Well.. To start things off, I have been bugging and nagging my mother to allow me to get a piercing (other than my ears) for the longest time. Her answer was always no.. never.. not going to happen.. So being the stupid teenager that I am, I pierced myself (my tongue web and my lip).
At A Glance Author Ashleigh Contact chubby_munkee07@hotmail.com When It just happened Artist Not Sure Of His Name.. He Was Hot Though. Studio Ancient Awakenings Location Cobourg, Ontario After a few months of rage from her, I politely asked if I could get something done professionally. I exaggerated "professionally". Surprisingly enough, she agreed, without argument, to let me get poked, as long as it wasn't my tongue or eyebrow, which was fine by me. So I came onto my trusty bmezine.com and looked around for which mods appealed to me most. I came across the navel. I'd seen navels pierced before, after going with many friends to get theirs done. I was strangely attracted to it, but afraid of what people would say because I'm a "bigger" girl. After a few "hmms" and "uummmmsss", I decided what the hell, and told my mom, "I'm getting my tummy button pierced:)"
So into the car we got, and we were on our merry journey to the studio. We had to stop at the bank so I could cash my paycheque and take money to pay for the piercing. But, being my mother, she started blabbing to her friend who worked at the bank and told her about my new adventure. Her friend looked at me and said,"good for you". My mother froze and I smiled. My mother just shook her head and said I'll be back tomorrow.
So on the drive to the studio all my friends had gone to, she was being a funny mother and trying to scare me by saying, "Its going to hurt", "You can't chicken out now", all being replied to by me,"Duh.." It was fairly amusing, until we got to the studio, where my stomach started churning. I thought to myself, "fuck it" and opened the door.
The guy standing there asked me if he could help with anything and I told him that I wanted my belly button pierced. He told me that the guy who does the piercings had gone on some errands, and to come back in half an hour. That was fine by me. So my mother and I went across the street to Jakes and looks at some of the navel rings that would look cute on me. We also stopped at a new cowboy shop and tried on some funny hats. Sooner than I realized, it was 3:15 and I was supposed to be back at the studio. We literally ran across the street and walked into the studio, to find the piercing guy hadn't come back yet. So we amused ourselves by looking at other piercing pictures, and the iguanas they had caged out front. Then we heard the bells on the door jingle and some guy walked in. We soon discovered that this would be the person piercing me.
The guy who was about to poke my navel was drop dead sexy! He had his septum and his eyebrow pierced and had tattoos covering his arms. My mom looked a little uneasy, but I was in heaven. We filled out the required forms and I picked out my jewellery (a 14g silver CBR)The guy took me into a square room to prepare me. My mommy refused to watch. x_X. The guy,(we shall refer to him as Fred), proceeded to mark my navel with purple ink and a toothpick. He led me to the next room, and before I lied down on dentist looking chair, I called to my mother "are you sure you don't want to watch?" Her answer of course was,"hell no". So I lied down on the chair and closed my eyes.
Fred clamped my stomach, which was fairly uncomfortable, but it didn't exactly hurt. I asked him how long he'd been doing this for, and he said 3 and a half years. That made me feel a little bit more comfortable knowing he had more than a years experience. He told me to breath in, breath out, breath in *poke* *wince* breath out.. I was pierced! I stood up, got dizzy, sat down. After a few minutes, I stood back up and looked in the mirror. I had the cutest silver CBR in my bellybutton. I was automatically in love (with the piercing, not Fred). I went to the front room and showed my mother. She looked like she was about to be sick. I turned to Fred, and he started explaining all the after care and cleaning procedures. I paid my $50 and left him a $5 tip, and my mother and I were on our way. We stopped at the pharmacy and picked up some sea salt and bactine and I bought my mom a milkshake for being such a good sport.
For any of those "bigger" girls out there who want their navel pierced, just do it, don't think about what other people will think, its for you, not them. Thanks for reading!