Am puzzled. Do you adhere your home made CD labels before or after recording them with your music or voice?

I've already recorded both music and voice CDs but am wondering if it's too late to adhere my own self-made circular labels and still get them to play in players other than my own PC. I'm just not sure how this all works. Or...do I adhere those labels and then make the recording on top of labeled CDs?

Am a semi-blind gal who's not all that into technology so please give simple step by step answers. Oh, just to enlighten y'all, (some folks still think that blindness means either being hard of hearing or stupid) blindness has very little to do with one's intelligence. I wasn't always blind but think I still have some good smarts left <grin> Thanks to one and all for your help; I appreciate it a great deal.