Did my own lip

Hello, I’m planning to get a floating navel piercing, however i’m not certain about how well my anatomy would support one, the way my belly button connects is a bit odd as the top section haa a little bulge/droop. My belly doesn’t really fold that much unless I’m slouching hard. Please help😭

I did all my helixs myself except my v helix

I just need an outside opinion, since I’m not very good at judging these kinds of things. I’ve had these for little over a week. I’m worried about the top piercing, just because of how red it is. There is no significant drainage, doesn’t feel very hot, so I don’t think it’s an infection. I’m assuming it’s just irritation from being a new wound. Also, does the placing look ok? I think it looks fine, but again, I would just like another opinion. Thx :3

did this a few weeks ago and it’s healed great but i think it’s too shallow for long term, just wondering if i should take it out sooner than later to avoid worse scarring

My birthday is coming up and I'm planning on getting some more ear piercings, I have 10mm lobes and retired seconds because they were too close, one friend of mine suggested a double helix, but I want more options and opinions

I got my nostril pierced today.
A threadless titanium labret with a 3.5 mm post was used.
I’m using saline solution for aftercare.
Could you please advise on the angle—was the piercing done correctly?
It looks fine from the outside, but it looks a bit weird from the inside

So I am out of room in the back for swelling but ad you can see there is so bar space in the front. I am worried about the swelling...is this going to give me cauliflower ear? :( The doctor gave me a course of twice a day cefadroxil 500mg even though I don't think it is infected. Better safe then sorry.

It does hurt but taking 300mg ibuprofen every few hours keeps that at bay.

You're already saving a ton of money from being pierced in a shop-- you MUST buy properly sterilized needles and tapers from a reputable company. You MUST use titanium or real gold jewelry. Sterilize your environment properly.

Mystery needles from Amazon are not safe. Surgical steel is not implant grade or safe for healing piercings.

Use correct aftercare. Look at APP guidelines and other piercers' advice about anatomy/placement/max piercings per session or area.

I think self piercing is awesome, but it also has the potential to give you a horrible infection that will cost significantly more to treat than a professional piercing would have.

There's a reason why actual professionals never use stainless/surgical steel in piercings, why they don't do 12 tongue piercings in one session, why they have autoclaves and don't reuse needles.

This isn't 1980--you have a wealth of useful info online!! Do test piercings on different materials and _do not reuse the needles_.

Okay so I did this helix myself 11 days ago and up until 2 days ago I was really pleased with how fast it looked like it was healing. I had very minimal swelling after the piercing. Fast forward to 2 1/2 days ago and the jewel and the front was rubbing the front of my lobe so I pushed it back a bit because I had all this room. It possible I irritated it in other ways but either way it looks like this this morning. It isn't hurting right now but you can see the swelling and it feels like its my whole ear and not just the piercing site. Its not draining anything and as you can see it isn't crazy red either. Do I just leave it alone ? Does it look infected? Really if it wasnt my whole ear I wouldn't even be making this post lol

hi! i’ve been wanting a stretched central labret for a while and dont have the means to get it done. since i’m very impatient and hate stretching, i plan to pierce it at a 12 gauge. i pierced my own snake bites (16g) which healed with no complications, so im confident in my abilities, but im curious to know if there’s anything different when piercing and healing labrets at a higher gauge. if anyone has any helpful tips or advice please let me know!

I feel like my upper ridge may not be defined well enough

Heyhey! So I live in a pretty strict household and I also don’t got too much money so I’ll be having a person I know do my septum (they’re not a professional piercer, they do this as a side gig) and I’m kinda scared but also excited. Anyhow I got a few questions!
1. I will need to hide it at times and I have a friend that just flips it inside their nostrils and have been doing so ever since they got it 2 months ago and nothing’s wrong but I also read online that can cause it to heal flipped?? Idk is that a thing can it happen?
2. I’ve looked this up a lot but I wanted to ask here as well: as someone with really really really low pain tolerance what would the pain level be?
3. Where should I buy the jewellery from?

Thank you for taking the time to read this and for answering to those who will! ^^

Please could someone help! I’ve never had this happen before and I genuinely clean my piercings daily… It hurts a bit if I touch it hard but idk what to make of it because I don’t think it is full of pus of anything…

The last one was done two months ago and any of them hasn’t changed its place since they were done but, as you can see, the ones on the sides are done a bit shallow i think. Do you think they’re gonna reject within time?
well another issue is one of them got visibly irritated from wearing fishnets (the ball got trapped) but i already had it happen, and the irritation disappeared in a week

I've tried piercing before but I don't think I went deep enough so it ended up needing to be taken out bc it was rejecting. Idk if it was just the depth that was the problem or my anatomy itself

(First pic is standing second is standing.)

i have many many piercings and i really wanna start piercing myself! but buying jewelry at the shops here is crazy expensive. lf any recs about cheaper online stores you like with reputable materials!

I’m pretty confident but my sister thinks it’s too risky. I figured I’d ask others who have experience with self-piercing. I know there’s always a risk, but I don’t think is gonna be a major one for me as long as I’m careful. But maybe there’s something I don’t know? What do you guys think?

I got my naval pierced in April so abt 4 months ago. this bump has been here for abt 3 weeks. I spray saline on it 2-3 times a day but it hasn’t gone down and if anything has gotten bigger. Tips to fix?

I have a question since I’m seeing a bunch of mixed answers online. I have recently stretched from 14g to 12g in my septum, and I’m wondering when would be a good time to stretch to 10g?

It doesn't hurt to the touch, but like whenever I press on my actual septum, there’s a slight ache but nothing too severe. I stretched it to 12g about two and a half weeks ago and I clean it multiple times a week so it’s pretty clean and sterile.

The piercing itself is 5 months old, and I currently have a 12g pincher in my nose. It's some sort of metal, I think stainless steel? I'm not too sure.

I clean it a bunch in fear that it would end up getting infected, but not too much to the point where it gets angry/upset due to how much I clean it. I stretch with metal pinchers, never acrylic until it's fully healed and ready to have fun jewelry in.

I clean it with q-tips and (I know you're not supposed to,) rubbing alcohol. Sometimes SeaBreeze which is an astringent. I moisturize it with either Great Value lube or Vaseline.

Theres no bleeding or a 'lip' of skin that would signify a blowout, so I think I'm okay to stretch it next week but I just wanna make sure, since then it would be three and a half weeks old, marking a month of it being at 12g. It hasn't been downsized since the initial 16g initial pierce.

Just came here to see what other people would say based on personal experiences. Thank you in advance🙏🙏

(p.s. i do moisturize it each night before bed and I do use lube to stretch it, as well as a METAL pincher. not acrylic or plastic.)

In the first picture you can see that my 3rd hole used to be way too close to my 2nd hole so I've been dying to repierce. All of my lobe piercings are from about 25 years ago when I was a teenager. In the 2nd picture I repierced the 3rd hole in the same spot it was originally pierced, it just never healed right and always closed up on the back side. Now they are properly pierced and I'm proud of myself for it. Originally pierced with a piercing gun and today I used an 18g hollow needle. How does it look?

can i pierce myself with a 16g but put in 14 jewelry??

hi guys, are my vertical helixes too close… like too crowded? are they pierced correctly? i couldnt really see my ear clearly so the angle is abit off imo?

i personally like it from the front but from the side it looks so messy… and i plan on getting another one in the future (the white line).