I was never really into genital piercings. I have been getting body piercings since I was 14, and started self piercing at 16. I am now 20. Throughout my many piercings, genital piercings were never anything I wanted or even considered. But now that I am literally running out of new parts to get pierced, I started looking at the genital gallery, just to see. I searched around a little bit and pondered on if I wanted to do something around there.
At A Glance Author nikki Contact nikkibaldwin420@hotmail.com IAM DarkEntrieS When It just happened Artist Myself Studio In My Bathroom Location Halifax, Nova Scotia After a few weeks of periodically looking around the image gallery, I considered getting a Horizontal Hood. I thought it looked pretty cute with the hoop. So I waited a few weeks and thought about it some more. Every time I mentioned it to someone, I referred to it as a Vertical Hood. Why? I do not know. Constant brain farts I guess. When I decided I was going to get it done, but didn't know when, I thought, "Wait, vertical is DOWN, horizontal is across. What the hell am I thinking?".
So after realizing how absent minded I was being, I decided to look at some more vertical hood piercing images anyway. After wanting a Horizontal hood and calling it a Vertical hood, I decided, hey, I would rather have a vertical hood. At least I think I do. I sat and pondered it for a few minutes and thought it would actually be better, possibly more pleasure, and seems like less risk of it, lets say, getting hooked, or torn.
So on this day, the new piercing equipment I had ordered came in. I was playing with all my new stuff and got excited and wanted to use them really badly. I received a pair of septum clamps which are GREAT. (If you don't know what septum clamps are like, you should look them up to understand how I did this afterward.) I thought and thought, and the only thing I had that I wanted pierced besides my nape, and vertical conch industrial, which I cannot do myself, was the vertical hood. Since I had the septum clamps, I figured they would work even better than a receiving tube!
So I go to the bathroom and take of my pants. I put the toilet seat down and cover it with a clean towel and sit down. I pull over the hamper and cover it and lay my supplies on the top. I did the q-tip test, put the q-tip under my hood to see if there was enough room. There was. I grab the septum clamps (which are basically two short tubes on each side) and I put one end under the hood. I just kind of sat there for a little bit looking at it. Then I decided a needed to see the other end, so I grabbed a mirror and put it under my bum and sat on it so I could see what I was doing on the other end.
I could see a little tiny vein in the top of the hood, so it took me forever to line up where I pierce it. After moving it around for about 10 minutes I looked, and it looked like the perfect spot. So I decided here goes nothing. I grab the 14g needle and put it through the tube clamp and it touches my hood. OUCH. Then I stop and think "Can I ACTUALLY do this? That hurt a lot and I only TOUCHED it with the needle." So I sit there with my heart racing telling myself "Do it!!!!! Wimp! You can do this. You pierced your own septum, hell you pierced all three of your labrets and your lip is WAY thicker than this hood. One quick push and you got it girl. It will be so worth it." Hahaha. I was good at convincing myself apparently. So I said OK FINE.
I sigh, and grab the needle again, "Just do it, quickly, it wont be as bad as you think." I just give it a shove and OH MY F**KING SH*T. It was the most painful thing I have ever done to myself, and that's saying a lot considering I've done many hurtful things to my body physically. I panicked and started shaking because of the pain, I had to take the clamps off. I removed them (which was such a bad idea) and stayed still for a second. I was bleeding, a lot. (Maybe I didn't avoid the vein after all dammit.)
I wasn't sure if the needle was through all the way, so I felt below it, it was certainly poking out, but not all the way. Damn. Just like my bridge. So frustrating. So I suck it up and tell myself, as usual, "The worst part is over, you cannot back out, just shove." So I give it a big huge shove and it was ripping out the other end. Man that feeling sucks so much. As it was coming out the other end, it felt like it was tearing my clit off. I had the mirror below it and I could see it wasn't even touching my clit. I guess the bottom of the hood that is attached to the clit was being pulled.
When the needle broke through fully I just sat there and took a few breaths. Blood was there but not gushing, but most certainly the most I have ever bled (I never bleed when getting pierced). I relaxed for a second then started to push the needle out a bit more, getting ready to guide the barbell through. It was really dry and painful, so I got my sterile piercing lube next to me and lubed up the rest of the needle to go through.
I start to push again and get it down far enough to put the tip of the 14g ½" curved barbell in the top of the needle. I push the barbell in and hope the needle doesn't fall out and leave my barbell half in with no guidance to go through. Half way through, they almost lost contact, but I lined them back up again and pushed. I somehow knew the barbell was through but I couldn't see it. I had to pull that needle out. It was hurting, all of this was rubbing my clit. So I pulled the needle out and quickly pushed the barbell through, and yes, it was all the way through, I just couldn't see it under the hood. Gosh, what a relief.
I screwed the ball on and let the piercing go and held the mirror up to look at it. Looks kinda to the side, but it IS the center of my hood. So it looks fine. When I stand up, it looks great. Hurt like hell, but I suppose it was worth it. I run a q-tip under hot water and remove the blood. Whew. I put on my pants (without underwear) and tried to sit down. OW. The crotch of my pants was not being nice to it. I grabbed a pair of underwear, put them on, put my pants back on, and it was fine. Didn't hurt.
That night we went out to the bar for a bit. When I sat down, I crossed my legs as normal, and then realized, "Hey, I don't feel any pain! Great!!". Everything felt fine!!! I came home, and when I went to the bathroom, it looked like I just started my period. I should have put some tissue there for the blood. I never thought of it. Oh well.
It is the next day now. It doesn't really hurt much at all, as long as I wear underwear. I cant wait to see how this goes ;)