The day of my GCSE results arrived, and I had just got my results. I was happy with them so I wanted to get a piercing to show and mark the occasion. But alas, I hadn't got enough money for what I wanted at the time. My mum and I had an agreement that she would buy me a sewing machine, as I'm finishing school, and going out to get a job, I didn't think it would be all that helpful. I would rather have the money, I mean, I could always buy a sewing machine once I start working. And as everyone well knows, that familiar creeping hunger for a piercing was there once again.
At A Glance Author Amy Contact Amy@bme.anon IAM Altered When It just happened Artist Pete Studio Kazbah Location Leicester, England I talked to my mum and convinced her to give me the money. With that, I headed round my friend's, Caz [IAM:Momentary_Seizure]house to celebrate my last day of being a student. I told her that I was able to get the money, and we decided to go into town the next day.
That night, I pondered on what piercing to get, I wanted one that I could hide and show at my will. Navel came into mind, and as I had thought of getting lower navel originally, this seemed a good idea, but I also wanted to get my sternum done, because it looked so beautiful on all the pictures on BME that I had seen. But, for some reason, I didn't think it would suit me. In the end, I decided to get it pierced.
The next morning came. When I woke up, I was really excited, I didn't know if my mum had the money yet or not, but I didn't care, even the possibility of getting pierced made me happy. When we were both awake and dressed we popped round to my house and my mum produced the money. Me and Caz headed into town. We went to Kazbah first, as I wanted to save the right amount of money for the piercing before I went shopping elsewhere, the lady who works downstairs told me it was £25, £5 cheaper than I thought. This made me happy, and I asked when Pete was going to be in, I thought that he arrived later, but it appeared that he was there. So I handed over the money, and the lady checked to see if Pete was free and then we were sent up.
The familiar bed and face greeted us, my nerves grew. I was shaking as I sat down in the normal place. Pete marked on the two dots, and asked if they looked in the right places, they looked good. He then asked Caz to go downstairs to bring up some bars. As she was downstairs he set up the needle, and put on a pair of gloves. He told me it'd be best to pierce it if I was lying down, so we waited until Caz came back up, and soon enough I saw her coming up the stairs, so I lied down on the bed and prepared myself.
This was the first piercing that I had to hold Caz's hand for, but she was happy to lend it. So of my hands held on to hers, and the other gripped the side of the bed. I could feel my heart thumping faster and faster as I saw Pete bring the needle close to the markings. I closed my eyes and braced myself for the pain, I didn't know what to expect as I was very nervous about it hurting a lot, but then I'm always like that, and then they turn out not to be too painful. I could feel my breathing getting faster, and then I felt the needle pierce the skin, and I'm going to be honest, in my opinion, it was the most painful piercing I've had. The time the needle was being pushed through, felt like it was longer than any other times. But this might have been because it was on me and how nervous I was.
The needle was all the way through. I opened my eyes, and could see a needle through my sternum. It made me happy that it I had got it done. Pete got the bar, and this scared me again, as the shape of it worried me slightly, I know that it's the best for a surface piercing, but it just worried me that that was going to go through the needle. I closed my eyes again and held on to Caz's hand again, and I felt the bar being pushed through, and again, I found this quite painful, but this was more painful than when I got it pierced. Again, on opening my eyes I saw the jewellery, neatly nesting in the fresh whole. Pete attached the second ball and asked me if I was all right. I answered with a shaky yes, and took a deep breath in and looked at it in the mirror, the skin around it was bright red, but I fell love with it.
When my mum got home, I showed her the piercing, and she made her normal screwd up face and cluched where it would be if she had it.
Over all, I would say this is the most painful and the best piercing I've ever had.