I live my life in a search for beauty. I have always liked bodymodification and I think of it as a life-work. It could be due to my strange body-mind perspective. What is is that makes some people like modymods and some hate it? Wellwell... Individuality is very important and I'm not discussing it here.
At A Glance Author Rain Contact rain.emanuelsson@swipnet.se When It just happened Artist www.bodyhole.nu Studio www.bodyhole.nu Location borås, Sweden This is another of those piercings that I had never seen before I started thinking about how nice it would look on me. I already had one horizontal nipple piercing, and it took half a year to heal that one completely. Hence, I was kind of sceptical of doing another having to think about healing for such a long time. Having the first nipple piercing done and it's first healing process took about three weeks, but having it healed completely took a lot of restraint and tender care.
So there I was walking around thinking about doing ANOTHER of those kind of difficult long-time projects, but of course it didn't take that much time convincing myself of how much I love all those projects. So I decided to call my piercer and ask them to have a look at my nipple, and they handled it with a laugh and said that it's okey, we'll do it for you. But I had to wait for four weeks because they were very occupied.
When I got to the studio I was told that this was a more "advanced" piercing and that it would take quite some time because he had to improvise a bit, and mark it up properly, produce a "skatboard" barbell for me, and do a thing that he had never done before. He had never done a cross on a female nipple, but I trusted him because I think that Swedish piercers are well-educated.
First I stood against a wall while the piercer marked it up, thinking about how my coming two piercings would look nice together. I had already put in a longer barbell in my first nipple piercing and my piercer just smiled. So we marked it up a couple of times until it looked right, and then I was told to lie down for a while letting him choose the jewlery. At first he tried and measured with a 12mm bananabell, but it din't fit... so he made me one... or actually two skateboard barbells until he thought it was correctly bent and the right lenght.
Then my piercer told me about the procedure: "We will clamp it first holding up your first piercing and getting hold of the tissue we're going to pierce. We will then just pierce it and if you sence any troubles you will just tell me... and we will do this TOGETHER. Does this hurt?" He said and clamped my breast, holding it steadily, and it didn't hurt much at all, so I said that he just should do it because I was becomming nervous, and the piercer was nervous too, I could tell... but it didn't really bother me. I'm the kind of person who does everything right if I'm under a bit of preassure. So he pierced the nipple carefully and it hurt abit but it was really okey. He used a 1.7mm needle with a plastic tube attatched to it and he pulled the plastic through and cut the needle. THE PIERCER was still nervous, but his hands never tremled, and he inserted the skatboard barbell and that too hurt a bit.
He then told me to just lie there a while and rest, and I felt happy and wanted to go up and look at my new piercing, but I stayed put there for a while, until the piercer told me that it was okey for me to rise. Involoutarily I posed for the mirror, and that must have looked quite suspicious but I couln't help myself. I like pretty, daring pictures.
As I went out of the studio having paid about $40 for the procedure I felt the pain flowing through my chest region. It stinged, so I sat down for a minute or so just trying to relax and then I went to see my friends as ususal. The adrenalin kept me going for an hour or so, and then I fell into complete tiredness and there were black spots travelling in my point of vision as the natural drug left my body. So we decided to lie down, and after another hour I was up again and I had forgotten that it hurt.
So I went home and took on a sweater that was clean and I went to bed. And this morning I woke up and almost forgot that I had a new piercing. But as I washed it with soap and whater moving the jewlery a bit, and a while afterwards I KNEW that there was something in my breast. Not a terrible pain, but a reminder of the need for caution.
There was actually no visible swelling and everything looks right. I will clense it two times a day with soap and water, I have a special antibacterial soap for the purpose. I will not toutch the piercing for anything else than cleaning. There will be no oral contact for a couple of weeks, and in two weeks I'll go to my piercer and change into a shorter and maybe straight barbell. I'll do what I always do when I have a new piercing. I don't toutch the area if not nessecary, and I don't toutch it without first washing my hands. I eat healthy, I don't go swimming or to a sauna. And I don't drink alcohol.
I don't see any problems with this piercing when it is done by professional people in a clean environment and with good aftercare. But if you're not going to do it like that, don't do it at all! If you use a too bent or too small ring there WILL BE problems. If you get germs in the piercing, there will be a really bad infection that you don't want because it's both dangerous and very painful. So, go by the book! Piercing presents a risk, and it is you and how much you know about it that is most dangerous. Listen to your body and read up on it.
Now it looks really cool, and it is a new experience. It's another way to make time pass. And if I can get a digital camera I will send the picture to bme.
Questions? I'll be happy to answer them. ā rain.emanuelsson@swipnet.se
/Rain