Well I got my first piercing at the age of eight months. I got my ears pierced then and hated it until I was probably around 12 when I started hanging around with what society calls the "wrong group" of people. At that age I had my ear piercing out for about 4 years but for some reason I could still put an 18g in my ear. Well I started obsessing and gauging my ears out from an 18g to a 12g I used those squishy bracelets cut them up and stuck them in my ears. Well they stayed like that until I was 14 and I gauged them out to 00g at my cousin's house. Well at around the age of fourteen everyone was getting his or her tongue pierced. I wanted to be like everyone else so I researched tongue piercing for a good 4 weeks until I finally talked my dad and mom into letting me get it done. Once I finally talked them into it, I then had to find a piercing parlor to get it done. I knew my uncle had a parlor so I asked him about it and about a week before I went there my sister who was around 30 at the time decided to get it done too. So I heard from what I read about a tongue piercing I heard that taking an anti-inflammatory such as a motrin or an ibuprofen before hand would help with the pain and swelling of the piercing so we took one and off we went. When we got there we had to fill out all of these papers and for both of us it was like 115$ but it was well worth it. Well I decided to get it done first so I sit in the chair and my sister watched as well as my mom. I told the guy not to tell me when he would do it but it didn't matter because my tongue tightened and he had to force it through. Apparently because of that it bled. . It never swelled and I ate pizza the next day. (Not everyone should do this but I thought it was ok to do it and it never interfered with my piercing)
At A Glance Author gorygirl Contact gorygirl@bme.anon When Six months ago Artist me Studio my bathroom Location first floor in my house After that I just loved the way it felt. It was just really cool looking and feeling. Well eventually I thought it was boring. Everyone had it and everyone's looked the same so I took it in to my own hands into making it different. I researched some stuff on gauging and scarification and I decided that gauging was my best bet.
My friend owns a body jewelry store so I get a lot of my stuff there. So I went to my friend and got a stainless steel taper and a 6gauge barbell. (I don't know the reason I went to a 6g but at the time it seemed like a good size) anyways I tried to stick it in right there but it was too painful so I waited until I got home to do it. Well when I got home I decided to wait a little while so about 2 weeks went buy and I FINALLY decided to do it.
Well the first thing I did was numb it. I took an ice cube and held it there until it melted (well until my tongue burnt) well once it was numb (well at least I thought it was numb.) I took the taper and stuck it in some water. I didn't want to put it in Vaseline because I thought it would hurt my tongue in some way or the other. So I took a deep breath and shoved it through as fast as I could. Well I found out then that my tongue wasn't numb. And it hurt worse then getting my tongue pierced. And I mean it was throbbing pain. I held the taper in there and drooled on a washcloth for a good half an hour. Once the pain had finally subsided I put the backing of my barbell on the edge of the taper. (It is best to use an internally threaded barbell so it wont slide off the back) And pulled the taper the rest of the way through. The taper had set and my tongue had started to heal around it so that part hurt like hell as well. When I finally got the barbell through I took another ice cube and let it melt around the barbell so that would try to stop some of the pain. So all in all it came out ok. The initial stretching hurt the worst, but after that I believe it was really worth it. I still have the 6ga tongue ring and I'm happy with it. But tonight I'm stretching my ears from a 4g to a 0g wish me luck. I'll add that story soon.