On January 28th, 2006, I met John. John and I hit it off immediately, and we spent no more than one day apart from each other. I have eleven piercings and no tattoos, but he has three tattoos and one piercing. So I asked him if he was going to get any piercings, and he said, "Yes, I'm eventually going to get my nipples pierced."
At A Glance Author Randi Contact Randi@bme.anon IAM mother love bone When It just happened Artist Brent Holmes Studio Avant-Garde Location West Allis, WI Nipple piercings? Huge turn-on for me. Then came John's next utterance: "You should get yours pierced too, babe." I pondered the idea for a little while, and then decided it would be a good idea. "That would be hot," I said.
So on Monday, March 6th, I told all my friends that on Friday, March 10th, I was going to get my nipples pierced. I had an extra sixty dollars from some money that my dad got for me, so I was going to use it to get my new adornments. No one thought I was serious about getting them done. Everyone was telling me, "That's going to hurt like hell," "You're crazy," and "You're going to lose feeling in your nipples if you do that." I still decided that on Friday at 5 p.m., I would go to Avant Garde and get my nipples done.
Amy Jo, Danielle, Melissa, Taylor, and I all gathered at Amy Jo's house at 4:45 p.m. on Friday and walked the two blocks to Avant Garde. Once inside, my friends sat down and I gave the guy behind the counter my ID and the $52 it cost for both nipples to be pierced. I chose some plain, 14g surgical steel captive bead rings, and sat and waited. My friend Taylor was there, and had his ID on him, and was talking about getting his tongue pierced. However, he didn't have the $37 on him to get it done. So I told him that I'd pay for it, and I did. He went first, and he said it was fine. Then it was my turn.
I started to get nervous when Brent called me back. He checked my friend Melissa's ID to make sure she was 18, since it's an under clothing piercing and you have to be 18 to watch it get done. Brent said, jokingly, "Now's the time to bust out your titties," and I laughed. Then I checked the markings in the mirror to make sure I liked them, and I laid down on the table. Brent cleaned me up and opened all his packages, then put on fresh gloves and clamped my right nipple. I held Missy's hand and breathed in, then breathed out, and Brent pierced on the exhale. No pain whatsoever! Then he put in the jewelry and switched sides. I breathed in, breathed out, and he pierced on the exhale. This one hurt a tiny bit, only because I knew what to expect, and then he put in the jewelry and was done. I looked at them as he told me about aftercare. I carefully put on my bra, my shirt, and then grabbed an after care sheet and went on my merry pierced way.
When we walked outside and the cold air hit my chest, it hurt a tiny bit. We walked back to Amy Jo's house, and everyone who wasn't in the room with me wanted to see my chest. So I flashed a room full of friends, and they loved them! Danielle screamed and grabbed herself in pain, but everyone else thought it looked cool. My friend Melissa said that watching me get pierced made her want to get pierced. And Taylor's tongue ring looked amazing.
It's two days later now, and I am definitely feeling it. I usually get sore for about a half an hour after cleaning them, and I clean them once in the morning and once at night. They bled a little after the first couple cleanings, but so far today there's been no blood! As for sleeping, I've been sleeping in a tank top with a built-in bra. The pressure of a bra definitely helps to alleviate some of the pain.
When I clean them in the morning, I get in the shower and let the warm water run on them to break up crusties, then I put some Dial on them and rotate the ring a little to get the soap in. Then I rotate the jewelry while rinsing to make sure all the soap gets out. At night I just break up crusties with a q-tip dipped in warm water, and use the soap again. Also, I do salt soaks after my cleanings by mixing a little sea salt with some warm water in a shot glass, then putting the shot glass over my nipple for five minutes. The cleaning really isn't bad.
My only recommendation? Make sure your boyfriend is sober when you tell him you have them pierced. My boyfriend was really drunk and forgot that I had them done, so he jokingly gave me a titty twister about six hours after getting them done. It hurt, and it bled a little, and he felt REALLY horrible about it. So just make sure that your boyfriend remembers to be careful around your nipples when you get them done. Also, I did let my boyfriend lick them a little and play with them (no pulling or heavy play), but just make sure that you are gentle and clean them WELL when you are done. If it hurts, don't do it! Ha ha.
Basically, I love my nipples. I'm always showing them to whoever will ask (if we are in a private place) and I am always looking at my breasts in mirrors. I am very proud to say that I now have breasts of surgical steel.