After I had gotten my single eyebrow piercing, I had decided that I would look good with another one, but I had debated it. I had gone into shops with the intention of getting another eyebrow piercing done but always got something else. Well the day finally came when it was time, Amy had mentioned that her current boyfriend Ryan was going to take his sister to get something pierced. The only problem was that she is underage in NY so I have a piercer friend that piercer's minors (dont lecture me on this, I only take people to him that I beleive are ready for to get the piercings and can properly take care of them. I am totally against piercing minors). So we decided that I would go with the three of them for his sister's piercing. I decided while I'm there maybe I'll get that other eyebrow piercing I've been talking about.
At A Glance Author grimtim Contact grimtim@hotmail.com Artist Bob Studio Ancient Art Location Lockport (buffalo), NY The day comes around we make our plans, in the afternoon I call Amy and it happens that Ryan's sisters mother found out about the piercing plans and will not let Ryan take his sister to get anything pierced. So after about oh, thirty seconds of fretting and a couple phone calls later we got ahold of Tracy (from starbucks) a friend of Ryans and she had was talking about getting something done as well (possibly a navel or conch) and she became our quick substitute. We rendez-vous at amy's around 7 pm I smoked a bunch of cigarettes before we had to leave as I could not smoke in the car on the way up there. And the four of us headed up in Ryan's car on the 20-30 min ride to lockport.
I remember I could not smoke in Ryan's car and was flipping out because I could not have my cerimonial pack of cigarettes prior to a pierce (these were minor and I had already had a bunch of other work done, but I still work myself up before anything little thing I'm not sure why) so we get out of the car, I smoke as much as I can in about 8 minutes, have a cigarette with Bob as well, we talk about it, placement jewelry etc. Go in to the room I sit down in his uncomfortable lil black chair. He took a marker out of his auto-clave marked the spots with lil black dots. I had decided to get one on either side of the exisiting ring (I decided to be daring and get two more instead of one.
He put the clamp on which felt no different than any other time I had had them applied, he pierced it, which again felt no different than any other time, he corked it and that was the completion of the second ring. The entire process was repeated again for the third ring. I remember the tips of them needles being damn close to my eye before he put the jewelry in. Popped in my jewelry and the typical blood flow followed, gave it five minutes, he cleaned me up and said finished. He only charged me twenty five dollars (buy one get one I guess) cuz he's my buddy so I tossed a ten dollar tip his way. I admired my triple eyebrow and we were on our way home.
I remember as well on the way home we listened to Kenny Chesney as Ryan was a cowboy or some shit. We went back to Starbucks got coffee sat around and shot the shit about my new work. Went back to Amy's house were she proceeded to ditch her boyfriend to spend more time with me (makes sense huh ?).
These pierces were very easy for me, they are my latest work so far. I had some problems healing them. People have told me that because I had gotten two fresh pierces right next to each other that the infection rate was higher, and they would also be alot harder to heal as well. I had an extended crusty stage and some bleeding for a month or so. It took in my mind close to six months to heal both of these piercings, where it only took me about four to six weeks to heal my first. As I said though I am not sure why but if I had to guess it would be because I had two put in right next to each other. Other than that no problem. Of the three rings I currently only wear one, I let one hole close up and keep one open with the use of an invisible retainer (courtesy of pleasurablepiercings.com). They are the little tan niobium, candy cane shaped ones, those things work wonderfully. I work in a hospital where visual mods are and extreme no-no and I wear two of those in and I've never had a problem with it.