My piercing experience started July 14th 2001. I went to LA Body Art in Mobile and paid $35 for a crappy eyebrow piercing. It was pierced way to thin, it bled a lot, and it hurt like hell. The only cleaning advice the girl gave me was "clean it with soap and water." So I went home and took good care of the new hole in my face.
At A Glance Author bethanie Contact desperate_butterfly@hotmail.com When A month ago Artist Lucky Studio C&D Custom Tattoos (aka Tattoos by Spider) Location Alabaster, Alabama Not even a week after getting the piercing, the barbell that the girl had pierced it with broke. One of the balls would no longer screw back on. So I had to go to Bohemian Rhapsody in Birmingham and get a new barbell. The guy behind the counter said "is that a 14?" and I said "I don't know." So he glanced at it and said "yeah, that's a 14." So he sold me a 14 gauge barbell to replace the broken one. Well, he was wrong. It turns out my eyebrow was pierced with a 16. So I went home and painfully forced the oversized barbell through the hole in my face.
All was well for the next two months. But at the end of August, my new barbell got caught on a blanket and was ripped out. Yes, ripped straight out of my face. Every time I tell that story, people cringe, but I didn't even feel it. I felt a slight snag, and when I reached up to play with it, it was gone.
After it healed I decided I wanted my eyebrow hole back. My ex-boyfriend suggested C&D Custom Tattoos in Alabaster where he had gotten all of his piercings (eyebrow, nipples, labret, and chin). So on October 3rd, I went to C&D and paid $25 to have super sexy Lucky shove a needle through my face. He was incredibly gentle with me and sooooo nice. He pierced it in the same place as the original hole, so it had to go through scar tissue, which really hurt. But Lucky was really sweet about it, and he did his best to keep the pain to a minimum. It didn't bleed at all, unlike the first time. And Lucky actually gave me real cleaning advice: bactine and bacitracin gel. He also informed me that piercing an eyebrow with a barbell applies too much pressure, and that may have forced mine forward a bit (or something like that). Two weeks later I went back to C&D and had Lucky put a second hole right next to the first one. He warned me that the closer to the nose you pierce, the more it wo uld hurt, and he was right. But again he was extremely gentle and kept saying "I know it ouches" as he put the needle and ring through. How cute is that?! I also took my roommate to C&D to get her eyebrow pierced. She also had a rather pleasant expierience.
Both holes have healed nicely, though I've recently started having problems with the first one. I put barbells in both holes to keeps them from getting ripped out at a concert, and after the show I put one of the rings back in, forgetting how much I had hated that thing. So it only lasted a week before I had to go back to Lucky and make him take the thing out (I can't get the rings in or out on my own). The barbell has been back in for a week, and now the first hole is being weird. I took out the barbells to clean the holes, and I noticed that the first one just didn't look right. The top had an indention from the ball that had never been there before. I took them out again about two hours ago and the first one would not go back in. It was like the hole had instantly closed up. I tried from the top, I tried from the bottom; nothing worked. I finally poked enough to get it started, and I had to force the barbell back in, stretching the hole back to its normal size. The barbel l still isn't sliding up and down like it's normally does, and I'm a little worried about it. So I guess it's back to Alabaster tomorrow to have Lucky look at it.
Being an unemployed college freshman, I've run out of money for piercings, and I am now saving up for my first tattoo. I can't think of anything else that I would want pierced. I love my eyebrow holes, but I think that's all I'll be needing in the piercing department for a while.
So to any and all considering eyebrow piercings, I say go for it. And if you're in central Alabama, swing by C&D and say hey to Lucky. He's a super sexy totally awesome fantastically wonderful guy, and eeeeveryone should get to know him.