You get pierced.
At A Glance Author Nipple Contact Nipple@bme.anon When A year ago Location Swansea During quite a boring day in work, and having some of my co-workers experimenting with body-mod during the shift, I decided that I wanted to jump on the band-wagon and add another piercing to the 7 I already had.
The majority of them were surface piercing, and I decided that I didn't like them, and didn't really see the point, as you'd have to take them out in a few days, so it was really a waste of time. So I decided to look through the piercer's portfolio for different ideas, as I decided I wanted to add an interesting one to my collection, something that I hadn't seen anyone have before. A lot of people in work had Orbital's and Conch's, so when I came across the Rook, I was instantly attracted to it. I looked in the mirror and decided that my right one looked slightly bigger, and therefore would be the best one to pierce, as there was more room, instead of being cramped in a smaller one. I slightly favoured my right side, because I am left handed, it would be easier to change the jewellery if I ever needed to.
Once I had decided I was having my right rook, I chose the jewellery, I decided to have a CBR, as I had bars in my other piercings in my ears and I wanted this to stand out against them, as it was new. I signed the forms, etc and went into the room, put the ring into the autoclave, pulled my hair out of the way and cleaned my ear, and made sure it was alright for piercing, which it was thank god. I then began getting my nerves again, my stomach felt funny and I felt slightly dizzy as I was working myself up about the needle. I decided to close my eyes at this point and chill out whilst he was marking up the right position for the ring, and then we were ready to roll. I sat facing him on the chair, gripping the arms as tight as I could knowing that the needle would be coming next. We decided not to use the clamp as it would be awkward, so decided to go straight for it. I sat there, breathing deeply and trying to calm myself down a bit; I closed my eyes, and opened them at the wrong time. The needle was nearly going through my ear, when I pulled away and started shaking. I'd seen the needle. This moment always gets me, and is always a pain in the arse to get over. I said I needed time to calm down and pull myself together, an he understood and talked to me to speed it up. I then said I was ready, knowing I wasn't but just wanted to get it over and done with.
After 15 minutes, I decided that I was ready to go with the needle. I closed my eyes, gripped the arms of the chair as tight as I possibly could and shouted GO! After that I held my breath and the needle went through. It stung like a bitch but didn't really hurt. I heard the bottom pop, which was interesting. Similar to what happened with my tragus' and my belly button. He pulled the needle away and then put the jewellery in, which stung as well as it was being pushed through with the canula. I was glad to get it out, and once the jewellery was in and the ball was on, it was fine – it felt as if it was always there.
It didn't hurt at all, which was surprising. My tragus' hurt more, only slightly but I had a bit of pain with them. The only thing I will say about the rook, is that it does take a while to heal, no matter how careful you are of not hitting it, how often you clean it etc, it normally takes a year to heal fully, and I did have a few problems initially with it healing as I kept knocking it, as I forgot it was there. After this, it was fine and has healed perfectly.
The aftercare of this piercing is the same, don't touch it too much, clean it twice a day with sea salt solution etc. the only thing I found a bit awkward was getting into the corner of my ear where the fold is, as in the beginning it was slightly tender, but once it began to heal a bit more it was fine, I could prod it as much as I wanted.
It's a year and a half later and it's still in the same position, and hasn't shown signs of migration yet, thankgod.
I'd really recommend this piercing for something different, and for a practically painless piercing.