| At A Glance | |
| Author | Megs |
| Contact | mellowship_styley@hotmail.com |
| When | A month ago |
| Location | Chermside |
I decided that now days too many people have the same typical piercing, in the same typical spots, so I wanted to go for something different this time. I'd seen a few pictures of people with their wrist and nape pierced and decided that my new piercing was going to come down to either one of these.
I walked around the shopping centre for a good half hour before I decided to go into Cosmetics Plus and enquire about surface piercing. Usually Cosmetics Plus has a bad reputation for the sterility of their piercings, but a friend had recently got their tragus pierced there and things were going fine. I'm a nursing student so I thought I'd suss them out a bit before going ahead with anything.
I asked the lady at the counter if their piercer did wrist surface piercing and she had no idea what I was going on about, but booked me in for a consultation for their piecer. So I had to pass another half an hour before I finally went back to speak to the piercer. During t his half hour I decided that the wrist won over the nape (I decided I don't wear my hair up enough, and what's the point of getting a piercing if no one can see it?).
She said she'd done quite a few surface piercings and that piercing my wrist would be nothing new to her. I went into the back piercing room which was really clean I must say. I signed the consent form and she explained to me about the chances of my wrist rejecting, or it never healing. She explained that some wrist piercings may heal in up to 6 months but some may never heal at all. She also took me through all the procedures I had to do to ensure that my wrist would heal correctly.
They only had 25mm 14G PTFE bars left which was a little longer than I had expected, but I checked it out and decided it was probably the best length for my arm. I decided to get it placed horizontally across my right arm about 3cm from my actual wrist joint.
The actual piercing really didn't actually hurt that much. I was expecting a lot more pain. The only really scary part was feeling the needle come out (I tried not to look...) She bandaged my arm up, ordered me to buy some antiseptic spray, and told me that the bandage should stay on for the rest of the day.
For the first week I had VERY little pain from my wrist. Only on occasion did it bleed. I slept with a bandage covering it at night because I was always frightened it was going to get stuck on something. I still regularly spray it with antiseptic and salt bathe it regularly. I work in the food industry part time, so I kept my wrist covered with a sterile bandage for a while as I was frightened it might fall out or something, but the bandage seemed to slow down the healing process. I think it was because it was drying the skin around the incision sight too much.
For the first couple of weeks the site around the entry and exit of the bar were really quite red, and you could see a red line where the bar sat. This redness has died down a lot now. And now that I've stopped wearing the bandage things are healing quite well. It doesn't look like its going to reject or grow out quite yet.
I still have a few bad days with my wrist piercing. Sometimes I forget its there and then am painfully reminded when I get it caught on something or accidentally smash my hand into something. And sometimes it does get a little bit of exudate coming out from the wound.
Overall, I love my wrist bar. I love that when people see it they say "Oh my god! I've never seen that before!" To which I always reply "That was the point." People are always wanting to touch it and feel the bar under the skin. It tends to freak quite a few people out.
I'm really looking forward to my next surface piercing. I'm thinking maybe a 20mm bar just above my first wrist bar... But I guess we'll wait and see.
Heres a picture of my surface bar after about one and half months. Everything's looking good!
