The time has come for me to tell about my first ever REAL piercing. And by real I mean with a needle at a piercing Studio rather than with a gun at the local chemist (Yes, I have now learnt, from BME in fact, that using a piercing gun is bad for my piercing and surrounding flesh). Anyway, onto the story of my first real piercing.
At A Glance Author t0x1c Contact t0x1c@bme.anon When A year ago Artist Quille DaSade Studio Absolution Location Christchurch, New Zealand It was a lovely sunny day in the middle of winter, and I was looking around this site I found for a local tattoo studio (this was at the point in which I was looking to get a tattoo, without my parents permission hehehehe). I learnt that they also did piercings.
My piercings before this one was 2 standard piercings in each lobe and one stud in the top of my ear. All done with a piercings gun. To which all healed nicely.
On this piercing part of their website I found a single picture of an industrial piercing, and as you do I instantly feel in love. I didn't mention it to my parents at that point because I thought that they would never let me have another piercing. (I fainted off a bar stool when I got my 1st standard lobes at the age of 12, and like most parents, they didn't want me to have "bits of metal" sticking out of me everywhere).
I then spent the next 2 months looking at that one picture in awe. Then it occurred to me, there is no harm in asking my parents if I could have it. I had been working a lot so I had the money to do it. That evening I asked them. They didn't say no but then again they didn't say yes either. I hoped on the Internet and found the picture and showed it to them. They didn't like it, and thought that I would never have the guts to go through a piercing like that (I couldn't handle pain back then).
After much bugging of my parents I finally got them to agree to let me have it. It was just finding a time and day that my dad could take me into get it. I decided not to go to the piercing place or the site that I had originally found the picture on. I decided to go to a piercing studio that I had heard great things about.
The day finally came round for me and my dad to make the 30 minute drive to Absolution, Christchurch, New Zealand (home of the mighty All Blacks :D). My nerves were building the whole drive there. And my dad wasn't helping. He didn't really want me to get the piercing so was trying to freak me out. "It's going to hurt so much!"... "You're going to bleed so much". Which I now know is a BIG lie.
We arrived at the piercing studio at about midday, every one currently busy so they asked if we could come back in about half an hour. Which was fine, as I was hungry from my nerves(mmmmm McDonalds).
That half an hour went sooooooo quickly. And before I knew it I was lying on the bed at the piercing studio having Quille play round with my ear. After making some quick marks on my ear to show me where it was going to go, he got the needle out and pierced me. BOY did it hurt! And it was only the 1st part. And then wham! The second part of the piercing. It was so quick but yet so painful to me. Having the barbell put through didn't hurt but once again I yelped in pain when he grabbed the piercing so he could get the ball on tight.
I was so quick to get out of there, I just paid up listened to the after care instructions (which were to do salt water soaks twice a day and rinse off the crusties every time I shower (the steam from the water makes the softer and easier to get off), and left.
It throbbed for the rest of the day, but besides that I very little pain, except when I tried rotating the bar for the 1st time. And when I caught my hair on it a couple of times (as you do)
I learnt the hard way what happens when you don't clean your piercing like your told. I forgot to do the salt-water soaks a couple of days a week. Boy did it make the healing process a lot longer and more painful. But it's all healed up nicely now.
To this day, my industrial piercing is my favourite piercing. It's so out there. Not many people have it.
I totally recommend getting this piercing. Its just something different but still easy to hide with you hair.
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