Okay, so its been about roughly three to four months since my last piercing. As the typical piercing addict, I was craving for another hole in body. I remember asking my friend Meg (shes comes with me all the time I get pierced), and she suggested my navel. The first thing that came to my mind, like it has to so many other guys is "Isn't that gay?" Well I decided to suck it up and that no piercing would make me straight, gay, or whatever. Once I got passed the whole gay straight issue, my second concern was that navel piercings are now trendy and that all these little teeny bobbers get them because a blonde girl that sings "Im a slllllllllllllave'' has one and that they want to be just like the blonde girl*takes a breath*. Okay so that was the next issue and I sucked it up and decided that I was gonna follow them flock and get my navel pierced.
At A Glance Author davey Contact eidolon@angelfire.com When A week ago Artist Sandy the kick ass piercer chick Studio Abstract Arts Location Queen St West, Toronto CANADA BABY YAAAAAAAAA My parents were leaving on cruise and they left me 100 bucks, yay my parents, so I figured perfect timing to get poked. I went downtown to Abstract, by now Sandy the kick ass piercer there pretty much knows me by name cause, well I've been in there pretty much every Friday for the past month or two. I took all my friends there when they wanted to get pierced, because she's a kick ass piercer.
So me and my friend Meg take the bus to finch, then pay our 2.25 fee, get on the subway, "shoot the shit" and get off at Osgoode station. It took us about a half hour. The first thing I did when I got onto Queen St West was light a smoke. The second thing was give a toonie to an unfortunate homeless person, and the third thing I did was walk into Abstract. Me and my friend Meg walked in, and to me it felt like my home away from home. I walked up to the counter, and the friendly tattooist greeted us, asking what we'd like done today. We gave the whole "navel piercing please," and he said, "Just take a seat, Sandy is actually doing one right now and she'll be about 15 minutes." So me and my friend sat down, then other people came in, we got up and looked at the flash on the walls and the pictures in the book, and I found my next tattoo (coming to an experience near you). Anyways, okay so we saw people leaving the back room, which meant our turn.
We were greeted by Sandys smiling face and the typical, "So what you gonna get pierced today?" I said my navel and she was like cool. So we filled out the forms, she said that she didn't need my id cause I showed it to her before for my nipple piercing, we proceeded and I asked if I could get it done at a 12ga instead of a 14 (I don't know, I guess it made me feel more manly or something) anyways we go to the back room and I had to go first cause my friend is a chicken.
So I lay down on the dentist chair thing that we, the pierced, have come to know and love, lift up my shirt, getting ready to get stabbed by a 12ga needle. Anyways, the three of us (Meg, Sandy , and I) start shooting the shit while she prepares my navel. It was cool. She grabbed this thing that looked like a big Q-tip that was drenched in that brown stuff that disinfects the area. It felt soooooooooooo cool, anyways she grabbed a ruler, marked the placement, asked if it was okay, I said yes it looked fine, and she tried to clamp me. I don't know what it is, but everytime I go for a piercing, the piercer always has trouble clamping the area. For for my nipple piercings, trouble, my tongue web was done freehand but I'm sure she would've had trouble if she did use the clamp, and now it took about 2 minutes to clamp my navel. It's funny though. So she finally clamps the area, she pulls out the needle and says take a deep breath and let it out, as I let it out, I felt the needle going through my skin. It is the best feeling in the whole world.
Whenever I get pierced, I feel this ecstasy that just takes over my body, its so great. Anyways she slides the ring through, closes it and I look in the mirror and I say "Wow....it looks good." And the best part is that it didn't hurt as much as the nipples. Anyways, Meg gets pierced, we compare and conclude that mine looks better, Sandy explains the aftercare to the both of us, we give her the money, shoot the shit a little longer, and leave Abstract.
First thing I do, light up a smoke, and me and Meg are on that after piercing high. Feels so cool. I feel like Im gonna faint or something so we grab a hot dog, my treat, and take the subway back to Meg's dads house. We have dinner there, shoot the shit, show the parental units my navel ring, Karen(Megs step-mom) says, "Cool I want one, next time you guys go get something pierced, take me with you!"....shes the coolest, her dad does the typical, "OUCH!" face, the one when I showed him my tongue web, and when I told him about my nipple piercings and when I showed them my tattoo, actually I don't think I showed them my tattoo yet. It's so funny cause the first thing they asked me was, "So what you get pierced this time," its cool, they're cool, I love 'em.
The next day, there wasn't any crusties and stuff, and now it's been healing quite well, I can actually sleep on my stomach now. I actually advise to get a barbell or something other than a CBR cause it wont get caught on stuff, and it doesn't stick out of your body. Sea Salt Soaks are the best, they are easy and better than the antibacterial stuff, I used Epsom salts before, but I decided to dish out the $1.37, and buy a box of it at the grocery store.
So anyways thats the Story of my navel piercing, hope you enjoyed it and stuff. Can't wait until my Industrial ... the first visible piercing .... *intense music plays* dun Dun DUN!!!!!!!!!!
Happy piercing
Dave