At A Glance Author Bondage-Kit Contact Bondage-Kit@bme.anon IAM Bondage-Kit When A year ago Artist Jay Studio Soul Survivors Location Winnipeg, Manitoba Okay I found this in one of my journals from 2004, so I'm sorry if it
sounds rather childish. It was my first piercing, and even though I knew it wouldn't be my last I didn't know what kind of effect it was about to have on me forever.
On friday at about 1pm I went to get my industrial piercing! Finally I have it and I am so proud! It's silly I know, but hey thats me!
Oh my goodness, on Friday it was supposed to be the last day of school for me, but since we were supposed to have an early dismissal at 1pm, I told my mom that I should just miss school and go for my piercing. Even though my appointment was really at 2pm and I could've gone to school either way, I wanted to go earlier :)
When I was actually getting ready to go I was very nervous and totally wanted to just wig out and not go, but I already told everyone I was getting it done and I knew that I would totally regret it if I didn't end up going. Well that and the fact that my mom would think I didn't really want it and would probably never let me get anything ever after that. I was also worried that it would hurt. Now as you know, I have 16 earrings already, but this would be my first real piercing. So... it kind of worried me.
I had looked up all kinds of information on things that could go wrong and stuff, even the good things, or how much it hurt and migration/rejection information, so I kept reassuring myself, anyway, my mom ended up taking me to Soul Survivors down in Osbourne Village and I was really really nervous but no way in hell was I backing down.
I told the girl at the counter that I wanted to change my appointment for like NOW and she said that was okay. Jay was my artist and he was super nice. While he was measuring my ear he talked to me a lot about how to take care of it and everything, and that made me really comfortable. At first he was going to put the bar along the top above my 3 earrings, and inside I was like No!! but I didn't say anything which was good, because he thought it was too small and changed it to where I had originally wanted it to go! The only thing was that two of the three studs that I had at the top of my ear had to come out. (You see I don't have very much cartilage along the side in my ear, so he had to put one of the holes for my bar higher up, where the bottom two studs were) It's not like he put the bar through the holes, because he didn't. Instead he made the piercing between the holes, so after it heals I may still be able to put earrings in them, but yeah I kind of doubt that. ( the bottom hole is actually healing, and the upper one is right behind the bar itself, so theres no point)
Anyway, after it was all measured and crap he put a clamp on the upper part of my ear where the front hole was to be and he said that it would hurt, but it didn't it rather tickled. Anyway then he put the needle through and it just pinched, the most it hurt was when I felt it go through the cartilage itself, but even that didn't HURT. Then he did the back hole which mildly hurt a bit more, I think because the two holes that were so close to it.
When Jay slid the bar in, it didn't hurt at all, actually it didn't feel like he actually slid it in. Once the Bar was in, Jay realized that it was actually too small for my ear (room for swelling and such), and he had to slide a longer bar in right after. He said that he was surprised because my ear was barely red considering the jewelry had to be slid out right after the initial piercing.
Oh I also learned that the more piercings you have in your ear the better piercings heal in your ears. Pretty snazzy hey?!
So, once Jay screwed on the ends and cleaned it up, he gave me some soap and a pamphlet on care and stuff. I have to go back after January 17th to see how its healing and get a smaller bar in it.
I've had my industrial for over a year now. It hasn't caused me any problems what so ever. When I went to get it down-sized Jay put a bar the same length in because my ear hadn't swelled at all, but changed the ends to smaller balls. I had a slave ring on one end for a while but the extra weight bothered my ear a tiny bit so I took that end off. Since my ear doesn't have cartilage at the curl of my ear until the absolute top, it turns out that Jay did pretty poor placement on me. The hole that's along the outside of my ear looks kind of funny and has a little bit of scab-type skin around it, which isn't going to go away. That disappoints me because industrials are my favorite ear piercings and it was my first piercing but it looks kind of crummy. Im planning on getting another to go across it making a "X" at the top of my ear, so we'll see how that goes.
All in all, if you want an industrial find out if your ear is suited for it. If so get it, industrials are beautiful piercings and they are surely worth it!