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I pierced my tongue myself, although i advise that the faint of heart should not attempt this. i sterilized a safety pin in alcohol of an hour and the most pain of the piercing day was numbing up my tongue with ice; not too bad. i held cubes to the bottom of my tongue till they melted for about 15min and poked the safety pin through on the bottom side just in front of the web (be advised i talked with a few piercers and asked them where a piercing would go). then i numbed the top and poked the pin through and clipped it together. the next day i bought a bar from a place called purple haze and this was a lot of pain putting the bar in it was a 14guage and much larger than the safety pin. the threads to screw on the top ball kinda grab the inside of your tongue and it hurts but its not as bad as it sounds, theres not much nerves in the middle of the tongue. but its hard to find the safety pin holes and you gotta poke the bar in the the smaller hole... it made me very proud that i did it, but like i said its not for the faint of heart, also i consulted the piercers afterwards and found out how to properly care for my piercing.
Submitted by: quadwizard@geocities.com
Experience Added 03/11/99