Hey, I suppose this all started when I went back to Madeira for Christmas. I had gone there for a holiday to see my family. I had been there two years before and had my smiley pierced, I had taken it out sadly and once I stepped foot back in Madeira I had smiley fever once again.
At A Glance Author Peach Contact Peach@bme.anon IAM glitterstar When A week ago Artist Vincent Studio Atomic tattoo studio Location Madeira portugal Once getting there I had to wait one week till the studio re-opened after the Christmas season edged away and the New Year had began. The afternoon finally came when I went into the main town (Funchal) with my cousin. We hopped onto the bus and made our way. Sadly we got lost on the way there forgetting where the studio was. Being as lost as we were we asked for directions.
Finally we made it up a rather large hill and we were outside the studio. I remember it really well and I could feel myself starting to get very hot, I didn't know if it was the nerves setting on if it was the hill I had just clamed. I approached the male behind the desk and my cousin told him what I wanted. He told me that it would be a few minutes till I could go in. I thought that was alright and sat out side trying to cool down as I was getting warmer and warmer the closer I came to the piercing. I walked back in as more and more people got inside waiting for piercings.
I finally got called in to the studio by the male who had done the piercing I had done there the year before.
When I went into the room there were two chairs in the middle of the room and on the side there was clear film where there was laid out a 1mm needle in a sterile packet, next to it lay a clap also in a sterile packet. At this point I could not understand what he was going to use the clamp for. This all became clear after the piercing.
He sat down and told me to sit down on the chair in front of him; I did so and got my cousin to stand next to me. He then opened up a case full of jewellery; I was looking at a strawberry plug not really caring about the jewellery he was going to use. Finally I took my attention to him and he asked me if I was ok with a 1mm bar and I agreed and got ready to be poked.
He told me to lift up my top lip so he could look at the bit of flesh he was going to pierce. He told me I could put it down and he got some foerster clamps. After failing with those he chose to pierce me without any clamp. I knew the needle was coming close to me and I started freaking out and moving back every time he came closer to me with it. U could see he was starting to get annoyed with me. He told me to come closer to him and opened my legs and placed his leg in between mine and he kept telling me to get closer. When I was as close as I was prepared to get I looked up and he winked at me. He told me to lift up my lip one more time and this time I tried now to move back, He got the needle through and a deep breathe of relief came from me and the piercer.
I looked up at my cousin and she started to cringe and the deformity of my lip with a canular needle pushing my lip up and the blood dripping down to my teeth. My eyes started to water and I took another deep breathe awaiting the next few parts of my piercing experience. He got the scissors and cut the end off the canular needle and screwed on the 1mm bar with the ball on the end. I have to say this part was rather painful. After the put the bar through he tried to place the other ball at the opposite end of the bar. I think this is the hardest part of the whole piercing. The ball and the bar are so small and the area that you are trying to get it on to is really hard. Finally the ball was on going through a lot of eye watering and pain.
The phone in the studio began to ring and I sat there waiting acting on the piercings instructions. I sat and sat and sat. Finally he said I could go, I was escorted out by a rather good looking male who I was swooning over, he was bloody fine. He handed me a flyer of the studio and my cousin started specking Portuguese and he handed her another thing and told her what she should come back and he would piercer her. I was still in my swooning over the young man and handed over to him 50 euros. He asked me how much the guy had said and I told him 45 euros snapping out of my swoon.
When I got home I tightened it. This did not help that much really as that night the ball came off in my cousin's bed room and I had to go back to the studio to get the ball put back on and tighten securely. Now I have had this piercing for almost two weeks and it is healing perfectly. It has been a bit sore as I have been playing with it and pulling at it a lot with my tongue. I am cleaning it daily with salt water and trying to stop playing with it but all in all it's a great piercing and if you are thinking about having it pierced then go for it!
Happy piercing