Ive noticed quite alot of people not only on here but who come into my work with there DIY piercing jobs. I dont think people actually know the risks of what they are doing. Heating up a safety pin to sterilise it is fine for removing a splinter. Not to poke a hole into your stomach and stick an ear sleeper in there. If that was the case piercing places would not spend 10's of thousands of dollars on there steralising equipment and keeping it sterile.


The disease you can pick up can be extreme, you can pick up hep c, septicemia, gang grene and more. Piercers dont pay $4000 for no reason to become piercers. It will end up costing you more money by piercing your own body part then it will to just spend the $60 for the piercing.

The scarring usually doubles or triples so instead on your belly button you just have a tiny scar, you will have a scar that looks like a ciggarette burn.

If you are doing a facial piercing, and hit the wrong nerve especially on your upper ear or eyebrow your face will drop. If its a nipple piercing, you can wreck your chances of breast feeding. A belly button done wrong can cause a serious infection and have to have your belly button surgically removed.


Saying that, a dickhead will always be a dickhead so here is some tips to make your DIY piercing job the safest it possibly can be:

- Go to your local piercer and ask if you can purchase a needle if they say no you can Buy hollow needles. use one of those and make sure its been steralized. Not by rubbing alcohol or lighting it on fire.
- Buy a clamp, most first aid places sell these. That also needs to be steralized in an auto clave.
- Go to a local piercing place for your jewlery and if its not in a blue sachet DO NOT PURCHASE IT. It has not been sterilised properly.
- Do not use old jewlery.
- Boiling, bleaching, heating up, rubbing alcohol does not kill hepatitus.
- Before you pierce buy betadine (if your not alergic to shell fish if you are you need another antiseptic) and cover the piercing area with that but first rubbing the area with alcohol.
- Once you have used the needles you need to put it into a container and take it to your local pharmacy for disposal. DO NOT PUT IT IN THE RUBBISH BIN.
- To steralize where your working 5% to 10% solution (one tablespoon of bleach to one cup of water) This will clean all work tops. Blood etc.
- Always wear gloves. When I pierce I wear 3 sets of gloves. You should constantly change them. Eg. Put them On to clean the area. Take the top pair of gloves off put a new pair of gloves on. whenever performing a duty take the glove off and put a new one on. This will stop any bacteria getting into your body.
- Have a cork at the base of the needle then feed in your jewlery.
- ONCE YOU HAVE BEEN PIERCED ALWAYS GO TO A QUALIFIED PIERCER TO DOUBLE CHECK OVER ANYTHING

I hope I helped the dickheads keep free from diseases.

When I was 13 I pierced my own bellybutton and I still have the scar, and it was too low to be in the right place:(

Ive noticed quite alot of people not only on here but who come into my work with there DIY piercing jobs. I dont think people actually know the risks of what they are doing. Heating up a safety pin to sterilise it is fine for removing a splinter. Not to poke a hole into your stomach and stick an ear sleeper in there. If that was the case piercing places would not spend 10's of thousands of dollars on there steralising equipment and keeping it sterile.


The disease you can pick up can be extreme, you can pick up hep c, septicemia, gang grene and more. Piercers dont pay $4000 for no reason to become piercers. It will end up costing you more money by piercing your own body part then it will to just spend the $60 for the piercing.

The scarring usually doubles or triples so instead on your belly button you just have a tiny scar, you will have a scar that looks like a ciggarette burn.

If you are doing a facial piercing, and hit the wrong nerve especially on your upper ear or eyebrow your face will drop. If its a nipple piercing, you can wreck your chances of breast feeding. A belly button done wrong can cause a serious infection and have to have your belly button surgically removed.


Saying that, a dickhead will always be a dickhead so here is some tips to make your DIY piercing job the safest it possibly can be:

- Go to your local piercer and ask if you can purchase a needle if they say no you can Buy hollow needles. use one of those and make sure its been steralized. Not by rubbing alcohol or lighting it on fire.
- Buy a clamp, most first aid places sell these. That also needs to be steralized in an auto clave.
- Go to a local piercing place for your jewlery and if its not in a blue sachet DO NOT PURCHASE IT. It has not been sterilised properly.
- Do not use old jewlery.
- Boiling, bleaching, heating up, rubbing alcohol does not kill hepatitus.
- Before you pierce buy betadine (if your not alergic to shell fish if you are you need another antiseptic) and cover the piercing area with that but first rubbing the area with alcohol.
- Once you have used the needles you need to put it into a container and take it to your local pharmacy for disposal. DO NOT PUT IT IN THE RUBBISH BIN.
- To steralize where your working 5% to 10% solution (one tablespoon of bleach to one cup of water) This will clean all work tops. Blood etc.
- Always wear gloves. When I pierce I wear 3 sets of gloves. You should constantly change them. Eg. Put them On to clean the area. Take the top pair of gloves off put a new pair of gloves on. whenever performing a duty take the glove off and put a new one on. This will stop any bacteria getting into your body.
- Have a cork at the base of the needle then feed in your jewlery.
- ONCE YOU HAVE BEEN PIERCED ALWAYS GO TO A QUALIFIED PIERCER TO DOUBLE CHECK OVER ANYTHING

I hope I helped the dickheads keep free from diseases.


extremely well said

When I was 13 I pierced my own bellybutton and I still have the scar, and it was too low to be in the right place:(


If you rub Bio Oil on it twice a day the scarring will fade right out,

I know it's not usually a good idea to pierce yourself, but I'm still going to pierce my own third earlobe holes. Although, i ordered a sterilized piercing needle a few days ago, and i'm going to clean the jewelry thoroughly.

The way i see it, the earlobes are a place people used to pierce by themselves all the time(you know, the old ice and a sewing needle thing back in the day)... And the way i'm doing it is definitely safer than the way they did it then. Plus, with me getting a sterilized piercing needle and all, it seems safer than the usual piercing-gun deal.

I seriously wouldn't pierce anywhere else on my own. But i'm not going to spend 40 dollars on a run-of-the-mill earlobe piercing, when i can buy the same kind of piercing needle they use for 3 dollars. Earlobe isn't one of those places where you need to be careful of the placement or anything. If my earlobe can survive getting its' first holes done with a piercing gun by some teenie mall worker, this shouldn't bother it.

And i have a friend who's done 5 of his own earlobe piercings(buying a sterile piercing needle and everything), and he hasn't had any problems.

By law, Im not actually allowed to say pierce your self otherwise i can be used at wrk, but i totally agree its $23 for ear lobe piercing in a chemist they have no training in it so theres is just guess work too. I think its safe up until your ear starts to widen then id probably go to a piercer otherwise i agree just do it your self and its alot safer then a gun. There trying to ban guns all together

I've had my nose and ears pierced by my friends, and for the ears they just shoved another earing through, it has never been infected. I've also had to stitch myself back up with unsterilized shizz and nothing bad has happened. Guess I was lucky, I paid for my belly button though, that one I didn't want to risk.

Piercings cost a bomb, probably why so many teenagers attempt it themselves.

Theres a reason why piercings are so expensive though.

In Finland they do a piercing called a stitching or a sewing. I had one done on both of my ears. They just take a needle and thread and sew holes in your ears. I had six holes done on each side. That was done professionally, and that was probably more dangerous than doing one or two in your earlobe yourself.

Reason or not, that's why people do it. Either that or they're underaged and have no concent for certain piercings.

i had a 12 year old girl come into work last week with her belly button pierced, she sharpened the edge of a key rin and pierced it with that, no idea how she did it or why but it was the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.


If you cant afford the piercing though, save up dont give your self diseases over $60

Just to update, i did my earlobes(third earlobe holes in each ear, at 16 gauge) a few days ago(it was Thursday, i think), and it went well. The first one i had a little trouble getting the ring through, but it ended up fine. They're a little bit red sometimes, but they aren't hurting or anything. Pretty much going like any other piercings so far. I'm glad i did it.

i pierced my own ears it's fine. Preach what you want though

OH.. and i stretched my ears up to a 10 gauge last night. All the previous stretches had just slid in like nothing at all, but these stung really bad. They didn't hurt as bad today as yesterday, but yeah.. They feel really tight. And it was also a lot harder to push these into my ears than the other ones had been. Is that normal, or what?

yep. self piercing is a really really stupid idea. my friend pierced her own bellybutton. bad idea. it was too shallow, and almost split right through the skin. bad bad idea. i don't know about you, but i wouldn't want to end up w/2 flaps of skin over my belly button, just to try it myself. durrrr!

i pierced my own ears it's fine. Preach what you want though


if you read up I said this:

By law, Im not actually allowed to say pierce your self otherwise i can be used at wrk, but i totally agree its $23 for ear lobe piercing in a chemist they have no training in it so theres is just guess work too. I think its safe up until your ear starts to widen then id probably go to a piercer otherwise i agree just do it your self and its alot safer then a gun. There trying to ban guns all together


Ear Lobes are fine. body Piercings are not.


OH.. and i stretched my ears up to a 10 gauge last night. All the previous stretches had just slid in like nothing at all, but these stung really bad. They didn't hurt as bad today as yesterday, but yeah.. They feel really tight. And it was also a lot harder to push these into my ears than the other ones had been. Is that normal, or what?

Yes its pretty normal next time though to make it... a better feeling/less painful have a really hot bath so your ear lobes are soft, cover the gauage in bio oil as well as your ear and itll go on alot easier.

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I still think your a dickhead for doing it.

this was bumped for antik15

I still think your a dickhead for doing it.
If i lived where you lived maybe you would do it for me with out my parents consent, but w.e. thanks for the tips man i hope i dont botch it to bad.

I did my own ear like, halfway up my ear, and it was fine. I used a needle and then put in a clean piercing stud with one of those safe backings, and cleaned it everyday and stuff, it turned out good. But I'd never pierce my nose, navel, etc. myself. Ugh.

Anyway, if this isn't already, STICKKYYY.