I'm eighteen-years-old, and free!! Kind of.
At A Glance Author anonymous Contact anonymous@bme.anon When Six months ago Artist Dave Studio Blue Rose Location Lock Haven, Pennsylvania I've always been into body mods, but my parents have never been. This was a challenge for me. I managed to get my ears pierced twice, and pierce them once again on my own. This was pretty extreme for my house (especially since I started stretching them for awhile!).
But then I was away at college, turned 18 and tasted freedom. My first step was a tattoo for my 18th birthday! It's crazy, I know, to get tattooed and keep it a secret, but so far so good. But I am not finished.
I meet someone, who I started dating not long after this experience, who had a few piercings (vertical hood piercing, and one of her nipples) from Blue Rose Piercing downtown. I have been in there a few times, watching my friends get pierced and waiting to figure out what I wanted, and how I was going to afford it. And well, it didn't take long for me to decide that I wanted to get my nipples pierced.
It's a hidden piercing (behind the clothes, however one must be careful in what bras/bathing suits ones purchases to make sure there is enough padding/protection to hide the nipple and nipple piercing if you don't want it to be extremely public!!), it's something just for me, and it seems like a rather simple procedure.
Being the paranoid person that I am, I researched all sorts of things about nipple piercings: healing times, complications, infection risks, desensitization, breastfeeding, procedures, experiences, pictures... you name it and I was all over it. Unfortunately I also read in many experiences (mostly on here, these experience stories are really a lifesaver and really did make me feel more at ease for the most part) that the second nipple (because I decided early on that it would be both nipple or neither, I think I would end up feeling lopsided with only one nipple, then wondering which one to get, wondering how much it would make my breasts look different – for example, making the slightly larger one look much larger because the metal makes it stand out, or making the slightly smaller one seem much smaller because the metal makes it stand out and on and on and on with my concerns) hurts significantly more than the first nipple.
Well, hearing this in many stories got it embedded in my mind that the second one will hurt more than the first, so I knew it was going to happen (damn my mind! Haha).
Okay, and on with the piercing. I had only one non-ear piercing before – my lip (Rest In Peace) [which I ended up deciding to take out hours later due to much struggle, controversy and arguing in my house over it], so I had very little to compare to what was about to happen. All I remember from my last experience was that the threading of the jewelry was a feeling I wont forget, and I turned ghostly white. I was really hoping that that would not happen this time: now it's two piercings and I'm with someone I don't know terribly well yet and I'm interested in.
My heart is pounding; I get really nervous before any piercing, even mall-earring-stand piercings. So into the back room I go. Close the door and remove the top, here it goes. I was cleaned and marked, so far so good, although the nervousness was building between being around someone I'm falling for, being about to get pierced, being exposed to a stranger [the piercer], and it was exams week and I had to go to my psychology exam following getting pierced!
The instruments are out. This is a lot different than any other piercing (even though I have little to compare to) because I see the instruments, needles, clamps, everything set right out in front of me --- and I am now able to see the piercing happen right out in front of me! While getting everything out of it's little packages, sterilizing everything and such, I'm sure that Dave was both cracking jokes and telling me some aftercare or maybe what to expect, for all I know he was speaking a different language! I didn't really hear much, everything is such a blur (it's gotta be that crazy adrenaline!) and my stomach is in knots. My throat is dry and I'm not sure what to expect. Will it feel like a razor cutting my nipple? Will it be only a pinch? Everyone has different experiences, and the more I read the more diverse the experiences are.
Well, I'm now marked and clamped (I really enjoy the clamps, most people seem to describe them as these awful, treacherous things, but I like it; it gives me a good sense of security, and I think it really helps prepare you for the actual piercing!) breathe in... breathe out... breathe in... breathe....oooouuugh. That's about the noise I made. Oooouuugh. The same sound happens when I give blood. One done, jewelry in, oooh I like it! Second one, same thing Oooouuugh. Except I think it hurt more, no, I know it did. Nothing that should scare you away from getting it done though!
The piercing itself felt a little like a quick but intense 'tittie-twister' I can't think of a better way to describe it. After it was done I collected my thoughts, it went better than I thought! I put my clothes back on (carefully!!), paid him and went back to my dorm room. The next week was intense. I have crazy reflexes, and for a few nights I would wake up, my mind immediately processes feeling something on my chest (with the new pressure from the piercings) and I would jolt up, punching my chest. So my nipples probably bled for more days than they had to but it was worth it!
Some things to think about: comfortable, loose fitting sports bras for bed (don't wear a regular bra to bed—I did a few times and if your breast slips out of it while sleeping, when you move when you wake up, whoo the pain of having a piercing caught on the edge of a bra), be very cautious around knitted-type blankets/afghans with holes if you are going to be nude/topless (it would seem obvious, but I forgot a few times), and just be gentle for awhile!
But I absolutely love them and cant wait to get more 'personal piercings'!