So for about nearly a year I've been infatuated with piercings. Unfortunately I had very strict parents. At about 13 [after lots of begging] my parents finally took me to simply get a second ear lobe piercing. I was so happy they finally let me do it, but then I noticed that the piercings were too far apart from each other and I didn't like the big space between them. I then went behind my parents' back a couple of months later & pierced right in between them.
At A Glance Author anonymous When It just happened It took 6 months for my parents to finally notice I had 6 ear piercings instead of four & that 2 of them were done behind their backs. They eventually got over it though; but they said no more piercings!
At 14, i begged and begged my mom to take me to get my helix & rook pierced. After many, many "no's", I had finally convinced her [and I'm not even sure how] to take me to get new piercings. The procedure was going to be done with a gun so I couldn't pierce my rook. I was extremely disappointed, but I quickly decided to instead pierce my tragus.
After these two piercings I began to Google up images of other piercings & was actually finding out good information. I felt like an idiot to even think my rook could've been pierced with a gun. It was only common sense that it could only be done with a special needle.
I still loved my tragus even thought it wasn't what i originally wanted, and of course my helix. I still wasn't completely satisfied though. I still wanted my rook pierced. I like to be unique and different and even thought many girls had their helix's pierced, I still wanted it. I noticed that many girls had their tragus pierced too. I definately do not like common things, but I said hey what the heck, its still pretty neat & looks pretty on me. Unfortunately about a month and a half ago I took out my ring from my tragus & it closed instantly. I was very angry that after 5 months it still closed. I looked on the bright side & thought that I had increased the chance of my mom letting me pierce my rook, so I got over it.
I noticed this one chick out of my whole school had her rook pierced which i found really rad, because it's pretty unique. I was pretty shocked to actually see such a rare piercing in person. Almost everyday I'd go on Youtube to see how the rook was really done; & it made my stomach turn. It looked extremely painful, and I hate pain.
Every time I asked my mom to take me to get a new piercing, she'd just look at me & roll her eyes. But last week I asked her again & she seemed okay with it. I'm not so sure what I said to her but I was ecstatic that she finally approved.
So yesterday we drive over to Red Dragon on Fordham Rd [Bx, ny] but it was closed =[. I didn't want to give up & luckily I remembered there was another piercing/tattoo place like up the block. We went. So the nice man got everything prepared & made sure I knew the equipment was clean & before I knew it, I had a needle in my ear. My exact reaction was "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO". Then i let out another "WOOOOOOOOOO" when he entered the ring. "All done" the man said, & I replied "I'm good, I'm okay". I said this about three times while my head was spinning & my eyes were rolling. BAM! I fainted. When I woke up I thought I was sleeping. I had a dream-like vision i was getting my rook pierced, there was also a song in my head. I opened my eyes & realized that I didn't have a dream & that I just gotten my rook pierced. "Umm, did I just faint?!?" I said calmly. The man laughed a bit.
I felt pretty bad though; I had made my mom cry. She thought I died. She said I was kicking & all of a sudden I stopped and got really stiff. She's now basically traumatized :/.
But now, the day after, my rook is beautiful with no blood or even pain! Like most people said in their experiences on BME, I'd have to agree that it is worth it! Very, very, very painful, but sooo worth it after. Plus; the pain was mostly when they entered the needle and then the ring. Besides, when I woke up [after I fainted], the pain was completely gone :D.
Hopefully my mom would soon forget about the whole thing though.
Well thanks for reading my experience.
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