At A Glance Author anonymous Contact anonymous@bme.anon When A year ago Artist Alex Studio Divine Design Location Calgary, AB, Canada I had my eyebrow pierced about a year ago. I had always wanted something pierced but I wasn't sure what, for awhile it was my belly button, but my mom said I was to young and she wouldn't let me. Then I started seeing people with eyebrow piercing, I thought it looked cool, and it looked good on girls that weren't punk. So I looked into it reading stories from people that had it done. I had my mom read them and I got pictures of people with it so she could she. She didn't mind it so she said sure, I was so excited because I had been trying to talk her into this for a couple of months and over that time I realize how much I wanted it.
I didn't have to look around long for a place to go because my friend had just gotten her nose pierced and had look for a good place to do it, and she found divine design, which was clean and had a good reputation. She said it was a good place so I decided to go there. I told lots of people at school that I was going to get it done after school and nobody believed me. But I had an appointment and I was ready to do it.
After school my friend and I drove down, it was a Wednesday which is sale day so I only had to pay for the barbell, the piercing was free. They use 14g surgical steel barbells, which are the only kind you can get because it works the best for healing. So I filled out some forms, but I had to wait because there was a girl already in the room. I was actually really nervous, in the stories I had read it said it didn't hurt at all but I didn't believe that because when you pinch your eyebrow it hurts so it has to hurt when you push a needle through it. So they called me into the room, my friend came with me to watch. Alex introduced herself, and just told me what she was going to do and what I should do to wash it each night. First she washed her hands which was good ha , then she put iodine ( I think that's what its called) and then told me to breathe in and out, she got out the needle and barbell, she said to inhale and when I exhaled she would pierce it so I inhaled, then exhaled and she did it. It didn't really hurt, it was a tiny pinch but nothing compared to what I was thinking. Alex put the barbell and all was good.
Alex explained that I could have a thing call rejection where my body rejects the piercing, and if that happened they would re-pierce it behind the scar tissue. Also after awhile the piercing will grow out since it's a surface piercing. She told me to wash it out with a sea salt solution every night. She also said I could change it in 4-6 weeks.
It was weird at first because I could see the piercing out of the side of my head and yeah it was weird, but after awhile I got use to it. During the first couples of day it was quite sore, like I would tear my shirt off and get it caught. But I cleaned it every night and it was good and not infected. I changed it on my own to a black titanium 16g, and it looks way better because you can't see the bar just the two balls, which are pretty tiny.
I went away for a couple weeks in the summer, about a month and a half after I had got it done, but I stopped cleaning it which wasn't to smart because I was swimming in a lake everyday. So it got infected, but all I had to do was clean it once or twice with salt and water and it got better immediately.
I was scared for lots of things that after I got it done it wouldn't look right on me, or that it would be rejected, or that people wouldn't hire me for jobs, because at the time I didn't have one, and also in a story I read about a girl getting it pierced, she said when she went into cold weather it hurt because the bar would freeze. But sometime people don't even notice, until I tell them. It hasn't grown out, I've had it for about a year now and I love it, it looks good and I really like it. Also when I go to out into the cold weather its fine and it doesn't hurt at all.
I really love my piercing, it's so me, all my friend are like I don't even remember what you look like without it. Even though this might not be the piercing for you, if you are partly considering you should get it, it doesn't hurt, it's easy to take care of and it looks on good on people with any different style.