What I did 11 days ago

So the Friday after Thanksgiving I was hanging out with my homies, and my friend Katie was like "hey Ross, I heard you want to get your lip pierced." I was like "well yeah I actually do I think lip rings look pretty boss." So she was all "well dude, let's go get our lips pierced, dude." So I was like "hell yeah man" so we set out to find a piercing place.

Turns out it's not too hard to find people willing to stick needles in your face in New Orleans, and after an hour or two of searching we settled on Pat's Blue Ribbon Piercing in NOLA Tattoos. Pat seemed like a cool guy, and I was pretty sure that I would look all kinds of sexy with a lip ring, so I went on back into the piercing room and laid down on the operating table with all my homies watching. Pat grabbed my lip with some pliers and shoved a needle through it, followed by the ring. It hurt, kind of like you'd expect it would.

I got up, looked in the mirror, and realized an important point: I looked way stupid. I always thought lip rings looked badass on other people, like Tom Gabel and Davey Havok, but I'm just not as cool as those guys I guess. So the next day I took it out. You can't even tell where it was on the outside. I still have a little bump on the inside, but I'm thinking that should go away sooner or later. So yeah, that was my failed experiment with facial piercings.