I honestly can't remember the name of the studio or where it is for that matter, my cousin pointed it out to me and I've now completely forgotten. At the start of this year I went to do something at my Nan's house somewhere past Surrey and I ended up coming back home with a smiley piercing. It was my first non-ear piercing, almost completely painless. I had it done with a little curved barbell at 1.2mm (16g), pretty normal. Went home and within a few days changed it to a BCR. Not Good I know *slaps wrists*.
At A Glance Author Carlu Contact Carlu@bme.anon When Three months ago When I got back to school my lovely smiley got a lot of attention, (all but one person in my class had never heard of that piercing before) but a week later as a few of us came back from a school trip I found that after a lock-down on incorrect uniform, some people had spilled the beans to the form teacher about my other piercings. Which they had major problems with, even the retainers, and even with plasters on. I thought that it might have been a good idea to put the barbell back in.
I go home. Sit in front of the mirror in my room. I put the barbell on the floor, take the ring out. reach for the barbell... but where is it? It had gone and I haven't seen it since (it's the second time it's happened too, I lost a lovely 2mm barbell three days after getting it!) So I had to get the BCR back in. Well that's easier said than done. It had decided to close up a little. I couldn't get it in. Well I'm much too stubborn to just say "Oh well never mind I'll have it redone" so I found a huge needle, vaselined it up and pushed it through *slaps wrists again*. The ring got in eventually and I kept it in for a while.
Unfortunately I used to try and grab the ring between my lips when bored. In turn pulling it and after a month or so I realised that it was starting to migrate. As you all know I'm very stubborn so I wasn't just going to take it out. I left it for a while. I tried to keep it pushed up with my tongue seeing if the migrated area would heal back into place, but to no avail. I thought that one day it would just fall out.
So one day when I was changing my scaffold bar I decided to see if a 1.6mm (14g) would fit in my dear old smiley. And it did. There was still a little room too! I put in a labret retainer as it was the only small jewellery I had in 1.6mm at the time *slaps wrists again!*
That stayed in for a few weeks and I was pretty convinced that it had healed back into place. I tried the 1.2mm BCR again. It hadn't changed one bit. I was pretty peeved, but I put the retainer back in, in the hopes of getting a 1.6mm ring small enough. Never did.
A few days ago the labret retainer starting cutting into my lip on both sides. I ended up almost retiring the piercing altogether yesterday. But you must know what I'm like by now. I looked at the hole and thought that a 2mm (12g) was bound to fit in. I poked a cotton bud stem through it and it met no resistance whatsoever. I fished around for something in my drawer and found a tiny weeny white plug at 2mm that I was never going to need. I filed it down so it was shorter then cleaned it up, and then came the problem: No O-rings. But not to worry, I had two from some 1.6mm retainers I got, so I put one on one end and put the plug in my smiley, now I know that putting an o-ring onto the retainer was tricky, but it seemed simple compared to getting the o-ring onto a plug one size too big in your mouth while you were drooling everywhere. Took 20 minutes but I got there, and it was 10 times more comfortable. No more cutting into my lip, no more wiggling, and I'm pretty sure that it isn't migrating anymore!
I have come to terms with the fact that it has already migrated a lot and am thinking of stretching to 2.4mm (if I can) and putting a tiny tunnel in so I can wear rings again.
If not I may take it out and have it repierced in the future.
Let me just add that I don't recommend any of those actions that involve me slapping my wrists. They were bad ideas and I was lucky nothing really bad happened.