I had wanted to get my tongue pierced for ages, but no matter how much I begged my parents they wouldn't let me, although I didn't give up on the idea for ages. (I still haven't, just not yet) And so, I started looking for alternative piercings, something that my parents would either be ok with or not see, ie. something my parents cant see.
At A Glance Author God! When A week ago Artist some guy with a tattooed head Studio Celestial Ring Location Dublin (Ireland) After a while, I decided tongue web piercings weren't bad. I read the tongue web experiences on BME, and it seemed like a simple and relatively painless piercing. I didnt even mention it to my parents, because seen as they don't know it exists they can't find out I pierced it. I finally decided I might as well pierce it, just for the sake of putting another hole in my body even though at the time I didn't think it was a particularly great piercing.
So then last week, I left the hole in which I live (Galway) to go and stay with my cousin in Dublin for the week. I told her about my idea and she thought it was a good idea, well either that or she was just agreeing with me to make me shut up because I tend to keep talking or piss people off until they agree with me.
On Wednesday afternoon we went into Dublin, and went into Metal Morphosis, a piercing studio in Temple Bar. It looked really good, which was necessary because I get very germaphobic when it comes to piercing. I asked a woman if they did tongue web piercing (loads of places dont) and she said they did, but the person who does the piercing was gone to London for the weekend and they wouldn't be able to do it until the next Tuesday, by which stage I would be gone back home so I had to leave :-(
The next day, I was in Rathmines in Dublin and I went to another piercing and tattoo place which I can't remember the name of, something like Needles and Pins?? I didnt really like the place, and the owner was a dirty old Spanish guy. (They were also doing a tattoo behind the counter when I came in which was pretty disgusting because usually they do that stuff where no one can see or at least in somewhere more hygienic looking than that area was) However, it took a damn lot for me to get the balls to go in so I asked if he did tongue web piercing. He said yes but they had just put away all the needles for the night and they were just closing, but if I came back the next day he could do it, and so I left another piercing studio without my tongue web pierced.
The next day, Friday, I went back to the place in Rathmines but the bastard told me that he didn't have the right needle and he couldnt do the piercing until Monday, but I was going home on Sunday. I left in a very pissed off mood and bitched about the Spanish man for ages to my cousin. I didnt think I'd be able to pierce my tongue web now because there were no other good places and the places where I live dont do tongue web.
But... the next day while we were shopping, my cousin remembered Celestial Ring, in Stevens Green shopping centre. We went to find it and it was a really good place. I asked if they did tongue web piercing and they said yes. They took a look at my tongue web and said they weren't sure if i should pierce it because it was kinda small and there wasn't much skin (flesh? whatever...) to pierce but it was more a play piercing anyway and if I wanted it done they could do it.
I decided to think about it and five minutes later I said fuck it there's no reason not to. So I went back to the man at the counter and said I wanted to get it done. He gave me a consent form thing and I went to sit down and fill it out. I was getting nervous about it now but I was quite brave for someone about to have a lump of metal shoved through the bottom of their tongue!
I filled out the usual shit but I didnt really know what to write about the I.D. section because I'm only 15 and you usually have to be eighteen for this stuff. I managed to write some shit, I wrote I was 18 even though it was really obvious that I'm not but the piercer didn't mention it. I think that because I wanted a tongue web, which not many people I've seen have, he presumed I knew a bit about piercing and I wasn't just some dumb blonde Britney-wannabe thinking I'm a rebel for getting my bellybuttton pierced without telling my mummy.
I gave back the form and I had to wait for a few minutes because all the piercing rooms were full. After around five minutes, the man with his head shaved and tattooed came out and said "okay you can come in now". I made my cousin come, not just because I needed someone there but because it was one of those things she just had to see! I was brought into a piercing room and I sat on the bed thing. I gargled with some horrible pink mouthwash for a while and then the piercer gave me a tissue to put on my top because apparently people dribble and drool while having oral piercings. He put on his gloves and then put the clamps on my tongue web. I wasn't really nervous then, and the clamps didnt hurt (I can never understand why anyone says the clamps hurt anywhere, no they don't!) and the next thing I felt a sharp sting and the needle was through (and I could taste blood, hehehe) Then the piercer turned around to get the jewelery and I was left with the needle sticking through my t ongue web which looked really cool! He told me it would probably hurt putting it in and it did a bit but not much. It hurt the worst when he screwed on the ball but it wasn't bad really and it was over in a few seconds. Oh and I'd like to mention that not once during the whole process did I drool at all!
I was deeeelighted with myself and it looked really good! I asked how much it cost and he looked at the price list and said usually 30 euro but he let me off five for not screaming like the last guy whose tongue web he pierced and five because he likes piercing tongue webs which was really nice of him and much appreciated because I had barely any money left. He gave me the aftercare instructions, but I didn't get any mouthwash or anything like that which was kind of strange, you usually do in those places. It didn't hurt at all afterwards for half an hour but then it got damn sore for a good while. I sucked on some ice which made it feel a lot better and later on I went out with my cousin and her friends and I got to show off how cool my new piercing was! even though I think they were kind of freaked out by it but I don't mind because they're all great! that evening, I kinda had to eat normal food because my aunt and uncle couldnt find out that I had it done and it really re ally really REALLY hurt to eat! but I managed, and afterwards I gargled with salt water like they told me and that night I just used the alcohol free mouthwash I had to buy.
I went home the next day and my parents didn't notice anything and I was really happy I could talk perfectly the whole time. I used the mouthwash until my stoopid sister poured it down the sink! The morning that she did, I had woken up with a mouth full of blood which was damn scary! it didn't stop bleeding for about twenty minutes but after that it was ok. The next day I went to the nearest piercing studio, MetalWorks (as much to show them that I pierced my tongue web anyway because they woulnd't do it as to ask what the fuck was wrong with it!) The piercing guy said it was fine and I bought proper piercing mouthwash there and he gave me their aftercare instructions for oral piercing which was kinda better than the other one but MetalWorks is not in my good books for a) not piercing tongue webs and b) being so damn strict about I.D.'s
anyway now i've had it done a full week and it's almost perfect, it doesn't hurt at all, I just have to use the mouthwash after I eat, drink, smoke or have "oral contact of any kind". and although at first I didnt think it was anything special I absolutely LOVE my tongue web, it's the coolest piercing and I can tell if I'm going to like a person by showing it to them and seeing their reaction: if they say "that's disgusting" as so many have then they're dry assholes and if they like it I like them! And I'd like to finish up by saying that I am God, the greatest and most powerful being in the universe! oh and if you're thinking about piercing a tongue web, do it, its not really sore and its so worth it!!!