I've been planning to get something pierced for at least the last 2 or 3 years and recently decided to go for it. I've been very worried about parental reaction which has been the only thing holding me back. Especially since I got a fake lip ring from ebay to see if it suited me and when my younger brother asked if it was real my dad said 'No because if it was real she'd be dead cos I'd have killed her for doing something so stupid'. Faced with such ignorance I began to strategize. At first I thought that I'd start with something socially acceptable like ears, then maybe belly button to ease them into me eventually getting my tongue and lip pierced. But a few weeks ago I was browsing an art site and was looking at some self portraits of a suicide girl on her profile and got thinking about nipple piercings. I'd remembered my boyfriend saying he liked them and it was the perfect way to get a piercing without annoying the oldies as they would never know about it.
At A Glance Author Vegan Princess Contact Vegan Princess@bme.anon When A month ago Artist Jo Studio Belly Bar Location Canterbury I knew about a piercing studio in canterbury called the Belly Bar that a girl who used to go to my school works in and had always looked super clean when i'd been in there longingly window shopping.
So my boyfriend and I hop on a train and make a B line for The Belly Bar...Only to find they've up and moved shop, luckily I have their number in my phone from when I called them to make enquiries so I make the call to find they've moved to the high street, by this time i'm so nervous my stomach is doing aerodynamics. We finally get there and I sign all the relevant forms 'I know I am being pierced to the highest quality etc'. The girl who went to my school is working the till, she asks me if I mind the male Jo piercing me, she then asks Jo if he minds doing it.
We preceed upstairs, boyfriend in tow, to a small room with a long medical bed in the center of it. Jo asks me what I've eaten today, which amounted to cranberry wheaties and soya milk so Jo sent the better half on a mission to buy me a coke, a drink I boycott but I was willing to make an exception if it would stop me fainting. Left alone with Jo I stand awkwardly in a corner while he covers the bed in a layer of tissue from a giant roll, he tells me to get on the bed and strip, I comply. I didn't feel at all as exposed as I thought I would, he was just a guy doing a job, like a doctor.
I lay down and he uses clinical wipes to clean up my breasts. He then says something like 'you know I'm going to freeze them right?' to which I say 'Excuse me?'
'I'm going to freeze them.' I nod having no idea what hes talking about. He says he'll wait until my boyfriend gets back and asks me if I've ever had anything pierced before, which I hadn't.
'Oh so jumping in at the deep end then?' I laughed but I would have laughed at anything at that point.
The boyfriend returns with the evil juice and Jo tells me to drink half the bottle before we start. I do so, and lie down, feeling hyper on top of nerves now as the sugar takes effect. Jo got out a marker and drew marks on either side of my nipples and shows them to me hairdresser style in a little mirror.
As Jo started to fiddle with equipment I turned my head as far away from him as i could and gripped the sides of the bed because I'd read about scientific research proving looking at something thats happening to you makes you feel it more. Then Jo tells me i'm going to have to watch him open the needle packaging to see its clean. Which I do as quickly as possible and look away again. I feel a pinching as he gets my nipple in a clamp and then he sprays me with something very cold and I realize thats what he meant by freezing. I felt a sharp shock and then the worst pain was when he was screwing on the end ball. I'd read someone elses experience on here that when you get nipples pierced one at a time the second one hurts more so I was expecting a worse pain the second time. I think they were exactly the same only where I was expecting it to hurt more the second time it didn't seem as bad.
I was shown my new shiny nipples in the little mirror. Then Jo stuck a medical patch thing over each nipple which I had to leave on for the next twelve hours. I hopped down and got dressed totally buzzing. Back downstairs they gave me two little bottles of cleaning fluid and a piece of paper with advice on how to keep the piercings clean.
Walking around the city afterwards I was really aware of my personal space and was worried about people in the crowded street brushing up against me. Later that night when I took the patches off I noticed one of the balls was screwed on at an angle and stuck, also that piercing was slightly further into my breast than the other so I was quite worried. I called the Belly Bar the next day and Jo said the piercing that was stuck would be fine until I could come back in to get it sorted out. When I went back it was a different guy but he got it on straight in about five seconds so that was great. I've had them for a month and a half now and I've had no other problems. At first I wore a bra to bed because again I had read that was a good idea on BME experiences but I've found that as a modestly breasted person not wearing a bra to bed has meant the piercings are not nearly as icky in the morning so I think the bra thing must only be a good idea for the c cups and up. I clean them with the fluid from the little bottles twice a day and I got a bottle of dettol wound cleanser for if they get ickier than normal. I've got another month and a half before they totally heal so theres a little bit of leaking everyday but its gotten a lot better. In conclusion I love my new nipples, something I read on here that has proved true is that they do make my breasts more sensitive which is fun.