I had been to Todd before; sometimes accompanying a friend, and on my eighteenth birthday I decided to get my hood pierced. Todd was super cool about it and really took his time with the placement so it would be just right, and it was overall a really positive experience. I'd had a few other body mods in the meantime (nipples pierced, rejected because i switched to rings too early; hood taken out, healed, repierced by a curt and brusque guy in a sketchy piercing/smoke shop in NY) but the whole time I'd been harboring the idea of getting a labial corset. Or at least to have the rings, even if I seldom laced them up.
At A Glance Author M Contact M@bme.anon When A month ago Artist Todd Studio Revolver Tattoo Location New Brunswick, NJ
The main problem was that this was something I associated with my ex, because he was the one who first wanted me to get them. As soon as he told me I was down for it, but I hadn't even really considered it before. Even though we had broken up a while ago (almost two years now) and I had more or less moved on, had another boyfriend, etc... that was a piercing that still seemed like HIS piercing. He had been the one to get my nipples pierced, and i wasn't too sad to see the piercings reject. I didn't take them out and let them scar. I have a kind of sandwich nipple, because my nipples are extremely small and lie flat when not hard. So there's a scar across the center of them, and I didn't want to create more marks on my body for him.
Something happened over the winter, though. I really wanted more piercings, as I'd been gauging my hood ring. The piercer who redid my hood used cheap, externally threaded jewelery, and more than once I had to pull it out of a piss-filled toilet bowl. "It's sterile," I told myself. I figured it was time for new jewelery.
But my hood was already at an 8, and i wanted to wait a while before stretching it further. So I thought about getting my inner labia pierced, until I realized that I don't have any. I mean, I have a little bit, but not enough that I would feel comfortable having them pierced. I started obsessing over getting my outer labia pierced, then. I thought about it for a month or two, and finally one night I knew I'd be in New Brunswick, anyway.
It was the first week in February or so. I went in, told Todd what I wanted, and decided to go next door and grab a roast pork bun first. I was so nervous I could hardly eat it. I took my snapple with me, headed back to the shop, and proudly announced that I was not a pussy and I had come back for the piercing.
I went to the bathroom and washed my vadge. Let me tell you, they have a really nice bathroom, with some REALLY hot vintage pictures of tattooed ladies. It was a nice motivator!
The piercing itself hurt like HELL. I am into BDSM and shit and masochism but jeez that doesn't mean I have a high pain tolerance, I just like that it hurts. I think it hurt worse than the hood piercing because it lasted longer, since it's going through thicker flesh. Todd had offered to do it with a 10ga or an 8, and the 8 was kind of terrifying so I opted for 10. The first one bled barely at all, the second one bled a lot more. Todd gave me some gauze with which to pad the piercing, perhaps from staining my panties, except i wasn't wearing any because I am a rebel through and through. It was a little awkward for a second, because I said Thanks! and stared at the gauze in my hand.
So, I got two CBRs in my left outer labia, I asked for the second one to be placed lower but in retrospect I'm not sure if i like the placement as it is, so i will get another one between the two extant and then two on the right. It's been about two months and they've been healing great so far. They are mostly decorative, I guess, in that they don't directly stimulate me, but I love the way they feel and how they look.
Todd was great, and very patient, and didn't mind that I screamed like a bitch. And these were MY piercings, nobody else's. I got them for myself, and they make me feel sexy as hell.
I am definitely going to go back to him for the rest of my piercings, and I think I'm ready to go down to a 6 for my hood. I'm wondering if I should stick with the CBR, though.
My parents are pretty strongly against tattoos and piercings; i don't have any tattoos and almost all the piercings I have are hidden. They were a little weirded out by the small ring i have in my cartilage, so even getting an industrial in my left ear is something I'm gonna have to wait on for a while. I wonder if I could do stuff like that if I wouldn't be so into genital piercings?
Hahaha, as if.