Self-done And No Regrets!

By Majoyree, Winston Salem, US

On March 21,2009 I pierced my navel. I got a kit from TitaniumOnly.com a week before that. I had been wanting my navel pierced since 2005, and I had done tons of research in that time!

I woke up at 7 in the morning, because I was so excited about doing it. I drank some orange juice to raise my blood sugar, cleaned my navel with the alcohol, clamped the skin (the part that hurt most) and pushed the needle through slowly.

After that I cleaned up the blood, removed the clamp (dumb move) and tried to insert my Bioplast glow in the dark blue barbell.

After 7 minutes of trying, IT BROKE!

Luckily, the piercing kit came with a CBR. So I put that in and after 10 minutes I got the ball in, and took a shower. Then 4 days later I had symptoms of a metal allergy. So I bought a Bioplast barbell from (the best place to go!)

And got that a week later. So when I got it, I was trying to insert it, but it was too short for my piercing. I was dumb enough to leave it in for 2 days before taking it out...

I took that out and put my CBR back in. Well that wasn’t easy because the bead refused to go back in! After 30 minutes I gave up and left it out. Now, a month later, the allergy is gone, and I have a happy piercing!

Pierced on the bottom?

By Brinda, COLORADO

Ever since I was little I wanted to get my belly button pierced. My older sister got hers done once she turned 18 but i just COULDNT wait that long (that would be another 3 years). When I was little my sister told me that i have the perfect belly button to get it pierced on the bottom or top. so I was always kinda thinking of getting it on the bottom.

well I’m 15 now and i KNOW my mom would never go for that. She would come up with some sort of lame excuse. This was about the time that my mom helped me get a new debit card. so guess what i was thinking?!?

I went on the internet and bought a 8 piece navel piercing kit. you can only imagine what happened from there.

once it came in the mail, i had to tell my mom that it was for my friend devin and she doesnt have a card so she asked me to get it for her. LIE. :/ she believed me though.

so I decided to pierce my belly button on the bottom. and piercing it myself was NOT easy. especially since im deathly afraid of needles.

i had to ice it for the longest time and i was really scared so i tried to do it slowly. i would get it almost through but not completely breaking the skin on the other side and then the numbing would go away. so i had to hold the needle there and ice it at the same time. I decide to be brave and just shove it through real quick. omgosh when it broke the skin on the other side, i was discussed. it made the most awfulest sound ever. like when your popping a zit and you just hear it pop. IT WAS GROSS. so once i got the ring in, i was super excited.

I wanted to go and tell all of my friends, and i did.

having a belly button ring is kinda a hassle though. like when i had volleyball games i had to take it out and i was really scared that i went through all that and it was gonna close up real quick.

so to this day, my mom doesnt know.