Ten Piercings Gone Bad

Filed Under Body Modification, Video on 2007-07-04, 12:20

Like many of my body modification posts, this may not be for those that are squeamish and following any links in this post may lead you to NSFW material. This content is not for everyone. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Sometimes piercings just go bad. They don’t heal, they reject, they get infected, they get pulled out, and more. Sometimes this is due to poor piercing, other times due to poor aftercare of the piercings, and sometimes your body just doesn’t want something in it. Here are the top ten “Piercings Gone Bad” that we found on one of our favorite body mod blogs, ModBlog. We’re not posting the pictures here because they’re pretty graphic, so follow the links if you think your stomach is strong enough to see them in their full color glory.

Why You Should Never Get Pierced with a Gun
What’s wrong with getting your ear pierced with a gun? People do it all the time right? Guns are terrible piercing tools and nobody in their right mind should ever use one. This girl had her friend pierce her cartilage with a gun and soon developed a terrible infection that doctors say likely came from someone else’s tissue on the gun. Her ear ended up liquefying and necrotic tissue had to be scraped out. When it was finally healed, cosmetic surgery was required to return it to a “normal” state.
Photos: Gun Piercing

Invisible Industrial
An industrial causes some distinctive keloids after it was ripped out. If only there was a LOLBodyMods…
Photos: I can guess what that used to be…

Fear of Rejection
If your piercing looks like this, take it out. Your body is rejecting it and you need to respect that. An eyebrow piercing and a navel piercing that are held in only by the tiniest amount of skin.
Photos: What is that held in by? Hair?

Accidental Implant
Please make sure the jewelry you put in is big enough for the piercing, unless you want to end up with a really bad “transdermal”. This eyebrow piercing was too short and one of beads was pulled into the skin.
Photos: Measure Twice, Pierce Once

Ripped Septum Piercing
Septum piercings do get ripped out. I’m sure it hurts. The general consensus is that this septum piercing was probably too low anyways, but needless to say this poor guy is missing a chunk of his nose now. And he could stand to blow it once in a awhile.
Photos: Ouch… the uninostril dude…

Chain link piercing
This 15 year old kid wins the Stupid Award. In what must have been an attempt to look cooler in his emo/scenester MySpace photos, he thought he could use chain links to pierce his lip and septum. Technically it wasn’t much of a piercing but more of a crushing of skin when he used pliers to crimp the chain links into his lips and nose. Needless to say, it didn’t heal very well and he had to get them removed by a professional.
Photos: Chain Link Piercings Gone Bad (Well, Duh!)

Massive Keloid
You thought the industrial keloid was big? Take a look at this sucker. Before and after pictures of an enormous keloid on some poor girl’s ear. She definitely should have gotten this looked at much earlier. Want to see even worse keloids from a scarification gone bad? Check these bad keloids
Photos: Giant Keloid Removal

Madonna Volcano
Want to see a gross and disgusting Madonna piercing? This one was a result of an employer that had a “no piercings” rule at work so the person had to remove the piercing every time they went in, which of course can lead to irritation, infection, and all sorts of fun. Ick.
Photos: Ouch.

Ear Stretching Gone Bad
If you’re eating, don’t click on this one. This is an example of what can happen if you try to stretch your eyes too quickly. This girl didn’t stop when her lobes started thinning out and eventually it tore away from her head and was left dangling. The good news was that a cosmetic surgeon was able to sew the lobe back to her head for $2000.
Photos: Ear Stretching Disaster

Ear Explosion
Even I can’t look at this one for more than a second or two at a time. Another example of what happens if you try to force your ears to gauge up too quickly. Look at all the crusty. Wow.
Photos: DIY Ear Explosion

The moral of the story? Go to a professional piercing who knows what they’re doing. Feel comfortable grilling them on their procedures. Any good piercing will be happy to brag about how well they run their shop. If your piercing is starting to look abnormal, have someone take a look at it. Nobody thinks an swollen, infected, oozing piercing looks good.

Oh, and if this is your piercer, find a new one asap.

video via modblog

Comments

iliketurtles

Ive had my septum, lip, industrial, nose and navel done
and this usually doesn’t happen to people who actually
take care of there piercings.
zoeë.

oh my facking god, what a LOSER!
nik

claires sucks for ear piercings and they dont do any other ones. i would never get mine done at claires, ive gotten mine done more then 3 times and they suck. they got infected with all different medals, they arent even clean.
Jaded Jewel

Ill be honest here, Im a 17 year old girl who has done a few piercings myself. Ive done my eyebrow a few times and my lip a few times. I dont have them in now (with the exception to one lip piercing i did) but i didnt have to keep doing them because they werent healing. Its cause i didnt want them.

My lip piercing healed nicely cause i TOOK CARE OF IT!!!

All you have to do it take care of ur piercings, and if you dont think u cant, then DO NOT GET THEM! Its not that hard to comprehend.

Also think about if you NEED the piercings in that moment. By the time i graduate, about 5/11 of my piercings will be gone cause i wont need them.
Jaded Jewel

Ill be honest here, Im a 17 year old girl who has done a few piercings myself. Ive done my eyebrow a few times and my lip a few times. I dont have them in now (with the exception to one lip piercing i did) but i didnt have to keep doing them because they werent healing. Its cause i didnt want them.

My lip piercing healed nicely cause i TOOK CARE OF IT!!!

All you have to do it take care of ur piercings, and if you dont think u cant, then DO NOT GET THEM! Its not that hard to comprehend.

Also think about if you NEED the piercings in that moment. By the time i graduate, about 5/11 of my piercings will be gone cause i wont need them.
Futterwacan

wow that guy was such a wimp!
Munoz Vanessa85

HAHA shit Hes FUNNY lol it doesnt matter wether it hurted he got it done haha!
Freddy

The person who pierced that man did NOT follow procedure. No wonder he was fucking whining, the bitch was fucking his shit up!
Freddy

Doing a piercing yourself is nothing to brag about unless you are a trained professional. =)
Freddy

Doing a piercing yourself is nothing to brag about unless you are a trained professional. =)
Tex

I’ve just gone up to a 10mm yesterday. I’m worried I’ve gone too fast, so I’m keeping an eye on it, as soon as it starts to look funky I’m pegging it to the doctors. I ain’t having nasty-as-shit-ear.
Carlilly

im 17 and i have 16 piercings and none are on my face. just the ears and navel twice ^-^ i think the second time i got my industrial hurt the most out of them all..
Anthony

we have no life? everyone else on here is here because they want to learn the do’s and don’ts of body modification. and you are most likely a pre pubesant bitch at home bored because you have no friends. Oh, and by the way if youre gonna talk shit check your spelling your comment looks like a drunken foreigner whos just learning english.
Audrey Hepburn

stupid bitch you spelled tounge wrong and the fucking piercer was some fat redneck using tweezers and probably his wifes used insulin needle on this guys tounge and he pierced it too far up its more sensitive up there. id bet any sum of money that you dont have a piercing.
Death-by-cupcake

I take it you have sex and do drugs, too. Dumb bitch. :P
Death-by-cupcake

I take it you have sex and do drugs, too. Dumb bitch. :P
retard

More than likely you’re having sex (been having sex) and drinking like there’s no 2marrow, dumb bitch! ;D
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=516175116 Kerri Peek

I hope you get this. My labret was put it in over a week ago and last Thursday morning I accidentally ripped it out with my electric toothbrush. My piercer (who kicks ass) put the normal size in. But it still hurts like a bitch. I am taking penicillin (I had an extra bottle a full bottle) and L-Lysine. I am putting sea salt compresses on the outside as well as cleaning it with a saline mix that my piercer mixes (FDA approved) 2x a day. I take Ibuprofen. I may start taking a multi-vitamin. Never had trouble getting piercings to heal before. But this one hurts like a bitch, inside and out. I can be reached at kerripeek@gmail.com.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=516175116 Kerri Peek

Oh I rinse with sea salt mix and non-alcohol having mouthwash too. Lots of TLC. What else can I do? I want to keep this piercing in and I am one stubborn woman. I won’t give in and take out, let it heal and then pierce it again. Too stubborn.