I got my first body piercings (both nipples) when I was 18. Since then I have gotten over 25 piercings. However, my employer does not allow facial piercings so I've had to take many of them out. I went into the mangagement program a year ago,and I took all of them out except my hood, septum retainer, and right nipple.
At A Glance Author Christine Contact butternutshrimp@hotmail.com When A week ago Artist Kelly Studio Westcoast piercing Location Vancouver (mobile piercing studio0 Two weeks ago I got demoted for telling a customer to fuck off and to leave my store. (She followed me into the backroom and didn't leave after I told her to like 4 times). I was really upset so I went home and tried to pierce my lip. I have sterilized needles and I have done many piercings but the jewellry was not long enough so I had to leave it out.
Last week I went to Virgin Festival in Vancouver on Sunday and monday. Westcoast piercing had a booth on site. The guy working the counter was so hawt! so I went up and looked at the jewellry, and asked him a few questions. I wished I could pierce him in a few places. He rocked an awesome blue mohawk and some sweet ass piercings. Alas, I am super shy so nothing came of it.
My friend Jade and I decided to get piercings the next day together. Jade ditched me on the second day of the concert, but I still wanted my lip pierced. My friend Stephanie, who is quiet, and has no piercings told me she wanted to get pierced as well. I was super excited as Steph and I have been friends for nineteen years. Lately we have grown apart, so I was happy that she was interested in something that was so near and dear to me.
We went in together and got pierced first. I was disapointed that the hawt counter guy didn't do the piercing, but I was still excited. The piercer put a ring in my lip for sizeing. It fit snugly on my lip so I asked for a ring with a bigger diameter. The next one he tried on was better, but I was still concerned because I have large lips. I went with it though. He was the piercer, and came highly recommended. My eyes rolled back in ectasy as the needle ripped through my flesh. The piercer asked if I was okay, and Steph asked if I was in a lot of pain. I couldn't bring myself to tell my childhood christian friend that I was acutally getting off on it... so I said I was fine.
Now it was stephanie's turn. The piercer lies her down and instructs her to take off her glassess. The piercer went through what had to be done but wasn't extremely personable. I tried to distract Stephanie by complementing her shoes and cracking jokes. Finally the needle went through her nose. She squirmed a bit, but took it very much like a "man". I had regained a new respect for Steph and it was a very bonding experience.
My lip was fine for the rest of the concert, and I cleaned it all up when I got home later that night. The next day my lip was super swollen and painful. I popped advil for the next few days while icing my lip. I couldn't eat for the next one and a half days because it was too painful. My jaw and throat was even slightly swollen and sore from any talking I had done. The ring is sideways, highly painful, and digging into my lip. In fact it chaffed my lips leaving them dry, cracked and bleeding.
2 days ago it starting bleeding slightly from the holes and the swelling went down. Yesterday it was great. the swelling was down and I didn't even have to ice it. Today however, I noticed the scare tissue on the inside hold had gotten bigger, and upon closer inspection the actual hole had gotten bigger. Could my piercing be migrating?
I'll have to go to the piercer's shop tomorrow.. but I hope everything is okay. I love my lip piercing and its a perfect fuck you! to Safeway and its conservative bs. Funnily enough, I feel more like myself, and more happy than I have been for the past year, with a big ring of steel hanging from my lip.
Safeway has recently changed their dress code to allow facial piercings. This is great because I can really be myself. Through the process of trying to be "grown up" and get a "real" job I lost a lot of myself. I love bright colours, 80's cartoons, being silly, and having piercings everywhere. I lost all that, and in effect lost my soul. I lost my job but found myself. I never knew being demoted could feel so good.