I had wanted a new piercing for quite some time. In general I am always thinking about new piercings but sometimes it's just so hard to decide what I want done. I guess the main problem is that my family does not approve of piercings, so it would have to be something I could hide easily and I was also looking for a job at the time ... another reason to not have visible piercings.
At A Glance Author anonymous Contact anonymous@bme.anon IAM sprite When Three months ago Artist dominick Studio starlight tattoo Location belleville, nj At the time I already had two genital piercings -- a vertical hood and triangle -- so I was certainly not new to the idea of having my genitals pierced. A pair of outer labia done with curved barbells had certainly been on my mind. however, the day that I went in to get pierced, I had actually decided, after long and hard thought and the opinions of my friends, that I wanted to get a sternum (cleavage) piercing. It would have been my first surface piercing and I was quite excited.
One of my friends was actually friends with the piercer, Dominick, which was one of the reasons I chose to go to him, the other, perhaps more important reason was that Dominick liked surface piercings. So my friend and my boyfriend came with me to get this done. I filled out all the paper work and went back to the piercing area.
This is when Dominick took a look at my anatomy and broke the news that I was too skinny ... I didn't have enough skin [or fat] to hold the piercing there ... he wouldn't do because it would never heal. Of course, I was extremely upset and didn't know what to do. I mean, I had come all the way out there to get a piercing; I certainly didn't want to leave without one. So Dominick let me look through his portfolio while I thought about what I should get.
My friend suggested I get the pair of outer labia that I had also been talking about for a long time. I thought about it some more, chit chatted, smoked some cigarettes and decided; ok I wanted the outer labia.
So then it was back to the piercing chair. I explained to Dominick that I didn't want the usual placement, that I wanted the pair to be up high, almost like the placement of a Christina, but angled, so that the barbells would make a little arrow pointing to the top of my vertical hood piercing. Dominick took his time making the markings for the placement. He measured everything out so that it would be symmetric and exactly where I wanted it. I corrected him a couple times, but he understood pretty clearly what I wanted. Finally, I was all marked up and ready to go.
I remember lying back in the chair; both my friend and my boyfriend were there too. My boyfriend held my hand. I wasn't scared or anything, he offered so of course I wasn't going to say no.
Dominick asked me, "do you want me to do the whole 'breathe in, breathe out' thing or just go when I'm ready?" ... no one had ever given me that option before (where the piercing is done during the breath out), so I thought, whatever, I can handle anything, and said "just go whenever". And that he did.
Holy shit!!! Ouch!!!!! It hurt like hell! I didn't scream or move or anything, but it was certainly more painful than I was expecting. Dominick said laughing, "you want 'breathe in, breathe out' for the next one?" to which I just nodded profusely. Who would have thought that the "breathe in, breathe out" technique made such a difference?
So he got ready to do the second one, breathe in, breathe out, pierce ... it was so much less painful. Now I could relax for a minute while Dominick cleaned me up. And then I got to see my new piercings. They were beautiful! And they looked soooo hot with my other two piercings. I was so happy and excited that I had decided to get them done.
I have to say that as far as genital piercings go, these two were definitely sore for a longer period of time, maybe a week or two. They were easy to heal, but then again, I heal very easily, I have never had a problem with any of my piercings. I did the usual cleaning with sea salt soaks. I did have to be careful while having sex in the beginning as they were sore and some positions were just uncomfortable. Of course as soon as they were completely healed, my sex life was completely back to normal. I don't think twice about them being there. I certainly have to say that everyone who has seen them, well all my genital piercings, say that they are the most beautiful piercings they have ever seen. (Not that I go around showing them off or anything.)