At A Glance
Author	anonymous
Contact	anonymous@bme.anon
When	Three months ago
Artist	Can't remember
Studio	Brooklyn NY
Location	Brooklyn NY

This is the story of my first piercing in in Brooklyn NY! For the past month I had the idea of getting my right nipple pierced, don't know why just something I wanted to do. I'd heard that it hurts like hell and I for one am not a person that can deal with pain. I asked a friend of mine what the procedure was and she scared me a bit.

As the days went by I told everyone I knew I was going to do it, I made sure that I told every single person I knew this way I had to do it or I'd look like a fool. Well the days passed into weeks and I couldn't deal with thinking about it anymore. I was having dreams about it, sitting at work thinking about it even walking by the place to see if I would go in and do it, but nothing that I can say to myself would let me do it.

My next step was to go on the net and see if there was anything that might be helpful with numbing the pain, I went over to Yahoo, typed in piercing and lots of stuff came up.

As I scanned the list, I found a few sites and went to them I found one site that had a contact. I figured, what the hell, let me send some e-mail to the piercer, Derek Farmer and see if he can help me with my fear and pain issue. A few minutes later I get a response saying "don't worry about it if you blink you'll miss it," I said to myself, "yeah right how can you miss something like that!" I sent some e-mail back saying I would stop by the shop I was thinking about going in in a few days.

Well, a few days passed and I had to get up early for work that morning, I was pretty much tired all day and was walking around like a zombie. I think I have some of my best realizations on these days, I said to myself, "ya know it's only one minute out of your whole life, go and do it you'll forget about the pain in a few days".

Like a soldier I went to the nearest ATM and then walked a few blocks to the shop. I said to myself you can walk by and do it tomorrow but I knew that if I thought that now, I would think that every time I'd try and go. I had to do it now!

As I opened the door and walked in the thought passed through my head, "leave while you still can", but I went up to the counter and said "I was thinking of getting my nipple pierced," and he said "I can't force you to do it, it's up to you... but it really isn't that bad". I agreed to do it (at the same time a cold shiver ran down my back).

He started showing me jewelry, but I had no idea what to look at so I basically let him pick it out for me. This was it -- I'm going to do it! I tried to calm down and as I look up on the wall I see a women [ed note: Actually, it is Fakir Musafar, a man] hanging from 2 hooks from her breasts and at that point I almost walked out. I felt a little dizzy and thoughts of Hell raiser started to pass through my head with Pinhead saying, "I am Pain!"

He said, "Take some deep breaths and relax."
I tried to but the only thought In my head was "IDIOT, LEAVE NOW!!!" but I forced it out of my head as I got onto this big chair that reminded me of a dentist chair a bit.

As I sat on the chair and was trying to control my breathing. He said "I'm going to put the clamp on now", I thought back to what my friends said and that it was the worst part. I sat there with my eyes closed and said, "wow, that wasn't so bad, just a little uncomfortable". As I sat there with my eyes closed (fearing what I might see If I open them) I knew what the next step was... penetration of the nipple!

The moment I feared has arrived! My stomach was in my mouth, my mind thinking of 1,000 different things at once, my heart racing.
Then all of a sudden I felt a slight amount of pain and I hear "its done" and I said "That's it?"

I was shocked; it didn't hurt much at all so I tried to sit up and all of a sudden white flashes appeared before my eyes and I got dizzy. I laid back down for a while and enjoyed the rush.

I was still shocked at how much it didn't hurt. It was amazing!
And this rush I was getting before and after the piercing was unlike any feeling I have ever had in my life. I loved it. As I took a sip of water and my body started to have feeling again I felt very proud of myself for not leaving.
As I hung out getting used to the slight pain I talked to the piercer about his web site and net stuff, it helped relax me a lot.

When I got home I called all my friends and told them I did it! All of them asked who I went with and when I told them I went with myself and they couldn't believe it because I told them how scared I was.

I think for me this was an experience that I will remember for my entire life, its more than a piercing now, and when there is something in my life that I can't do I'll remember that moment I said "that's it?" in the piercing shop.
I know this whole thing makes me sound like a big baby fearing this but I don't care its done and I love it. For all those people who walk by the piercing places intending to go in and don't. I hope it gives you inspiration.