So this is my first story on this site..... Exciting! So i'm 17 and an only child. So I pretty much am the first child to do everything and my parents are a bit hesitant about some things. My dad is very much against any kind of body mods, he's quite old fashioned and things that only wasters and druggies get tattoos and piercings. Sigh... tough luck for him!
At A Glance Author Pink--Mist Contact Pink--Mist@bme.anon When Six months ago Artist The only piercer (forget his name) Studio Pain Factory Location Drogheda When I was 13 I got my cartilage pierced on my right side with a gun for 6euro. I thought it was great at the time but I didn't take proper care of it and it got infected. A year later, not realising the problems with gun piercings, I got three on the left ear cartilage. So they were failing to heal aswel. But my right ear started to feel a bit naked and I had a good bit of money saved from random things so I decided I'd have my industrial pierced. I had seen it on only one or two people so I figured it was quite original, and I fell in love with how it looked. My mind was made up!
So I told my mom I was getting pierced. She didn't seem to mind! I didn't tell my dad for obvious reasons! So being underage and not owning a fake id, I went down to the piercing salon and got a consent form with 2 friends. I filled it out and brought it back. My two friends waited outside the door of the piercing room. I was sadly informed that I couldn't bring my best friend in to hold my hand! I'm such a girl sometimes!! Anyway the piercer (lets call him bob, I forget his name) was about 45 or so, and had been working there for quite a while so I felt confident that he knew what he was doing! He set out all his instruments and sterilized them. He talked to me while doing so.
He asked which side I slept on, so I wouldn't have a hard time with the industrial. I replied "oh i'm a roller, so it doesn't make much difference". He just shrugged and told me it was my ear! I felt quite anxious. Then he spent a while measuring my ear, marking it, and re-measuring it. He showed me two dots on my ear in the mirror and showed me the angle at which it would sit. I was happy enough. He then told me to take slow, deep breaths in and out, and when he said "go" to exhale and he would pierce the first hole. So I started breathing slowly, but then started to panic (I hate anticipation!) and started to go a bit faster. He just said to calm down and then said "go!" so I exhaled a lot. It hurt, but it was bearable. He had pierced the lower hole of the industrial. I think the breathing had me distracted aswel so it took my mind off it a tiny bit. Now for the second piece of sharp metal to be shoved through my ear! He basically did the same thing again, but this one hurt a lot more! It was that stingy, hot pain. I'm assuming that one was much sorer because the cartilage is thicker at the top. I winced and exhaled. Then he placed the barbell into my ear and screwed on the ball. I was relieved that it was over but it was throbbing.
He then said "Oh there's plenty of red stuff up here" and I made a bit of a girly whinge lol, and he laughed. He cleaned it with tissues and I froze a bit when I saw him throwing bloody tissues into the bin! Finally he stopped cleaning my ear and put a huge white plaster thing around it, and told me I could take it off just before I went to bed. So I felt like a total idiot walking around town with that on, because at the time I had a Mohawk and my sides were pretty short so it was really obvious! But it was dark so maybe it wasn't too obvious. So at about 7pm I went to my best friend paddy's house. I was talking to him about it and he said that they were talking to some guy outside the piercing room also with an industrial and he told them that he would never do it again, that it was so painful and such. Then they saw me getting it done and I barely made a face, so that was pretty funny! And made me feel TOUGH! Haha! So the pain was pretty much gone, well subsided anyway, I got used to the tiny bit of discomfort! I was very protective of it though, I'd dodge everything that came near it and jolt my head to the left!! So I knew I had to take the plaster off before I got dropped home or my dad would notice it immediately! So I went into the bathroom and took it off as slowly and carefully as I could. It was pretty sore as the sticky bit was wrapped around one of the balls. But I managed after about 5minutes! I got dropped home and headed to my door.
I tried my key in the door but my dad's key was in the other side so I had to call the bell. He answered the door and I was standing sideways in the porch! I tried to get upstairs as fast as possible without him noticing. So anyway, it hurt for about a week with cleaning and accidentally rolling over on it in my sleep! Also, I went to a party the day after getting it done and after a lot of alcohol I ended up sleeping on it for hours... that was pretty crap the next morning! But it was fine after that. I cleaned it with antiseptic wound wash (savlon) twice a day with cotton buds and I pushed it up and down. Now, 7 months on, it's fine. I still clean it when I'm cleaning my recent additions and it's looking great. I would recommend this to anybody who wants it, its such a great looking piercing, and you get a total buzz every time you see it in the mirror/in a picture for a few weeks after it. I still love it after all this time!
Oh and btw, my dad eventually noticed it! But he just complained to my mom and she told him it was just new jewellery that I had gotten the actual piercings years ago. Hehe, good cover, she's class! Anyway hope this article helps!!