I always wanted to get a lip ring but I was always told I shouldn't by the friends I had when I was younger. Since it was very taboo around my area which is a very Hispanic neiborhood and pretty strict. Most thought it was weird and strange and people, friends and as my boyfriend at the time thought I would be a freak as well. So I just became drawn to just forget it and just dropped the idea but soon I stopped hanging out with those one minded people and met broke up with my boyfriend. So I was on my own trying out new things and just putting my foot out there and getting out of my area. so my idea of get a lip ring popped back in my head but by that time I had already gotten a bunch of holes in my ears and I had also pierced my eye brow but what I really wanted was that lip ring, since I am Hispanic a brow ring was not so taboo. But that lip ring still was going beyond mind you I live in Manhattan just a train ride away from the famous village where all the tattoos and piercing are really common.
At A Glance Author curlybunny Contact curlybunny@bme.anon When Three months ago Location New York,Manhattan So I met this guy who I was not used to hanging out with and he completely inspired me because he had all theses different piercing and tattoos including his lip which was his first one ever. We started hang out a lot and he always chilled in the village and I never did he was my complete opposite but I just fell in love. I was always talking about doing it but never did since I am a nanny and was very worried I would get fired because of the lip ring but one afternoon after a lot of thinking I knew its what I wanted and being with someone who had it just reminded me what a cool and exciting piercing it was I just had to get it. So we went to a small place around my house where I had done my eye brow.
I was so excited and nervous at the same time I love the adrenalin rush from getting pierced so this one was going to be a big huge rush. so I got there and I spoke to the guy he is an older man who is very specific and funny and make you just feel comfy he was not really sure if I wanted to get it since I was pretty quite and he thought my boyfriend who has his face mostly pierced was trying to make me pierce my lip which isn't even like that. Well we picked the right size for me after all the talking, instructions and I sat down, I felt the pop, I teared a little, and it was great. I was so happy and I felt great. It was the best thing I could have done and I knew that after I did this I would be a whole new girl which I was and still am and this piercing has introduced me to a whole new world.
My mom was not happy at all and she thought my boyfriend made me do it and she kept telling me I needed to copy good habits not bad but I did not let her get to me. People thought I looked good and some thought I was crazy and that it was not really me. There was no problem at my job since they already thought I was weird and different and they knew that the way I took care of there baby should not have nothing to do with what is on my face. I will still be getting others done and right now I am thinking of getting the other side. At this point it has healed nicely and I am planning on changing it to a stud. It was very easy to take care of beside the crusty in the morning
(oh my goodness did those hurt) but all very worth it. If it was that bad the other side would not be considered.
I felt like good about myself in so many ways, I felt pretty and different, I didn't care what others thought, and I was not trying to copy anyone. Now my mom is completely used to it but still tells me the happiest day of her life will be the day I take it out. But if she only knew there are more to come. Since then I have gotten 2 tattoos and one of them is huge both stars and I love them and can not wait to get more. I strongly believe that if someone gets inspired by someone or just feels like getting a piercing I think they should stop thinking and just do it. You will love it afterwards.