Once upon a time
I thought this was a great idea. But I wasn't going to go to some overpriced piercing emporium, no. I shall do it myself.

So I got together my specialist equipment. Namely your average sewing needle, and a bar that had previously been through my tongue.

After some pain relief (spliff) I managed to get the needle under the skin between my knuckle. This was the easy bit. The next trick is to wiggle the needle under your skin until a suitable exit point has been found. To do this, poke the needle up so that you can see it pushing against the inside if skin.

Painfully force what is actually a very blunt spike through skin from the underneath. Remember that you have forgotten about sterilisation.

Use the thicker 'eye' of the needle, having pushed it through, and twiddle it around to stretch the hole.

Realise bar is thicker than needle. By a long chalk.

Remember that bar has a thread, and can therefore logically be screwed in. Do this.

Realise that you have to screw it out the other side too.

Finish.


Take out 4 days later with an explosion of green pus, after realising that the swelling has rendered you unable to bend hand.

Still have the scar.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 14:29, 7 replies)

You seem
Like such a nice girl in person...
( Cawl, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 14:35, closed)

Self piercing seems so simple when you think about it.
But as I was in my early thirties when I started getting into peircing, I've been far too sensible to try it. Plus hand peircings do look cool but a bugger to keep free from knocks and other mishaps.
( girlinthehole, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 14:38, closed)

One day
I'll show you all the tattoo I did after watching Memento.

"To see if it would work"

Duh.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 14:48, closed)

ewww....
My friend did her own belly button and that too was abandoned after it started to leak puss. My brother also had a crack at piercing his nipple with only a bit of ice to anaesthetise the pain. The whole thing was an unqualified success, but he later decided it was sending out the wrong message.
(The Archduke of South London I'm in your Girlfriend eating her organs, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 14:52, closed)

owwwwwwwwwww.
I'm never touching a needle again!
( Maladicta, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 15:00, closed)

How much do I want to hear the tattoo story now?
This, by the way, is toe-curlingly brilliant.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 15:02, closed)

Nice.
Classy, like.
(woodkat loves comic sans, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 16:26, closed)