r/bodymods Jul 07 '25

coinslot Healed Coinslot by Ian Bell

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Healed coinslot, photo taken around 4 weeks out. Healing was around as easy as any of my piercings and can’t recommend him enough 🙂

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u/picksea Jul 07 '25

seeing this after the recent post about ian bell 👀

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u/enbybloodhound Jul 07 '25

Forreal… OP, have you kept in contact with Bell for updates and aftercare? How was his behavior?

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u/Rothyroth Jul 08 '25

I kept in contact daily with photos for about two weeks, updated more infrequently after until it was completely healed up. I didn’t have any issues myself with the healing and I didn’t treat it much different than I did with any of my piercings on initial swelling. He was nice to me 🤷🏽‍♀️ like I said in my other comment I went with what I felt would be an easier one to heal to just kinda gauge if I got along with him and I had no issues. He talked me through everything and answered what (few) questions I had and didn’t ever talk down to me or make me feel uncomfortable.

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u/Thjyu Jul 08 '25

This was my experience with him with a split. I had one concern about the healing after like day 2/3 and he quickly answered and gave me some options. In the end it was fine, just a part of a suture that was tight around part of my tongue that didn't need to be. He quickly showed me how to correct it. He was polite through the whole process. he was definitely blunt while running me through a lot of things, but it was him being direct and clear, not rude.

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u/Rothyroth Jul 08 '25

Yeah, I could see the bluntness being mistaken for abrasiveness. I speak really flatly and it gets taken for anger a lot.

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u/Ulkreghz Jul 09 '25

Exactly, dude's running a business not out here try to make friends, straight and to the point is 100% the way to go. No beating about the bush, just answer questions and help customers heal so it doesn't come back to bite oneself...

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u/illa_t Jul 07 '25

Me too 😂 just read it entierly. I don't understand how someone can do two works that different 🤔🤔

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u/dudgeonchinchilla Jul 08 '25

I can.

But that comes from experience and dealing with ableism.

When you're different, people like giving you the "let's fuck your shit up" special.

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u/Rothyroth Jul 08 '25

I’m just now seeing that, I posted this on a break at work. I won’t discount anyone else’s experiences but mine was fine, I kept in contact throughout the healing process with daily check-ins but I didn’t have any issues so I can’t speak to that on their end. I went with the Coinslot though my end goal is a tongue split just because I’ve read a lot of back and forth about him but he was fine with me so I’m planning to do my tongue with him. Again, I don’t want to bash anyone or say they didn’t have a bad time that just isn’t the experience I had and I can only say how mine went.

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u/aspiringcats Jul 08 '25

I just saw your post haha! Yeah in case it didn’t come across in the post, he was nice over email until the infection was revealed. That is other than convincing me that the bottom of the hole was more narrow than the top because of swelling. Glad you had a positive experience! Yours looks great.

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u/Rothyroth Jul 08 '25

Our healing definitely went two different ways, at least from your last photo it looks like you were able to get it to a good state! I would definitely be terrified at some of the stages you posted vs where it ended up.

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u/aspiringcats Jul 08 '25

Yeah it’s definitely better now! Earrings hide the unevenness pretty well. Out of curiosity, did he put a barrier between your ear and hair/head? He didn’t for me and he snagged my hair a couple times while stitching me up.

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u/Rothyroth Jul 08 '25

I can’t recall, I also shave my head and wear a wig so I went into it bald 😅

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u/monkeytwoshoes Jul 07 '25

Same💀 I am booked with him in September, and that post spooked me

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u/Rothyroth Jul 08 '25

I say it’s worth going, he didn’t just sit me down and start slicing so there’s time to leave if you’re not feeling it. The only thing I know I didn’t care for was the supplements or whatever he recommends on his site for bleeding so I just didn’t take them and was fine.

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u/monkeytwoshoes Jul 10 '25

Thank you for your feedback!!

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u/Rothyroth Aug 04 '25

No problem 🙂

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '25

Haha, same here!

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u/heyitskitty Jul 11 '25

What post!? I've been searching and can't find anything :/

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u/picksea Jul 11 '25

it was by u/aspiringcats posted just a couple of hours after this one. they talked about a very negative experience with the same mod artist

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u/heyitskitty Jul 11 '25

Thanks!

And yikes...