First I'd like to give you a little background about myself before I get to the nitty gritty details of my new piercing. I've always been heavily into body mods from the time I was 12 or 13, piercing myself in various places with safety pins (yeah, stupid, I know). My parents never approved of any kind of body mods, it's still a sore spot between my mom and I. As soon as I turned eighteen and moved out it was like heaven, I was free to pierce or tattoo any body part I wished, and that's exactly what I did.
At A Glance Author ruca Contact ruca@bme.anon When A week ago Artist new piercer Studio artkore Location normal, IL I got my tongue pierced for the first time when I was 18, along with several other piercings and numerous tattoos. Eventually I got married at 21 and soon found out I was pregnant. I decided that if I was going to have a child I should probably try to look like a more "normal" person, I never cared about the strange looks I got from people, but it didn't seem fair to subject my child to them. So I began taking my piercings out. I didn't worry about my tattoos, most of them are in well concealable places.
Fast forward a few years, I'm almost 25 and have two young daughters, ages 3 and 1. Recently my husband decided he wanted another tattoo, I went to the shop with him to talk to the artist. The moment we walked through the door I had the itch again. It had been 4 years and I hadn't set foot in a tattoo/piercing shop, I thought for sure I could go with him and not get any work done on myself. Boy was I wrong. We both walked out proudly displaying our new tattoos.
I started doing some thinking in the car ride home. I asked myself why I have been trying to bury who I really am, I couldn't come up with a good reason. I talked it over with my husband and we decided that we would rather raise our children in an open-minded environment, where they learn that your unique individuality is one of the most precious things you have. So it was decided, I would start getting myself pierced again.
I decided to start with my tongue, we went down to the shop. When we walked in the door someone greeted us and asked what we wanted. I told him I wanted my tongue pierced and he said okay, it would be about fifteen minutes since the piercer had just finished a scarification and was cleaning it up. After I filled out the consent form we sat down and thumbed through the tattoo portfolios.
Soon the piercer came out and told us he was ready, we followed him back to his piercing room. I told him that I had my tongue pierced before and would like to go back through the same spot if it was possible, he said he'd take a look and see. After examining my tongue he said it would be no problem to go through the same spot it had been before. He got everything ready as I sat with anticipation.
The first time I had my tongue pierced I didn't feel a thing, I was expecting to feel it more this time as it would be going through scar tissue, and I was right.
The piercer marked the spot where the needle would go through, clamped my tongue and told me to breath in and then out. As I breathed out he pushed the needle through, ahhh, that old familiar feeling, I was pierced again. After he got the barbell in and tightened it I took a look at it in the mirror, I loved it, of course I knew I would, it had been one of my favorite piercings before I took them all out.
The piercer gave me the aftercare speech, brown mouth wash 4-6 times a day, glyoxide twice a day, no kissing or oral sex for at least 6 weeks. I was very impressed with him, he was very professional, I knew I had found my new piercer. After a short discussion about the horseshoe implants on the top of his hands, which my husband was interested in, we left.
It's been six days now and my tongue is healing nicely. There was very little swelling and just a little soreness the first couple days. I attribute the lack of swelling to advil, and sleeping with my head elevated. After five days it felt good enough that I decided to get my labret redone, but that's another story.
After everything is said and done, I'm very happy about my decision to pierce my tongue again, I am an individual, and having kids doesn't change that. It just took a little self examination and some encouragement from my husband to make me realize that.