I have been wanting to get my eyebrow pierced for many years now, ever since I was about 8 or so. The first person I can ever remember seeing with an eyebrow ring was Daniel Johns, the singer from Silverchair and just loved it. For years I begged my parents to let me get it pierced but they would never let me. Then one day I turned 18. Just a few weeks after my high school graduation (which was May of 2003) I went to one of the local tattoo and piercing shops, which is owned by a guy I know. He pierced my tongue for me a month before so I trusted him to pierce my eyebrow since my tongue healed so well and he did a good job on it. I had walked to his shop from my house on a very hot day and when I got to his shop there was a lot of people there in line to get some tattoos done, so I just sat on a couch and looked through a tattoo magazine. After waiting a half hour or more it was finally my turn. Jason had me sit in the chair and got out all of the piercing needles and junk and he was going to use to pierce me with. He first cleaned my eyebrow with some medicated stuff, most likely rubbing alcohol. Then he asked me where I wanted it pierced and I said "my left eyebrow over as far as you can" and so he then marked it and had me look in the mirror to see if I liked the placement of it. I did. So he sat me in the chair again and put the clamp on my eyebrow, told me to take a deep breath and let it out. When I let out my breath he pushed the needle through, it didn't hurt at all. He then put in a 14 gauge captive hoop, cleaned up the blood and that was that. I payed him and then walked home. My mom was pretty pissed.
At A Glance Author Mystery Injection Contact greatly_flawed@hotmail.com When A year ago Artist Jason Mcleod/ Mary Robinson Studio Jason Mcleod Studios/ Sleepy Hollow Studios Location Roanoke Rapids, NC I kept my ring in from June to this past February. The reason I took it out was I had gone into the other tattoo and piercing studio to talk to a friend who is working there and the piercer there said it looked like it was getting rejected, and she was right. It was pierced through very little skin and I decided to take it out and let it heal up for about 2 weeks and then I went back to get it re-pierced. The night I went to get it re-pierced, Mary (my piercer) took me to the back room where they do all the piercings at and had me sit down and cleaned my eyebrow with the same stuff Jason had used and then asked me how I would like it pierced. I told her the same thing I told Jason and then she said "how would you like it at a 45 degree angle?" I asked her why at an angle and she said it would be out of my way of vision that way, and I thought that would be cool. So she marked it and had me look in the mirror to see if I liked it and I thought that the top mark needed to be m oved over a bit more. She rubbed off the mark with rubbing alcohol and then marked it once more and had me look in the mirror one more time for approval, which she got. Then she had me sit on the stool and clamped my eyebrow, told me to take a deep breath and let it out ( just as Jason had ) and on my exhale she pierced me. She pierced it through more skin than it had been the first time and only hurt just slightly more than the first time, but not bad at all.
So I payed her and left and my eyebrow bled very much the whole night. I ended up realizing that I had left my ID at the shop and called back to see if they had it which they did and I went back to get it. When I got back she wanted to clean my eyebrow for me and took me back to the back room and cleaned it with some medicated stuff and then put on this jelly type stuff to clot the blood and keep it from bleeding. I didn't touch it the whole night but I had stopped by my house for something and I walked past the mirror in the living room and saw that my eyebrow had started bleeding horizontally, which was very strange. I washed off the blood and held a tissue over my eyebrow to stop the rest of the bleeding. It didn't bleed anymore after that, however it was a bit sore and stayed sore for about a week afterwards. I cleaned it with some medicated lotion soap that I bought at the piercing shop and that was all I cleaned it with. I have had it in for 2 months now and it has hea led up nicely, I suggest to anyone who wants to get an eyebrow piercing to get it done at an angle so it will be out of your sight of vision. I remember my first piercing I could always see it out of the corner of my eye, but I quickly got used to it and didn't notice it after a few days. I have to strain my eyes to see it now. I love my eyebrow piercing so much and am glad that I finally got it done!