I've always been obsessed with people with body modifications for as long as I can remember. When I was about 11 my mom let me get my ears done, and after that I wanted to get more and more! I got my ears done again, and then I got kind of bored with doing just my ears. I asked my mom if I could get other things done but she said no to everything.
At A Glance Author Muffin1116 Contact froggy1116@hotmail.com When A week ago Studio Dragon f/x Location Edmonton After looking at pictures of different things I could get done, I was convinced I wanted to get my eyebrow, but I was scared I would have to wait until after I was 18, because of my mom. My mom had always heard that if the artist gets it wrong, half of your face will be paralyzed (at the time I didn't know a whole lot so I thought this could have actually been true), but I kept asking anyway. Sometimes I would forget about it for awhile and then about once a month I would bring it up in a conversation and always be faced with the same answer, "No." I was so angry at my mom for not letting me do it!
A few weeks before I was going to turn 14, we were going on a trip to Edmonton for school clothes, and my dad asked me if I wanted to get it done. I said "Hell Ya!" but I thought he was just messing with me, so I told him he had better be serious, or don't say anything at all. He shut up so I didn't think much of it, as the answer had always been no before.
Once we got to west Edmonton mall, my dad took me aside and said he wanted my opinion on something, so we went for a walk. When we got to Dragon F/X I just looked at him with disbelieve. He asked the lady at the counter how much it would cost and things like that; while I stared in awe at all her metal, thinking my dad was just messing with me. Then he pulled out his wallet. My heart started pounding as she asked me questions like how old I was and that I knew the piercing might not last because I wasn't 16 yet, and explained migration to me. I said I didn't care and I wanted it anyway, so she gave me a paper to read and some questions about aftercare to answer.
While in the waiting room my hands were shaking, I was nervous about it and admittedly a little scared. I guess I never thought that my mom would ever let me do it. I'd never asked anyone about their own piercing because I didn't know anyone that had it done, so I thought it would be very painful. I knew that now that I was this far, I couldn't back down.
I walked into the room and the guy told me to sit down on the bed/table and it looked just like a doctors office, despite that the doctor was covered in tattoos and had at least 5 eyebrow barbells himself. He told me to lay down and asked me which side I wanted it on. I had no idea so I got it on my right (I didn't know if there was a certain side, and if it meant anything like ears sometimes do, so I hope it got the right one!)
When he pierced it I thought it was just a clamp, it felt like nothing. A little pinch maybe and it was over, except for that feeling of it "being" there. The whole thing took only about 2 minutes to be over with. When I came out I was still shaking but I was so happy!
For the next few weeks however, it seemed like the spot on my eyebrow I never touched had become a magnet for every piece of dust, clothing, hands, ECT. Whenever the bar got hit with something it hurt more than when I got it pierced!
About 5 months later... what they had told me might happen, happened. I had to take my barbell out and let it heal. I had left it in too long, and I had two small scars. For weeks I kept moving my hand up to touch my bar and realize that I didn't have it anymore. I was miserable, I missed it so much! Once again, leave it to my mom to ruin it. She said I couldn't get it done again until I was 16.
I changed that! I convinced her to let me get it again, this time I would pay for it and I was getting a hoop instead of a barbell. I went in to get it done, and I wasn't nervous at all. I went through the same routine, but this time it was a different artist. I asked her if I could get it done in the same spot, through the scar tissue, and she said I could but it would hurt more. I didn't think too much of it because it didn't hurt last time, so I told her to do it.
I lay down and she told me to close my eyes and take a deep breath, and then let it out. As I was letting it out she pierced it. This time, it was completely different. I could actually feel it being pushed through, it felt amazing. I couldn't explain it as a hurt because it didn't hurt. The lady that did it said that she had had hers done eight times now and it was excruciating, but she was addicted, like me!
I love my brow and I don't want lose it again, but if I do, I'll definitely get it done again, and get to go through the thrill again!