Where to start well I'm 16 years old and I have my ear lobes pierced my navel and newest piercing my left tragus. A fear of mine is getting shots. I do not like getting shots because every time I do I can feel that liquid stuff they are injecting into your arm. To me this is the worst feeling ever and it makes me feel sick to my stomach. So pretty much when I get shots I pass out.
At A Glance Author caitlyn When It just happened Artist Quinn Studio west coast piercing Location surrey, BC A week ago I got my belly button pierced and I have to say that my belly button was worse than the tragus piercing. It is hard to compare these two piercings because they are in two totally different places on your body. The part that hurts the most with the belly button more than the tragus was the first few seconds when the needle goes in. The part that hurts most with the tragus is after the needle has gone through. Anyways back to my experience.
So after school my mom picked me up and we went to the piercing shop. I was so scared because I had been reading so many stories of people saying it hurt so bad, it was like murder and people at school saying that it would hurt just got to me. But all this talk was not going to stop me I wanted it so bad and I had to wait for 2 months to get it so I had to suck it up. So when I got to the piercing shop I was scared but I didn't want to show it because I know I had to go through with this. I picked out my jewellery which was a 16 gauge titanium captive bead ring I filled out some forms and I was set to go in. My adrenaline was so pumped up and I wasn't even close to being pierced I had just walked into the room.
So when Quinn (the piercer) was ready he told me to sit down on this long bench, sort of like what is in a doctor's room what they make you lay on. So he put some of this stuff on a Q-tip and cleaned my tragus with it. Then he marked a spot and told me to see if I liked the placing of it and it was perfect. He then told me that during the piercing I might hear crunching or popping sounds and this was something I didn't want to hear but I wanted this piercing and some sounds were not going to stop me. So then he took all these rings which were in individual packages and put them near my tragus to see what one would be the best. Once he found one that he though would be best he told me to lay down and he pulled out this flat board that would support my feet. I felt very comfortable but only for a second because I knew what was going to happen in just a few seconds. He put a receiving tube in my ear that would catch the needle once the piercing was over.
So when I felt the needle on my ear I closed my eyes and held onto my mom's hand. Now there was no backing out of this and I didn't want to. I was ready for what I thought was going to be a huge amount of pain. Quinn told me to take a deep breath in and then out and he stuck the needle through. It felt like he had just rammed it through. I didn't hear any sounds and I was happy about that. So once he had finished the piercing he removed the receiving tube and put the jewellery in this was a bit painful. After this my tragus started to bleed so he put a Q-tip in my ear to keep the blood from going into my ear. I thought that the piercing was over with because I didn't feel him put the Q-tip in unless he put it in a long time ago. I was think hmm my hearing is a bit odd right now and then he told me that I had a Q-tip in my ear and when he took it out everything was normal again. He got this tool to put on the bead and he wasn't touching my tragus but it hurt soooo bad I was just trying to breath so that I didn't pass out because my mom told me that if I passed out she would be mad at me. So when he was about to put the bead on it shot across the room. So he had call for another person to get another bead. When he got the other bead and he was putting it on the ring it felt like someone was trying to rip the ring out of my tragus. OUCH!!! He then told me I was done but I wanted to lie their for a minute just to make sure I wasn't going to pass out and then I sat up slowly. At first I didn't want to look at my tragus because I once again didn't want to pass out. So when I was about to walk out of the room I looked at it and it was just what I wanted, it looked so cute. When I left the piercing shop it was a bit sore and stung here and there but it was fine.
So this whole experience was worth it and in the morning my tragus felt fine sometimes I forget I even have it. At night I am able to sleep on it and wear head phones and it feels fine.
I hope that everybody who reads this realizes that everybody is different as far as the experience goes. It all depends on the person and who you're pierced by. Do not go to someone you don't feel comfortable being pierced by. After all, they have the needle that is going to go through a part of your body not you.
Best of luck to everybody :)