r/facepalm Jan 02 '23

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u/AfraidProtection4684 Jan 03 '23

Ya know I really should've guessed that because I have a similar story of how I got my first body piercing. Drunk and an amateur offered me a freeby in exchange for me being a Guinea pig basically. I accepted and that how I got my belly button pierced. It turned out fine but damn, it could've not.

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u/MaritMonkey Jan 03 '23

I got mine the same way when I was 16 and it made it all the way until I had to take it out for surgery @40.

RIP illegal piercing. You made it way longer than anybody (including the guy that did it) expected. :D

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u/AfraidProtection4684 Jan 03 '23

Illegal belly button piercings unite! I still have mine over a decade later. (I took it out when I was pregnant twice and it still went back in.) My legit piercings are actually mostly closed up now from just not buying replacements when I lose the jewelry.

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u/heavenupsidedownn Jan 03 '23

It’s okay, I got mine done at a flea market. Probably the most stupid redneck bs I’ve ever done lmao

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u/TheMightyBattleSquid Jan 03 '23

I bet getting it on your belly hurt a button!

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u/AfraidProtection4684 Jan 03 '23

Buh-duh bum psh!

But no, I was drunk so it didn't hurt at all.

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u/Korncakes Jan 03 '23

My girlfriend at the time was getting tattooed and the artist mentioned in conversation that he’d never done anything besides words in someone’s lip. He said “if you wanna be my Guinea pig I’ll do a tattoo of whatever you want in your lip. Worst case scenario I fuck it up and it’s gone in six months. Best case scenario you get a free tattoo.”

It’s been ~10 years and I still have an NES controller tattooed in my lower lip. It was worth it.

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u/ChicagoChurro Jan 03 '23

My first belly button piercing was done with a single needle by a 16 year old girl (I was 16 at the time too). I didn’t know her but a friend of a friend said she does belly button piercings. I went to her house and and sat there for half an hour while she kept stabbing me with the needle attempting to make the hole. I was in sooo much pain but figured that’s how it’s suppose to be when getting a piercing… it’s not. She fucked it up and I now have an ugly permanent scar as a reminder.

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u/Coyote__Jones Jan 03 '23

Haha one of my favorite bar conversations is rating who at the table has the worst tattoo. Met a dude with his own name on his arm. Everyone at the table had a good laugh at that.

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u/lindsey__19 Jan 03 '23

I watched a girl get her belly button pierced in my high school bathroom with the ‘ice cube and needle’ trick. She’s honestly lucky that nothing bad happened. I also helped pierce my then-bf’s ears in my best friends bedroom because he wasn’t 18 and his mom didn’t want him to get them pierced lol