For almost 4 years I had wanted to get my labret pierced, because it was always considered "different" or "unique"(these days labret piercings are becoming all the more fashionable for "punks" to have) but my mum would never let me get it. Although it wasn't my first piercing (I also have my tongue and seven in my ears), it was the piercings that I'd wanted the most and now that I have it, the one I'm probably most proud of.
At A Glance Author Cass Contact Cass@bme.anon When Six months ago Artist Don't Remember Her Name Studio Cosmetics Plus Location Brisbane So one day... about 6 months ago I think it is now, I decided I finally had the guts to get it done (I'm a sook for anything painful... go figure). So I rang this place up at my local shopping centre which a few of my friends had gone too and they said that it was a good decent place... although I at first thought it was suss that they did these piercings including jewellery for $25 a couple of days a week.
But I wanted to get it done so I called up and made an appointment for the same day. My boyfriend and mum came with me... my boyfriend for moral support and my mum because she had to sign the papers to say that I had permission to get it done, as I was and still am under the age of 18.
So the time had come, and I was at this piercing place waiting, it seemed like forever, then I read the notice that you have to read before you get pierced, and it said that you need to have eaten, so it was 15 minutes before I was to get pierced, and I had to go and get food as I hadn't eaten breakfast. So I had eaten and it was time... I followed the girl into the piercing room. She marked it all out and it all looked center and perfectly straight. So she got the needle and things out, and told me to close my eyes and breath slowly. The minute the needle penetrated my skin I kept trying to think about something else because it hurt so much, it felt like it wouldn't come through the back and it was just stuck. I felt like I might pass out, and then she had to put the labret stud through and more pain came rushing. At that point I sort of wish that I hadn't gone through this and I'll never want another piercing again.
After that I really did have to lie down, she told me it was weird that I hadn't felt like this when I got my tongue pierced and that I should just stay where I was for a while. I now think that I felt that way because I hadn't eaten much before I went and got pierced. So after about 10 minutes I was ready to show the whole world my new piercing, I was so excited. But seeing as I was light-headed we all went home and I ate ice cream to try and reduce the swelling. The next day I was looking at it only to realize that number one... it was not perfectly center, and number two it was not pierced straight. It was pierced pretty much center, but it was pierced on an angle so it looked off center.
I was devastated, but I did not want to take it it out get it re-pierced, my boyfriend told my while it was healing I could sort of train it to go straight, which is what he said he had to do for his labret piercing. So for the next week or so that's exactly what I tried to do, for minutes at a time I would push it the opposite way with my tongue to make it go straight. It fully healed within about a month or so and I couldn't notice much that it wasn't straight nor that it was slightly off center.
Luckily now it's not that bad, and only people who know much about piercings can tell it's not perfectly center. I did, although, tell all my friends who were thinking of getting pierced that if they don't care what it will turn out like then get it there, but if they want a decent piercing not to go there... because I felt it was a dodgy place and mine wasn't done properly.
Later on after I had got it done, I found out from someone that the reason they charge $25 on those particular days, is because they have trainees piercing. If I had known that before I got my labret done, I would have never gone there.
And although it's not much of an "extreme" piercing experience... that is my experience.
I still want to get more piercings done, but I'm not sure where to get them as piercings are becoming too common these days. So I'm thinking that I'll get a personally designed tattoo instead so that no one else's tattoo looks like mine.