About a year ago one of my close friends and I drove to her piercer's apartment to get my nipples pierced. The decision to get my nipples pierced was a complete impulse; I had decided that day to pierce them. One of the myths I had heard about nipple piercings was that during and after you have them pierced, your nipples are always hard. I soon found out that was not true- at least in my situation.
At A Glance Author Heather Contact Heather@bme.anon When A year ago Artist Jeff Studio Nathan's Location Canoga Park When we first arrived at his apartment, I was not nervous, but excited to have two new piercings. After all, piercings are addictive. Once we walked into his spare bedroom, where we were to be pierced, I observed all his piercing supplies laid out. I immediately started to tense up. My friends wanted me to go first so I agreed. Jeff, the guy who pierced us, was very understanding and understood how getting nipples pierced can be a nerve wracking, yet exhilarating experience. He gave me a pep talk, asked me to have a seat on the table where he performed his piercings, and had me take off my shirt and bra. So I sat down, back to the wall, facing him and everyone in the room. I took off my shirt and bra while he sanitized and prepared the needle and jewelry.
The needle he used was wrapped and sanitized, never been used. My friend was more nervous than I was and she decided to come over and grab my hand while I was being pierced. Jeff asked which nipple I wanted pierced first and I said my left. He rubbed a cleaning substance on my nipple, made it hard by blowing on it, and put Vaseline on the end of the needle. He then clasped my nipple with clamps, held the clamps with his left hand, and held the needle in his right. He told me to take a deep breath, and when I exhaled he slid the needle through my skin. I was so intrigued at the thought of having my nipple pierced that I watched him push the needle though. When it went through, my entire body flooded with heat and reached a very hot temperature then immediately after the heat, chills ran down my spine. It was a feeling that is very hard to describe. I looked up at my friend, who was still so scared for me that she was clasping my hand tight, then I looked back down at my nippl e, which now had the needle in it, and blood gushing out the new hole. Apparently I'm a bleeder. Jeff quickly replaced the needle with the new shiny jewelry hoop, handed me a wad of tissues, and I had to hold the tissues to my boob and soak up the blood. He asked if I still wanted the other one done and happily, yet somewhat hesitantly, I replied "of course". He then cleaned and sanitized my other nipple, cleaned the needle, dipped it in Vaseline again, clamped my right nipple and slid the needle through my other nipple. Again, blood gushed everywhere.
On the way home, both my nipples bled consistently and I had to keep huge amounts of tissue in each side of my bra. I did not know if the bleeding was normal and/or safe, but I remembered that with other piercings I had previously, I also bled. The piercer said that the bleeding would eventually stop and that I just had to keep holding the tissues pressed against my nipples to catch the blood and let it dry. Eventually after a few hours the bleeding slowed down. When I went home to take a shower, the blood had dried to the tissue and I had to wet the tissue, my bra, and my boobs to separate the tissue from my skin.
My nipples never completely healed and for the next six or seven months I constantly found crust on and around my nipples and inside my bra. My nipples never reached the point where it was comfortable to move the jewelry around without water, Bactine, or any other moisture in, on, or around the piercings.
Regardless of the fact that I cleaned them every day, morning and night with Bactine, my body slowly started rejecting the jewelry. My body gradually pushed the jewelry closer and closer toward the surface of my nipples. Through my skin, I could clearly see the metal hoop going through my nipples. Eventually the jewelry was so close to the surface that any light yank would have completely ripped through the skin because there was not enough skin surrounding the jewelry and holding the hoops in. I decided the best idea would be to take them out, for fear of having them ripped or yanked out. The holes have now closed up, and there are little scars on each nipple where the needle entered and exited. My nipples are still just as sensitive as when I had the piercings in, they just lack the decoration.