Ok, so this started off as me and a friend going downtown EARLY in the morning so that i could get my tongue pierced. It almost wasn't worth it considering everything that we had to go through. First off, we figured that a bank would be open so that we could take out money for the piercing. But after wandering around banging on the glass to bank windows for an hour we came to the conclusion that banks weren't open on Saturdays. We finally found a bank machine and got the money. After this we began our journey to young st. We ended up at some trashy place on that my friend assured me was good. We went there because I wasn't 16 yet.
At A Glance Author anonymous Contact anonymous@bme.anon Artist Gregory Studio Abstract Location Queen St. So we get there and the chick that does the piercings looks to be about my age and shes french. First thing my friend says is, "thats not the girl". Her so called "technique" is to pierce using the barbell and I was just just like, theres no way. She went through everything with me, the normal stuff and all that. Meanwhile shes just holding the barbell that is going to be in my tongue with her bare hands! Next thing she tells me I have to hold the clamps myself. And there was just no way that I could do that. So anyways...I asked her if she could pierce it with a needle instead cuz I wasn't really too comfortable with the tip of a rounded barbell going through and she starts telling me that she hasn't done it in like three years so im like, ok whatever. So, shes about to pierce it....I convinced her to hold the clamps...and she squeezes like incredibly hard. Like i thought I was bleeding...I thought she had pierced it. and shes just like, no...it was the clamps. So after that... i didn't really want to do it anymore at this place so she starts trying to convince me that she is able to do it with a needle. She says she just did it like three weeks ago. And so im thinking...didn't she just tell me she hadn't done it in about three years? Whatever this girl was telling us I was just not getting good vibes from it at all. She left the room for about ten minutes so that i could "relax" or something. But i didn't need to relax...we just knew she was going about things really weird and were trying to figure a way out of it. Because of her NO REFUNDS rule...it posed as a problem.
I figured that there was just no way I was going to be comfortable with her piercing my tongue. And she had worked me into being so nervous. I must have sat in that chair for at least 45 minutes convincing myself that it wasn't going to hurt and that the girl had to know what she was doing. Meanwhile, the girl had the tattoo artist come in to talk to me and my friend as well as the guy selling tshirts and stuff...all trying to convince us that shes safe, her technique was safe and that generally everything would be alright. We didn't think so. After arguing with someone that i could not even understand, because of her accent, for like half an hour she finally gave us our money back and we left FAST. They all looked sooo pissed. It was scary.
So then after all this I just wanted to get it done and over with. So we decided to head back to Abstract which was all the way on Queen and we didn't have a car. I had already had a couple piercings done there and it was all really clean and they healed really well so i felt comfortable with the place. We get there and what took the other girl like 30 mins to explain took this guy like 5. It was quick, painless, and he was cool too. My tongue was really really swollen that day. But my friend understood because she already had hers done so she just talked while i nodded my head for the rest of the day. The whole day and the whole experience was pretty awful but I finally got it. And I was happy that i actually went through with it because the idea of a needle going through my tongue just turned my stomache. But all in all....the actual piercing itself did not even hurt very much. It was just the swelling. My tongue was swollen for about 8 days and it was hard to eat and stuff but its all worth it now and i love it!