I wanted to get my tragus pierced since I was 9. I was at a water park with my step-mom and I saw a lifeguard working there with it done. I wanted to ask him about it but he was like 20 and I was 9..that and he was working. I knew my mom wouldn't have let me get it done but my step-mom was going to let me. Well, I went in to get it done, this would only have been my 5th piercing so I was nervous...and chickened out. I was still fascinated by getting it pierced, however. It became more and more popular and I got more and more frustrated because I still wanted to get it done.
At A Glance Author Briana Contact PrincessPeaPod04@hotmail.com When Three months ago Artist Jeff Studio Warlock's Location Raleigh NC Well, I turned 16 and already gone through 8 other piercings and figured I didn't care, I wanted to get it done. (After getting kicked out of public school and being forced to go to a small private religious school, forced to wear strict uniforms, and stripped of all individuality, I knew it was time). So for months I begged and begged my mom into taking me to get it done. She kept saying no but I finally got my dad to agree. We were almost there and he realized he didn't have his wallet, so we turned around to go get it and by then it was too late to drive back out because it was closed. Then my dad changed his mind. I still didn't give up. Finally I talked my mom into taking me, despite her opposition. One night, on a whim, we drove out to the parlor. I went in and the guy was joking with me from the minute I walked in. I was wearing a shirt that said "Lefties do it right but righties do it better" and the piercer was left handed. So I kind of got the butterflies but I wasn't going to give in and chicken out...AGAIN.
So I stood around waiting for the needles and other tools were sterilized. I was kind of getting more and more anxious/nervous while looking at all the gauge rings and other things. So I went to look at tattoos (I'm going to get two of those in November). Finally, after what seemed like forever, he lead me in the piercing room. He put on black Darth Vader like surgical gloves and I laid down on the chair. He was joking around still and gave me the whole speech about infection, liability, and care. We signed the papers without thought and we continued with the process. He was talking to me and trying to relax me. So after a few deep breaths, he pushed the needle in and all the while, explaining what he was doing. So after a couple of minutes he said Ok and stopped. This is not an ordinary one step piercing, it's a two step piercing. So after hearing quite a lot of noise in my ear, I thought he was done. And I thought wrong. I pulled my head away and went to stand up while he was still putting the captive ring in it's place, not even in the piercing yet. It hurt SO bad. The sharp pain mixed with a kind of burning and pressure throughout my whole ear as well as the throbbing was not comfy...at all.
So he got the ring in, cleaned my ear up and I paid him and left. It was sore for a few days and it still gets a little bit when I sleep on it for a whole night but other then that it's pretty good. Everyone wants to touch it but other then that it's not that big of a deal. I think the worst part about the piercing (besides the pulling away part) was the pressure from having something just... sitting there. I love it though...glad I finally got it done. It makes me happy when people from my school will come up and want to touch it or talk about it because I have something that's part of me, not school regulation and in the dress code. I've always loved being different and being the odd one out of all the bunches and this piercing in particular has helped. Everyone seems to like it and more and more people are wanting to get theirs done. Teachers love to talk about it and it fascinates everyone almost as much as it fascinated me when I was 9.
I guess the only advice I can give about this piercing is do breathe when your piercer tells you to because this one does hurt a little. And just don't pull away. The experience is already not one of a comfortable nature, you don't really need to throw anything else into the pain factor with this one.