When I was sixteen years old, I decided to pierce my left ear on my own. After that first experience with body mod, I was hooked. I became addicted to BME and lost myself to the world of mod. One day i was looking through the pictures section and saw the multi-labret section. I instantly loved the way that the piercings looked together. After some deliberation, I decided that I wanted "snakebites."
At A Glance Author Davey Contact Davey@bme.anon When A month ago Artist Noah Studio Evolution Piercing Location Albuquerque, New Mexico I immeadiately ran to my mother and asked her permission to have the piercings done. Being raised in a very conservative family, my mother's first response was no. Months passed and I still fought daily for her permission to get the piercings. Around the time that seventeen came around, I decided that I can wait another year to get the piercings and spend my time thinking if I truly wanted to get the piercings. The year flew by and low and behold, I was eighteen!
My birthday came and passed like a leaf in a breeze, my girlfriend and I talked about going to get my lip done the following Friday. We started our drive up to Albuquerque, New Mexico. I walked into the piercing studio and talked to the head piercer. He took me over to the cabinet that held all of the selections of jewelry the studio used in piercings. He showed me what he would be putting in my lip and also explained to me the reasons. I went back to the front and talked to the receptionist. After I got all of my paper work done, Noah, the piercer, came back out and took me back into the procedure room.
While Noah prepared all of his equipment, we spoke about my aspirations to be a professional piercer in the future. Noah marked my face and asked me if i liked the placement of the dots. I asked him to move one of the spots down on the lip a little bit, he did so and when I liked the position, he marked the inside of my lip. I laid back on the procedure table and my girlfriend clutched my hand, I could tell she was more nervous than I was. Noah asked me if I was ready, I gave him the go ahead. I heard the wrapper of the first needle pull open and a flush of nervous feelings took over my body. Noah pulled my lip up and once again asked if I was ready, I gave him a slight nod. At this point, I felt a rush take over my body. When Noah pushed the needle through my lip, i could feel every bit of it slide gently through my lip. Noah grabbed the ring, threaded it into the needle and fed it through into my lip. After a short bit of fumbling with the ball, I had my first lip piercing. I gave a small smile and a squeeze to my girlfriend's hand. Now was the time for my second piercing. This one was more clumsy, but still almost 100% painless. I sat up slowly to a view of me in the mirror, I was ultimately pleased.
I left the procedure room a bit woozy from the rush of adrenaline after the piercings. I payed the receptionist, tipped Noah, and shook his hand. These were, by far, the least painful piercings I have experienced. I now feel more complete and my amount of self-confidence has risen significantly. I feel like a much different person now than I did before. When I got home later that evening, my father nearly fainted after seeing my lip. My mother hates the way that they look, but that is not what matters, do not let anyone tell you what you should or should not do to your own body. If you want to look a certain way, do it. You only have one life and it is quite short. Carpe Diem. Seize the day.
So far, I have had good luck with the healing process, there have been no complications or migration of my rings. Most people that see me ask if it hurt and why I did it. I find that talking to these people is a great way to spread the word that body modification is not an evil ideal that only does harm to your body. Body mod is an art and should be treated as thus, people need to know this and I think that showing my mod in public is the perfect way to spread the word. Too many people shun "us" for looking different and we need to change this ideology. The more people who do mod for the art and not the trend, the more we will be accepted. Picasso was a radical and is now loved for his art, mod is just the same. The more there is out there, the more we will be accepted and respected for our for of art.