For the last couple months, I’ve been wearing a fake lip ring. A few people have asked me why I don’t just go and get my lip pierced because then I’ll have it pierced for the rest of my life and, in their opinion, that would be easier.
Here are my reasons.
I know it makes sense to you to get my lip pierced now so it’ll be pierced for the rest of my life. BUT THEN IT WILL BE PIERCED FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. I know that I can just let the hole grow shut, but what if it doesn’t grow shut and what if it leaves a mark after it grows shut? I don’t want to have it for a year, decide I don’t want it, and then have a scar on my lip for the rest of my life.
I have braces right now and I would worry that maybe the lip ring would mess up the braces and I would have to have them on longer, or the braces would bother my lip ring, and maybe I would have to take it out and get it pierced again after I get my braces off. This is the second time I’ve had braces and if it doesn’t work this time I would have to get my jaw broken and wired shut for a LONG TIME and I don’t want to risk messing my braces up.
Needles. The thought of getting a shot makes me feel light-headed and sick. If I could get it pierced like I got my ears pierced, I might be able to do it, but it would be way more painful, AND I can’t decide exactly where on my lip I like the ring to be. I’ve decided on the right side because that side feels more comfortable for whatever reason, but I move it around a lot whenever I’m wearing it and I can’t decide if I like it more off to the side or closer to the middle of my lips. I don’t want to get my lip pierced and then decide a month later that I actually wanted to have the piercing half a millimeter to the left.
A nine dollar fake lip ring from Etsy is less expensive than getting a piercing and I have important things to buy like eyeliner and CDs and beds for my cat.
And I’m not fooling anyone by wearing this. Do you think I’m trying to fool people with my dyed hair? Do you think people will be mad when they learn that my hair is not naturally Party Poison red or Burgundy? Of course not. Because that would be ridiculous. Nobody thinks I was just born with green eyeliner around my eyes and grey eyelids. Also, I’m not going to tell anyone that it’s real. It’s fake. If you ask, I’ll tell you it’s fake. End of story.
So I’m going to wear a fake lip ring and do things on my own and on my own terms.
