As a 15 year old girl with an interest in piercings and other body modifications that has spanned the past couple of years I've been DYING to get something done. Well, something other than my lobes which I've had since I was 11. [[Horrible Nasty Gun]]
At A Glance Author Anon. Contact twowrongsareonlythebeginning@hotmail.co.uk When It just happened Artist Danni Studio Blue Banana Location Coventry, Midlands. Anyway, as I need parental consent for any piercing I get done I had to choose a piercing that my parents liked, or at least tolerated. Originally it was my eyebrow i wanted done but my mother point blank refused to let me have it done. So instead i started thinking of more discreet piercings I could get that would satisfy my desire for "self-mutilation" as mother puts it. Whilst walking home from school a few weeks ago I started fiddling with my ear and I thought I had found an area of flesh that felt almost incomplete without a bar going through it.
After extensive "Google"ing and trawling through the articles and photos on BME i discovered that the little bit of flesh was my daith. It was PERFECT. It was discreet, it was unusual, I'd never seen anyone in real life with it pierced. And most of all my dad liked it, so parental consent was in the bag!
So during the first week of the summer holidays I dragged my dad, and his wallet, to Coventry to get my first proper piercing. I was actually terrified, a friend of mine had her tragus done a few months ago and she had gone into graphic detail about how much it hurt and her passing out, and i sort of assumed mine would be just as bad.
We got to Blue Banana, one of my favourite shops when I go to Cov, and the nice lad behind the counter asks me to fill a form and choose my jewellery. It was a choice between a 1.8 and a 1.2 curved ball bar, I went for the 1.8 as it was more prominent and looking back at how difficult and time consuming it was to screw the ball on I was so relieved I'd chosen it.
I was told to take my form and jewellery upstairs and I gave it to Danni who said that I should come back in about 20 minutes after she'd sterilised it and get a sugary drink and some lunch while I waited.
20 minutes later and I was PANICKING. Shallow breathing. Sweaty palms. The works. She called me in from the waiting room and reassured me in no time. She was so lovely and made me feel instantly at ease. She even went to my old school, so whilst she was marking my piercing up and taking the sterile needle out of its packaging she was able to distract me from my fear.
She tilted my head, told me it would hurt and that I had to keep my head still as possible and away she went. It hurt. It was such an uncomfortable feeling with all that pressure on that tiny section of ear. It crunched too. Which made me retch. But once the tubing was through she asked me if I was ok, told me I could lie down for a bit if I wanted, which I gladly did. I felt so lightheaded as the adrenaline pumped through me, but after a few minutes of slagging off the staff at school I was ready to have my bar put in. It didn't hurt at all and it was only mildly annoying when the poor girl spent so long screwing on the ball.
"When you want this swapped out don't ask me to do it...My fingers are too fat to do it easily. But it does look pretty."
She was right it was. It fitted in my ear so beautifully and when I stepped outside to show my daddy he didn't seem to mind it which was a bonus. My mother on the other hand is still repulsed.
I've only had it done about a day but I am slightly worried at the amount of blood its secreted so far. I've cleaned it a couple of times and I've had a rock salt and boiled water soak as well.. It's probably normal for it to bleed a fair bit but I'm going to Coventry tomorrow so I'll check in and ask, best to look like a paranoid idiot than wait six months before having my ear amputated, ok that is a bit of an exaggeration but I feel it's better to be safe than sorry. Especially where body modification is concerned. But overall I'm really happy with my new piercing, I would recommend it to anyone who wants to have a piercing that isn't really "in your face" but is still unusual. And I am rather liking being the only person I know with it done now, and I doubt I'll be taking it out for a while yet. The only minor thing that is really worrying me is how I'm going to get away with it for PE in September...
And wondering what to have done next... The addiction has clearly started. I might pursue getting my lobes done again, only without the awful gun, alternatively I might wait until next summer and get my eyebrow or anti-eyebrow done when I'm free from the constraints of parental consent..