Hey all, when I first began contemplating a nape piercing I'd just got my sixth hole (discounting my ongoing self stretching). I consider myself someone that enjoys piercing a lot but I'm fairly choosy as to what exactly I'll get pierced due to parental and career issues. I'd never really had much contact with surface piercing as I always felt that it was too "hardcore and painful" for me to really think about but after seeing a few nape pictures I began to think that this was something that I could really get done. And so began my reading up on the procedures and of course finding out whether my local piercing shop would actually be able to do the piercing. I spoke to a new girl that I wasn't familiar with at all as my regular piercer had left the studio, after a bit of discussion with Raquille (the new artist) and her trainee it was decided that there would be no problems at all in doing the job. I was asked whether I would allow the trainee (who's name I don't know) to watch the piercing so she could see what was what with surface piercing as she'd never encountered anything outside the usual belly bars and eyebrows. With the philosophy that the more the merrier we all entered the side room to begin, my girlfriend was getting her septum pierced at the same time as my nape but it was decided that I would be going first.
At A Glance Author Sam Contact AmIEvil23468@Hotmail.com When N/A Artist Raquille Studio Asgard Piercing Location Southampton, England After getting myself comfortable and getting rid of all my necklaces and what have you we moved the table\chair thing forwards and I was instructed to sit facing the wall and away from the others so that I was upright. Raquille got behind me and told me that to mark up a nape accurately was a lot easier than a lot of people think it is, she drew a line in the centre of my neck that was in line with my spine and then asked how big I wanted the bar to be, I always knew that I wanted a longer bar than most people seem to have and we decided on about a 40mm bar, we checked out whether I could fit the length in which fortunately we could and the exit and entrance points were marked with the end of an inked cocktail stick which actually quite stings!
Next we needed to clean my neck with antiseptic wipes which was duly done, throughout all this my girlfriend and the trainee were chatting about what all the different steps were looking like, Raquille got me to check the placement for the last time and once I'd ok'd it all I was back on the table thinking about who had said what about how much it might hurt. I've never had any of my piercings numbed before and have never had any trouble with the pain of them so wasn't too worried... After I'd been fiddled with a bit I was told that I didn't have enough skin to use clamps as it would just really hurt and not accomplish anything much, so the piercing was to be done freehand which again I'd never heard of. The edge of my neck was pinched up and Raquille told everyone to watch carefully as it was a real sight to see someone with a needle in the back of their neck, she was using a cannula needle so the piercing wouldn't start bleeding through the job. I was told to stay as still as I could and then a few seconds passed, I began to feel a very tight feeling around the spot marked for entry and thought that if this was all it was like then surface piercing was painless in comparison to what friends etc had said. WRONG the tightness I was feeling was merely where the needle was being positioned very quickly the pain grew and the area become red hot, the needle seemed to take forever to go through and I began to get really hot and light headed, after the needle was at the exit I was on the verge of fainting only to be told that it wasn't quite lined up right and would need to be pulled down slightly. This was done quickly and really really hurt then finally the familiar pinching of the needle breaking surface once again and I was officially pierced. I was given a few seconds to take a sip of water and regain composure before the ready made PTFE bar was put into the end of the cannula and pulled through which whilst isn't as bad as the actual piercing still isn't comfortable. Finally after all the screwing on and cleanin "\Ãw° l g up I was done and had a great new piercing!
I was shown how it looked and was very, very pleased with how it came out. Surprisingly I found that after the piercing the area didn't hurt at all just ached a little, even when I caught the balls when removing my jumper there was very little pain at all. I'm currently about six months into my nape and will be continuing my surface piercing addiction with a permanent 8 piece corset in about two weeks, I've had absolutely no problems at all with my nape and have had absolutely no signs of rejection, the problem I'm having now though is that I want to put something new on the bar I just don't know what! Anyone have any ideas then please e mail me but anyway despite the pain of the initial procedure I've not been happier with any of my piercings so really if you're after something a bit different that people will continually stop and ask you about then go for this just make sure that you really trust your piercing artist and that they know exactly what they're up to. Happy piercing and happy holidays. Peace.