A few months ago, my friend Lorna was coming up from Burton to come see me, and as I live in the most boring place on earth, I was trying to think of something fun for us to do [besides getting pissed all day] so, I immediately thought of all three of us getting pierced! [she was bringing her 'friend' *hint hint* Carl]
At A Glance Author -angelicfruitcake- Contact -angelicfruitcake-@bme.anon When Three months ago Artist girl with cool pink dreds Studio The Metal Guru Location stockton uk So I went traipsing through the archives of BME, as I wanted something more than ordinary but not too unusual as my current boss was already on my case for my piercings. I settled on getting the side of my lip pierced [something I'd desired since the age of 14] So the merry day of the piecing fest came, and off we went to Stockton to The Metal Guru as I've heard it's the best place around for any piercing. So on the way we stopped off at my work so I could ask my boss if I could have my lip pierced, but he was on his honeymoon and everyone said he'd just say no anyways. Humph. So, we carried on to Stockton [me sighing and being in a strop in the back] and we finally found where we were meant to go [it's down a little alleyway and we got lost hehe]
Lorna was staring at the 'pwetty pwetty jewellery' and hankering after a black rose navel bar, and I was thinking hmmm what do I want when all of a sudden I had an itchy ear, scratched it and thought 'hells yer!' I asked the piercer [I think her name was Tanya, although I'm not too sure, I was too fascinated by her gorgeous pink dreads] and she said yeh that's fine and will look great.
So after giving Lorna an excited grin, Tanya took me into the little room where she would stick that loveable hunk of metal through my eagerly awaiting cartilage. She said the piercing I described was called a rook, and that it was getting evermore popular and she'd already done three others that week. She placed the dots where she thought it would be best and asked me to check. So I looked carefully in the mirror, and couldn't see the dots, then realised they were right at the top of my ear, I told her they were much too high, and put the dots where I thought they would look good, she said that was called a snug and are more rare, well, that sealed the deal. I said I wanted a ring, but she said that would give a high risk of infection and may also shatter the cartilage as it was in an awkward place, so I settled on a barbell. [this day was proving most disappointing] but I lay down on the bed anyway, and she proceeded to clean my ear and wipe off the 5 other placements we'd tried out.
When the pen had finally come off my ear [stubborn little buggers] Tanya told me to relax, and prepped my ear whilst I fired questions at her about how much it would hurt, and how she washed her hair without it going all matted and fucked. [she washes it once a week and wraps a towel around it and sleeps like that as it takes 3 days to dry apparently. And yes, it's not the most comfortable of piercings you can get.] 'great, it's gonna hurt like hell' I thought. Mind you, I don't mind a bit of pain, it just wasn't the type of pain I was after. I wanted a nice big needle sticking out of my lip, not hearing my ear crunching. But anyways, I lay down and relaxed, full of knowledge about her hair, 'Are you ready?' 'No' came my reply. 'I'm gonna do it now whether you're ready or not, and don't worry it'll look great' 'I know' came my grinning reply. 'I'm gonna count to three and then pierce you....oh...and you may want to hold onto something really hard....' So I held onto the sides of the bed which was harder than you may think, as it was leather and my hands were sweaty [I sound like a right wuss, I'm not, I just get nervous...honestly...] and after hearing three, clenched my teeth as I felt the needle go through my flesh, crunch through the cartilage and then glide out the other side, popping slightly. After my cry of 'SHHHHH....IT' she said she was about to thread the barbell through and I thought 'thank fuck it's almost over' then after my cry of 'FFFFF...' and Tanya finishing off my sentence of 'Fuck? Yeh threads are a right bitch' she screwed the ball on and I was all done. She told me to stay lying there for a few seconds as she told me about the aftercare and how its best to just use arm water and a little un-fragranced soap such as Simple, or a supermarkets own brand, and if it gets infected use Ibrobufen gel to reduce the swelling, and saline solution to clear the infection. I sat up, steadied myself and strode out of that tiny room happy as a lamb [however happy they are] paid my £15 [bargain I thought] and expected Tany "\Ãw"ë a to take Lorna or Carl into the little room to be tortured but no, Lorna just bought her black rose navel bar and Carl said he was getting a tattoo down the road. So fair enough I thought, at least we get to see Carl suffer. But nope, he changed his mind the spoilsport.
So anyways, if you want this piercing I say go for it, yes it hurts like bloody hell but only for literally 2 seconds whilst its being pierced and threaded, then its fine. Its beautiful and I love it. It's still a little tender and swollen, but that's because I haven't been cleaning it as thoroughly as I should have. Silly me.