is this true?

Sasper

My friend told me that if you get your toung pierced that (a) it doesn't hurt, and (b) that it messes up your teeth.
I'll be gettin my toung pierced next year and i wanna know if these are true.

Lenny

Answer on a) depends on pain tolerance, but mine didn't hurt and many people I've talked to said it didn't bother them either. the next day on some people can be a bit awqard eating but you can just eat at the side of your mouth
Answer on b) true again, it kind of makes them weaker in some way over time,, but you can get bars with plastic balls so the steel doesn't go against your teeth, but maybe someone else could word this better..
I also read in another thread you're 14.. you most likely will have a problem getting your tounge pierced..

Sasper

Hiya the questions in the title, Happy?

Lenny

I rememebr seeing a sing in metalmorpheous that to get your tounge you have to be 18, or 17 with a parent(just pull someone off the street)
but if you look a really younge 14, they won't pierce you because tis a body piercing and not like getting your ears/nose pierced with a gun

PurpleFistMixer

As far as I know the problem is that the ball erodes the enamel on your teeth. Same with lip piercings I think (unfortunately enough).

Since this is a "is this true?" thread, I've heard some stories which I'm believing to be urban myths about tongue piercing. - Is it true if they pierce it wrong "it'll die and you'll have a new tongue growing ontop of the old one"? 'Cause this just sounds stupid to me. :rolleyes:

About the age thing - a friend of mine who's 14 got her tongue pierced, don't know where though but I'm pretty certain she didn't have any parental permission.

Probably got it done down some back alleyway/by one of her friends though.. and I mean, do you really want to trust a place which will allow people underage to get pierced? If they're not gonna abide by one law...

Sasper

that, "new toung" thing sounds wrong. But hillarious, sorry, im able to get my belly button pierced, and thats part of my body, how do they piece you toung?
Also, my friend is like the biggest waffler, she said that if you get the top of your ear pierce that it is like one of the sorest places, Thats a load of ****, rite?
And i heard that gettin your eyebrow pierced is one of the most dangerious places to get done cause if they mess it up they could hit amain blood vestle and you could die.
and i look 15 i could pass for 16 to 17 if i tried though.

PurpleFistMixer

I think the pain thing really varies from person to person. I can't comment on it because I only have the bog standard ear lobe piercings, but from what people say it seems to vary.

I also heard one that "if you get the cartlidge pierced with a gun it could shatter and you'd lose the top of your ear"...

I didn't think there were any main blood vessels in the face, but... *shrugs*
I think anywhere pierced wrongly can be dangerous anyway, so it really depends on who's piercing you.

Lenny

When i got the top of my ear done I actualy thought it was very sore years back, it just wouldn't settle down, but its grand now.. 10 years on

garthv

Aye my tongue piercing is one of my favourite piercings,
painwise its ok,but since the line down the middle of your tongue is just dead skin,holding two giant muscles on either side of your tongue together the pain factor isnt that much,theres a small sheet of muscle on the top and bottom of your tongue and the only pain you'll feel is the needle going throught them two.
your tongue swells up for a few hours and all you can eat is soup and mashy potatoes for a few days afterwards.

It wasn't me!

The top of the ear, the helix, is actually quite painful. Nothing I wouldn't do again (Have to, considering they got infected and I took them out) but still quite painful. They have a greater tendency to get infected though than other piercings and caring for them is as bitch. They seem to hit off everything possible.

PurpleFistMixer

I can imagine hair brushing would be rather traumatic with one of those. Erk.

It wasn't me!

Quite, especially since I had long hair at the time. And moshing was a bad idea as well. One of the balls got ripped out of my BCR.

PurpleFistMixer

How pleasant.
</sarcasm>

the_obsolete

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

As far as I know the problem is that the ball erodes the enamel on your teeth. Same with lip piercings i think

Ya that's true- a friend of mine had to take out hers because it had worn away at the gum, and if she kept it in there would be a possibility of her bottom front teeth falling out! Nasty!

PurpleFistMixer

Such a shame, because they're such nice piercings. =/
Are there not any types, like plastic balls or whatever that don't erode?

Shazbot

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

I also heard one that "if you get the cartlidge pierced with a gun it could shatter and you'd lose the top of your ear"...

nah thats "ear collapsing" happens very rarely with bad infections ( correct me if im wrong/

and yes the top of hear ( helix ) hurts, because the majority of the ears nerves are locared there. i got there and my conche pierced in a scaffold and the helix was worse. but thats just me

Liquorice

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Probably got it done down some back alleyway/by one of her friends though.. and I mean, do you really want to trust a place which will allow people underage to get pierced? If they're not gonna abide by one law...

There are actually no laws in Ireland on piercing/tattoing afair(did a project on the legality of body modification over the summer) apart from the standard health and safety regulations that apply to most workplaces. The Department of Health and Children were meant to bring in regulations in 2001...nothing happened. Basically, piercers are at their own discretion about the age they pierce people, although one will notice that most of them operate on a '16 with parent, 18 without' basis, and some won't perform stapling or pocketing until the customer is 21.

the_obsolete

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Are there not any types, like plastic balls or whatever that don't erode?

To be honest mate I don't really know, sorry! Tho I'd say it'd make little or no difference, or even make it worse- plastic might rub off the gum more!

Piste

Sasper wrote:

Also, my friend is like the biggest waffler, she said that if you get the top of your ear pierce that it is like one of the sorest places, Thats a load of ****, rite?.

Aload of bulls!te is it? You told me it was one of the sorest places and you didn't say it was bullsh!te then.....

Sasper wrote:

and i look 15 i could pass for 16 to 17 if i tried though.

No you couldn't. Don't delude yourself.

toxic_angel

the_obsolete wrote:

To be honest mate I don't really know, sorry! Tho I'd say it'd make little or no difference, or even make it worse- plastic might rub off the gum more!

u can get plastic.... or even better is enamel balls... dentists recommend enamel ones ask ur piercist if they dont have them they can order them....

enamel i find more fun they lighter and most of them are naturally uv sensitive so they glow in nightclubs

enjoy it
play safe
play sanitary

Sasper

yo gummybearz, my friend from irish college said that to me so i repeated it to you. And don't be a spa, and if ya don't believe me ask fahy

Piste

W/e I didn't mean to sound harsh, *big hug* Am I still comin wit ya to get your belly done?. Is it true that if your really skinny you cant get your belly done? If so, why?

Lenny

...because there won't be any skin to pierce, it'll be just done? :rolleyes:

Piste

Well theres always gonna be SOME skin to pierce, anyway, If you're skinny its less painful cos theres less skin to go through.

Lenny

If you're skinny, you'll also have less blood and less iron and white blood cells, which would mean longer healing periods

Piste

Skinnier people don't necessarily have less blood, they just have less Fat to send blood to. There is a difference

Lenny

Then why cna't people under 9 stone donate blood?
because if they did they'd be weaker cause they generally have less blood...

PurpleFistMixer

Under 9 stone? Yes, I am so guilt free now. I can laugh in the face of those ads.. then get looks.

Piste

Yeah but your 14 arent you? So you shouldn't be giving blood anyway

Well your 'supposed' to be 16+ for a body piercing in which case you're gonna be a fairly adult weight which is over 9 stone.

PurpleFistMixer

Yes, (15 in 9 days though, yay) but I still felt guilty. Now I have a medical reason too.

Is the problem with the weight the healing? Or just the lack of skin to pierce in the case of bellypiercings? 'Cause... my friend who got her tongue pierced isn't over 9 stone, and another friend of mine who DEFINITELY isn't over 9 stone got her nose pierced...

Faddymackshyte

Well it all depends on where you get it done. Some places in Dublin allow people under 16 to get it done, basically just to get some business. My friend got here belly done when she was 13 in town somewhere, what a joke. But yeah!!!

Piste

In George's Street Arcade I don't think they care what age you are.

Blub2k4

Gummybearz!!! wrote:

In George's Street Arcade I don't think they care what age you are.

Is that a proper piercing place or is it done with a gun?

elexes

Blub2k4 wrote:

Is that a proper piercing place or is it done with a gun?

they use both gun and needel depening on whois working afaik .

u do realise that u will have to " treat " whatever piercing u get . it is not somthing that will heal in a week

afaik it takes ages for the wound( toung ) to be healed and u may have to switch your diet just to help the healing process

2 weeks ago i had probloms with the side of my jaw and with a quick trip to my doctor he told me that it was because of a cut i had managed he couldnt give me much advice on how to have quicken hte healing process but did say that gargeling soluable solfadine + take a mouthwash he perscribed

still a bit sore atm but is much better then it was

from what ive also heard the reason places dont like to pierce ppl under the age of 16/17 is that there parents would stand a good chance of pressing charges due to the child not having any leagal rites almost

Blub2k4

elexes wrote:

from what ive also heard the reason places dont like to pierce ppl under the age of 16/17 is that there parents would stand a good chance of pressing charges due to the child not having any leagal rites almost

Well there is that but also the possibility that a 40 year old man is piercing their 13 year old girlies nips.

garthv

Gummybearz!!! wrote:

In George's Street Arcade I don't think they care what age you are.

STAY AWAY FROM THAT SH*TEHOLE

It wasn't me!

Agreed. I know plenty of people who've been pierced there with no problems but the disasters I know of far outweigh the good things to have happened there. And that old woman is a crazy, blind old bat who has a nasty habit of getting the piercing wrong. The guy's not as bad but go to a reputable parlour anyway. Just get your parents to sign the form and there's no hassle.

Piste

Never been there. Never intend to. A lotta my friends got stuff done there and they seem fine.

eth0_

Gummybearz!!! wrote:

Never been there. Never intend to. A lotta my friends got stuff done there and they seem fine.

Look, Georges St Arcade is probably the WORST place you could possibly go to get a piercing. Maybe when you grow up you'll realise why.

I'm getting a bit sick of all you 'my friend says...' posts, tbh.

garthv

Geogres Street Arcade have been using guns for as long as i can remember,
only in the past few years have they turned over to needles and every time i pass by there not once have i seen a certificate of piercing apprenticeship or blood borne pathogens or even a first aid cert.
The old man and old woman in there havent a clue what they are doing,granted,all they pierce is ears and bellybuttons,but still,if you have any common sense stay away from that place

crash n byrne

Gummybearz!!! wrote:

In George's Street Arcade I don't think they care what age you are.

I advise no one to go to georges street arcade to be pierced, the word cowboys springs to mind. ive seen some of the most disturbing piercings come from there. if you ever go to snakebite ask to see the little book of horrors, you will never even think of going to georges street arcade again!!