When I first discovered BME I had my first "real" piercing which was my eyebrow. I was wondering what nifty jewelry I could put it in after I was done the healing process and went searching on the Internet to get some ideas. That's when I came across an amazing site called BME. To this day I still use it for all my body modification data and use it to increase my knowledge of these amazing life styles.
At A Glance Author Patricia Contact superpatzi@hotmail.com IAM distortion When Five years ago Location Woodstock I was in grade 10 (approximately 4 years ago) and the only piercings I had were my standard gunned lobes I got when I was in kindergarten. When I was in elementary school, people knew me for having really appealing and odd jewelry. My mom tells me that I get that from my grandfather's mother – back in the day she use to wear every piece of jewelry she owned and spent her last dime on the peculiar piece of jewelry she saw at a flee market. It must be in the blood.
I asked my parents if I could get my eyebrow pierced, they were uncertain at first and suggested I get my navel done instead. I believed that only skinny, attractive girls were worthy of a navel piercing (I've matured since then, and believe everyone regardless of sex and weight are worthy of a navel piercing and any other sort of piercing granted they are anatomically suited for it). I told my parents that I did not want a navel piercing due to the reason above, and they gave into the idea of their daughter getting her eyebrow pierced.
I saved up my money for about 2 weeks prior to making an appointment; it would cost $40.00. I literally rolled pennies and dimes and searched in the back of our couch for change until I had the adequate amount. Once I had enough, I took my rolled change into the bank and exchanged it for two twenty-dollar bills. Time to make the appointment. Even though this was 4 years ago, I can still remember the date I got this piercing accomplished: November 1st.
I phoned up the place I got it done at, the lady is very sweet to verbalize with – this plays a huge part in professionalism. I wouldn't have gotten my piercing done at that place if it wasn't for their manners - first sign of ill communication is a turn-off and makes people uncomfortable. She told me to come in sometime around noon hour and jotted down my name and what piercing I would like to get.
November 1st crept up on me and I was eager to get my eyebrow pierced – but was highly nervous. This was going to be my real first piercing and I didn't know what to expect.
I headed into the place and signed the sheets. I had my step dad come in because I was a minor, he was also there because I was scared and didn't know what to expect. Once the piercer was ready to get the procedure started, I sat down on the chair and looked at his supplies. He had the needle, the CBR, the clamp and a box of gloves spread out on his table. He marked the entry and exit holes and had me look in the mirror. I remember barely looking at it and told him to go for it. He clamped my eyebrow and counted to 3, telling me to take deep breaths and to focus on the breathing – which I did. I remember the pain to this day – it felt horrid and painful. The needle felt very skintight in my eyebrow while my piercer got ready to insert the CBR. I didn't know what to expect and I assumed this part was going to hurt as well – I was incorrect. The piercer wiped the blood that trickled down the side of my face off and I felt like crying. I looked in the mirror and was satisfied w ith what I saw but still had to urge to sob. My piercer gave me an aftercare sheet and talked with us for a while. After, my step dad and I got into the car and drove home.
That day I remember telling a few friends about my new piercing, and going into Mark's Pizza Place to pick up supper with my mom. The pain quickly faded within an hour and I felt perfectly normal.
Before I discovered BME I used dial soap to wash my eyebrow with, twice a day making sure to rotate. After talking to numerous people and searching BME on the Internet I learned about salt-water soaks, I quickly changed to them and never looked back. I added about ½ a tsp. of sea salt to some water in a paper cup (like the ones you'll see at the orthodontist) and carefully put this over my eyebrow and let it soak for a bit. Another way of doing this would be dipping a Q-tip in the solution and gently putting it on my fresh piercing.
Early March rolled along and I believed it was time to change my piercing. I wanted to change it into a cute barbell and so I did – not realizing the barbell was one gauge larger than my CBR, I crammed it in with quite an amount of force (not good). This resulted with an infection and an angry, swollen, tender eyebrow. It took a while to clear up and I then decided to switch from the barbell to another CBR – this time the captive-bead was black, it was lovely. I put it in but failed at getting the captive-bead in the ring. My friend was pretty good at this so I decided to wait until morning for her to do it for me at school. When I woke up in the morning the ring was gone, and my beautiful piercing had healed up. That was the end of my eyebrow piercing. I moved on to other sorts of piercings, but plan not to get my eyebrow done again just due to the fact it doesn't appeal to me anymore.
Lessons were learned throughout this journey. I am glad I went through with getting my eyebrow pierced, it's what started my love for piercings – so much that I am on BME and IAM daily, interacting with wonderful people who are actively involved with body modification.
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