So I got my industrial about 3 weeks ago, it was awesome. Being a huge chicken about pain, I went in with my piercing buddy/best friend with little to no nerve feeling. I had been thinking about it, you know asking people what they thought, most said no... but basically I didn't care and got it done anyway.
At A Glance Author Ashtizzle Contact orkday_ash@hotmail.com When A month ago Artist Spike Studio Red Dragon Location Nor Cal With my dearest friend in tow, we went into our piercing shop and found my piercer, hurrah.. he was working... and then began the nervous chit chat. I think my friend might have been just living through me as she has no more room in her ear for an industrial even though she'd talked about it. I have relatively few piercings. Lip, Tongue, Cartlidge and one set of lobes. I had gotten ballsy after getting my tongue pierced and decided not even the scary pain stories on BMEzine could stop me.
Sitting there while I'm about to get pierced is the worst part, my piercer isn't a good person to ask "is this gunna hurt" because well the pain isn't an issue for him either. He sterilized everything, it was familiar considering I've gotten all but one of my piercings in the last 6 months. It's one of those things where if you know someone with a cologne and you smell it on someone else it just brings back memories... I'm in a piercing chair everytime I get a whiff of Listerine. There's nothing like the pre piercing adrenaline rush. You can tell I'm in that "high" because I ramble and giggle and this all is opposite of my momentary petrified lapses when the needle catches my eye. But I'm ready for it.
He marks my ear. But doesn't tell me what he's doing, it's better that way, I'd rather not expect it. Then he tells me to take a deep breath, one.. two.. three. I'd like to say it was through on 3... like it was with my tongue or lip, but unfortunately, It wasn't... He had to wiggle his way, well not WIGGLE, but press his way through the crunchy cartlidge. He did the one closest to my face first. My friend just sat there laughing at my horrified face, oh. It hurt. And there was still another hole left. Needless to say she flipped open my camera phone to catch the next hole in the making. Oh, but I'm an actress.. so, after the first hole he said "you okay?" and I, in my peppiest, most high pitched voice said "yes." Then he laughed at my face and THEN told me "yeah, it's pretty sensitive.., right?" But I've heard about others on this page getting their helix done first, then the anti-helix (I'm probably not even using the right terms..) Anyway, I'm glad I got the worst one out of the way, especially considering my friend had the camera in my face for the next one. So, I grinned, and as the needle went through the second hold.. one.. two.. seconds later, I was still smiling, and even when he slid the barbell through.
If you're concerned about the picture, oh it's hot. I'm smiling, but cringing so I have like 3 chins, but a huge grin on my face.. My ear doesn't really hurt, it's just hot, but that's how I always feel after I get a piercing, an almost pleasant (I said almost!) warm feeling. Of course the worst part was the after care, he made it look so easy when he demonstrated wiggling the bar through the holes, oh boy oh boy. It wasn't a fun deal, then I found out it was easier to do it in the shower, so I wound up smelling like flowers because I'd take two.. three showers a day, Three weeks later and it's still sore, but I expected it, I've read that they can take anywhere from 2 months to a year to heal if you get it pierced with a barbell. Despite a couple nay-sayers. Oh I love my industrial It's so hot. My dad calls me a pin cushion, but I don't get it. It's defiantly not an offensive piercing. It's been three weeks and I still can't stop looking at it. Let me tell you, It hurts, but I am the biggest baby alive. I take slow slow steps up to the door of my piercing shop every time.
Someone else said it on their story, don't let the pain factor scare you away from getting a piercing, because, for reals dude, it only lasts like 2 or 3 seconds and then it's over, and you're prettier than ever. Mwahah. Well that was my exciting little story about my industrial ear piercing. You know you want one if you're reading this. So, you know, like Nike says, Just Do It =D