The most painless experience of my life

At A Glance Author Blowpop Contact EasyD_00@hotmail.com Artist J.P. Landry Studio J.P. Jewelers Location Cornwall, Ontario

Something you should know about me before you read this experience is that I am not a very wild person and I don't deal well with pain. Choosing to get my eyebrow pierced was probably the last thing any of my friends expected from me. I'm scared of bees and hornets because the thought of getting stung terrified me!!! I actually run away from stinging insects.....like I have a phobia or something. So how did I (the terrified one) come upon the idea of eyebrow piercing? Well,after some one said I might look good in one, I started contemplating the idea. After a week or so, I decided I was going to do it. I really didn't know how I was going to handle the pain. I figured I would cry or something else as embarrasing. Two of my friends already had piercings (in the bellybutton and nose)and they said it didn't hurt very much. I decided I'd have to suck it up and go for it. You only live once!

I bought the ring that was one day going to be implanted in my eyebrow about four months before I got it done. My parents weren't to keen on the idea of their little girl getting a facial piercing and never really agreed to let me do it. For months they kept saying no. I found a place that will do piercings no matter what age you are. In my area there is no minimum age for piercings. Finally, I went behind there backs and got it done.

It was a Saturday morning I went with my friends to the piercing place. My friend, Missy, was getting her bellybutton pierced. We met the piercer and he told us his shop was moving and we couldn't do it there. He ended up taking us (Missy, Danielle, Donald, Amanda and two other gurls that were getting something pierced) up to his apartment nearby. He asked who wanted to go first and I volunteered. Everyone else was getting the bellybutton done and I thought they would be less scared if some one getting a facial piercing went first. I don't know why I thought that because I had never gotten anything pierced before and I'm not a very brave person. Anyway.... The guy sat me down at his kitchen table and took out his supplies which included, the ring I had gotten, a metal clamp, a long 16 gauge needle, antibacterial creams and gloves. First he got a marker and put the two dots over my eyebrow (I had chosen my left side) where the piercing would be. He then applied some type of Isoproyl Alcohol solution to it. Then he put on the clamp. This was the most painful part and it still didn't hurt more than stubbing your toe or something like that. After a minute or two he picked up the needle and told me to close my eyes. A second later he told me I could open them. He already had the hoop through and was just attaching it to the silver ball. It was all done and I didn't feel a thing!!! I was soooo happy when I looked in the mirror.

After my friend got her bellybutton pierced (from which she passed out), we went to the mall and out to lunch. It didn't hurt at all and it wasn't bruised or swollen. I didn't bleed much at all and what blood there was I cleaned off in the mall restroom. That got me some sideways glances fomr nosy people. By the afternoon I hardly even noticed it was there (even though I couldn't help looking at it in every mirror I saw!).

Then it was time to go home to my paretns who had no idea I had gotten this done. My mom I think liked it a little but my dad was soo pissed off. He wanted to go tell off the piercer. I think they realized that I wasn't going to care what they thought and that what was done was done. I told them I had it done with a smaller gauge so there wouldn't be too much off a hole.

At night when it was time to go to sleep I was worried about it hurting but it was fine. My eyebrow was almost completly healed in about three weeks. There was some plasma crap coming out of it for a week or so, but thats just a normal part of the healing process. I cleaned it twice daily and put rubbing alcohol as often as possible. I was able to turn the ring the first day I had it. I geuss I was lucky.

Although your supposed to wait three months before changing the ring I did it exactly one month later and it's doing fine. I took out the ring and the hole was barely visible. It was also incredibly easy to put back in after. I love my piercing and am incredibly happy that I did it.