Since this summer, I have had to remove many of my piercings either because I was getting a new job, or just because I had gotten bored with them. Recently however, I had gotten the desire to get a new one, since I felt so naked without all of my piercings. It had to be something discreet so that I would be able to keep it no matter what job I had. Because I have limited funds to use on things like piercings and tattoos, I like to spend my money well, on things that I can keep for a long time. For a while now, my tongue piercing had been my favourite: it requires little to no aftercare once it's healed (and it heals quickly), it's hidden to anyone I do not wish to show it to, and it's a fun sexual toy (or so I've been told...). I decided that I wanted to get another tongue piercing, just because I love that piercing so darn much, and it's just overall so great.
At A Glance Author Steph Contact twistedsteph@hotmail.com When A week ago Artist Kurt Studio Slick Styled Steel Location Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada In the past few weeks, I found myself constantly coming back to BME to look at all the pictures I could look at of double tongue piercings. I loved the idea of venoms. However, that would require me to get two, not one new piercing, and I just did not have to money for that, so I started to look at multiple centre tongue piercings, and although at first I thought that it looked pretty crowded, the idea really grew on me. So that's how, on a certain Wednesday night that I felt a little bit bored and that I just wanted to go out and do something, I decided that I would get it done right that night. So I put in my long barbell in my original hole to accommodate for any eventual swelling, and off I went.
I drove down to the piercing shop where I've been going to pretty much ever since I started getting pierced, Slick Styled Steel in Ste-Anne's, where I'm starting to be pretty well known I guess... (Kurt has just been telling me that he was going to set up a little cot for me in the back of the shop since I'm there so much...) But that's okay, all the staff there is pretty cool, so I just laugh about it. Anyway, I get there; tell him that I want to get my tongue pierced, sign the form, and a moment later find myself sitting in the piercing chair, staring at the poster of the nurse that says: "Yes, It Hurts!" – I love that poster. Kurt then gives me a glass with some original Listerine in it – absolutely dreadful tasting, but it gets the job done. He then proceeds to marking the spot he is going to pierce, which I find is pretty close to my original hole, and he agrees to move it forward a little bit. Then I get back into the chair and get ready for the very small amount of pain that was to come ( I remember panicking like crazy when I got my first tongue piercing done, and I felt like a total idiot when I realized that in fact, it did not hurt at all...). "Don't move" I hear him say. Deep breath in, needle goes in, slight pinch, clamp comes off. "Now really don't move" he says. Barbell goes in. "Have a look". It was love at first sight. Whatever thoughts I had about it being too crowded completely evaporated, and I just stood there, unable to tear my gaze away from this beautiful, shiny new piece of jewellery that was sticking through my tongue. He asked me if I needed him to tell me how to take care of it. I didn't. I paid him, gave him a well deserved tip, and went on my way.
On the way back, I stopped at the restaurant where I used to work to grab some ice, and I iced it all night, took some Advil then went to bed. When I woke up the next morning, I was expecting to be in total agony, with my tongue swollen to the size of a big sausage. No such thing happened, it hardly even hurt. I was very careful when I ate, remembering how much it hurt when I had bitten down on it the first time around. This time, everything went well: hardly any swelling and minimal pain. Although I did have a huge lisp, I figured that it would go away once I got the barbell downsized, which it did, at least the most noticeable part of it did, but I don't care, I love my new piercing too much to take it out because of a hardly noticeable lisp. This piercing also lymphed a lot, which I guess is normal since, well, I asked my piercer a bunch of times if it was, indeed, normal, to which I always got a positive answer, and also because it is now completely fine, smaller barbell in and all, completely pain free and just absolutely gorgeous. I highly recommend anyone who is in the West-Island area or further west, or anyone from anywhere for that matter, to go and see the guys at Slick's, they're friendly and professional, and they just do a darn good job! And if you have any questions about this experience, feel free to contact me with any questions at all, don't be shy, I like to answer questions about my piercings.