It was the night of August 27th, 2003, and I was determined that it would be the night that I would have a medusa (at last). I hadn't wanted a Medusa for a long time, but i decided that it looks super cute on most boys, and I had thought about it for a solid few days and decided that I *might* be able to pull it off... so I went for it. ;)
At A Glance Author Chris Contact Chris@bme.anon IAM boy When It just happened Artist Jonathan Studio Body Modifications Location Tulsa I haven't been getting as many piercings as I used to... My newset form of body modification lately has been tattoos... but, alas, the piercing bug bit once again. I had decided that I would take out my side lip and my scrumper to accomodate the medusa. (I'm not into tons of metal in my face). And I had also decided that I wanted like a 16 gauge barbell with a small ball.. haha, little did I know what Jonathan had in store for me. Haha.
I made my ultra-conservative boyfriend go with me to get it (as I always do), after convincing him that it would be cute on me. :) So we get to the piercing place, and go inside... (and for once there were no other customers, so that was nice.) And I played 'catch-up' with the piercer becuase I hadn't been in in a while...
I told him that I wanted a Medusa but I thought that I needed a smaller gauge and/or ball to accomodate my 'huge' lips. Haha. He said he thought it would be okay either way, but warned me that for the first week I would absolutely hate it (because I'm not used to seeing it). So I was like "oh great." (but actually I LOVE IT.) So then I filled out the papers and signed all the usual stuff, and then I was taken back to meet my new fate.
He told me to sit on the piercing "table" (if you can call it that)... and I sat there as he got all of the implements together and the jewelry... but I noticed it was a quite big 14 gauge stud with a pretty-good-size ball... I just told myself "he knows best". Then he said "wow, I haven't done one of these in a while". (That was fun to hear) I really wasn't nervous, but I longer I sat there, the more nervous I was getting. He then had to go to the other room and get a 'longer post'. So I continued to sit there thinking about the pain I was about to put myself through... I couldn't decide if it was going to be subtle like my labret and lip, or intense like my damn scrumper... When he came back I told him that I wanted him to take out my side lip and my scrumper (even though I SWORE I would never take out my scrumper), but he told me I didn't *need* to.. but I just didn't want the scrumper to eventually reject, so I told him to do it anyway.
I laid down and he began to remove my scrumper. (That son of a bitch hurt so fucking bad when he pierced it, AND when he removed it.) So then I was like "damn, this is going to hurt just like my scrumper". He put his fingers in my mouth and put a dot on the outside of my lip, then had me check it. I said, "I don't know! Does it look good?" and he said "yeah". So I said "alright, then". I went back to the table, laid down, and I could feel something on the inside of my lip... the needle, I guess. And since he has done so many holes on me, I guess he didn't feel the need to tell me the usual "breathe in, breathe out" thingy, so then all of a sudden he shoved the needle through. It wasn't bad at all! He screwed the ball on, and that was that. I was relieved. He kept talking to me afterwards (I guess to make sure I didn't pass out), but after it was done I jumped up to look at it. It looked awesome! I was so glad. The ball was big, and it was higher that I had thought would look , but it was centered and it looked GREAT. Jon told me I didn't need to swish my mouth out with anything during healing, so that was a relief, which led me to believe it would be an 'easy healer'.
I walked out so happy, and my boyfriend who was in lobby said "AH, it's cute!". So I was feeling good.
It's now been 3 days, and it's SUPER swollen, but, as I have read, that is normal. I use antibacterial soap on it every morning in the shower to clean it, and that's about it! Easy enough. I think it's going to heal pretty well, so I'm excited to have it.
If you want it, do it! Good luck!