I was so exited the day I got my double vertical labrets done. I'd been waiting for this day forever. I finally got the cash, and the balls to go down and get them done. I went to the shop at about 11:30am on an empty stomach and told the guy what I wanted. He got the right jewelry, two ½ inch curved barbells, then told me it will take about 20 minutes to sterilize them. So I went outside to smoke like five cigarettes with my friend while I waited to get pieced and I saw this Mexican chicken restaurant across the street so my friend went and got me this weird chicken and rice thing. I ate as much as I could so I wouldn't hurt my lips if I tried to eat after I got them done.
At A Glance Author Bob Johnson When Six months ago Location San Diego, CA Finally after about 30 minutes the guy came out and said it was ready, (This is when I started to get nervous). I went back inside and sat in this chair that hurt my ass next to a tray that had all the stuff to pierce me on it, inside of this small booth with metallic chest high room dividers for walls. I was ready! For some reason I had this feeling that the guy was new to the job because he seemed to be devising a plan of attack on how he was going to stab my lip. It looked like he had never done this piercing before, but I had total faith that he wouldn't screw me up because he was way into it.
He had me rinse me mouth with mouthwash. After I finished he started cleaning my lips with alcohol and iodine. He asked me how I wanted them and where. I showed him and he put on the dots. The first sets of dots were too wide so he wiped them off and tried again. Once they were where I wanted them he got the clamps.
It was time. He put the clamps on the left side of my bottom lip. There was nothing to focus on so I just stared straight up his nostrils. I glanced as he picked up the needle and brought it closer to my face. Then he asked me, "Are you ready?" I quickly said, "hell yeah!" he go the needle in place, counted to 3 and jammed it up through the bottom of my lip. I felt the flesh pop like when you stick a fork into a braut worst. I loved it! All it felt like was if I pinched my lip in one of those black office folding paper clips.
He put the barbell through and got ready to do the right side, I was way ready. He counted to three again and pop! Right through the top of my lip, WooHoo! He put the jewelry in and screwed on the ball. I was so exited. There was no pain. It wasn't hurting me to talk and the best part was that the barbells weren't bugging me. It only bled a little and there wasn't a lot of swelling
Cleaning them was easy. All I had to do was swish with mouthwash with the top balls in my mouth, then squirt the bottom with saline solution, and rinse with water every time I smoked and ate. After I had them for about 3 weeks I stopped cleaning them as much. I would just clean them after I woke up and before I went to bed.
He gave me longer barbells, to allow swelling, so I changed them after they were finished healing. I recommend this piercing to anyone that is looking for a different way to have their lips pierced. The jewelry doesn't get in the way of eating, drinking, kissing, smoking, or spitting. I had to learn how to whistle again though and I have to use a lot of lip balm to keep my lips from drying out and getting chapped because the balls keep my lips from staying sealed. It kind of sucks but its not bad enough to get rid of them and plus it makes cool lines when I eat ice cream cones.
People ask me all kinds of stupid questions about then like, Did it hurt?, do they get in the way when you eat?, or Can you squirt spit out of them? One guy asked me if I did it by jamming two nails through my lip then putting in the jewelry. So many people stare at me when I go out in public now. I'm always thinking someone wants to fight me but then I remember that I have two pieces of steel stuck in my face. It was a painless piercing and I'm glad I got it done.