Hey there, well I always loved piercing for multiple reasons. First I love the way it looks, 2nd I love the way it feels, during & after the piercing & 3rd, I love the way that it is such a release from bad feelings within myself. I come from a pretty sheltered background & it's not that I wanted to rebel against this, I just found the subjects of piercing, tattooing etc fascinating from a young age. I like to be pierced/tattoo'd anytime but there is no other way that helps me release negative feelings as well as being modified, so most of my piercings have been performed at low points in my life. A friend of mine tells me that freud has written some fascinating stuff on this subject but I don't like the thought of being able to analyse myself TOO much so I didn't get around to reading any of it yet!! I did all my 1st few piercings myself, either with a sharp stud or a safety pin (I cringe when I think of this now!!), this was just my nose (3 on one side, 1 on the other), & ears (10 on right & 3 on left, & lip, one ring on right of mouth & then another on left. My very first piercing was my nose & man, I was sooo proud of myself after I'd done it!! I remember it like it was yesterday, I was 15 & still at school & I'd told my best friend that I was going to do it that evening. She was mortified & convinced I was going to get expelled since we went to this tiny little country school & weren't even allowed to wear doc martin boots!! I sat in the bath that night with the piercing stud I'd aquired from an older friend & a mirror & savoured the idea of actually doing the piercing. So I pushed the stud through & was pleasantly surprised at how the pain wasn't like pain cos it was NICE pain. And it was so easy! I just sat there & stared at myself for so long! Which you would be surprised at if you knew me since I'm not exactly in love with my appearance! Well, that was it, I was addicted, I went on to put 3 more piercings in my nose in quick succession, & the aforementioned ear piercings followed. (And no, I didn't get expelled from school, the teachers treated me like a freak but then that was nothing new!! ha ha) I then did the lip piercings with safety pins as I didn't have access to anything better & wanted to do them myself. I remember the 1st one being the only piercing I have ever had that did actually really hurt, but then I didn't really know what I was doing so I can't say now that I'm surprised it wasn't painless! I remember walking around college like I was the bees knees cos noone else had this done at the time & I was so chuffed that I was the 1st. I guess I'm lucky that I come from such a small backwards place, I wouldn't have had this satisfaction in many other places!
At A Glance Author xmelancholiax Contact xmelancholiax@bme.anon Artist some really unfriendly guy Studio access all areas Location nottingham, england I then had my tongue done professionally, followed by my eyebrow & then labret. By this time I had taken out most of the earlier piercings as I was more into having piercings that only I & those close to me knew about, & I'd gotten fed up with having a face full of metal as I don't think it really suited me that much! I loved all these piercings but still wasn't satisfied & wanted to go more extreme. I decided that I wanted some kind of genital piercing but wasn't sure what. I spent the best part of 5 years actually plucking up the courage to go to a studio to let someone pierce me 'down there'. I honestly don't know why it took me so long, it was something I really wanted to do & it wasn't like I was some fresh faced virgin!! And I don't think it was that I was scared of the actual piercing either. Oh well who knows, maybe I was in love with the idea & worried that it would be a let down when I actually went ahead with the piercing. I guess that I should get out some Freud essays & look into it!! I decided to go for the easy option & just have a vertical hood piercing to start. So I made my appt & went on down to the studio. Was very impressed with the hygiene & cleanliness (I had been there before but was somehow worried that as I was going there to get pierced in such a delicate place it was going to have turned into a rat infested sewer all of a sudden!!), although the piercer could have been a bit more friendly. I wanted to ask him all these questions about what I could go for next but he wasn't very approachable & seemed to want to get the appt over & done with. Don't get me wrong, he didn't hurry the piercing itself, it was done very professionally. I just wish the guy had been a bit less clinical about it all. It's funny really, I felt like our roles had been reversed, like he was the scared one who didn't know what to say. What should have been a cool, exciting experience ended up being a bit of an anti climax really, but at least I got the piercing & stopped feeling like a fool cos I'd waited all that time to get it done. At least the bus ride home was good, it was this knackered old thing that vibrated like hell & boy, I could feel every stone in the road!!! I just wish that something I spent 5 years looking forward to having done hadn't been such a let down. So this was a couple of years ago & now I am thirsty for more modification. At the moment I am trying to find out more about branding, especially branding over the top of an existing (crappy) tattoo. There is a fair amount of information online but I am yet to actually meet anyone that has been branded/has branded someone else & I'm starting to despair. I know we're pretty behind with some things in the UK but you'd think there would be someone somewhere that can help me!! Guess I just have to keep searching & hopefully I'll be the author of a 'branding story' in the not too distant future!