I went to get one of my nipples pierced this past Thursday. I had not really planned on going through with it, but one of my friends convinced me I should go through with it. I was a little bit scared going in there because I did not know if I would see anybody I knew or if anybody i knew would see me.
At A Glance Author VeRoNiCa When It just happened Studio The Body Shoppe Let me back up a little. I have been a student at a Christian (Baptist) school all my life (from age 3 up until graduating high school in 2000), and it was/still is looked 'bad' upon doing things like this to yourself. But hell, I'm doing a bunch of things that are considered 'bad' to them, so it didn't really matter anyways.
Back to my story. I went into "The Body Shoppe" where I was getting one of my nipples pierced. I still had not made up my mind 100 percent if I was gonna do it or not. I told the girl that was working there that day that I was nervous about it and asked how bad it would hurt. She said she had gotten both her nipples done and she has liked them ever since. She told me that she would not say that it would not hurt, but that it would not be a constant, long-term pain. She said that it would just be a sudden, split-second pain. In the meantime, I called a friend of mine that knew that I was thinking about getting my nipple pierced. She gave me some 'last-minute advice' and said that I should go for it.
There was 2 other girls and a guy together in the shop and the girls were getting their belly buttons pierced. The guy was there for emotional support, I suppose. I decided to be friendly, so I asked them had they ever gotten anything pierced before. The first girl said she had done her belly button before, but took it out. The other girl hadn't had anything pierced. She wasn't sure, either, if she wanted to do it or not. I told them I was thinking about getting my nipple pierced, and the first girl said that she had heard that it didn't hurt really bad and some of her friends had gotten it done. That made me feel better. So I told the girl working there that I was gonna go ahead and get it done.
So I filled out the paperwork, and she took me back to the 'little white room' where the 'procedure' was going to happen. I was glad a girl was going to do it b/c I would of felt uncomfortable with a man (stranger) touching my breasts. I sat down and then I laid back in the 'dentist-office-like' chair and unbuttoned my shirt and pulled down my bra. She cleaned the area with alcohol. It made me feel a little better when she told me step-by-step what she was doing. She put a clamp on my nipple...she warned me before that it would feel weird. Then a couple minutes later (or at least it seemed like minutes) she told me to take a deep breath and breath out. When I breathed out she stuck the needle through my nipple. At that point was when I started cussing. Then she slid the ring thru the hole she had just made and put the little ball thing on the end to hold it. I think after that she put some neosporin-type gooey stuff on it and then she taped a bandage on it for the bleeding. It hurt and bled that night sleeping and the next day (Friday), but since then it's felt pretty good. I felt like I was going to throw up when I cleaned it when I got home that night (Thursday), and then the next day (Friday). It hurt the first 1 or 2 times when I got in the shower, but now it don't hurt it anymore. I'm still getting used to the feel of it, and trying to be careful when I put on a bra. Word of advice to u girls with big breasts: watch yourself when u lean over anything the first few days after u get it done. I know from experience that it hurts like hell when it 'hits' something.
I'm sure I'll forget it's even there sometime in the future. After all the pain and tossing-and-turning I did when I went to bed that night, I'm glad that I got it done. I shocked some of my friends when I told them that I had actually gone and done it. Btw, I couldn't hug anybody for several days after I had done it. Hope you enjoyed my story and didn't put you to sleep too much. Thanx for reading it. Love VeRoNiCa