It had been about a month since I had my industrial re-pierced, and I usually have one piercing in the space of a month, sometimes longer, depending on how carefully I've thought through what I want done.
At A Glance Author Loz Contact LittleEllysia@hotmail.com When A month ago Artist Danny Studio Tattoo Crazy Location Cambridge I had been contemplating venom's for a very long time, but out of the 21 piercings I had had in the past, I knew this would be the most extreme. Seeing as the only oral piercing I had experienced before hand was a smiley, (not sure if labret's count) I decided I'd want another done, not only for the experience, but I generally wanted a new addition that was subtle with a bit of difference. I decided I wasn't going to go with a single center tongue piercing, as I'd have to take this out if I did make the decision to book an appointment for my venom's, so instead, I looked up tongue web piercing's here on BME, read stories, and decided this was the one for me. The pictures looked beautiful but I had the decision to make on a ring or bar, I ended up deciding I'd just ask my piercer to choose for me to save hassle.
I never really book appointments for piercings, I like to do it in the spare of the moment when I have money and feel like something fresh, some of my piercings I never gave much thought to and sincerely just thought them up on the day thinking they'd look nice or particularly suit me, but this time I knew in the back of my mind my plan was to get it done and that was my main reason for traveling half an hour to town.
I wasn't nervous, didn't feel any butterflies, if anything I wish I had, I kind of like the feeling of excitement. I just kept thinking to myself, "It's was just a webbing, hardly much skin, had my smiley done, didn't hurt, didn't bleed, this is nothing." At one point I wondered if it was worth the cash, but I knew I wanted it.
There was a bit of a queue in the shop, I waited around, did my usual process of listening to other people, seeing what they were having done, flicked through magazines, then when there was a bit of a clearing and I saw that Danny (the lady who usually pierces me) wasn't chatting to anyone, I told her what I wanted done and ended up going straight for it. I Filled in the sheet, same old layout, handed her the money, then went in to check veins. After a while of waiting for her to tell me if I could have it done or not, I was in the clear, it was all good, so I sat in the chair.
It was a pretty difficult piercing to achieve. There was another girl helping, very kind, went through the normal procedure of telling me what exactly they were going to do, which I liked. It was another free hand piercing, and they attempted to use a cork to receive the needle. It didn't work, there just wasn't enough room in my mouth. Still, after being told to "take a deep breath" they managed to pierce, it was strange, I expected at least a sharp pinch like I did with my smiley, but nothing, it felt like the needle had been there all along and they were just pulling on it. In all honesty, the piercing really, didn't hurt, but the discomfort wasn't exactly what you call 'pleasure'. I think the hardest part was not swallowing, there was a lot of dribble and jesus did I need to swallow. They told me I could, but it seemed that every moment, from the piercing to getting the bar through was so critical that I didn't want to muff anything up by making my tongue move or even quiver. Overall I'd say the healing process was the most, not necessarily painful, but irritating. Rather than the underneath of my tongue hurting, the surface did. It swelled ever so slightly and made it difficult eating certain foods for a week. The strangest part I found, and didn't even take into consideration, was the fact that plaque sometimes clings to the bar and makes it look frosted, it does take a lot of cleaning and it's a bastard to get off, it also lead me to believe it was an infection so I had a days panic for no reason. The main problem I had was that I found it near impossible to clean it the first 3 days after it had just been pierced. It was too tender.
All in all, it's fine, and it's something I know's there, even if no one else does. If anything, I like the fact other people I cross have no idea about it, makes it all the more special to me.