It had been more than a year and a half since I had first discovered the Christina and fell in love with it. I researched it, looked up pictures, everything. From what I could tell, I was set up fine for one seeing as how it is such an anatomy related piercing. It came down to the last week before the piercing and I was more excited and nervous than ever. Friday came and I waltzed into the shop ready to take whatever pain she had to offer, but the pain she offered was some I wasn't prepared for: the pain of finding out I apparently did not have the appropriate top "flap" for a Christina. It took all the courage I could muster not to cry right then and there. So instead of crying, panties off and legs in the air mind you, I blurted out "Well, what about an outer labia? I'm not leaving without a piercing down there." After some more 'inspection' and some odd compliments on my "great inner labia", she gave the go ahead.
At A Glance Author ded insyde Contact ded insyde@bme.anon When It just happened Artist diedre Studio Body Graphics Location Pennsauken , NJ I came back out of the room, looked my friends in the face and said "I'm not set up for a Christina, so I'm getting an outer labia ring" to my one friends bewilderment; the irony being I had always said to her I would never ever get one because I hated the way they looked. In my disappointment, yet new found excitement, I picked out the jewelry: an 8 gauge cbr. Yes, this is a big size to start, but I liked the look of it better than the other ones. And then, off I went back into the room to face the music.
>From what I had researched and heard, most said the clamps hurt more than the piercing. Boy did they lie. The piercing was intensely painful to the point where I actually jumped, but it was over quickly, and once the ring was in, I didn't even feel it. The problem came shortly there after. See, I have 4 other piercings, though all in my ear. The helix, conch ring, and conch industrial were all well and good. The rook, on the other hand (which was done by the same woman) bled furiously for more than 24 hours, forcing me to go back into the shop to have them clot it and gauze it for me. After Dee got the ring in my labia, she said "Hmm, it swelled right up, and its bleeding quite a bit, but it should subside." Well, the bleeding continued, to which Dee said to my horror "Wow, I've never seen anyone bleed that much from an outer labia." It eventually seemed to slow down to a trickle, so I got up to look in the mirror. Bad plan because that's when Niagara Falls came. Needless to say, I eventually got all gauzed up and went home after 30 or 40 minutes of trying to stop the bleeding. I was happy as a lark.
That is until, 16 hours, 2 outfits, 4 pairs of panties, 8 pads, and 5 sets of 2 inch thick gauze later, I was still bleeding profusely. Dee's suggestion? Besides getting lots of vitamin K, that I should come back in the shop to get stretched. Light headed, woozy, and after little sleep, I waltz in thinking it wouldn't be so bad. She takes a look at my bleeding, sees one of the many walnut size blood clots I've had going, and says "Damn, that's impressive. I only get about one case like this a year." She then informs me, again mind you panties off legs up, that she's tapering me from an 8 gauge cbr to a 6 gauge barbell. A few deep breaths she tells me, but that did not prepare me at all. The tapering hurt more than the piercing itself and I almost blacked out. Finally, after whimpering and shaking with the taper still in, she inserted the barbell, and the bleeding subsided almost immediately. I don't think she'll ever know how grateful I was.
And here I sit, 2 days later, the left side of my vagina swollen and black (though very normal for what just happened), waiting 3 weeks to get the cbr back in. Surprisingly enough, for someone who vowed to never get a labia piercing, I am deeply, deeply in love with it, and I think it is beautiful, in its own weird way. Eventually, I will show the curious, or have pictures, but only after it doesn't look like my vagina got beat up.
This experience is by no means going to stop me from future piercings. Dee suggested I warn any piercer that I am a bleeder, so they should probably do a stretch to start off. I'm contemplating a second genital piercing during my trip to Boston next month (Chameleon is an amazing shop). In so much as this one did give me quite a scare, it by no means can quell my cravings for piercings.