One of my best male friends and I had been searching from August until November for a piercer to do my anti-tragus without going to a shop. As I am under 18, parental consent is usually required. My mom is usually okay with me getting stuff like this done (I got a kind of big tattoo when I was 16 on my back without much begging), but she didn't want to drive far to sign for me and all the closer piercers were not experienced with this particular cartilage piercing. We failed to find one before my senior pictures were taken (I wanted the piercing in my pictures) so I sort of gave up hope.
At A Glance Author Pottytrained825 Contact Pottytrained825@bme.anon When Three months ago Artist Rozz Graves Studio Monkey Bones Tatoo Location Beavercreek, Ohio In January he started dating my best friend and they completely stopped talking to me. She was uncomfortable with how close I was to him, so he couldn't really talk to me at all anymore (We still haven't spoken). I still really wanted the piercing, but no longer had an ally in my search and normally I don't have the nerve to keep doing anything by myself.
In February I noticed that a new tattoo shop had opened on my way home from work. For two months I tried to go in, but every time I chickened out right before turning into the parking lot. I would find excuse to drive by nearly every day and try to talk myself into going in. Normally I am only uncomfortable at shops where people just hang out but aren't customers and don't work there. This didn't look like one of those places so... Finally in May I went in. I finally found a piercer to do my work for me. I also had one of the artists look at my tattoo and see what we could add when I turn 18 (they don't tattoo under 18, which I completely respect). I didn't get it done that day, but about a week later I talked my mom into meeting me there after work along with one of my friends who usually supports my pursuits of this kind.
We had to wait somewhere in the ball park of forty-five minutes for my friend to arrive. So my mom and I talked to the piercer about unusual piercings including his own inter sting if not extremely painful ones. All in all the conversation was fun and I think my mom learned stuff about genital piercings that she never ever wanted to know.
Finally my friend arrived and we ate some candy while he gathered his stuff. He went through the normal procedure of cleaning my ear, etc. . . He warned me that my cartilage is unusually thick and the clamps may not work, in which case an alternative would have to be found. He marked my ear and had me check the placement. I okay ed it and he clamped my poor little anti-tragus. The needle went through quite easily. I waited while he inserted the cbr and bent the ring, cleaned the little bit of blood off my ear and let me look at it. I fell in love with it. I don't think I will ever take it out.
I have an unusually high tolerance for pain so the whole ordeal was mostly just uncomfortable. Not to say that the piercing wasn't painful, but I did 4 of my own earlobe piercings so I kind of enjoys it. I would definitely do it again.
I paid him the 35 dollars and tipped him, since he made me feel at complete ease. Then he took a picture of my ear to put in his portfolio at the shop (a fact which makes me quite proud, since now many complete strangers can look at my beautiful elf-like ears)
It is pretty much completely healed and it has been barely 2 months. I usually have no soreness and it's only sore when I sleep on it for roughly 17 hours without turning, which happens quite frequently actually, but it only last a few minutes.
In my mind this piercing represented the last bond I had with that friend being broken because I had succeeded in this endeavor without his help at all. I'm not entirely sure if this is a healthy way to look at it since it should be something for me and not something to get back at him with, but it made me feel better and I guess that's what matters. I have exacted my half-baked revenge.
I completely recommend this as a unique ear piercing. It is not outrageously painful and it looks really neat. I have NEVER seen anyone with it and I always look for it. I plan on getting my rook done in October and more tattooing at the end of August, maybe I should put up pictures or something.