my little belly button bar :D

At A Glance
Author	luka
Contact	luka@bme.anon
Artist	dan??
Studio	counter culture
Location	gulf beach

well, where do i start? my name is lacy and i have one experience on here already..[self-done ear]...so i thought, what the heck..ill do a belly-ring story too :)well, it all started back in the summer of '00..july 7th, to be exact. my cousin, alex, was getting her belly button pierced, and i wanted my done badly, also, and i knew it wouldn't be hard convincing my mom. [i already have a tongue ring and various ear piercings] so i went up to her and said.."mom, can i get my belly pierced with alex?" and she said "umm..sure!" so that was that :D me and alex set our appointments for july 8th, at 12:00 in the afternoon.i was nervous out of my mind the rest of the night. i was excited and thinking about the cost, what ring i would get, if it would hurt, how i would break it to my dad (we'll talk about my dad later!). so i go to bed with belly button ring thoughts dancing all in my head, and finally fall asleep.i wake the next morning at 7, showered, got dressed, and sat on my couch for the next 3 hours watching TV, waiting for 11:30 to come! and when it finally did..i was so nervous i about died! so me, my aunt and uncle, alex, and alex's mom all pile into the car, and we head to Counter Culture!when we get there, im shaking im so scared! we go in to this awesome place, with posters, stickers, tattoos, pictures, and black-lights all over the walls. me and alex's mom go up to the counter and tell them what we are there for, as we walk around and look at everything. there was a wall just for navel piercings, so we stared at that for a while, and decided what kind of jewlery we would get when our piercings were fully healed.and then..Dan called our names.so we go back into this little room. clean, smells nice, with soft music playing. i look in the room and theres a dentist-looking chair, a sink, a mirror, and a wall full of certificates. i start looking at his certificates and he asks which one of us is first. i say I am, because my cousin wants to know the pain factor, etc, and i sit down in his dentist chair thingy with my shirt rolled up and my pants rolled down. he puts on gloves and gets everything set out--the needle, the forceps, my ring [which by the way..i picked a silver ring with a black glassy-looking bead.], a q-tip, some iodine, and some ink. and this is what impressed me..he took of his gloves after all that, and put on a new pair! he got a tooth-pick out of his cabinet, and dipped it in the ink, and marked my belly button..AND PUT ON A PAIR OF NEW GLOVES! i was thoroughly impressed :D he asked me if the placement was good, and i said it was. so he gets the needle positioned, and tells me everything hes doing--"im putting the needle in place..im going to count to 3, and on 3, theres going to be a pinch and it will be over." so he counts and i count with him in my head..1..2..3!! PAIN! STING! i squeeze the life out of my uncles hand. he tells me its over and i did good..and that he was threading the ring through which was kind painful..but bearable. after it was all over, he puts a cotton-ball on my new belly-hole and covers it with a band-aid, and tells me to step down slowly. im kind of light-headed, but fine, and so excited at what i just got done! :Dhe gives my mom a packet of info of everything im supposed to do..sea-salt soaks, anti-bacterial soap, no touching it, no beach water/pool water/hot tubs for a while, etc. etc. etc.so by now my cousin is drilling me on everything..did it hurt? what did it feel like? did it sting? i tell her it hurts a little bit and her eyes fill with tears, and her face turns white. i tell her its fine, and Dan calls her as next. she gets in the chair, almost passes out, literally!, but goes through everything i did, and was fine.so now, 10 months later, everything is great! i did everything i was supposed to as far as cleaning goes, and everything went great. no infections, not much pain after the first 4 weeks, and minimal redness. i have changed it to a spiral ring with blue black light beads. its cute..and everyone loves it! all my friends are jealous because i have the "cool" mom.my dad still doesn't know. ive hidden it for almost a year!! if he found out, hed flip. i dont know what im gonna say when he finds out..if he ever does! heheoh and by the way..my cousins belly is fine, also! she has a pink barbell in it.happy piercing!