It had taken me a while to actually pluck up the courage to go get my navel pierced, its something I've wanted done for a long time, but never quite got round to. I thought it would be damn painful, because the last cartlidge piercing I had had was horrific, and I kinda fainted!! Anyway, for some reason instead of carefully planning the whole experience I decided to go and get it done on my lunch break from work :D A whim if you please. It meant I didn't have time to build up the whole experience and back out, being a total wuss and all.
At A Glance Author SinopePeaches Contact SinopePeaches@bme.anon When A year ago Artist Kirsty Studio Tattooland Location UK Anyway, I went to the studio, hung around for a while, flicking through tattoo designs and generally trying not to think about the process. To be fair, by the time I actually got in there I was feeling a little tense, but it all went away as soon as the piercer started to talk to me. She was amazing, marked me up, kept me occupied and told me to lie down and clamped me up. She carried on chatting with me to take my mind off it, and eventually said, "ok take a deep breath in, and breathe out when I count to 3" and that was it, the needle was through, I never felt a thing. Which is weird because a) I'm totally freaked out by needles and b) injections are like torture for me. Next thing I new my shiney new belly bar was sparkling away. I can't even begin to tell you how well my piercer came across, she changed her gloves like a million times, took time to mark up properly before she pierced me, and she was so unbelievably calming. I went away with an indepth sheet on how to clean, her phone number for if anything went wrong and a free jewelery change part way through the healing. She said I could expect to be healed between 3 and 6 months.
Problem is things just kind of went down hill from there on, its a year on and I'm still as unhealed as the day it was done, if not worse. If not worse. About 6 months in, I had to go back as a keloid had formed on the entry wound and it was pussing horrifically. I went to see the same piercer, who was perfectly happy to look at a piercing that old, and even remembered me. She patched me up with a new bar for free and sorted me out in no time, making sure I was following the cleaning routine she has given me. After that it looked kinda ok for a while, although she did put in the same size bar as before, apparently to allow for cleaning, I've since been told this should have been changed to a shorter bar, which might have saved the poor thing. But at the moment as I write, my beautiful, beautiful navel bar is about to come out and get healed over. Its started to migrate off to the right, because it still has a 14mm bar in it and moves constantly. I left the gym yesterday to find the entry would bleeding and gooping red jelly horrifically. Frankly, it looked like I had a teeny tiny alien bursting forth. I tried to clean it up, but it seems to me more like raw flesh and anything removable. It looks like it may have ripped, or at least is migrating horrifically. Although it doesn't look any further forwards than when it was done. I have cared for it to the letter. A year of diligent cleaning, salt soaking morning and night and its finally given in. I've contemplated down-sizing the bar and giving it another chance, but I think its finally time to give in. Once its healed over I will get it re-pierced behind.
I spoke to a different piercer today, who looked it and said that it was actually pierced too far fowards for the size of my lovely round belly and has no chance of healing properly. The advice I've had is to let it scar over and re-pierce behind to secure it. At least this way I can go back to the gym, do a whole butt-load of sit-ups and get my belly looking sexy as hell, for when I get it pierced it again. I feel so sad, I know it sounds kinda weird, but I feel like a whole part of my life will have disappeared, not that I will really miss the constant cleaning or ouchies when its knocked. My boy will finally be able to touch my belly again!
This said, I don't really think that my piercer could have done much else, she was perfect really, helpful, friendly, calming and hygenic. There's no doubt that I will be going back there to get it re-pierced in a couple of months and hopefully this time it will stick!