I've always been into weird piercings I guess you could say. I like piercings that no one has ever tried before, or too scared to do. So when my friend Robyn went in to get her tongue pierced, I knew then I wanted to get something pierced. But what? I asked Dras about some piercings, how much they`d hurt, how much they'd cost, chances of the piercing getting infected, and the basic routine of how it was going to be pierced. I told him that I would come back next week when I had made up my mind.
At A Glance Author shannen Contact erased.silhouette@lycos.com When Two years ago Artist Dras Studio Top Notch Tattoos Location Elgin, Illinois That whole week I thought about what I wanted pierced. Maybe an orbital I thought. Or a vertical tongue piercing I thought also. My friend Jessica called me up and said that a whole bunch of people were going to be going to Top Notch and she wondered if I made up my mind. And I had. I remembered that he told me when I went in with Robyn that if I wanted my uvula pierced that it would be twenty dollars. All I had to do was pay for the jewelry because he needed pictures of it. So, I was sold.
I got ready super fast because Robyn was coming to pick me up. I told my mom that I was going out with some friends and that I would be back by one am. I was seventeen at the time. After Robyn had picked me up, we picked up some other friends who in the end got pierced as well.
As we drove there, I had all these questions running through my mind. Should I really be getting my uvula pierced? How is it going to feel? Am I going to gag to death? How long will this all take? I finally told myself to shut up and just enjoy the ride with my friends, and that is exactly what I did. I focused on my friends and the music that was being played on the radio.
Suddenly, we were there. And all the questions that I shut out of my mind all came rolling back. All of us walked into to the door and were approached by Dras. He asked who was getting pierced and what they wanted. We he got to me, and he found out what I wanted, he told me I was going first. I didn't have a choice. I was going first. I was so scared.
He walked me into this medium sized room, told me to sit in this dentist type chair, and open my mouth. He then told me that my uvula was pierce-able. I then let out a little "yay!" He looked at me and smiled. He then got out all the piercing tools, and prepared to pierce me. He got out the needle and opened the package in front of me. At that time, I wish he hadn't. I am scared of needles, or just getting shots. He poured me a cup of Listerine, and told me to gargle that until he told me to stop. I gargled and I swear I thought I was going to spit fire.
As I was gargling, we broke the needle in half so that it wasn't too big for my mouth. He then clamped the needle so that he could pierce me. He told me to lay back and to open my mouth as far as I could. He practically had to climb on top of me so that he could pierce it. At first it felt really weird. When he clamped it my uvula, I started to gag right away. He asked if I was alright, and I nodded slightly. He told me he was going to now take the needle to my uvula. I grabbed onto my sweatshirt as hard as I could hoping that it would prevent me from gagging -- it didn't. Since it your uvula is such soft tissue, the needle went in with no problem -- sort of. He didn't cut the needle enough, so it did in fact end up poking my throat some and started to bleed, but I was ok with that -- seeing as I didn't know it had happened until he told me.
He asked me to do a favor. And I was thinking in my head, "how does he want me to do a favor when I am laying in this dentist type chair with a needle in my mouth going through my uvula?" He asked me if I could hold the clamps while he opened the package for the jewelry. I was thinking, "are you nuts? You want me to hold the clamps? What?!" I bravely took a deep breath and took ahold of the clamps while he opened up the package of the 14g CBR. He then took the clamp that was holding the needle out of my mouth and then clamped the CBR. He slowly inserted the CBR through the needle and removed the clamps and the needle. I, being the idiot that I was, and still shocked at what just happened, swallowed. And there went the CBR down my throat. He hadn't put the bead on yet. He told me to open my mouth, he laughed, and said, "there it goes." I was so mad at myself. I couldn't believe that I just swallowed the ring. So, I had to go through the whole process again. But this time, I knew what to expect, and I didn't gag as much as before.
He told me to sit up, and he had a serious look on his face. He apologized and said that he couldn't pierce my uvula. I was so sad. He was told me that he had tried, but it just didn't want to work. He then broke a smile and told me to look in the mirror. There it was. A 14g silver CBR hanging from my uvula. I felt like a little kid on Christmas. I was so excited. He then handed me a new cup of Listerine and told me to gargle until he said stop. He then called in one of the tattoo artists that work in the shop and told him to bring in the camera. He got distracted with the other guy and there I was gargling Listerine wondering when he was going to tell me when to stop. Until I carefully asked if I could stop and spit. He laughed again and said, "yeah." The guy got out the camera and told me to say "Ahhhhhh" and as I did that, I guess my uvula moved and he started laughing and was like, "look at that thing in motion." Then I started to laugh, which made my uvula move even more. I got the pictures taken, and was finally able to leave the room. I had been in the room for a good forty-five minutes. As I was exiting the room, I hugged him. How could I not? He just pierced my uvula and made my day. I walked out and was all the sudden surrounded by all my friends asking me to open up my mouth and see it. The were in shock. They couldn't believe that I went through with it, and neither could I.
I sat down on the benches with some other friends and watched as my other friends went in and came back out. It was a new sensation in my mouth. I drank a bottle of water and took four Advil. We all left the shop excited and went home. I went home and my mom had asked where I went. I told her bowling and then to Denny's. When I went to sleep that night, it was a little weird. I couldn't sleep on my back. I slept on my side until I was used to the feeling. The next day, at lunch, eating really wasn't a problem. I was scared to eat, but I didn't have trouble like Robyn did when she got her tongue pierced. But going to school that Monday was funny. Suddenly, everyone knew I had it pierced. And I didn't tell them. They were all like, "Shannen, open your mouth!" So, of course I did. I was proud of my new piercing, and wanted to show it off as much as I could. Going to PE class that day was a little weird. Running the around the track with your uvula pierced feels funny and sometimes I'd gag, but I was fine.
Everyone at my school knew me as "the girl who got her hangy ball pierced." I didn't mind. Even when I swallowed it six months later when it fell out, I was still known as that. I got this piercing not to fit in or to be cool. I got this piercing because I wanted something done, and my mom told me if I got my tongue pierced, she'd never talk to me again. I got my uvula pierced because it was something I wanted to get done. I highly recommend this piercing to anyone who wants something different. Your body is a blank canvas and you should decorate it any which way you'd like. So have fun and try something new. Happy piercings to you.