For ages now I've wanted more than one navel piercing. When I was 12 I saw a picture o a girl modelling for Sugar magazine, and she had four navel piercing (in a cross shape) I fell in love with it, and decided then that I really wanted it done. For years people were telling me that it would look gross, and it wasn't possible, but I was determined. I asked my mum at 14 whether I could get the first one pierced (she doesn't know that I want 4) and she told me that I could get it done when I was 16. So I waited until I was 16, and held her to it. I had been in Eternal for a while before, and decided to have an inverse one first. I took my mum down to Eternal, where I had been speaking to Zeb for a while, and made her sign my form. Zeb starts telling my mum about how the healing will be different from a normal one, and my mum twigged. She was slightly peeved but there was nothing she could do. That experience is now on BME too.
At A Glance Author Bobbie Contact Bobbie@bme.anon When A week ago Artist Zeb Studio Eternal Tattoos Location Dorking Surrey Anyway, I was telling my (then) boyfriend Sam about the four that I wanted, and made him look at double navel piercings. He decided that he hated it and begged me not to do it. Same went for my septum. I agreed to the septum, but I was determined to get that done. After a while though, we broke up, and I started thinking about getting it done, partly for my love of the piercing, and partly just because I could, almost a sign of freedom.
So I trotted back to Eternal, and told Zeb, she thought it would be a great idea, and I told her I'd be back at the beginning of the next month. (pay day) I was telling Rozena about it, because I wanted someone to film it, and she said 'Well why not get your septum done?' Of course this let me thinking about getting that done too, and it took me ages before I finally decided on the navel. Rozena couldn't come with me in the end, so I took Charlie, which was a fantastic idea, as I now know he is terrified of needles.
I went in, filled out the form as usual and went into the little side room to get poked. She marked it out, and it looked great, and perfectly in line with my other one, which now had a pretty silver bar in. (took ages to get it in) So I lay down on the bed ad she clamped me and froze me. I'm lying there, as she puts the needle through. Suddenly I get this shooting pain across my stomach. I assumed it was nice and done, so I said – that it? I looked up at her, and she looked a bit freaked. She said not yet, then I got a slight twinge, and then a shit load of pain. I said what the fuck happened there? She told me to lie down a minute while she put the jewellery in, and mopped my up.
I sat up feeling surprisingly good, and then she told me the story, while I kept a tissue over my lovely new piercing, as I spurted blood everywhere. The first bit of pain happened just after she got the needle a tiny bit into my skin. The clamp slipped and cut me. I hadn't even felt the needle. She had to take the needle out, and then reposition the clamps, over where they had cut me. And then pierce me again, through the same hole. And by the time this had happened, the freeze wore off, so I felt her pierce it. Wouldn't have been to bad, but she did pierce it pretty deep. Even now, I can't feel the bar through my skin. So I'm sitting there on the bed, and I turn round to Charlie, who is so pale, and feeling very dizzy! We ended up staying in the shop for 20 minutes so he could feel better! Mind you, I did get through about half a packet of lucazade sweeties. I bled so much after! It even went through the gauze and I know have a little blood stain on my t-shirt!!
This was two weeks ago now, and its healing lovely. The only problem is a bit of dry skin from the savlon, but its really good. Slightly red, but that's only because I've been playing with it! Naughty I know but I can't resist.
Zeb is a great piercer, and she looked at the clamps after and saw that one of the teeth was bent and wouldn't latch on properly. She chucked them, and let me have the other bar for free to say sorry!