Well I am not really good at writing but I will give it a shot. Since a couple of years back I have always wanted my Tragus done since I had seen a teacher with it. And piercings at the time weren't really "in", so not a lot of people had them. I have asked my mom profusely if I could get it done and always the answer was "no!". Mother intuition told her to say it. But 2 years or so back I had asked her if I could get my nose pierced, and if I could do it myself. Well she said yeah so I had my sister in law do it for me. Since then I had took the piercing out and it healed do to school rules. I had then pierced it 4 times. Finally decided to say "fuck you school" and I left it in. But I am getting off track.
At A Glance Author Jessica Contact jesskasaidso@aim.com When Three months ago Artist Myself Location PA Well anyway since my mom said yes to that. I recently decided to ask her if I could get my tragus pierced and she said " I would say yeah but its a lot of money". Mother Fucker I thought. So I just kind of let it go. Until a couple of months ago. I was sitting at a friends house and was looking on BMEZINE and was admiring everybody else's piercings. I just wished so bad I could get my Tragus done. Finally I said screw it. I started looking at aftercare information and more pictures. I decided to do it myself. Yup probably not the brightest idea in the world but then again, I am only 16. Since I was sleeping over my friends house I figured I'd do it when her parents go to bed. So we wouldn't have to worry about her mother and her moms boyfriend coming in and getting freaked out to what I was doing. Because as far as they know I got it done in a piercing studio. =]. Well I had gotten a recent earing that my friend got her cartilage pierced with. It was a pretty Stainless Steel stud. It was very pointy I might add too.
I took a pen and marked where I was going to insert it at. I checked my mark to make sure I liked it and I had got the spot on the first try. I took the earing and TRIED to sterilize it. Psst Yeah very sterile. All I did was hold it over a flame and let it soak in peroxide. Yeah I know it was stupid but it wasn't done by a professional remember??
Finally I had my friend hold the mirror so I can start pushing it through on the mark that I made. I got it through a little bit and thats when I told her she didn't have to hold the mirror anymore. It took me almost an hour to push it through. And honestly it didn't hurt until the last layer of skin. And it was a very minor pain. And when it went through I looked at the pretty stud and fell in love with it even more. It was awesome looking and I was stoked that it was my own. I didn't need to look at other peoples pictures anymore and wished that I had, had one. Its on my right ear by the way. Since I am righty it was easier for me to push it through that way.
That night sleeping wasn't hard at all. I never rolled on to my right side so that was why it wasn't hard. I came home the next day and I said to my mom " I pierced my tragus" and she said not-ah. I said yes I did. Shes like show me then. So I did and she said Holy shit you did. And she made me show my sister. And my sister made this big thing about it was going to get infected and surprise surprise it didn't. Not once. Because I took care of it. Didn't touch it and used Sea Salt soaking to clean it twice a day. Its been three months now and it is still perfectly fine. And I love it! Everybody that I show the piercing to or notices it either tells me they love it and want to get it done or they ask me "did it hurt?" and my opinion I would say no. But I also consider myself to have a high pain tolerance.
I would put a picture in here of it, but I don't know how too. Yeah I am slow.If you didn't get that already.
Don't Copy my mistakes! They told me I had to say that. HAHA. But no seriously. I should have waited and went to a professional piercer but I didn't. I would recommend waiting to anybody.
Happy Piercing!