I’m really thrilled with how my handweb piercing turned out. Tomorrow it’ll be a week old, and it’s doing extremely well. I think that’s as a result of three things:
- Placement – The placement minimizes point-to-point motion, and is such that the ring lies comfortably against the hand in the fold of the webbing. This keeps it protected in nearly all hand positions and even though it’s a high motion area, gives it almost no motion stress.
- Jewelry – The jewelry is a 12ga 7/16″ stainless steel ring by Anatometal, which means both that it’s good quality, and that it’s large enough to take a little abuse, and is big enough to absorb motion but not big enough to get in the way. The ring is about 50% in the tissue while the tissue is a little swollen and I expect that will drop to about 1/3 when healed, at which point I will probably swap in a 10ga 3/8″ ring.
- Aftercare – For the first day I taped my thumb to my finger to keep motion and irritation to a minimum. I kept the piercing protected during the initial couple days. Other than some bleeding in the first 48 hours, there’s been no discharge. I’ve been using Simple Care spray (Neem, Comfrey, Black Seed, and Dead Sea Salts), which as well as being a great functional product, comes in a convenient spray bottle.
My initial entry on the piercing is here, but I’ll add how I did the piercing… I drew the dots on, pinching the tissue to feel for motion and so on. After a little adjustment I came upon what I thought was ideal, and pushed the 10ga needle through… It was pretty unpleasant, and I haven’t done a piercing on myself in a looooong time. After the tip was through the other end, which stung like crazy, I actually just gave it a couple whacks with a remote to get it all the way through!!! Follow-through was a breeze because of the drop-down sizing.
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I love how clean it looks, considering how most hand web piercings at this stage look extremely pissed off. I have to say, it looks darn good! I love the reference to whacking the needle with a remote. HARDCORE…!!
Other than a little dryness in the surrounding skin it LOOKS totally healed (it’s not yet, of course — that’ll take another month and a half for full healing).
It really IS a perfect placement!
;)
I really like how deeply you placed it. It’s looking great.
Whacking your home piercing through your skin using a remote…… that takes me back. It looks very, very nice. Not at all how I would expect a hand piercing to react.
I wonder if this affects your rock band/guitar hero skills…
No way! I beat GREEN GRASS AND HIGH TIDES *after* doing this.
What a breath of fresh air!
It’s great to see you back to bloggin mods Shannon!! Welcome back!
That is a gorgeous piercing. I’ve always loved hand webs in theory, but they never seem to look as good as this.
Well, I’m just blogging my own mods :)
keep blogging those maods…even if they have to be limited to your own!
nice job with the piercing, love the remote comment. ive done this one a few times, i dont recall needing to wack it with anything tho…
hehehe.
keep on rockin’!
Fucking monster props on the remote. LOL Pair of balls, you haz ‘em!
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