Well I guess it all started when I was like 12 and craving for a navel piercing like other thousands of girls at that age. And just like a good part of them, I was refused by my parents without explanations. Time passed and I got a tongue piercing on my own, without my parent's permission and later, an industrial and a helix in the left year with their permission. And I was looking for another piercing to modify my body with ...
At A Glance Author Claudia Contact Claudia@bme.anon When It just happened Artist Manu Studio Bella Location Oradea, Romania Of course I couldn't forget my obsession... the navel piercing... so I said ok, I could do it... it's just that... they're too many already. Everywhere you looked you could see at least one navel done with a single glance. I am craving for individuality more than for an actual piercing. So the idea of a "very standard" navel piercing fled from my head. I am 15 now and have a little more freedom so my parents weren't an actual problem. I looked on bmezine and saw an interesting alternative: the inverse navel!!! My eyes were captured and I was decided: The inverse navel!
I wrote another experience describing my industrial and there I wrote about my shithole town without an actual piercing shop. Well, the situation is the same... the one who've done my tongue, industrial and helix was and is Manu, from a beauty parlor. On their window they advertise for "piercing and tattoo" and Manu does have a license to practice this and actually has the equipment so everything was ok`. I bought a nice 16 g curved barbell, with small balls. And I was soon filtered in her schedule: Friday at 18:30.
Man was I scared!... I agreed with my boyfriend to go and have a drink first... Because I usually go numb from a couple of beers ... he he... But I had to make a stop at Manu first to leave the barbell to be sterilized. It was about 17:00. I arrived and Manu said: Stay now; I'll take you in 15 minutes... I have a 30 minutes free window. Oh well, I was sober as daylight and now I was really scared ... While I sat and waited for my barbell to be sterilized I kept thinking that it wasn't a big deal and it would be over really soon.
Of course those thoughts were useless because as soon as I Found myself on the piercing chair, looking at the wall near me, away from my navel and holding the clamps, I got really scared. Before I was clamped Manu asked me to point with a special marker where I wanted my piercing. She wasn't surprised to learn I wanted it inverse... I was and am one of her craziest clients! So I marked my navel. There I was, laid on my back and breathing deep. The needle went in and out in like 3 seconds (a lifetime, of course) and the plastic tube was left in my skin so that Manu could go and fetch the barbell from the sterilizer. I knew that there were 3 moments of pain: the clamping, the needle being inserted and this: the jewelry being pushed through. This hurt of course but soon my navel calmed down, sprayed with Lidocaine. Ahhh, I really felt good. Manu screwed the ball and I got up to admire it in the mirror. I loved it! The placement was perfect and there was a little space left on the barbell if my skin would have swollen. Then Manu applied some cream and I was off to go.
It's been like 20 hours since then and it's going great. It hasn't swollen, it's not red, just a little actually but I can't notice it because my skin is tanned. I cleaned it last night when I got home with antibacterial soap and this morning. I get in the shower and let water run over it, clean it and then let water again. I spray it with some antibacterial spray and I hope it will turn out great because I really like the sight of it when I look down and looks amazing with my tanned skin.
Last night I slept like hell not because it hurt or something but because I usually sleep on my tummy and now I was too afraid to do it. I guess it'll be like that for a couple more nights but I'll get used to it and it will eventually be ok to sleep on it without taking risks.
Reactions? Well, My barbell is really discreet. Not hard to notice but not spectacular. So it just looks like jewelry in my skin. Improves my look when I'm naked ... he he...
If you want to get it, the do it! It's worth it, not painful and easy to heal and take care of it.