When I was 15 began to get interested in piercings. I had always wanted to get my tongue pierced, but overtime I grew out of that and wanted different piercings. For a while I wanted my bridge, labret, and lip. When I discussed it with my mom she told me that if I wanted to get pierced I had to wait until I was 16, "almost legal" in her words. So, when I turned 16 I began to ask her about me getting pierced again. She didn't agree at all. Only because she thought the piercings I wanted were ugly. I didn't think they were, but then again she's a mom. And I guess the thought of her daughter getting holes in her body that weren't her ears was a little unnerving.
At A Glance Author Christie Contact mxpxprincess0182@cs.com When Six months ago Studio Ace Tattoo I eventually persuaded her to let me get pierced. But by now I had decided on a new piercing, my eyebrow. I thought an eyebrow piercing would look good on me, and my mom agreed. A few of my friends had it and it looked really good on them, so I wanted it done as well. And, to me it seemed like an easy piercing to start out with. Because I knew that later on I would get more piercings.
So, around November of 2001 I convinced my mom to call up some places so I could go get it done. She agreed as long as I paid for the piercing. Which I had been planning to do since the beginning. My mom called a couple places and asked about prices and how they felt about piercing minors. Most of the places located around me refused to pierce a minor, it was some new law in my city. My mom ended up calling a place near where I used to live, about 20 minutes away. They said they could do it. As long as I was 16 and had a parent with me. I had both, so we left to go get it done.
On the drive there I was very nervous. I hadn't been nervous until the point that I actually was going to get it done. But they way I figured it, I would be in there for less than ten minutes and then I would be out and I would have a beautiful new addition to my face. When we arrived there was no one inside except for the woman working there. She came out and greeted us and remember my mom from the phone. I told her that I was nervous and she told me I had nothing to worry about. I asked a lot of questions like did it hurt or how long does it take... normal questions. She took me back to a room and told me to sit in a chair. I sat down and she got ready by washing her hands and then putting the gloves on. When she sat down in the chair next to me and took the needle out I began to get even more nervous. She stalled for a moment and asked me what kind of jewelry I wanted in it. I chose a small bent barbell.
She put the clamp down on my eyebrow and told me that if I wanted to close my eyes I could. So, I did. I thought it would make the process easier. She began to pierce my eyebrow. It hurt a little but not much. After a second the woman took the needle out. She didn't pierce it deep enough. I had a little scratch where the needle came out coz it wasn't deep enough. Like I wasn't nervous enough, she had to pierce it again. This time it went all the way through. She made me hold the barbell while she screwed the ball on. I began to feel a little dizzy. The woman asked me how I felt and I told her that I felt dizzy and I asked for water. She got me some along with some chocolate. I sat in the chair for a moment and talked to her about my new piercing asking many questions about how to clean it and how long until I could put new jewelry in it. She told me that she was sure I could take good care of it.
When I stood up I felt like I was going to pass out. So I crawled to the car. The woman and my mom and my friend who went with me all laughed at me. I laughed at myself too. We drove home and I stared at myself in the mirror forever. And I called just about all my friends and told them I got it done. Everyone was excited for me.
I have had it for about 5 months now. I have changed the jewelry to a bigger barbell with blue balls. It is clean now and I have no problem taking it out or putting it back in. I don't get dizzy anymore and I really like it. I am planning to get my labret done in a month.