I'm not sure how long I've been interested in piercings, but it's been a while. After searching BME, looking through pictures, reading almost every single experience, I decided I wanted to get my tongue pierced but my parents weren't having it. Squashed that idea, and got another urge to get my eyebrow pierced. So one night while my mom wasn't home, I brought the subject up to my dad. He was completely cool about it. He said I could piercing anything I want to except for my tongue if I paid for it, and he'd even take me to get it done himself. Only problem was, I had to convince my mom about it. I continued to search BME, while bugging my mom for the longest. Eventually she caved in. I know she really didn't want me to do it, but I just wanted it so bad, and my dad said I could get it.
At A Glance Author Nikki Contact CrazeeDreamGirl@hotmail.com When Six months ago Artist Alex Studio Studio Enigma Location Queens, New York We already picked the place I was going to get it done, not knowing how professional or clean they were. It kind of bothered me because I didn't want it to get infected or be done wrong or anything and my mom didn't even really care, it was just the closest place so that was where it was going to happen.
Three nights before it happened I was talking to my brother about it. I got him so interested in it that he wanted one himself. So, the night it happened, me, my mom, my dad and my sister went out for dinner all the way in Long Island when the studio was in Queens which was five minutes from my house. Before we left I kept asking him if he wanted to come for dinner with us, kind of hinting at what was going to happen afterwards, and he didn't want to. But he did get pissed at me when I came home with my eyebrow pierced.
I wasn't really nervous or anything until actually stepping into the studio. We walked in and there were a few people sitting down, two people getting tattooed and no one being pierced. The people who were being tattooed were being tattooed in front of everyone to see. It was like that for the piercings also. They had no back room to take you into.
My dad told this guy that I wanted to get my eyebrow pierced. I was told to wait because the piercer was tattooing someone. In the mean time my dad was given a sheet to fill out, and I had to sign it. My dad had to give the guy his license, I went and picked out the jewelry when the piercer was done with the tattoo. The piercers name was Alex, which I found out after everything because it said it on the little aftercare sheet.
Anyway, Alex told me to sit down, so I did. I didn't see him take the needle out of any package, or where he got clamps from. But, I did see him put the jewelry I picked out in a cup filled with some bluish greenish kind of solution. I guess they didn't have an autoclave. This did make me feel uncomfortable because every experience I read on BME talked about the jewelry going in one. I didn't think much of it. I started getting butterflies in my stomach at this time, but it wasn't that bad. He took a pen and marked my eyebrow, I looked in the mirror and didn't like it. I asked if he could move it closer in because it was at the very edge of my eyebrow. He changed it, I looked again and asked if the marks could be spread out a little more, and he did it. It looked perfect so I sat back down. He put the clamps on, or attempted to. He couldn't get them to stay on. It hurt! It wasn't that bad, it was just uncomfortable having him tugging at my eyebrow. So he finally decided that the marks were too far apart, so he moved it back to how it was before and then the clamps stayed on. He didn't explain what he was doing at all. He just did it through silence. Right before the needle went through he asked me if I was ready. I said yeah and I felt the needle go through. I liked the feeling a lot. Yes it did hurt, but I liked it. I didn't cry or anything. I didn't make any noises, I just probably made some faces. I didn't feel the barbell going through at all. I think what hurt the most was him putting the ball on. I was bleeding so he was trying to hurry up to wipe the blood away and as soon as he got the ball on he started wiping at my face with a paper towel.
Then, he explained the aftercare to me. He told me to wash it three or four times a day with antibacterial soap. He recommended dial. Also, he told me I could get bactine to start with to stop the burning and also to clean it with. He didn't mention a thing about sea salt soaks but I did buy sea salt anyway and used it a few times but liked using the soap more because it was easier.
Bactine was the first thing my mom bought, and I used that first because my eyebrow was burning badly. It burned and hurt and felt sore for the first two hours. I didn't clean it until the next day. A few days after I got it done it looked like a rainbow formed on my eyelid. It was swollen and colorful. I had such a pretty eyebrow. I cleaned it three times a day for like a month and then every few days or whenever I remembered after that.
It didn't really give me any problems except that it hurt really bad to move it at one point unless I was cleaning it. My brother got his done also, three days after I got mine, and his was moving perfectly fine so I thought something was wrong. I called Alex and told him that he pierced my eyebrow a few weeks ago and it hurts really bad when I try to move it unless I'm cleaning it. He told me that I have to play with it for the hole to loosen up. So whenever I could, I was playing with it. It worked rather quickly because it felt fine after a few days.
So other than that I haven't ran into any problems and I love my eyebrow very much.
I would be hesitant to go back to that place because I wasn't comfortable that everything was done up front for anyone and everyone to see. I wasn't comfortable that he didn't use an autoclave to sterilize my jewelry, and that he used some solution. I wonder if they even HAVE an autoclave.
But anyway, I'd like to have more piercings in the future, and I'd like to find a better place to do them.