Well in 2002 I got my eyebrow pierced. It was a great experience although it didn't last long.
At A Glance Author Jem Contact Jem@bme.anon When Two years ago Artist dave Studio tattooland Location UK I finished high school and got my results so to celebrate my freedom from conformity I decided I was gonna get pierced (only 16 so too young and naive for a tat). I went to the studio with my MUM who was more than happy for me to have it and to pay for it! I got there and there were a bunch of guys my age laughing about getting their dicks pierced and picking out big designs from the flash cards over the walls. Then Dave told them to get lost if they weren't serious.
One boy said he wanted his eyebrow pierced but the procedure was explained to him he ran out. I on the other hand was even more excited. I had already got 6 piercings in my ears and cartilage so I knew it would hurt and that I would have to be a god girl. I sat down on the chair and was talked through everything. Dave warned me there might not be enough skin on my eyebrow as it was quite tight and therefore the piercing might grow out. I was still growing too so it was in no way guaranteed to be permanent.
I was ok with all this, as I wasn't paying and I just wanted it done. He wiped my eyebrow with antibacterial wipes and told me to look at where he'd made the dots. I said "yeah!" and he got to it. I closed my eyes and felt this scratch and pop that was the needle in me. I opened my eye to see this needle sticking through my face, how cool. My mums face was a picture she was absolutely horrified. I loved the experience. It felt so different to anything I have done before, I had pricked myself with needles before but it felt better than that, less painful and more fulfilling.
He got a bar for me and put it through, there was very little blood, and I bless my thick eyelashes for keeping the blood outta my eyes. I took one look in the mirror and squealed, it looked great and I was pierced at last.
I think it reflected my personality at the time. It was big and there on my face. But I wouldn't get this particular piercing now. I feel it's a little too masculine for me.
When it was all over I could feel this warm heavy feeling on my eyebrow but it was in no-way as bad as I expected. I was pierced and cool. I walked out with my mum feeling a little woozy and wobbly but this was because I was overwhelmed that I had finally done it. I bumped into my best mate in town and she was so happy. She was a little envious because her mum was pretty strict. I got home and my dad and bro were really impressed by it.
After a few weeks my eyebrow was perfectly healed. I have good healing properties, too good as we will see shortly so I felt confident in changing the piercing. I had knocked the damn thing a few times which killed but it was never pussy or red or inflamed (after the initial swelling). I got a new ball for it and everyone thought it was cool. It was certainly more eye catching. I could feel the bar on my eyebrow it was sort of pulling on the skin, hanging off it and I knew it wouldn't be long before it would come off. I was upset but I believed I would keep it in until it was completely rejected.
Within a month the skin began to react and reject the piercing. The skin grew thinner and crustier until I could almost see the bar straight through the skin. I was really upset because I had looked after it well. My damn body was rejecting the thing and there was nothing I could do about it. Then one morning I woke up and I could literally see the bar as if it was just stuck to my eyebrow with glue. I scratched the skin as it was itchy an the bar fell to the floor. The skin had died and become very brittle. There was no blood at all and I just walked downstairs so sad and disappointed. My friends thought I had taken it out and my parents were upset for me as they knew how much it meant to me.
Three years later, I still have the scar but its like a marking of a life stage. I don't mind that the piercing isn't there because I can still see the scar and it will never heal 100% I think its cool all the same but I wanted another piercing.
Therefore a few weeks later I got my nose pierced, but that's another story...