I was really disappointed about having to take my navel bar out after going into hospital to have my appendix out, so my mum promised to pay for my next piercing, it was only fair. I already had my nose and lip pierced so I went for a center tongue piercing. My mum took my for my last solid meal for a week or two (which came in hot dog form), we went to visit my (nice) nan and drove to the piercing parlor.
At A Glance Author Corri Contact Corri@bme.anon When It just happened Artist Tyson Studio Artistic Tattoos And Piercing Location Telford, Shropshire I had my lip pierced a couple of months earlier and my (mean) nan completely disowned me. It was a huge argument which involved me calling her a (really bad word) as she walked out of our house. Little did she know the money she'd been giving me every month for clothes was paying for piercings and body bars.
Anyway, back to the tongue piercing. At first we wanted to try a new parlor in town after one place had pierced my lip too far to the side and another place have done my navel piercing through a nerve, but the piercer wasn't in on Thursdays so I ended up at the place where I had my belly pierced. Both me and my mum were nervous because the place had a bad reputation for piercings getting infected. I told my mum if it was the same piercer who did my navel, I'd cry. Sure enough, it was the same guy, Tyson. I marched into the piercing room with a fake grin on my face and a lump in my throat.
He asked me how I was after I'd rinsed my mouth out with mouth wash (I told him I was starting to mess myself) and sat me down in a huge black chair, putting some vile 'banana' flavored gel in my mouth to numb it. It was the most disgusting taste known to man. He marked my tongue (commenting on it being a 'tiny' tongue and forgetting to show me the placing) and clamped it. He pushed the needle through the underneath of my tongue and before I knew, the bar was in.
If anyone tells you tongue piercing doesn't hurt, my god they're lying. Aside from my navel, it was the most painful piercing I'd had. He screwed the ball on the huge bar and I stood up and looked in the mirror at my newest pet. It looked pretty revolting, bloody everywhere and a metal pole sticking through my tongue. I rinsed my mouth out with mouth wash a few times (with great difficulty, I had no feeling in my mouth). Tyson made me sit down again even though I felt fine, I've never felt sick or dizzy after a piercing, I just get flushed in the face and I've been getting pierced for years!
Still slobbering uncontrollably, I walked outside to see the look of fear on my mum's face and started laughing. For some reason, the whole experience was hilarious. We went and got some mouth wash and then went home to have my next meal... ice cream!
My boyfriend, mum, dad and step-mum all think it looks pretty cool, none of my friend have seen it yet so I can't wait for a reaction!
Its Sunday {3 days since my piercing) and my tongue is still pretty swollen so I'm living on soup and ice cream, not a bad diet really. There are funny lumps around my tongue that look like swollen dead taste buds so it looks pretty gross but I'm not worried, I know its just healing. Its also a real cow having to wash my mouth out with mouth wash all the time because it makes my entire mouth sting.
I thought it'd be clever to try and eat some chips a few hours after my piercing, I gave up after 3 because my tongue was confused and I was getting bored. A couple of days ago I went to a teen-gothic night and nearly cried after they started handing out cake that looked really yummy but I couldn't eat it!
People keep asking me if I regret getting it done. No way! It'll be my best piercing yet, especially when I can put my new Union Jack tongue bar in, that'll be in 11 days now (not that I'm counting). I can get the bar changed the same day I get my exam results so it should be a pretty good day all round. It'll be even better if I can finally eat a bacon double cheese burger from Burger King. That sounds a whole lot better than a bowl of mashed potato right now, I can tell you!
At the end of the day, if someone I knew really wanted their tongue pierced, I'd tell them to go for it. After the in-piercing pain and the swelling has gone, you're left with a really cool new friend that'll keep you company as long as you have it. And it tastes really yummy with cooling gel smeared on the ball!
It's an excuse to eat 2 liters of ice cream in an hour really!