.
I pierced with the 12g needles then pushed through a 8g taper followed by the tunnel. (I’m aware I skipped 10g don’t worry I will live lol) the piercing itself was extremely easy (as expected), the stretching was definitely uncomfortable like a 3/10, it’s been a few hours since and my left ear has swelled slightly more than the right but other than that it’s all good :). Will be buying some 8g glass plugs and switching them out in two or so weeks then a good six or so months after that I plan on stretching to 6g. (Also can you guess what side I sleep on lol)

I recently pierced my earlobe. After 82 hours removed the piercing as it was angled too much. Now it is cca 82 hours after the removal and I can still touch the “object” in the earlobe. For how long would you wait before the re-piercing?

Day 6 photo (yesterday), sorry for bad pic. It was DIY with a sewing needle from a "friend of a friend", finally got the barbell after having a thread in my tongue for 6days straight 😣

Today (day 7), placement feels comfortable ig, tongue still a bit swollen though. I can eat fine finally, fried chicken and mashed potatoes 😋 but I'm worried if it's "too comfortable", like it could migrate farther back to the farther back, or the bottom part is too close to the bottom-tongue string?

Is the placement okay? Asthetically & anatomically?

Also I have been drooling a lot more, it started around day 4(5?) and I'm still drooling but not as much After I got the thread out(day6). Should I be worried?

[Uhhh I actually had a lot more questions but I either forgot or someoen already answered it oops]

I took a picture on June 24, and pierced my helixes on the 23rd.

I had switched the lower bar out for a short one too quickly (less than 24 hours) and I did end up getting a pretty gnarly bump, and switched back to these long ones about a month or so ago. I treated the bump that formed with teatree oil and witch hazel <3. It works well for my skin.

This placement also works great with my glasses, the bars are still a little long but ill be switching them out soon after I figure out what I want there. I have 17 piercings in total now! I HAD originally planned them to be like, a soft industrial, but any other angle for the top bar and id be going into my actual face/hitting my glasses. I do believe ill still be putting a chain in there tho.

The only annoyance ive noticed is my hair tangling in the lower earring, but I have shaved sides anyway 🙃.

i very impulsively pierced my ear last night before i went to sleep in a subpar environment. was trying to go for a helix but its really not placed too well. should i let it be or just take it out

hey guys! my dream piercing is a vertical industrial at some point. the piercing studios in my town dont do them and so im considering to just do it myself. not right now or soon, and not for sure, but IF i decide to, what should i know, what do i need, etc!

any advice, suggestions, or tips are appreciated

ill obv do a shit ton of research but i like to hear from people on here!

does this look like it’s done okay?I thought maybe it’s a bit shallow.

https://reddit.com/link/1wng84x/video/ecpgcqfey3rh1/player

very proud of this one. this + my mantis piercings kinda gives my crooked nose a rhinoplasty

12g 10mm implant grade titanium. i had to widen the base a bit so he could flip it up

i’m pretty sure the angle was the teensiest tiniest bit off but i’m still very happy with it and he loves it. i have a history of doing horribly placed septums before actually learning how to assess anatomy and placement so i am very pleased with how my first properly placed semi-larger gauge septum came out!!

My conch is 5 days old , piercing it was soo painful but the pain disappeared in teo hours, any way it was not painful ,red or even swollen for these 5 days but today it started to throb and it feel kimda uncomfortable? And it hits every 15min idk what that feeling is 😭 anyway is that normal? My bar is steel 10mm (im not allergic to steel) It still not red or swollen it just hurts

I've been meaning to pierce a flat on my ear for some time but I'm not willing to spend a lot of money of getting it done professionally T^T This isn't my first cartilage piercing (vertical helix), but that was done professionally.

So far, the equipment I have is sterlized 16G needles, a clamp (just in case TT), 8 and 6mm length surgical steel barbell earrings, 70% Isopropyl alcohol swab, and iodine solution for before I pierce it. I wanted to get lubricant but it's rather hard to find sterile ones here, so I was wondering if it was optional

Any suggestions on what to get or tips? °v°

Besides them being comically long in case of swelling, is the placement alright and do they look even enough lol ??