I never really thought of myself as the type of girl to get any serious piercings. I've always wanted crazy amounts of ear piercings, maybe a lip ring or my navel, but my nipples? Who would have thought?
At A Glance Author Kelsey Contact kelsium100@gmail.com When A month ago Artist Jed Studio Metro Location Oly It was the 5th of July and my boyfriend and I had been talking about this for a couple of weeks now, my nipple piercings. I had already been rejected once because I lost my drivers license, so the nervousness was killing me a little inside. We walked into the shop, and the Jed recognized me from the first time I tried and asked if I was back to try again. I told him I just got a new license yesterday and was ready as I ever was to get needles shoved through my nipples. That makes it painful.
I told him what I wanted, he told me it was a good choice to get horizontal barbells. They'd heal faster. He took me into the back room and off came my shirt and my soon to be slightly blood stained bra. Now, we're going to digress a second to explain why this was a weird experience for me. I tend to give blood often because it's a good thing to do and I have the crazy universal blood type. So why not sacrifice a little of it to help someone, you know? I have a queasiness to needles already and have passed out many times in the past because of blood dehydration or stuff like that. So I was nervous, light headed, and uncomfortable as I sat there on the table topless. I had eaten already (yummy Indian food), so I know that wasn't the problem.
But he was uber professional, changed his gloves a number of times and took everything out of a sterilized package and had me watch him do it. So we were all set, he had explained the after care and how long it would be before I could change my piercings and all that... and then he whipped out the clamps. He started with my right nipple. Contrary to what I read here, the clamps weren't the part that hurt. He told me to take a deep breath on three and all the sudden there was this flash before my eyes for a split second and then he threaded through the jewelry all in about 5 seconds. I sat there for a second and was like "Well shit... that kinda fuckin hurt. Seriously, wooo." No screaming or anything, but I was nauseous and hesitant for him to do the next one.
After a second to breath, he clamped the left one and counted to three and that one fucking hurt. As the needle went though I remember saying "Ow, FUCK!" and jumping a little, after the needle was through. The threading of the jewelry did hurt as bad as the right one, but the piercing hurt worse. I felt a whole hell of a lot worse, like I was going to pass out and I told him that I needed to lay down. He screwed the second ball on fast and I pretty much fell onto the table behind me. I laid there for a second or two and he gave me a sucker and I laid there sucking on a pineapple-coconut sucker and staring at the new shiny silver things that were in my nipples. I was so proud. Driving home was interesting and when I got home I proceeded to put some tissue in my bra, put on a sports bra, and a cami. I still wasn't feeling well, so I fell asleep for many hours and woke up still kinda sick to my stomach.
The first attempted cleaning was rough, it make me nauseous and dizzy to even touch them again. So I just took some ibuprofen and went to sleep. I woke up the next morning and my boyfriend was beaming at me. He was still happy that I had gotten them pierced. So was I. I took a bath that first day and cleaned my nipples in yummy hot sea-salt water. (Two shot glasses work WONDERS) They were sore for the next couple of days, and I still slept in a sports bra at night. I was so happy the first day I got to take the sports bra off because I'm used to sleeping without a bra on at all. Hopefully I'll be able to sleep without one in another month or so.
It has been a couple of weeks since then and my nipples feel great and are healing awesome. My boyfriend thinks that they're the hottest things... besides a planned hood piercing perhaps? XD there's some pain right there. They get played with occasionally and I still have to clean them twice a day with sea-salt soaks. But they're healing great and they're sexy and if I could I would honestly show them off to everyone I could.