Pearl - June 05, 2026
Dumb 304s Get Piercings That BACKFIRE
Episode Stats
Harmful content
Misogyny
12
sentences flagged
Toxicity
31
sentences flagged
Hate speech
16
sentences flagged
Summary
In this episode, we are reacting to women getting belly button piercings. We talk about the regrets we have from getting them, and why we don t want to get them. We also talk about some of our own regrets about getting them.
Transcript
00:00:00.000
the parents that think they can control their kids it's a lost cause we're cooked all right
1.00
00:00:04.360
what's going on guys welcome to my reaction series today we are reacting to women taking
0.65
00:00:09.220
L's as we normally do and one of those L's is getting piercings so I remember again I was kind
00:00:15.320
of risk averse when I was young so um I remember girls in my grade getting belly button piercings
0.87
00:00:20.560
and again I kind of had a neurotic mother so she would always and this is probably a good thing
00:00:24.700
right she would always be in my ear like don't get tattoos don't get piercings and so um
1.00
00:00:30.000
I would always repeat that stuff to my friends getting piercings.
00:00:34.780
And I remember getting on birth control was another.
00:00:37.900
That's why I don't really have a lot of sympathy for these regrets.
00:00:41.080
Because I remember being there in my childhood when a lot of women got this stuff.
00:00:45.680
Because I don't have anything pierced under my ears.
00:00:58.700
the belly button was a big one um i know women that got their nipples pierced and i'm like that
1.00
00:01:03.900
i feel like that can't be good when you have kids but i don't know we'll see what these ladies say
00:01:08.320
so as a girl with 15 piercings i do have piercing regret and that would be my thirds
1.00
00:01:14.640
those bitches have not healed at all they i got them done last
1.00
00:01:19.760
october no august of last year have not healed have not healed i clean them with saline spray
1.00
00:01:29.240
i don't i barely touch them i have a piercing pillow i have literally like difficult piercings
00:01:35.540
like my helix my like hidden rook i have my dave piercing those are crazy it's like why get
00:01:43.420
attention from piercing why don't you get intentions from attention from losing weight
00:01:47.160
uh going on a cut i'm healing those are fine healing my thirds absolutely not i hate it i
00:01:53.480
hate it so much will not get another like low piercing these my like in between my first and
00:02:01.280
my seconds healed fine they're healed they're good they're good to go but not my thirds not
00:02:06.180
my thirds so there's a girl with all right let's see all right so she regrets some of the higher
00:02:11.240
ear piercings yeah i thought about getting my cartilage but i don't know i don't wear earrings
00:02:16.380
enough because if look if it's small i'm gonna lose it it's just i can't be trusted with anything
00:02:22.300
like like anything that i have to remember to do daily i pierced my own belly button yeah you
0.61
00:02:29.500
heard that right i pierced my own freaking belly button well really i sort of had to do it twice
00:02:36.060
because what happened was i was at my friend's house and a couple of us a couple of us did it
0.98
00:02:40.220
we took safety pins fucking geniuses we took safety pins and we shoved it through and then
0.79
00:02:46.780
what i did was i had to go to the mall and get an actual belly button ring and i guys i was outside
0.97
00:02:54.460
of the mall laying in the grass with johnny my boyfriend at the time and i think i had my friend
00:02:59.020
lauren i think there's like a couple other people there laying in the grass shoving the belly button
00:03:04.620
ring through the, the safety pinhole. Like, what are you kidding me? Like, that just tells you my
00:03:10.880
mental state at that time. You know, I could never do something like that today. I was the toughest
00:03:15.760
fucking kid on the planet. So, um, and actually what happened with that was my, I kept a diary
0.98
00:03:21.820
in eighth grade, which God, why did I always write everything down? It got me into so much trouble.
00:03:25.320
My mom read my diary, loved to read my diary apparently. And she knew that I pierced my
00:03:31.100
belly button and what she did instead of her just coming out and being like, Oh, you pierced your
0.99
00:03:34.380
belly button what she did was this is smart I'll give my mom credit she took me shopping we went
0.99
00:03:39.660
shopping at the mall and she came in the dressing room with me and when I was trying on clothes
00:03:47.400
she made it seem like she just saw it and she was like what is that and it was like what
00:03:51.020
I was like oh fuck I got in so much trouble for that but here's why I regret it not only because
0.85
00:03:56.020
that was traumatic as hell but I have the worst scar because I pierced my belly button like
0.98
00:04:02.340
on top of my belly button so both the top part obviously supposed to be on the top but the
00:04:07.440
bottom part that's supposed to be like in your belly button is on top of my belly button so I
00:04:12.300
have just like this crazy scar above my belly button it's insane where you know now if you
00:04:19.300
you can tell if someone had a belly button piercing and they've taken it out they just
00:04:21.900
have a little hole above their belly button you're like cool I know what that was no not me I have
0.96
00:04:25.400
this like crazy fucking scarf yeah that's the thing one of i know a relative that their friend
0.98
00:04:32.360
like in high school this is the the parents that think they can control their kids you can't like
0.99
00:04:37.780
they'll get their hands on tattoo guns belly button i mean it's just it's a lost cause we're
00:04:43.300
cooked we're done i'm no longer behind bars you can thank my best friend for that line
00:04:51.720
she got nipple piercings oh no now she's got a jesus crop we know the pipeline we know it
0.92
00:04:59.140
from the shackles of nipple piercings come with me to release myself from the shackles of nipple
0.98
00:05:06.680
piercings i had a cry about this this is so dumb i'm angry at myself because i ended up just getting
0.90
00:05:10.800
them re-pierced seriously regret getting my nips and belly button pierced they're crusty they spout
00:05:15.280
goo finally it happened to me right the way i wanted to retire these piercings i had them for
00:05:21.840
five years causing me so many issues every time i would think about getting rid of them it's like
00:05:26.000
it would send signals to them and they would know to get infected so i can't remove them obviously
00:05:30.160
they are not infected and i'm about to get my yiddies done i really only got them because i
00:05:35.680
wanted a confidence boost because i'm very flat chested and they still have their purpose you
00:05:39.280
know but it's time to go i'm not growing down literally i'm free oh my gosh okay let's see this
00:05:49.680
one i pierced my own oh wait i saw this one already let's keep going all right what piercing
00:05:57.120
did you regret lady like has to be getting my belly button pierced at a time where i was very
0.85
00:06:02.000
insecure or i guess having my belly button pierced and then somebody ripping it out of my stomach
00:06:05.360
i'm still not too sure which one but listen i got my belly button pierced by the time where i was
00:06:09.760
very insecure never wore crop tops when i had it i had my piercing for eight months it was the last
00:06:15.260
day of school wore a crop top for the first time took my hoodie off in sixth period and i kid you
00:06:20.140
not my best friend looked at me in the eyes and went do you have a belly button piercing i have
00:06:25.800
for the last eight months nobody knew that i had my belly pierced because i was so insecure and then
00:06:30.440
like went to the beach for the first time in a full bikini and literally that day somebody ran
00:06:33.940
up to me and ripped my belly piercing out now i have an ugly scar and then after two years of
0.97
00:06:38.260
being really insecure about the fact that my belly button is now so fucked up like even more
0.97
00:06:42.020
fucked up than it was after i got my appendix taken out i remember i posted a video showing
1.00
00:06:45.940
off the scar some stranger commented and went your belly button looks like a vagina oh thanks
0.99
00:06:50.900
no yeah thanks thanks new insecurity like i didn't just post a video talking about the fact that i'm
0.98
00:06:57.460
really insecure about my belly button oh yeah thanks i should have shown off my belly button
00:07:01.060
piercing more when i had one because now i just get bullied on the internet and it was okay let's
00:07:06.020
see what she's getting our regrets that i see most people get when they're doing their piercing
00:07:10.660
especially the number one regret that i see the most is people getting pierced on both sides
00:07:14.180
especially cartilage i never ever recommend it's everyone's ears you can do whatever you want but
00:07:18.260
i never recommend to get two cartilage piercings on different sides at once i'm like do one ear
00:07:21.940
and then move on to the other you know what when i was young i thought about cartilage but it seemed
00:07:25.700
too painful i heard it hurts too much it's fine if like a couple months you have one ear that's
00:07:30.020
spare in one ear that's not because when you go to sleep and you cannot sleep on both sides of
00:07:34.020
your ears head whatever that is going to be like hell on earth it is not fun for anyone usually
00:07:38.740
you do end up sleeping on it and then your piercing goes from this angle to this angle and the jewelry
00:07:43.380
is sitting straight up and you can't even see the study anymore and it's not cute plus it doesn't
00:07:47.140
heal well another regret that i see is a lot of people are really really fixated on a certain
00:07:50.980
placement or a specific type of piercing rather than having a piercer like look at the anatomy
00:07:54.900
of their ear and figure out what's going to look good on your specific ear type go to your piercer
00:07:58.900
with lots of ideas not just one i love seeing inspo i think that's really really helpful for
00:08:03.880
a piercer but don't be so stuck on one that you do something that just is not going to heal well
00:08:08.680
or look cute on your specific ear everyone's ears are so different another huge regret that i see
00:08:13.260
is people not downsizing their post and so then you got this huge long ab post that keeps getting
00:08:18.560
caught in your hair and you wake up and it's angry i don't know about other studios our studio we
00:08:24.100
charge ten dollars for a downsize it's like five minutes to do it's so freaking easy i have seen
00:08:30.500
other people be like well if my piercer didn't charge like 50 for a downsize yeah i i get that
00:08:35.140
because it's such a crucial part of your healing um go downsize it's gonna heal again at a weird
00:08:41.540
wonky angle and it's always gonna be angry and then you're gonna blame your piercer or whatever
00:08:45.380
just go get it down another regret that i see is getting a piercing that you have to hide whether
00:08:48.500
it's because of your job your school whatever it is if you're having to constantly hide a piercing
00:08:53.140
you are going to end up hating it and just taking it out because it's not going to be easy for you
00:08:57.060
and also a piercing that it's hidden or disturbed all the time it's not going to heal super well
00:09:00.740
and it's not going to be cute in the long run yeah and i don't know i'm just a practical person
00:09:07.220
so it's got to be pragmatic last one i see this all the time people are assuming piercings aren't
00:09:11.540
permanent so it doesn't matter if it doesn't heal right or if they don't like it because they can
00:09:15.140
just take it out and it's going to close now sometimes this is right and this is how it goes
00:09:19.060
I can't tell you how many lobes that I have seen specifically lobes because a lot of people would
00:09:23.440
do that at home or with a like DIY piercing gun where you can just see so many holes in the ear.
1.00
00:09:30.360
It's so not cute and I feel so bad for these girls. Sometimes the holes never ever ever leave.
00:09:36.540
Yeah um yeah okay let's go to the next one. I have 44 piercings and here are my piercing regrets.
00:09:44.160
Starting off this one is something that I think no one really thinks about. Again 44 piercings
00:09:49.020
you're like you could be a cute girl next door and you guys just want to look like tramps why
00:09:53.700
um and i regret it the most is i did not plan out my piercings bro i didn't stop and think and smell
00:10:00.640
the roses and think hmm what do i want my ears to look like in the next 10 years next two years
00:10:06.100
and i think now because it's kind of trending on social media a lot of people they have like a
0.98
00:10:10.340
picture of their ear and they draw on what they want it to look like but my ass at 16 years old
0.99
00:10:15.180
didn't do this. I just took a piercing gun and I did a bunch of stuff and luckily it worked out.
0.99
00:10:19.600
I found a way to style it. However, if I had styled it from the get-go with a plan, I think
00:10:23.960
I just would have been more happy and it would have been less difficult to style my ears because
00:10:28.220
a great example is this ear took me like years to fall in love with it and be able to style it
00:10:35.180
like this to a point where I actually like it. Another thing is neglecting my piercings. I wish,
00:10:40.360
wish wish on my deepest deepest days that when i had first started piercing myself i had taken care
00:10:45.880
of them i had used saline i had used proper jewelry proper quality i had gone to professional
00:10:51.320
i had done this the proper way i also wish i would have bought a piercing pillow sooner
00:10:56.520
i bought it when i had started getting i think professionally pierced which was maybe three
00:11:01.240
years ago but i started getting pierced four years ago so for a year i was really struggling
00:11:05.800
especially when you're healing something like a helix or a cartilage a piercing pillow will
0.99
00:11:09.800
literally save your ass every single time. I wish I had researched my piercer or at least done a
0.99
00:11:15.800
piercer that works for me long-term. I love when I can go back to the same piercer. You have that
00:11:20.740
relationship. You guys vibe with each other. You know each other. It's like a tattoo artist. I go
00:11:24.640
to the same girl because she knows me. She knows what I like. She knows how I process, how I work.
00:11:29.160
So I want us to be in the same mindset and I want us to keep working with each other.
00:11:33.640
And at first I was just kind of going to places that I thought were good. They have great reviews,
00:11:37.720
but they weren't really realistic. Maybe they were too far away. Maybe it was a person who I
00:11:42.520
knew was moving. And you can do that, of course, if you really want to make the two hour drive or
00:11:46.280
one and a half hour drive to a shop. However, to me, that's not realistic, especially when you're
00:11:50.160
working and you're busy. I want it to be somewhere where it's commutable and a good review. So my
00:11:56.160
shop now, I go to the same one for the past year. She wants it. She doesn't really regret piercings.
00:12:01.680
Hers aren't too bad. I don't think ear piercings as a girl or even belly button is going to do that
0.98
00:12:06.660
much for you nipples like who wants infected nipples you know i don't think piercings really
1.00
00:12:12.560
are going to be the end of the world for a woman as long as they're not on her face
1.00
00:12:17.080
one nose piercing and once you get into lip and all that weird stuff right about nearly everything
1.00
00:12:24.000
in my life thus far and i'm 30 years old but this is probably the thing she was most right about
00:12:29.240
when i was a teenager i really wanted my belly button pierced along with like everyone else my
00:12:33.660
age. She would not let me do it. So I did it after I turned 18. I have three kids and I took
00:12:41.500
my belly button ring out before I had my first. And now I look like I have a cat's butthole on
0.96
00:12:48.600
my stomach, my mom pouch, my stretch marks. Like none of that makes me insecure, but this, that
0.95
00:12:56.920
I don't let it like consume me. I still wear crop tops and things like that. But if I had seen this
00:13:03.300
when I was a teenager, I don't know that I would have ended up getting my belly button ring only
00:13:07.760
to wear it. Damn. Wait, let me pull that up again. I think I missed it. For three years and then take
0.99
00:13:13.560
it off. Wait, hold on. That? Oh, that looks terrible. Oh my God. I ate my words. I didn't
00:13:23.600
realize it looked like that. I mean, I don't think it's the end of the world, but like most guys,
00:13:30.120
it's still do it right you know she's thin cute enough but yeah that doesn't look good okay guys
00:13:36.900
let me know what you think in the comments I love you thanks so much for watching like the video and