I guess my love for piercings started about three years ago when I saw the coolest guy ever with an eyebrow piercing. It looked amazing and added some sort of style and personality into him. Over time I have started to love them and I love researching about unusual ones here in bme. Right now I have 2 piercings, my navel and one under it. The one under my navel I got it October first, 2004.
At A Glance Author Ana_Cfrech Contact soadfreak2_ac@hotmail.com When N/A Artist Hans Serpa Studio AK 47 Location Managua, Nicaragua I spent a couple of days, maybe weeks, trying to find one picture in the internet, but had no success at all. I don't know why it was so hard, all I wanted was a horizontal surface bar under my navel. I saw a lot of piercings right under the navel, but I knew that I had to do it a lot lower so I could hide it from my mom.
You see, I am only 15 and my mom is totally against piercings, tattoos, or anything like that. Body modifications in other words. To her it is just trying to get attention in a weird way, is she has already taken away 2 piercings from me, my tongue and my navel. The navel I got back with permission and now I decided to make this one work and hide it well.
So I waited until my fifteenth birthday to have money and have the chance to get it done. The plan was to get it done with my boyfriend, George, but a day before I got frustrated and rushed to the piercing studio.
I called my mom and told her that I was going to study at a friends house. That day, my friend Vitto took me to the same piercing studio in which I had pierced my tongue before. I was very nervous but had a feeling I would have to postpone it.
We had a little trouble with the ride, but we made it. We got to the studio and saw the piercer, Hans, I told him my idea and he loved it. Since there was no one, I was next and that got me pretty nervous. I got a plastic barbell because he said it would be safer, since I could bump it with my belt and pants. Next thing I knew I was sitting in the "dentist chair", listening to Rammstein. The fact that this was the background music and I could sing to it calmed me down, for music has always relaxed me. I watched him sterilize the needle and clean my skin and put the anesthesia on me. I have always hated this kind of surface anesthesia, since it doesn't work, but what the hell, it is all alright.
He took out a purple marker and pointed where it was going to be and to make sure it was straight. He did this for like 10 minutes until it was absolutely perfect. Next he put the clamp and pierced it. That, itself, didn't hurt much but what sucked is that the needle didn't find its way out.
It was stuck in the middle and didn't come out the other end. After struggling for a while, he saw the look of my face, that was hurting! So he decided to pierce it again. I thank him for deciding that, since that calmed down the pain and it was done in a second. Then he put the jewelry and just admired it. I stood up and looked at myself in the mirror. It was awesome, and it formed a triangle with my navel. I just loved it! Then he gave me a brochure of what to do and what not to. That way I can take care of it perfectly. Then , off course, I paid and left.
I have a little regret now because he told me to go after four days so he could check it and see how it was doing. I couldn't go. I couldn't go that day, or the next day, or the next day after that, I was in quarter exams. But I know that the piercing is doing well and it is beginning to heal, well, little by little, but it is. In the street and school, people look at me with some disgust. Since I live in Nicaragua, where unusual piercings are not even known and all u ever see is navels, eyebrows, and nose piercing. Half of my friends did not like it, and others just think that I'm crazy.
I don't think I'm crazy! Specially compared with all the unusual stuff I see and research about! I love what would be considered crazy, and I admire the people who do them, since it takes balls.
I would have loved it if everyone liked it, but my boyfriend and a few people did, and that is enough.. Of course I love it and that is all that matters. A while ago I noticed all the seniors of my school analyzing and criticizing(well only the girls criticized), even if before I would have gotten mad, their ignorance and indiscreetness made me laugh.
I love my new piercing and I would recommend it to anyone. Surface piercings are not at all as hard as they make them sound. piercings are an addiction, so of course, I'm making new plans soon! The pain was worth it big time, plus , it was not that much pain.... I just tend to exaggerate.