Well, I want to tell you something about my first piercing experience, (that I didn't do myself). I have had six holes in my left ear and four in my right that I had all did myself, and I had done my navel before, but all attempts failed and I was forced to remove them. I dont recommend anyone doing that. It can really mess up a wonderful body.So, I had been begging my mother for a piercing, but she the type of woman who is very much against it, she says its ugly and all that mess. On the other hand she has around ten tattoos, but she will have the nerve to discourage piercings, but luckily her new husband had convinced her to pierce her navel about a year or two ago. So she told me I could pierce my navel, she felt it wasn't that big a deal, (since she had it herself), and because it can easily be hidden since it isn't on an obvious part of my body like my face. So all I had left to do was to convince my dad to let me get it, FINALLY after a year or so, he let.
At A Glance Author Filth Girl Contact tearslikeacid@aol.com When Six months ago Studio Crazy Cajun Tattoos Location Abbeville, Louisiana So, it's been a year that I have waited to get this piercing, and I have been reading an looking at the pictures on BME. I decided a standard navel ring was to wimpy for me..i wanted a surface bar right below my navel. I show my mom a picture and she complains about me always having to be different, but she says okay you can get that. I was overjoyed! We all loaded up in the car and went to a local tattoo shop were my mom and step-father had both gotten all there tattoos, and between both of them they must have around twenty-five. They were friends with the artist so I figured it would all go well.
We get in the shop, I show them my birth certifcate and they had me and my mother sign a few papers. The artists partner told us he was a little busy that night so it would be a little while, all the same my mom keot asking me if I was nervous, and I would just keep saying no. So we went sit on the sofa and waited for my turn. The had one girl getting a tattoo, who whined the entire time, and two women were getting there nipples pierced. So I looked around at all the pictures of the tattoos, and some of the body jewerly, I was amazed by it all, im SO fascinated with having a needle go through your flesh! My friends all say im obessed. Then it was my turn!
We walked into the room, and my mom told him that I wanted a surface bar, he looked a little confused so I showed him where. He just told me that I shouldn't do that because it would never heal properly and that it would hurt very much. In my opinion he didn't know what he was doing, so I just went with the standard navel piercing. He marked me, ask if I though it was right, then had me lay don't on the table. After this I didn't hear a single word from. Since I had watched videos and read stories on BME I knew what was going on. He was putting on the clamps. That's all I could feel, and next thing I new he had said get up..i was done! It didn't hurt at all! The only thing I felt was the clamps, and they werent that big of deal.
Ad we were leaving the room he told me how I should clean it and with should clean it with. Then he said something about that damn MTV always trying to get kids into those weird piercings,(he was talking about the surface bar here). That made me rather angry, because im not your regular teenager that watches MTV and listen to britney spears and rap music. But I just ignored the dumb comment. As we left one of his helpers gave me a paper on do's and donts. Then my mom went take me buy the stuff I needed to clean the piercing.
Now my navel is healed up, and im going to change the ring as soon, as I get one. And hopefully for my fifteenth birthday I will have my dad take me get the surface bar I wanted, this time I will go to a more professional shop! I really regret not getting it now but hey, I have plenty of room on my body for more! Once im eighteen I plan on getting more piercings, but for now, I have to go with what my parents say. But I recommend a navel ring to anyone who wants to start off on piercings. It is especially a good one if you have a job where you arent allowed to have piercings shown or if you are in school.