Process Essay

Topic: How to pierce your hand web

Thesis: Piercing your hand web can be a great way to define your bizarre personality, feel cool about yourself, and having a piercing that hardly anyone would do, it's not for everyone, but if you think you might be interested, then read on.

Sup 1: Following these procedures given requires a few tools:

* Professional hollow (sterilized - preferably autoclaved) needle

* sterile clamps

* Barbell (straight or curved, make sure the needle is one size bigger than the jewelry you wish to put in )

* Alcohol wipes

* Gloves

* A marker

* A&D ointment

* Standing light(e.g Lamp)

Sup 2: To complete this process, simple procedures are as followed.

* First you must decide on a location to do this procedure

* Clean the location where you going to perform the piercing

* If you bought sterile clamps and jewelry, then great, but if not, you will need to boil these in a pot of water, and then wipe them off.

* Lay out your tools on the surface you cleaned and make sure your jewelry is screwed out from one side

* Wash your hands thoroughly

* Wipe your hands

* Put on a glove on either hand which will be used to do the piercing

* Apply alcohol on a swop and carefully clean the area (web) on your hand

* Put on the light and place your hand under the light

* Look for any veins that might be in the way

* Get the marker, and make two dots(entrance and exit) on your hand web

* Change gloves

* Get the clamp, and stretch your skin where you marked the dots, and place the clamp securely in line with the dots

* Unpackaged needle

* Get A&D ointment and rub it on the tip of the needle

* Double check clamp is still in place

* Take needle and push it through the marking until the needle head comes out the other end

* Do not push the needle all the way through (the needle should be seen on both entrance and exit)

* Put the end of the jewelry that is screwed off into the needle hole

* Pull out the needle

* When your jewelry is in, tighten the ball on the jewelry

* Dispose needle

* Clean the area you pierced

* You've been pierced

Conclusion: Piercing your hand is not that bad as saying OUCH...Right!

Body piercing is a form of body modification, in which you puncture a hole in a part of your body, and insert some sort of jewelry in the wound to keep it from closing. Piercings can be in your ears, nose, septum, cheeks, lips and even your hand. You name it! Although the hand, web is one piercing that can be done by you. Piercing your hand web can be a great way to define your bizarre personality, feel cool about yourself and having a piercing that hardly anyone has, it's not for everyone but if you're interested read on.

To start, following these procedures given requires a few tools. You'll need a professional hollow needle, which is sterilized and preferably autoclaved which will