For quite some time now I've been interested in body modification, primarily body piercings. My boyfriend has for a shorter period of time as well, and he and I both know this was heavily influenced by yours truly. Not that he was piercing-less or had no interest in them, I just brought the interest out, and helped put a few of the first me-influenced piercings in. There is a downside to my happy little fairytale life, though. He's a little music prodigy and had to move far away to go to school. This is relevant, really. It is.
At A Glance Author one of these days IAM one of these days When Three months ago Artist Jacob Studio Next Location Vancouver, Canada I've always particularly liked surface piercings, and I'd wanted to have pierced wrists for quite some time, I just kept it on a back burner as it was expensive. It started in tenth grade so not only was it expensive, I was too afraid to ask my folks. I didn't think they'd be so keen on a piercing that strange that they'd actually have to see every day. So, my want for this mod faded until I got my cleavage pierced right before my boyfriend and I started dating.
In the last weeks of summer before my boyfriend moved away for school, he decided he wanted to get his wrists pierced, too, to match me in a kind of a promise piercing sort of deal. I thought it was absolutely adorable, but there wasn't enough time to order jewellery before he left. It would just have to wait for his Christmas break. So once again my want for wrist piercings took the backseat, and out of boredom I got my monroe, other nostril, and cheeks pierced instead. Over the span of 4 months, naturally, not all at once.
Christmas break rolled around so I ordered us some jewellery. 12ga 5/8" internally threaded surface bars, which arrived 2 days before my boyfriend was scheduled to leave (lucky lucky us). So the next day, the very last day of Christmas break, sometime in January, we headed down to get pierced. I've been to this studio before a number of times, but never had I been pierced by Jacob before, which was strange because he's one of the people I've noticed there the most often. So we filled out the questionnaire, my boyfriend gave some pretty strange answers to questions such as "why are you getting this piercing?" and "where else are you pierced?" and we were off to the races. Or... the piercing room, more literally.
In the back getting pierced was definitely a long procedure. Since I'm obviously so tremendously hardcore, I went first, like I always do when we get pierced together. Jacob marked a little grid on my wrists about where I told him I'd like the piercing to be. It was pretty meticulous but I wouldn't imagine being able to do it straight without it. He moved around my wrist and selected a grid line suitable to my arm for him to pierce along.
Then came clamps. Every single time I get clamped before a piercing I brace myself for uncomfortable pressure and pain. Every single time, this pressure and pain fails to make its appearance, this time included. So he lines everything up all nice and pretty, and starts to count to four. I wasn't really expecting much pain during this piercing because that's the general experience I've had with surface piercings, and this time was no different. The needle went in, the clamps came off, and the jewellery went in. And then of course I bled because my body likes to do that.
My boyfriend was next and everything went swell and dandy with him, too. His black grid washed off pretty well the next day, but mine took a whole week for it to totally disappear.
So here it is almost 4 months later and my new little friend is of course purple and troublesome. I always seemed to get the same bead caught on things, like wool from ratty thumbholes in sweaters and the edges of my briefcase, even my car door managed to attack me. But the recurring scabs on that one side are all gone now and I'm left with one side healing beautifully and the other one staggering along. It'll be a while before I'll go in to get it downsized, but once I do it'll probably stop bothering me as the only reason it gets stuck on things is because it protrudes out of my wrist so far that everything is attracted to it.
It's a sweet little reminder of how lucky I am to have whom I do, and it's also something people like to comment on, now especially the faint purpleness of it. I get a lot of mixed comments about that... like, "is it infected?" and, "that looks pretty new". And of course the timeless, "did that hurt?" It's been a pretty fun experience (the best surface piercing experience I've had) and the only regret I have is that I don't have the other side pierced yet. I'm unsymmetrical and it's throwing off my groove. Maybe that's what's due in summer break.