For my sixteenth birthday I planned to get a labret piercing. I had waited so long for this. I had a job that allowed me, and my mom was fine with it. My dad wasn't. After getting into a fight with him, and taking out my tongue piercing, my mother drove me to Artistic Impressions where I was going to meet some people and take a cab to my party after my labret piercing was done. The piercing went fairly uneventfully. My lip was marked, clamped, and pierced. The jewellery was inserted with a bit of ripping from the threads and I had my labret piercing that I had wanted so much. The next day I went to my first job and refused to cover it, and gave my notice. They didn't mind at my other job.
At A Glance Author San Contact San@bme.anon IAM BlueStar When Two years ago Artist Lee Studio Artistic Impressions Location Niagara Falls, ON It had its trials. My piercer at the time, Lee, decided it was off-centre and she had to redo it for me. I had two friends with me, so she marked it, we all agreed it was centered, clamp, pierce, off centre. I wandered around with a paper towel to my face for a bit then we redid it. It's still off centre and crooked but its better than the first two attempts. Lee was nearly in tears and I felt bad for her. I had seen other labret piercings she had done and they turned out fine. I was just cursed.
My aftercare consisted of Listerine and antibacterial soap. The first attempt was on my birthday. That means I was drinking. The bead came off and three drunken idiots were trying to get it back on. The most sober of us screwed it on, and I tightened it well. The same thing happened with the new piercing, except I lost the bead, so I took one off of a barbell in my navel and left it like that until I got home from school.
Work decided to ban facial piercings, and I was pissed. I'd usually leave it in when my boss wasn't there and if she came I would take it out. Somebody commented on my piercing in the comment box, and I got in trouble. We were allowed nostril studs however, and piercings in our ears. The cooks could have facial piercings because they didn't deal with customers. I didn't think that was fair.
In order to get a full time job over the summer I had to take my labret stud out. I wasn't very happy. My boss said it was so nice to see me without metal all over my face. I left it out for three weeks and it drove me nuts. I finally put a normal earring stud in the almost-two year old hole. I then used a stock pin (like a kilt pin, but has a horse on it) to taper it and put my 14ga stud back in, happily. At work I would just take the bead off. I could go days without having any problems putting it back in.
I bought what I was told a 10ga clear plug. I was going to use that as a retainer, but I couldn't get it through. If the piercing was straighter it would have been easier. I gave up and just took out the stud for work. I was looking for a new job so I just gave up on it and took it out before work and put it in after work.
Finally, I got the letter. The one that says I qualified for ODSP and they would give me $708/month. That was more than I was making at my shitty full time job as a car hop. (Note that this excludes tips.) However, there wasn't constant harrassment and horrible people to work with. I started doing website design and photography for extra cash. I no longer had the stress of working and going to school at the same time. So what did I do? Got pierced the day I got my cheque.
I don't know why, but I started stretching my piercings one night. I picked up a 10ga ½ ? ring that had been in my nipple and passed it through the hole easily. I, at times, took it out for a few days to let the hole shrink so I wouldn't spit or whistle through it. I kept the 10ga CBR in it for a couple of weeks, and then stretched my septum to 8ga, then to 6ga. I put the 8ga from my septum (flat backed bullet stud) into my labret and secured it with an o-ring. It was 9ga though, and my 8ga o-rings didn't fit, so after I stretched my septum to 6ga, I used that stud, which was slightly larger than 6ga. (Note: I bought the jewellery from the same place). I used a 7ga stud, and then put the 6ga in.
The feeling of stretching wasn't that bad. I never used tapers. I just used lube and popped the jewellery through. Occasionally my lip eats the back, no matter how loose I have the o-ring. It's at 6ga right now and I'm not sure if I want to go bigger. The only 4ga jewellery I have un-used is a tunnel and tunnel's are only fun for a little while in labrets.
Hope you enjoyed my story. Stretch safe..