Peirce Your Own Lip at Home

In today's world, lip rings are popular and everyone wants to adorn one.

Some people prefer to get them professionally pierced.

Some don't have the money and prefer to do the piercing on their own. But others just don't like needles and would rather prefer to pierce themselves. If you want to pierce your lips yourself or are cash-strapped to do it professionally, read on!

Steps

 * 1) The most important step to follow while piercing is to never pierce yourself with a safety pin or a sewing needle. Safety pins and sewing needles only stretch your skin while hollow needles make a proper opening. ( A hollow needle may sound more painful but they are not.) You can buy hollow needles in many places. You can buy them from stands that sell body jewellery as well as online. Make sure the hollow needle comes in a sealed package.
 * 2) Boil your hollow needle and body jewellery in salt water for about 10 minutes and let it sit in alcohol for at least five minutes.
 * 3) The hollow needle should be between 16 gauge to 14 gauge.
 * 4) After the needle is sterilized, brush your teeth and set up a sterile area to do the piercing. Everything should be as clean as possible to avoid infection.
 * 5) Before piercing, feel the inside of your lip for veins. Now take an alcohol pad and rub the inside and outside of your lip and make sure to mark the spot where the piercing should be on the outside of the lip with an eye-liner and as well as on the inside so that it will come out straight and not crooked.
 * 6) Start piercing your lip from the inside using clamps. You can also use your fingers, but it will increase the probability of piercing veins or the piercing being crooked.
 * 7) Once you have pushed the needle through put the lip ring in as fast as possible. Because it will close on the needle and it will be painful to pull the needle out. How you put the lip ring is stick it threw the unsharpened side of the needle... then pull it the rest of the way threw. The ring should fit snug inside the needle. If not that indicates the needle is to big or the lip ring is to small. If you bought the wrong size lip ring... just cope with it until your lip fully heals and you can gage it. Warning! If you gauge your lip while its in the healing process its more likely to get infected!
 * 8) The healing process is easy.. but you need to be responsible! The first rule is if your a smoker rinse your mouth with salt water after you smoke every time! smoking is a way to get an infection. Also brush your teeth after every meal. Brushing your teeth will clean out the extra food and bacteria in your mouth and will prevent an infection. Another thing you NEED to do it buy a healing spray such as H20cean or bactine. If you cant afford H20cean its simply just salt water. You can purchase H20cean in a hot topic. Or a local piercing/tattoo shop. Bactine and be purchased in Walmart for about 3-4 dollars. Bactine was recommended to me and when i tried it  i liked the results because it numbs your lip. After you buy the spray.. (you should have bought it before piercing your lip) wash your hands and gently pull you lip so you can spray the inside and outside of the piercing. When that's done spray a cue tip and circle it around the piercing just to make sure your getting all the gunk or fluids it might be oozing. Don’t worry. That's normal. Also redness after 24 hours is normal which means your piercing is irritated.
 * 9) If the piercing gets infected make sure to keep cleaning it properly about three times a day. But whatever you do... DO NOT take the piercing out due to the fact it may trap the infection in your lip and cause problems. Instead stop by a local piercing shop and see if its serious... if so contact a physician.

Tips

 * Hollow needles are the best way to pierce.
 * Hoops and labrets, both sink in a little if there too small so get an extra long labret to use at first.

Warnings

 * There is is a high risk of infection when doing your own piercings.
 * If an infection begins, see a physician immediately!
 * If you are a minor, consult your parents before beginning.

Things You'll Need

 * Latex gloves
 * Paper towels
 * Bactine or H20cean
 * A sterile lip ring
 * A sterile hollow needle in between 16 and 14 gauge
 * Clamps(Optional}
 * Eye liner or Washable marker
 * A sterile place