When I was 15, I started noticing more and more guys piercing their ears. Some even had more piercings than girls had. At first I thought that these guys were bad and all that but then after a while when I saw that my intelligent friends were also starting to get into them, I thought that it couldn't be too bad.
At A Glance Author pevin Contact pevin@bme.anon When N/A Artist some big guy Studio like paiN? Location m'cca So after a while, I asked if my mom could bring me to a local mall to get them pierced. She said no and said that I would have to wait till I was sixteen till I could get it pierced. So, I felt that it was okay since that would be a short while. Besides, I had some pretty important exams coming soon and couldn't waste too much time on babying my piercing.
Fast-forward a year later, I had done a lot of research about piercings. I now know that it's not good to pierce with guns and it was a good thing that my mom didn't allow me to do it too. On my 24 April, I turned sixteen and I could now get my ears pierced. I asked my parents again and my dad volunteered to send me to a piercing studio. They even offered to pay for it as I did pretty well in my exams.
So on 26th April, I woke my father up really early because I was so excited over it. I know I sound like a small child but I am excited easily. At about 11AM we drove to the nearby piercing studio. Nearby was actually a 1-hour drive. I listened to my new Evanesance(how do you spell this name?!) CD to calm myself.
Finally when we reached it was about 12PM and they had gone out for lunch. So I decided to do the same and went to a food court to get something to eat. I didn't want to faint although it was just a lobe piercing.
After that we just went to an amusement park and played some games. Hey, I finally beat my dad in motor racing! Cool!
Finally when we were done, we went to the shop named LIKE PAIN?. There was this really sweet girl at the counter. She asked what I wanted to get pierced and I pointed at my lobe. She said okay and asked me to sign the form and my dad paid for the piercing. It cost RM50 for one ear and RM80 for both at the same time. We decided to get it pierced at 14GA, as my pain tolerance was quite low. I choose a titanium CBR. My dad followed inside because he said he would love to see me scream. Dream on dad!
She called the piercer out who was really big sized. He has so many piercings all over his face and his ears were HUGE! He was really nice and warm. He asked me to sit down on the 'dentist chair' and cleaned my ears. He changed his gloves and opened the needle and CBR from the package. He marked with a blue colored toothpick and threw it away. I lost count how many times he changed his gloves and I wanted to tell him that it's not necessary to throw so many gloves. Won't they waste money doing this?
Finally when everything was ready, he lowered the chair and made me lie down. At this moment, my nerves were jumping around like mad! I was really nervous but he calmed me down by telling me to breathe and listen to the music. It was some Buddhist song and was very relaxing.
He clamped my ears and I breathed slowly. When I exhaled ¾ air out he pierced it! It didn't hurt much, just some pinching and I was shocked. Then he quickly removed the needle and put in the CBR. The same went for the right ear. It hurt a little more but I could handle more pain than that. Remember that I have a pretty low pain tolerance.
After that he let me see look at myself in a mirror. It was so cute! I immediately fell in love with it. I jumped all around and piggybacked my dad and asked him to carry me out. The piercer told me clean it with antibacterial soap twice a day and do sea salt soaks twice also. I did it when I bathed and just washed them. At first it was rather awkward to put my ear into a cup like that but after that I used a cotton to hold it there.
I didn't have many problems with it except when I picked up the phone too quickly. I banged my ears and it hurt quite badly. Apart from that, it was quite good.
Now it's nearly three months old and currently stretched up to 6GA but that's another story. I'll write about it when I reach ½ inch. That's the most I'll stretch I hope. I don't want to go too big or it might look ugly.
So this is just about it. My experience, not interesting but true and hope it'll educate other people.