This all started on a whim. I've wanted to get my eyebrow pierced for about a year now, but let's face it my mom would never let me. For some odd reason she let me put ten holes in my ears but is totally against facial piercing. So when my best friend told me she was going to the city to get her tongue pierced I immediately told her that I was going with her and was going to get my eyebrow done.
At A Glance Author Trench Contact Trench@bme.anon Artist I dunno Studio Jent's Tattooing Location Yonkers NY Welp, as luck would have it we found out we couldn't get to the city due to transportation difficulties. So we went to Jent's tattooing (when I say we I mean my best friend, her boyfriend and another friend of ours) because that's where her boyfriend got his tattoo done and knew it was a clean and reputable place. So we got there and had to wait while someone had a tattoo done, but we were all psyched about our to-be holes in our heads.
So we sat in the waiting area and looked at some flash and tattoo magazines, to kill the time. About fifteen minutes later they called one of the four of us in. My friend went first and he got his eyebrow done, and I didn't even know it until he was finished, that's how little time it took to get his brow pierced. That was kind of bad though because I wanted to watch him get it done. I figured if I could just watch his expression I would be okay. Then the piercer told me it was my turn and I was like "oh no, I wanted to watch my friend get his done first and now I have to get it done without any idea of how much it will hurt!" Luckily my fears were unnecessary, although I didn't know it until my piercing was done.
By this time I was starting to freak, but my friend told me it wouldn't hurt at all, and if it did it was only for a brief second because of the clamp. (I didn't really believe him though; I figured how much could a clamp hurt? The piercing must hurt more!) But it was my turn and I was not backing out with three of my friends there, especially when they all were telling me it really wouldn't hurt and that I could hold their hands and squeeze as hard as I needed to.
So I sat in the chair and the guy who was going to do the piercing (sorry, I can't remember names well) cleaned my brow with alcohol swabs and told me what he was going to do. He took my ring out of its package and the needle out, and cleaned it all even though they were both brand new. At this point I decided to hold my two friends hands and I squeezed like holy heck, cause I had no idea how much it would hurt. Then the guy put the clamp on and I was thinking that it didn't hurt at all, and started to feel a little bit better about the actual piercing. Then the guy who pierced it told me to take a deep breath, and I did. Then he told me to take a deeper breath. I did, and he told me to take one more and I did. Before I was halfway done with my deep breath the needle was through! I relaxed immediately, still holding my friends hands, and he soon had the hoop in and closed it with the little ball. I was done, and my friend was right, it didn't hurt at all! The guy told me how to take care of it and warned me that I would have to be careful about bumping it and pulling it.
I stood up and looked in the mirror and my first thought was oh god this is so cool, and my second was now it's time for my best friend to get her tongue done. She said it really wasn't that bad, the worst part was the clamp, which really doesn't hurt it is just uncomfortable. (That goes for your eyebrow too.) After that we paid and left, all of us happy with a new hole in our heads and one of us with more ink in his skin.
We all went home and luckily my mom was cool, she just said no more eyebrow rings (I didn't warn her ahead of time). I think the worst part is the fact that sometimes I forget it's there, like when I put on a shirt or wash my face, I have to be careful not to pull on it. If it gets pulled it really doesn't hurt too much, just pulls and reminds me that it's there. The other bad part is people asking if it's real and trying to play with it, it's like "It's in my face, you want to get your hands away so it doesn't get infected?"
For all the people who want to get their eyebrow pierced I'm telling you that you will fall in love with it and it's great!! So quit thinking about it and just do it, I've had mine pierced for a week and I think I've finally found true love! :P