Hey guys, I dont know if you remember my piercing story 4 months back?? Well today I just want to let you guys know how my healing is going and if you got it done recently what you can expect, (because mine looks great and I have changed it twice already.)
At A Glance Author Julia Contact everclear448@aol.com Artist Paul Studio Big Joe and Sons Tattooing (and Body Piercings.) Location White Plains NY (but they are all over dat area) Ok, well when I first got it done it wasn't even red, and I didn't bleed (everyone is different though.) The only thing was he marked me w/ a black marker so it looked gross lol. I made special care to follow all the cleaning instructions. I was great for the first say, 5 weeks, then I slacked off. NOT TO SAY THAT YOU SHOULD DO THIS... but when I saw it was dirty or it hurt I just cleaned it. Puss, and crust is TOTALLY NORMAL. It may even hurt sometimes. Just remember to keep the ring for staying to one side. Contantly move it. Even if you just spray it with bactine and then move it, once in awhile. A couple spritz's of bactine can never hurt.
About, 10..11? weeks into it, I thought I was completley healed and I wanted to change my ugly piercing hoop to a cute banana barbell i bought for 8$ at afterthoughts.
It was around my b-day (I think 2 days after) and it just wasnt my 2 days (bad b-day plus pms lol.) Ohh, and I tried for like two hours (or more) to get the ring out myself. It was not happening. So my mom figured it would be a good treat to take me to have it professonaly taken out.
So... she and I went back to the place where I got it pierced. The woman who changed it wasn't Paul, (who pierced me). She had a labret, and tongue ring, that I could see. She was really sweet, she had to make us wait because she was working on a coustomized tattoo design on the computer. Then she told me that it would be 5 dollars to have it changed since I wasnt buying the ring there. Ok, no prob. My mom said.
I was really nervous, because I wasn't even sure if it was ready to be changed. So my mom says to the lady, "I want you to make sure she is completley healed." SOOOO the woman says to me, "How long have you had and." SOOOOOO i say to the woman, "Like 10..11 weeks." She looked at it and said, "OH yeah it ready." I showed her the ring and she held it up to my belly to make sure it fit. (It was a blue acrilyic ball with two "diamonds" (lol) on the top and bottom ball) It was really cute!!! (for only 8 bucks lol)
Ok so she took me back to the same place I was pierced and told me to lift up my shirt yada yada...
{Ok I had met this girl in the galleria about 2 weeks earlier, and she told be, that having her ring changed was the most painful experience she has ever been through. that is why i was soooooo nervous}
**dont mention 800 words lol j/k BME!!**
Anyways..... Then she i guess sterlized the ring?? whatever... took pliers and placed it in between the hoop, and just opened the pliers. The ball popped right off. I was sooo mad!! I coulda done that!! Moving on.... then she told me i had to lay flat, so I couldn't even see what she was doing. 1....2.....3..... it was in. No pain at all.
So then I admired my new banana barbell in the mirror and I was so happy. But my mom later told me that she globbed the vaseline on it so, that must have helped it slide in.
So now it has been, 4 months and it looks great. Now I have in a glow in the dark one w. the American flag on it. It hurts though its too small, so my mom said today we might go to Big Joe's and have them put in a good one. (we cant get it off lol)
**TIPS**
! If you go get it done, dont listen to anyone about the pain factor. It is different for everyone. I got my ears pierced 3 seperate times, (they got infected each time) i have never thought that hurt. But my sister got hers done once, and she thought it really hurt. It will be different on eveyone, because your pain limit is different and your sensitivity to those things is different.
@ Please make sure you buy a ring that fits, bigger is much better than smaller, i cannot wait to get this thing out of me!!!!
# If you have any questions at all... and I mean it!! Dont hesatate at all to e-mail me: Everclear448@aol.com!!!
Thanks, and good luck!!!