OK, so I had never been pierced before in my entire life. It is retarded, yes, but getting my ear lobe pierced was a relatively large step considering the sort of family I was raised in, and their beliefs on such things. So, one day a friend of mine came over because I was having a shitty day. I had broken up with my girlfriend, and lost my job (yes, one of those days...boo fucking hoo). So i told my friend to just pierce the shit out of my ear, because i wanted to do it for so long, and figured... "this is where everyone starts, so why not".. In the future I plan on having tons of piercings, and if it is going to happen, it WILL happen on a day like this one when i absolutely NEED soemthing good to happen. So my friend (who was considering going into piercing as a profession in the future) told me he would do it whenever i wanted, and he agreed to pierce me that day.
At A Glance Author anonymous Artist I don't remember his name Studio Steels Location Albany,NY The first piercing I wanted was an orbital. Small gage, and a good start as far as piercings go, at least I thought so.My friend was a little nervous considering he hadn't had very much experience in the cartilage area, but i guess he wanted to prove to h imself that this was his calling in life or something. He prepared his needle which he got from some guy that he knew who had a studio somewhere, and it seemed sanitary enough. When he poked me with the needle, it really wasn't terribly painful at all. It was exciting for me considering I had never been pierced before, so my adrenaline was practically through the roof. And, thank sweet mary jane the frist hole was a success. As he was going to poke the second hole to get the other side in, his dog randomly started barking, and the kid jumped before poking the second hole , and he jumped away from me sort of fast.. and his sleeve caught on the earing that was hanging from my ear, and IT RIPPED IT OUT THROUGH THE CARTILAGE! I just jumped with him and sort of fell over on the floor. My ear was hot and bleeding like a mother fucker, and the stinging was aweful.
My FRIST piercing, and this is what happens! I could only curse, kick and scream my head off. Go home and have my bible f^%*& parents laughing at me for doing such a foolish thing in the first place, or soemthing like that to top the day off.
Needless to say, my friend felt absolutely shitty and was freaking out, as much if not more than i was. I just wanted to grab the piercing needles and stick them through his eyes , and then walk outside and randomly beat up every stranger that ventured into my sight. I was very pissed, to say the least. But when I attended to the wound, and calmed down a little bit.. I could only start laughing my ass of due to the obscene amount of shittyness that was occuring that day. My initial reaction after this piercing experience was NEVER AGAIN! But in a way , i knew that I still wanted to have something pierced more than anything.. and refused to let that horrible day taint my chances of doing something really cool for myself.
A month later I went to a studio in upstate NY, Steels Tattoo and Piercings, and decided to get my nipples pierced. It was a dreadful period of waiting time before the actual procedure.. but my adrenaline was building with anticipation and fear growing as well. There are very few times that I had felt this sort of terror, yet excitement in my whole life.. And knew that I just had to do it.
Needless to say, the piercing itself hurt like hell. But the after reward was amazing. I absolutely loved them , and still do! It was such a rewarding moment, not only proving to myself that I could, do this and have something to show for it.. But, also, that I refused to let that one day at my friends house strike down my chances of doing something really cool and different for myself. Steels were amazingly good and professional with the whole procedure, plus the people who worked there were nice as hell. The day that I had my nipples pierced was the complete antithesis to my ear piercing day of hell and torture. I recommend that everyone go through the piercing experience at some point in their lives. Even if something gets screwed up , or doesnt turn out the way you want it to.. just try again and it will work out, and you will be so glad that you went through with it. Now, I just have to decide what comes next.. a new piercing or girlfriend? I definitely think the piercing would hurt alot less.