It was my 17th birthday and I had been begging my parents to let me get my lip pierced for the last few months. Well I'd been begging forever but hardcore in the months right before my birthday. It was looking good because my would start to really get mad and irritated when I mentioned it. Usually when my dad gets pissed off about something I want he does a 180 shortly after and takes me to get whatever it is I was wanting. The day of my birthday my dad woke up, walked down the stairs, and reluctantly asked me when I wanted to go, "do my lip." I was so happy! I called my best friend and told her the great wonderful news. It seemed like hours before she got to my house but since I knew she wanted to be there, I waited. When she did finally get to my house we got onto the internet and went to got directions to the piercing shop. It was a little distance away. We got in the car around one, I was nervous to go right when they opened because I didn't want to seem super anxious (weird right?)
At A Glance Author anonymous Contact anonymous@bme.anon When Three months ago Artist Jon Studio shrap metal Location colorado springs I was really nervous because it was my first facial piercing. However, I kind of expected it not to hurt because my other best friend got his done the month before and said it didn't. So we got there and there was like one or two people ahead of me. The wait was only about 20 minutes. We looked at the tattoos in the shop and all the jewelry. Finally we were called into the room.
I told him I wanted it on my left side and to make the ring as small as possible. He smiled and told me it would have to be big but I could change it in 30 days. He made the dot and I looked in the mirror. It was in the perfect place just on the first try. I was so nervous and when I'm nervous I smile and giggle a lot. My dad and my friend were just standing there staring at me while the piercer got his stuff together. Of course my dad watched this like a hawk. When he came to put my lip in the clamp I could NOT stop laughing. He didn't help by standing back and jokingly telling me not to laugh. So this went on for about a whole 5 minutes. I calmed down and put on a straight face while I let him pierce my lip...it was incredibly hard not laugh. It didn't hurt much at all, not even when he put the jewelry in.
On the drive home I looked at it in the side mirror of the car. I wasn't incredibly thrilled because the size of the ring but I loved the placement. I couldn't wait to change it. I read the rules to aftercare about a million times and I was excited to take care of it. I was a little confused because the guy didn't give me anything in which to clean my new piercing with. I used hand soap for awhile but I found that it dried the skin around the piercing. It was incredibly hard to move it at all the first week and even the second week. I got H2O and that worked. I also got some Bactine which I was told not to use often but when it really hurt sometimes I could. It made it numb and that was really nice sometimes. I kept really good care of it for about two weeks. Then I became really lazy. I hardly washed it after the first 2 or 3 weeks. It was okay though, it healed really fast.
29 days later, I changed the big silver ring to a small black horse shoe. I would have put another slave captive ring in but I had no idea on how to begin opening it and then closing it again or how to get the ball back in. I loved the little black horse shoe, but about a month after that one I was determined to get a small silver ring. It took my friend my dad and some huge ass pliers to get it done but we did and now I have small silver ring with a ball in it. My mom hates it and was always making silly jokes by randomly telling me I had something on my lip, I'd would be like, "What?? Where??," then I'd get it and tell her she was just jealous and that she was too old to understand. I absolutely LOVE my lip piercing and I can't wait to get more! But I do have to wait, till I'm 18. : (