This is my old hand web- the pierce was four years old when this picture was taken, which I'm told is well past middle age for this type of pierce, which often migrates and falls out.

I wanted something original- something I had never even seen before - so I asked the piercer at the local tat shop if he could pierce my hand web. He said sure, why not? And went to work. He had apparently never done one of these before, and after he was finished he took a picture of it to put on his wall.

The aftercare instructions I got were atrocious- although I didn't know that at the time. I was cleaning it three times a day with alcohol and peroxide, and then applying steroid cream. It was a wet, puffy, yellow-and-red mess for almost a year. Then I read some FAQ's on body piercing, and switched over to just Dial Gold soap. All hail Dial Gold! Within a week it started to settle down.

The bad news is that it never stopped migrating- over the four years the top hole moved over a centimeter away the original entry point. The small ring in the pictures above is one that I put in during the last few months in hopes that a lighter ring would migrate less. No such luck- about 6 months after I took those pictures the ring migrated right out of my hand.

Now I just have these tho little nipple-bumps on my hand web. But I didn't give up, and opted totry again.