Eyebrows

obviously. your eyebrow is part of your body

This site will not provide "how To" information that can lead to serious personal injury due to information posted here. Body piercing is a regulated and controlled industry and there are lots of professional body piercers available to provide this service in a safe and professional manner using only the best materials and methods to prove the service. Doing it your self doesn't make it hurt less nor does it save you any money, you run a better than 70% chance of doing serious damage to the tissue and subjecting your self to needless pain and discomfort.

The reasons you should not attempt to pierce your self should be obvious, but for those who think it's a "DIY" project, here's some food for thought.

Infection and contraction of MRSA, HIV, Meningitis, Hepatitis and Tetanus are all very serious health issues, MRSA is an antibiotic resistant bacteria that can in most cases land the unlucky individual in the hospital (and has been responsible for serious deformities and deaths). These infections has been caused by using unsterilized equipment and materials. Sterilization is not achieved by pouring alcohol over needles and jewellery, or burning these items over a fire or exposed flame. Microorganisms live in the fine fissures and cracks in needles and jewellery and only the high temperature and pressure of a steam Autoclave can render these and many other bacteria harmless.

The above reasons alone should be enough to sway anyone from thinking they can do it themselves. Professional body piercers have years of hands on training and education to enable them to make any piercing "look simple", when in fact they are considering dozens of things when they lay out a piercing and actually do it. So consider your lack of knowledge, training and skills before you attempt to do any self piercing, once you pierce it, it's damaged tissue. This makes it even more difficult for a professional piercer to leave you with a great looking piercing when the area we have to work with is damaged by self inflicted attempts.

This may help, found in yahoo answers ..

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071130120830AAhvLsB

Q.

Why does it hurt so much more.....?when you fall and scrape your hand on the cement or bang your hand against something when your hand is freezing cold as opposed to warm...it seems like the freezingness (?) would numb your hand a bit and make it not hurt as much, but it hurts 10x's worse!

• 1 month ago

whats the medical explanation?....

A.

It has to do with the way that your hand (in this case, but, if it was another body part, similar results would be seen--however, the palm of your hand has ALOT of nerves) is more rigid when it is cold. This makes it LESS flexible, and MORE prone to superficial injury....even without frost nip setting in. In the event that actual frost nip set in, this would be even more sensitive, as you have tiny crystals beginning to form in your cells, like little shards of glass......and, smacking them, rubbing them, or scraping them would be like SMACKING, RUBBING, or SCRAPING your neutral temperature hand against shards of glass.

When it is cold, your nerves are VERY sensitive to the temperature, as it ISNT numb yet, and still....blood flow is slowed down tremendously. In fact, your body has begun "vaso-constricting" all it's blood flow AWAY from your hands and feet, then the arms and legs, resulting in nerves being pressed upon by the less suple skin and vascular tissues.

(think of it like this....your hand swells---you cant get a RING off your finger. SO, you get told to run your hand under cold water---really cold water for about 15 minutes. The ring should slide right off...if not, you may need to run hot water JUST on the metal ring for 1 minute to re-expand the metal. This is because when your hand is cold---it is actually smaller. the only thing that gets bigger when cold is WATER---every thing else gets smaller)

Body Piercing Guidelines or "I want a piercing, now what"

1. All Body Piercing studios are regulated and work under regional and local health and city licensing regulations.
2. Age limits can vary from city to city and state/province to state/province, contact your local body piercing studios (under the yellowpages "Body Piercing" ) they will tell you what the age limits are for your area.
3. Identification is aways needed (Birth certificate, Student card, Drivers license) Parental consent is consent from the legal parents (Mother or Father). Grand parents, Sister, Brother, Second Cousin twice removed doesn't cut it sorry. Unless they are your legal guardians assigned by the courts and have documented proof or this, it just won't work.
4. Prices for piercings vary from shop to shop and city to city. Be sure you phone and ask them what the total price is including any *aftercare solutions they may try to sell you (* Professional body piercing studios won't try to sell you aftercare solution, they will recommend cleansers and soaps but that's it if you want it they will sell it but they will not force you to buy it.)
5. Do your research, check these places out and find a studio that you are comfortable with, talk to the piercer and discuss you wishes. If at any time you feel like you are being ignored or rushed leave, find somewhere else. Good shops will be busy, but they will also want you to book your appointment, this way they have there full attention on you not everyone else who is asking questions (that's a good thing).