I had always liked piercings but I was too scared to have any extreme ones even though I'd love to, and anyway I'm still at school so having a really ''showy'' piercing is out of the question. (And my mum would probably chuck me out) I was torn between having my lip pierced or my eyebrow pierced, I chose my eyebrow seeing as loads of people at school have their lip pierced and I wanted to be a little bit different, and I had seen it on girls and I thought it looked really pretty.
At A Glance Author Sam Contact Sam@bme.anon When Three months ago Studio Trinket box Location Swindon, Wilts, England I was in town one day with my mum and we walked past the piercing studio, so I dragged her in there planning to make her realize that piercings aren't for convicted murderers and punks (yes she is really narrow minded) But, it didn't work. So I had another trick up my sleeve. And I managed to persuade my mum to let me have it done by giving her the silent treatment and giving her looks that could kill- it worked like a charm- I went back to the studio and my mum reluctantly filled out all of the forms and stuff. Then the piercer took me into the back room. It was really clean and white and clinical, which was a good sign. And the piercer made me feel more relaxed and made me forget about what I was there for, because admittedly I was really nervous- i have only had my ears done before and i am a self confessed wimp.
The piercer asked me which bar I wanted, I chose a purple one, then she sat me down on this bench-type-thing and marked the place to be pierced out, it was a bit too far on the outside of my eyebrow than I wanted so I decided to be a pain and asked her to mark it out again, and it looked better so I was happy with that.
Then she told me to lie down on the bench thing while she rubbed some alcohol to clean around my eyebrow, and took the needle out of the package (good sign again) she told me to relax, breathe in and out and told me to shut my eyes really tight, she pushed the needle through, and it was done! I'm not gonna lie, it DID hurt a bit, but I'm a wuss when it comes to pain and it only lasted about a second and that was it. One thing I noticed was that she didn't use a clamp, which was the bit I was dreading as everyone says it hurts.
She gave me a sheet with the cleaning procedures on it, but me being stupid left it at a cafe somewhere after, so I just cleaned it twice a day with a salt and water solution and cotton buds if and when I could be bothered. Its really easy to forget, well that's my excuse.
Everything went fine after that, it healed really well, I really thought it would reject or get infected. The problem I had was that I kept knocking it when brushing my hair or forgetting it was there and hitting it, so it did get a bit bruised. My bloody boyfriend seemed to have the knack of knocking my eyebrow and making it bleed and a few times the ball came off when he loosened it when he hit it, but each time I managed to find the ball and put it back on, until one day when he knocked it out again I couldn't find it, so I left the bar out for about a day, planning to buy another ball and put the bar back in but that day was enough for it to heal. I was really gutted!
So I was back down the studio AGAIN, and had it done, just like last time except they clamped it, it just felt a bit uncomfortable, like someone pinching you.
I really like my eyebrow piercing, I got it pierced again because I felt kind of naked without it, and it looked weird having nothing there, I missed fiddling with it, which I know you shouldn't do but I loved it, I know I'm sad! I get compliments by most people but some people say they don't like it, but they are the type of people who get really jealous and nasty when someone has something nice like a new hair style, so I didn't really care what they had to say to be honest!
I can see why people get addicted to having piercings, when I came out of the studio after I had it pierced I had this weird happy feeling inside me, like the feeling when you've achieved something, and that feeling has certainly left me wanting more, I want so many more piercings but I cant push my mum any more, she'd go mental! Even though my mum actually said she thought my eyebrow looked nice, I was pretty shocked when she said that!