I had always rejected the idea of nipple piercing because I was falsly under the opinion that it was trampy and common. I started looking around at pics of it about a year ago and found them to actually be powerfully beautiful.
At A Glance Author TushyGalore Contact tushygalore@hotmail.com Artist not sure Studio Wild Child Tattooing and Piercing Location Bentonville, Arkansas I read up on them and found that they gave the wearer an erotic charge (which I'm always for) and when I started hearing from interenet buds that it would make ones nipples grow larger I started to heavily entertain the idea of getting them. I've never liked my teeny tiny nipples.. they look lost in a sea of big white breast so it was looking more and more like something I might like to look into.
I went around with it lurking around in my head but didn't really feel like I could swing the dough for it right now so I added it to my body mod wish list and thought that it was something for me to have done in a year or so maybe.
Skip ahead to January 6th 2001... I wanted to start looking around at the local tatt shops to see if we had any truely talented artist here. I would go in and hang out talking to the people at the shop and looking thru the photo albums. I was alarmed at some of the poor quality tatts I saw and got a little disheartened but found myself at a fairly famous shop about 40 miles north of me talking to the soft spoken bearded, pony-tailed man who runs the counter and I believe does some of the tattooing.
I asked him if they had a photo book just of they're piercings and he showed me that all they had was one page lost somewhere in the midst of a tatt book. He said they only bothered taking pics of 2 that they found to be unusual requests (a bridge and a cleavage piercing). Seemed kind of sad to me... esp since they boldly advertise "exotic body piercing".
I slyly told him that I was wanting to get my nipples pierced and he started telling me that they were having a special thru the month of January, buy one get one free on all piercings (they don't do below the belt). I was ready to jump at it when he mentioned that they also were having one very special day on the 28th (super bowl sunday) where they would be training an apprentice and for $10 a pop they were going to do piercings. He said I'd need to pre-pay and sign up. Being a thrifty soul who practicly cums at the thought of a good bargin I jumped at it.
The next 3 weeks were almost unbearable... I was nervous and my palms would sweat at the mere thought of it. People I told about it were apalled that I'd let an amature stab me at all much less in such a sensitive area. I was begining to feel foolish for my decision and almost called them to ask if I could parlay that $20 into a more expensive job done by the pro. But... I decided not to be a puss about it... if nothing else it would make for an interesting story and would make me look bad ass and brave.
The 28th finally rolled around. There had been a threat of an ice storm during the night and I hardly slept with worry.. half hoping I couldn't get there and half already feeling the disapointment that would follow if I didn't get there.
When I got up it was 45 degrees and everything was a go! So I started getting myself ready. My legs were shaking and my tummy was doing chinese gymnastics. I had some other things to do that morning but simply couldn't do anything but pace on my wobbly legs.
When I got there I was 15 minutes early and they hadn't even opened their doors yet... I wasn't alone eaither... other early birds in hopes of getting theirs done first were waiting in their parked cars chain smoking and biting they're nails.
They finally unlocked the doors and in we flooded. They had obviously signed about a dozen or so people up for this event and we started lining up to sign the waiver and show proof of age. I don't know about other states but it's now illegal for anyone under 18 to get pierced or tattooed without a parent present here in Arkansas. I'm glad of it.. but I felt sorry for the one teen girl who got turned away.
Almost instantly I fell in with a group of women who were seated in a circle around a rickety little table. 3 of them had come in together, one was getting her tongue re-done, one was getting her navel and one pretty, plump, redheaded nurse was getting one nipple done. The other woman, a pleasant looking blonde, was getting her cartiledge re-done and she was the most nervous of us all.. she couldn't beleive that the redhead and I were nuts enough to get out nips stabbed.
Most of the people in there were there to get the tongue done (about 7 people), one for the ear, 2 for nipples and one for her navel. I was the only one getting BOTH nips... everyone seems to think I was insane but hey.. I figured I may as well.. why divide the pain into 2 seperate visits.. I may never get the courage again.
This group of women bonded after about 5 minutes and we sat there chattering and laughing our asses off for the next 3 hours.
They did all the tongues first, then the poor nerve stricken blonde and her ear, then the navel and lastly we nipple girls.
The redhead got called in first... I gave her some last minute words of encouragment and cheered her on (she was sheet white for the last hour we waited). Her 2 friends went in and watched over a partition... there was a lot of laughter and I heard the readhead making fearful gearing up noises right before they did it.
When she came out she looked dazed and I called her by name and asked how she felt... she couldn't focus her eyes on me and couldn't speak. I tried several times to talk to her before she left and she just looked like she was in another world. This didn't help my nerves but I said to my guy in a puffed up tone "I'll handle it better than she did!" He said "No you won't... you'll scream like a stuck pig!" Gee.. thanks dearest!
I was dead last that day... the man behind the counter said to me "Hey.. at least she's practiced on everyone else and now knows what she's doing!" this was true and a point that had not escaped me.
My guy had said that he'd be outside chain smoking and guzzling Dr Pepper while I was having it done. I was hurt and told him so... everyone else there that day had come with people who watched and cheered them on with encouraging words and I didn't want to be the only one to go thru it alone. So he reluctantly said he'd TRY to watch. At the last minute I told him to go sit in the waiting room but he insisted on staying.. I appriciated it.
I chose my jewelry (a pair of pretty purple rings with black beads) and was then led into the little room with the scary looking dentist type chair.
My nips were cleaned and prepped then I was layed back in the chair. The pro helped the apprintice to get everything ready but she seemed to pretty much know what she was doing already. I was marked then told to lay back and relax. She put the clamp on my left nipple... this hurt but was nothing in comparrison to what was to come.
She told me to relax and be very very still... I clamped my eyes shut and obeyed. The next thing I was aware of was a mind numbing pain as she rammed the needle thru my poor little pink nipple. I didn't scream but I sharply inhaled making a rather dreadful sound and the pro asked me if I was ok. "I'm cool.. I'm fine.. no problem!" (tough girl! lol). Then came the insertion of the ring and the closing of the ring which were all equaly painful. They asked if I was ready to do the next one.. I said yes and laied a death grip on the arms of that spooky piercing chair.
The next one hurt even worse and my mind reeled with the agony and again sharply inhaled with a hissing gasp. The pro said 'Yeah the second one always hurts worse than the first". "You don't say?!" I weakly responded. I was told to hold stil.. it was almost over... in went the ring then it was closed and it was over.
I was shaking so hard that I knew my legs wouldn't support me so I was encourged to hang out there for a few minutes. The pro came around and inspected my aching breasts and said "hey that looks great! Mind if I take a picture for our book up front? Your face won't show darlin'.. I promise" I was so high and fucked up and pleased with myself for going thru with it that I said "SURE!". I don't regret it.. was flattering.. besides they REALLY need some more piercings pics in that damned book!
They told my guy to come around the partition and get me some water from the cooler... when he came around he was wiping tears off his face and out of his eyes. He told me later he nearly broke down bawling. This from a man who I've only seen cry maybe 4 times in the last 5 years. I thouth it was sweet and it automaticly re-endeared him to me. Elvis you can be a real dreamboat when you want to be! :)
I was given care and cleaning instruction but wasn't taking them in very well due to shock I think. Nothing and I mean NOTHING had prepard me for the pain of this piercing. Having my nostril done (See my scary story about that in the nose section) was a trip to Disneyland compared to this. But I'm super proud of myself for doing it and not pussing out!
It was odd.. the pain hasn't been located in the nipple exactly but more in the muscle underneath my breast and sort of in stripes going up the sides of them. I'm writting this about 24 hours after the job was done. They're not as painful but I did have to wash them today and put the ointment on and rotate them etc. After any rotation or contact I get some fairly sickening pain going in them again but I know that if I take good care of them then after a few more days it'll be a lot better.
The pro told me that after about 30 days I'll be extatic and SO glad I had it done. He said the sensation will be awsome and I'll thank myself for going thru with it. I sure hope so! Hey.. if nothing else I have some really pretty breast ornimentation!
Week 1
After the first week I was able to buy a sports bra and start wearing it after a long cold week without. I had to put it on very carefuly and gently press the always erect rings downward but I found relief from some of the pain but being sort of bound. It kept the rings down and decreased a lot of the jiggle problem. Driving and trying not to brush my arm across them was a problem and bumps in the road or God forbid... SPEEDBUMPS... were horrible!
Also found that disolving some sea salt in hot water then soaking cotton balls and relaxing on the bed for awhile helped.
Week 2
I started using Solarcaine on them, it felt nice and cold on contact then reduces the irritation and eases the pain. Wears off after a few hours but is the best way I've found yet for managing the pain. Crusties are a bitch.
Week 3
Still having some problems with pain. She put the left one in too deeply and it's having problems healing and feeling right. The right one goes thru the nipple but the left one seems to go on either side of it therefor UNDER it. I'm not happy about it either but it's either take it out and let it heal up and have it done again or learn to live with it. :(
*After 3 months of pain and infection everytime Elvis' mouth came near them I started to get tired of the bother. I began noticing a decrease in sensation until finally one morning I woke up and found that I had completely lost sensation in both nipples. They felt bad and didn't look all that great... altho they HAD gotten darker and bigger. The loss of sensation frightened me and I took them out.
The removal itself was painful and there was a flood of some white discharge. It was gross and made me sorry for getting it done to begin with.
The moral of this story.. don't let people pressure you into getting a piercing you didn't really want that much to begin with.