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
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Those pictures are truely disturbing. Unfortunately, people let things go way too far before they decided to seek any sort of help. Your body is the most important thing and if you don’t take care of it then you could end up with problems like these. Always do your homework when selecting a piercer…and please don’t attempt to pierce yourself :)
Those pictures are truely disturbing. Unfortunately, people let things go way too far before they decided to seek any sort of help. Your body is the most important thing and if you don't take care of it then you could end up with problems like these. Always do your homework when selecting a piercer…and please don't attempt to pierce yourself :)
I think that the pictures that I just looked at were the grossest piercings gone bad that I have ever seen. Parents need to start listening to there kids and mabye they woulden’t do such things to them selves. That is what happens to people that don’t keep there body piercings clean.
People wake up and realize that you have to take care of you body. :) It is really sad that almost all of the pictures of the bad piercings are of kids under 18.
I think that the pictures that I just looked at were the grossest piercings gone bad that I have ever seen. Parents need to start listening to there kids and mabye they woulden't do such things to them selves. That is what happens to people that don't keep there body piercings clean.
People wake up and realize that you have to take care of you body. :) It is really sad that almost all of the pictures of the bad piercings are of kids under 18.
fuck yous u guys.u all have no life ha u guys sure grow some balls
man you wimp had mine done and im a bird get a grip…………………
omg im im 12 and i got my lip done it tickles dude yous are wimps ayy im a chix 2
heyy ayy
0.0 the pictures are the nastiest things i`ve ever seen dude.
i just got my septum and it fucking hurts . xD
im 13 btw (: i hope my septum doesn`t get ripped off.
dude!!!! ur A wimp…i got my shit don and it didnt hurt for shit……man u sound like ur dien or somthin
well i got my belly button pierced when i was 12 and i just got my industrial like a couple of days ago, i love it. and it didnt hurt that bad at all, although i hope nothing like those pictures happen to my piercings! that would be awful, but i take very good care of my piercings :]
yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiks
Was that guy in the video seriously so stupid to let that person, 1. Pierce his tongue in his mouth. 2. Use that funny looking needle thing. 3. Keep the rings on their fingers. Seriously? Wow. I am glad that I did all of my research before gettting mine done, and going to a place that was both clean and cheap and professional. Simply amazing. And all of those photos, were just of children being completely ignorant. Why oh WHY would you pierce you lip / septum with a chain link? AND THEN the mom try to cut it out with scissors? OMG. Proof that stupid people should not procreate.
If that guy was in that much pain from the tongue piercing, the piercer must of done something seriously wrong. I can hardly tolerate pain and it didn't even hurt at all, that guy was going red. And I've never seen a piercer pierce a tongue inside the mouth :|
yah wow i have my eye brow tounge and nose i did the nose and eye brow my self none of them hurt ur a wine ass loser
ok people i have ten piercings 4 in one ear 3 in the other an my nose tongue belly button an 2 more on ther way none of mine went bad an i did most of them myself ok so yea stop winning
OMG!!!!! im sorry but you are a big wimp!!!!! was this done by a perfessional?? those pics scare me!!!!!!! im so sorry for ppl who had to get surgery cause they didnt get them done by perfessionals. i think claires only does ears peirsing but im not so sure. because claires is really good place but i thing it is earpeircing not tung or belly button or any of those places but im so sorry for you ppl who had to get surgery!!!!!!!!
SOOOOOOOOOOOO SORRY PEOPLE HAD TO PAY MONEY FOR PEIRCINGS AND HAD TO PAY MONEY FOR SURGERY!!!!!! BUT THAT GUY WHO IS GETTING HIS TONG PEIRCED IS A WIMP!!!!!!!
OMG!!!!!!!!!! ha ha ha is a bitch you get a life butt!!!!!!!!
These photos are pretty gruesome, it makes me wonder why people don't get things seen to as soon as they notice an abnormality. Also, people react to pain in different ways; some just have a really low pain threshold. I have a few piercings and although none have hurt me, I have friends who have been in a lot of pain with the same piercings.
A lot of people commenting on this need to learn how to spell…
septum doesnt hurt!
i got it done and its fineee
i love peircing so far i have my ears done twice jst studs
and a nostril peircing but it's infected
even tho i cleen it twice a day
OMG wimp or wpt
OMG wimp or wot :D
i think more sites should show what could happen if a person isn't responsible or intelligent enough to properly take care of a piercing. and second that piercer in the video is an idiot! and that guy is a fricken cry baby!!!
Ewwww ! D: dudee i mean the people that do thesee are pro's right like the piercings?! i pierce my own ears and lip :D
i have my tounge done it doesnt hurt but that guy is retarded the piercer didnt even do that shit right! he is lucky to be alive.
I have my tounge pierced it doesnt even hurt and i have done tounge pierceings that guy is retard the piercer didnt even do that shit right he is lucky to be alive go to a profeshional not a wanabe
alright, I have a question to ask…a couple of years back, i pierced my own belly button, kinda stupid i know, but it worked, and i had a ring there for almost a couple of months, but then i removed it and it healed…there was always a stiff part where the piercing was. ( I pierced it with one of those really thick needles…but it wasn't hollow or anything..) A week ago, I did it again because I missed my piercing, I expected it to be easy this time around, but I wasnt that lucky…anyway, as soon as i pierced it, and washed it out with salt+water cleaned it out except because my hands were a bit sweaty …it wasnt as steady as Id hoped. and I ended up with a bit of a big bruise on the inside of my navel. Internal bleeding or sth. Anyway, as soon as i cleaned it out, i put some medicine on and left it to heal, which it is already…Could it be serious? the swelling has gone down and it feels like it did before…Im wondering if pus could be trapped in the middle…and if the stiffness is normal.
ive done my lip a few times myself but i had to take it out because i went to a Christian school, so when i moved to public school i started going crazy with my piercings….and to think i was just about to do my tounge……
dude i know just how it feels to have a ring jus dissapear into ur body.
I was sooo scarred when they had to cut out my belly button ring and then told me that they were sorry that it happened and they thay will see if i can get it done in 2 months and im like nahhh but i am getting it done but with a differnet piercer. and i also got my cartalige done and they screwed that up to ive had it done for literly 6 months and it to this day is infected.
Those…were just gross. I got my lip done last Saturday and it's doing fine. A little red, not so swollen anymore, doesn't really hurt. Cleaning it properly. God I hope it doesn't get like that. Ew. Haha!
I don't care about these picture i'm getting my monrore pierced on my birthday!! YAY
im going to laugh when yours gets infected
i think this was really discuting…. lolz
I might get mine when im 14 or 15 yay 2 more years!! :D
but idk if i should now lol im scared about the piercing getting infected
i want 2 get 1 on my lip and belly button i love those places cause there sexy ;) lol
im scared to stretch to a 10g now lol but mine r at a 18 so im definatly gunna wait till i go down to a 14g then ill wait a month so basiclly 3 months lol
Personally I don't see why you ladies and gents are so grossed out, it's simply a curiousity, I think it's fairly sad these children are so worried about conforming and being “different” like everyone else, that they're deciding to press their body too quickly or use unsanitized foreign objects in themselves. But no matter how often you tell them otherwise, it will never happen to them of course! haha. Otherwise the page was great.
its very discustin' u've got to be an idiot to do piercings where it shouldn't be (tongue…)
hey hey wats gooD??
And you mean to tell me that these are the type of pussies we have fighting for us in Iraq? Pitiful!
Seriously, Tounger peircings don't hurt. Iam 14 and I did my labret when I was 12. I've gotten my industrial ripped out as well as my labret and catilage,.. I've done all my piercings because I have connections my sister in law is a professional piercer and she supplies me with tools I too have been doing my friends piercings but I also have a talk with their parents about it. After all you just have to keep your body clean and your piercings as well. If you want a piercing you need to know that it is for you to make sure it's clean and well taken care of. My current piercings are my labret, nose, about 4inch gauges, industrial, cartilage, and well i just took out my snake-bites and i've also had my bridge, spectum, angle bites as well as my right eyebrow. Piercings just need to be taken care of and well cleaned, if your the type of person that lets it rot then your sick, But don't worry if your new to gauging your lobes or anything it'll smell nasty, but wash them daily,.. The oder from them are natural after all you shouldn't have huge holes in the first place but like i've repeated keep your piercings clean. (:
my friend is a piercer, he always check my Industrial Piercing for safety. Better to have a reputable piercer or other recommended by your friends.
Keloid scarring honey look it up
i got my cartilage peired at clairs and they use a new gun every time which if u ask my is wastful but at least u dont have as much as a risk of getting a bad infection but sometimes ur cartilage can shatter if u use a gun
I got 3 helix piercings, a nostril piercing and now I'm in the first step to get an orbital conch piercing.All of them: needle pierced, no gun used. I once got the earlobes pierced with that gun thing (my mom wanted me to, when I was around 7) and I had many many problems due to infections…So I just took them off, and took care of that asap.
The orbital conch is a little tricky to do, so instead of having some random guy doing it, the big boss of the tattoo-piercing shop did it, being the one with the reputation of doing damn good piercings, with more than 15 years of experience. He decided to do it in 2 steps so it would heal faster and reduce the risks of infection: barbells first, in the 2 holes, and THEN,after a month of 2, he's going to change the barbells for a ring. THIS, is an exemple of a good piercer: even if it might take longer to get what you want, it needs to be safe and harmless.
You need to choose wisely your piercer, the place (if it's clean of not) and also listen to his advice on how to take good care of it.
Always pay the extra money to see a professional, research the piercing you want or if you're stretching, research the proper way to do it. Never leave yourself making things up as you go. Also, ALWAYS follow the aftercare instructions you are given! ALWAYS!
If your piercing artist says you have to run warm salt water over your eyebrow piercing, however a pain in the ass it is, do it! I sure as hell did. Aftercare and monitoring the piercing during its healing process is critical to having a happy, healthy piercing.
Honestly , Its your choice you should do what you like && what your ready to do . You don't go t a dirty unprofessional place , Obviously if its really cheat && Unsanitary you keep searching for a better place , I want to get my lip && tongue , But I'm going to make sure its a good place . Everyone has a different option but really just go to a good place && make sure you take good care . && The guy in the video is not a Cry baby” Obviously everything was wrong , Which was partly his fault for going to a cheap dump .
Honestly , Its your choice you should do what you like && what your ready to do . You don’t go t a dirty unprofessional place , Obviously if its really cheat && Unsanitary you keep searching for a better place , I want to get my lip && tongue , But I’m going to make sure its a good place . Everyone has a different option but really just go to a good place && make sure you take good care . && The guy in the video is not a Cry baby” Obviously everything was wrong , Which was partly his fault for going to a cheap dump .
i have a few piercings but the ones i found sorest were my industrial and my noes! im pretty worried my industrial will get infected because its so sore! i got it done 4 days ago should it still be raw?