Don't you love when you get to look back on the old times and see how dumb you really were?
At A Glance Author kittie Contact kittie@bme.anon When A year ago Artist me Studio my bathroom Location alberta When I was 17, I decided to scalpel my lobes from 18g to 0g. The setting is rural town, alberta, and I was always looked at as quite strange, Because of 7 earrings in each ear, a nose ring and tattoos on both shoulders and forarms, and did I mention, the only person in school with turquoise hair. Everyone was, for as long as I remember, andways asking me things like, "why dod you do that to yourself?" and "what are you gonna do when you get old?".
So my decision to this, everone disapproved, but hey, you gotta stand out when your me. My mom, who said she didn't approve, went and bought me supplies for this because she would rather I used a sterilized scalple to an x-acto. I went onto the internet, and got the jist of things, and then decided, i was going to do it, for sure.
So I told my mom when I was about to, and she insisted on being in the bathroom with me, so i started cleaning up an area, and she was already pale. I say down on the toilet (lid closed) and set out everything on a peice of paper towel adjusted my mirror, wahsed my hands and wrapped an old towel around my neck. Picked up the marker, and started making "x's" where i though it would go good (by then, my mom wussed out and settled for sitting outside the door, in earshot) picked up the scaple, and after a few deep breaths, just started scalpeling. First I slit vertically, and horizantily, and I dont remember too much about that strangly enough. It hurt so much, and I was thinking of how much easier it would be if i didnt have to do it myself, because I was shaky with pain. I got the first plug in, dumped bactine on it, washed my hands and marched out into the hallway, where my mom was.
She almost fainted from all the blood, but I didn't care. I loved it. So that was one, and I needed symetry, so i cleaned up the mess, and started on the other ear. This time, cutting was more enjoyable, and I slipped the plug in, bactine on it, and washed the blood drips from my neck and went to go show her again, this time she just nodded her head and walked away, muttering under her breath "dammed kids, just don't get why they would do that to themselves". I didn't care. I did it myself, and it healed perfectly, no infection.
After that, I was out the door, to go show my friends. My friend bunny, she almost fainted, but after she got used to it, she confided in me that she seriously thought I would ever do it (but she should have known by then, when I say something, it gets done)
My boyfriend on the other hand, just about broke up with me. He went on and on and on about how I was just doing nothing but mutilating myself, and that I am psyco and all that other fun mental-illness stuff. But he said "take them out or I will break up with you", so I said "Bye". But now I see it this way... He is the freak or weirdo, that is 20 years old and never had a tattoo or peircing in his life, and won't even look at them.
To date though, I have stretched them to 000g each, with no problem (and found myself a boyfriend that thinks it's cute for girls to have metal and ink and even has a PA and eyebrow ring himself, unlike the one who thought that my experience was psyco and shortly afterwards broke up with me claiming I had mental problems) Add a few more tattos and peircings, stopped dying my hair bright turquoise (now dark purple). And I actually have a job that deals with public, and my boss likes me (says I have "zing", whatever the hell that is). But one more thing I can't get over though, is because of my mods, people are scared of me. More adults than little kids, suprisingly enough. And I still get treated like I was a high school drop-out and I do drugs and stuff (all because the way I look, even though the truth is quite opposite). Oh well, I guess that just may come with living in a small town in rural Albeta.
Truley addctive, but still i stick by my rules, that even though, through dumb luck, everything went fine for me... there are some things that you shouldn't do in your bathroom. Good luck in your experiences!