I've never thought of nipple piercings as piercings that have to be done in pairs. I've also never thought of it as a piercing that I would be interested in, or even that I would get. But at the end of last year I started reading more stories in the BME website, and I started wanting a piercing more and more. The bad thing was I couldn't get a piercing because school doesn't allow it and my parents wouldn't like it. So my answer was getting a hidden piercing. I looked at genital piercings and nipple piercings, and noticed how nipple piercings are beautiful. They add extra beauty to the nipples and make them interesting. So I started feeling excited towards having my own.
At A Glance Author goomy Contact goomy@bme.anon IAM goomy When A month ago Artist Monique Studio Helio's Tattoo Location Rio de Janeiro - Brazil However, I needed money and a studio that wouldn't ask me my age. I saved up money and got myself a fake ID (just in case). I read a million stories in the internet and I got to know everything I needed to do backwards. What I noticed was that the pain was very subjective. Some people felt unbearable pain, some felt nothing. Some felt unbearable pain for a very small amount of time. I was prepared for anything, any kind of pain.
My friend was going to have her first tattoo on her 18th birthday, and she asked me to be with her when she did it. This was my opportunity to have my piercing done, as I had enough money. I suddenly felt very nervous - because the piercer may deny to do the piercing because I'm 17, but mainly because of the pain I would feel. But I went with her, nevertheless. Me, my crappy ID and my money.
When I got there I was feeling kind of numb because I didn't know what would happen. My friend went to get anesthesia and told Monique - the piercer - I wanted to get a piercing done, so she asked me which one and I said nipple. She then said 'ohhhhhh... then you better get some anesthesia there'. That got me more nervous, because even a piercer admitted it hurt. But oh well, that wasn't going to stop me. I went into a tiny room and took off my shirt and bra. I thought I was going to feel embarrassed, but I actually didn't. Taking off my shirt was the last thing in my mind. Monique put her gloves on and passed an anesthetic cream on me, and then she covered my nipple up with a band-aid. I waited for around half an hour, always feeling my nipple to see if it was numb. It probably looked weird for other people, so thank god the studio wasn't too full. I noticed that the anesthesia didn't really make it as numb as I expected. While I waited I filled in a form and had to show my crappy ID to Monique. She looked at it with a blank face and kind of turned her face like 'whatever...' and didn't bitch at me for having such a bad ID!
So Monique calls me into the small room. I automatically walk in there and take my nervous friend with me to take pictures. I lay down and kept very still. Monique told me not to move, even if there was pain. So I was ready. My shaky friend had my camera out already. Monique had put on her gloves, marked me (I was sitting for this) and then showed me the needle. I 'relaxed' (or tried) and Monique pushed the needle in. In the way she had to apply more strength because there was a tougher part in my nipple, but nothing too difficult. And my shaky friend was taking pictures (which turned out to be all blurred - have to hate nervous people!). And the pain? Almost non-existent. It was a normal piercing pain, nothing too hard. I'm not too sure if it was me or the anesthesia, but it was so bearable I probably could have managed to do the other nipple if I wanted to. But then she put in the piercing, and this hurt a little bit more. She covered up the piercing and voilá! Done! I looked at my piercing in complete awe. I couldn't believe I actually had a nipple piercing! And it looked so beautiful. I couldn't imagine anyone regretting having it done. After I had it done it didn't actually hurt, it was more of a kind of pressure that I felt on my breast. And in lesson the next day the air conditioner was very cold - so I was forced to feel the piercing in its place. And I'm not complaining - I loved feeling it was there.
So, the aftercare. I cleaned my piercing twice a day for more than a month, and now I clean it once. I wash it with warm water, pass an antiseptic soap, then spray it with an antiseptic spray and pass a cream on the piercing. It was very hard not to touch the piercing all the time, because I was so in love with it. It took me weeks to actually accept the fact I DID get a nipple piercing, it just seemed so surreal. For weeks I didn't go to the pool (ok, I haven't gone to the pool in a very long time) or have any oral contact. The latter was easy, as I had no boyfriend and didn't plan to. However...
I started dating around a month and a half after getting my piercing done. It was almost completely healed, so I thought that having oral contact once wouldn't hurt it. The (bigger) problem was, I didn't get to clean it soon afterwards. So one day my breast started hurting. I thought it was the piercing, but every time I checked on the piercing it didn't hurt. And then I noticed that the pain was inside my breast, not on the piercing. I started panicking. There was a very sore lump inside my breast and I didn't know what that was, and I didn't know what to do. I assumed that had happened because of my carelessness when I had oral contact on it and not having cleaned it soon. I slightly pressed the lump and A LOT of pus came out. That completely freaked me out. I thought I was gonna lose my piercing and maybe even my breast. I started cleaning my piercing and pushing as much pus out as I could. It hurt like a bitch, but I felt I had to do that to heal it. I cleaned up a lot in the day, but my breast still hurt. The lump was MUCH smaller, though, so I calmed down a little bit. Then I started taking extra care of the piercing. I cleaned it more, sprayed it more, used a band-aid over it. I pressed the lump a little every day until it got quite smaller. I decided to let my body do the rest and left it alone.
A few days later; no pain, no lump, no nervous me. I thanked god that it healed and cursed at myself for being so careless. I told my boyfriend I couldn't have any oral contact on it for at least 5 more months. He was quite sad with the news, but was happy again because he remembered the other one didn't have a piercing! But he agreed with me nicely, he knew how important that was, mainly because he himself used to have both nipples pierced.
So, to wrap this up, some advice. Are you thinking about having your nipple done? GO AND DO IT. I doubt you'll ever regret it. I didn't take that statement so seriously when I read it in other stories, but once I got mine done I noticed they were right. There's no way you can dislike this piercing. It doesn't matter if you have big breasts, small breast, big nipples, small nipples, it looks good on any. And another piece of advice: FOLLOW YOUR AFTERCARE RELIGIOUSLY. This piercing takes around 6 months to heal, so clean it everyday at least once for all those 6 months. You don't want to end up having a lump in your body, believe me.