Finally the day had arrived. After waiting 6 months and thinking about this piercing almost every minute the anxiety had built up to the point of not being able to take it anymore. Generally when I want a piercing I don't wait longer than a week to get it but I had just moved and it took me a while to find a job. I figured without an income I shouldn't be getting piercings. Finally I got a job and a paycheck but now I had to wait for my friend to be available because she wanted to get pierced to. I moved to northern WI for school and my piercer still remains in southern WI so also I had to wait till I had a weekend off of work. (It's a 4 hour drive)
At A Glance Author jennyk Contact jennyk41@excite.com When A week ago Studio Avant Garde Location West Allis, WI So I was planning on getting two surface piercings under my collar bones. Not the dangerous actually under the bone ones just the regular surface piercings that are horizontal with the collar bone. Now at this point I've had basically everything pierced (I won't give you a list it would take to long) and it's becoming a challenge to find new areas to pierce. So when I saw pics of this on BME I was pumped. I tend to shy away from facial piercings since in this so called "reality" it's hard to find a job and I already have three and it would just be more depressing to take out more than that.
So my friend Felicia and I rolled into the piercing studio and filled out the paper work. She was getting her nape pierced. I had that nervous/excitement feeling. It really had been a while since I got pierced. Like 6 months and for or me that is a long time. I have never anticipated a piercing for so long.
I decided to go first and the piercer marked me up and we were ready to go. He couldn't clamp it so he did it free hand. I barely felt a thing. A slight pinch at most and it was over. Same exact thing with the next one. I jumped up to check it out...ahh...beautiful...but is that a stress mark, so soon? Nahh. Felicia got pierced we paid and left. Mine cost $70 for both of them including the jewelry. On our way out every single person gasped in horror when they saw my chest. I was like "oh great, here we go." I've just basically learned to never make eye contact...just keep walking.
That was Friday they were pretty swollen all day and night. Saturday I drove home and I was kinda touching one and realized the piercing seemed very thin I could practically see the barbell...and that stress mark...was that gonna go away? When I got home and got undressed I took my bra off and it hurt to have that skin being stretched out. I thought this was normal. I took good care of it the next day but the shit still hurt. It was this weird pain I haven't experienced before. I know my body pretty well and I've had enough piercings to realize this wasn't right. I thought maybe sea salt would help but didn't really know where to turn since I am new to this area. I remembered this shop this girl mentioned called Penetrations in Eau Claire she said they do suspensions and pulling there. I've been meaning to check them out anyway so I called them and they said they have some but they don't charge for it??? Strange. I rolled in and told them what's up and asked if the piercer c ould look at my irritated piercings and the girl was like yeah just a second and called the piercer over. His name is Stayne (sp?) and he is...beautiful. He said I'm having a reaction to the jewelry and that's why it hurts, it shouldn't hurt. And the barbells weren't curved enough so either way they weren't gonna heal and the stress mark...the damn stress mark was proof enough alone. Ok this is Tuesday mind you...3 f#$%& days later. I was kinda in denial about the whole thing I didn't want to take them out. Immediately it was about the money then came the wave of disappointment for my piercer. I put so much trust into him and this is what happens. The cool thing about Stayne (I'm pretty sure I'm spelling that wrong) is that he didn't immediately rip apart my piercer like most people do. I mean yeah he screwed up pretty bad but he has done my piercings for over 6 years. So I immediately gained a lot of respect for Stayne. And his knowledge about surface piercings and piercin gs in general is never ending. This guy I decided will be my new pierc er.
Anyway I got some sea salt and left discouraged and depressed. I really felt like I was losing something close to me. I decided to wait a while and pretend they were gonna heal. But the days rolled on and it just progressively worse. It hurt so badly one night I could barely sit up. The left one started sinking into my chest making grotesque holes. So Thursday (today) after work I went back to Penetrations to get that shit pulled. It was hurting so bad and looked disgusting. It didn't really hurt to take them out. But now came the scary part. Looking in the mirror. It looked like I had two snake bites on my chest that were oozing this white stuff. Just fucking sick. I was not pleased at all but it's a good thing I didn't wait to long it would've gotten worse. So now I'm gonna have matching scars on my chest. This was the last thing I expected. And all this madness was affecting my nipple piercings. They were all sore and enflamed, but as soon as the chest ones came out like that same minute my nipple piercings felt better. Hmmm
Lesson learned. Don't let someone that doesn't have a lot of experience with surface piercings pierce you. This really is something to research. Its one thing to get your eyebrow pierced but far another to get a surface piercing. And you can't put a price on a piercing....like I used to and that's why this happened...low quality jewelry.
Of course in the end I'm gonna try again with this new guy at Penetrations because I do love this piercing...a lot. And he has a lot of experience with surface work. So hopefully this next time around will be better...
Oh yeah and in case the timeline was confusing these piercings lasted 6 days. Prolly should've lasted less.