At A Glance Author Melissa Contact Melissa@bme.anon When A week ago Artist Kim Studio Just Another Hole Location Broken Arrow, OK
I've got my eyebrow ring now and I love it! What surprised me the most out of my whole experience is that it didnt take me that long to convince my parents. Imagine that! I know a bunch of you are out their reading this and wanting a piercing and trying to find the secret of getting your parents to let you do it. Well there isnt really a secret I guess, I just kept on asking all the time.
Anyways, I'm a 14 year old girl, and the piercing studio in our town (like most towns I bet) require your legal guardian to be there to give consent if you're under 18. They even had me show them my birth certificate and yearbook to make sure I'm really who I am and my mom is really my mom.
Well, I always thought my friend Rachel had the coolest mom in the world. She had already had her belly button pierced and she was getting her eyebrow done a few days after school got out for the summer. She was going to call me when she got it done but it turned out I was at camp when she called. So a month after that, maybe the beginning of July, I was talking to her on instant messanger and she told me she got her eyebrow pierced but then she had to go so that was all I learned of it.
The next day I was in the car with my mom and I just came out and said "Can I get my eyebrow pierced?" I had never even considered asking her this because she is one of those old fashioned people that say a hole in each ear and that's it. I literally had to beg for an earing in the top of my ear. But everyone has those, right? Well she said no and I said why and she said that I'd look like a punk. So we talked about it for a long time and she said it was okay. I was sooo happy. Then she finished her sentence with "if your dad says its alright." My excitement completely diminished. I knew I could talk my mom into anything but I could never get my dad to say yes. I asked him when we got home, he said no, and that was the end of that.
Later that day we picked my eighteen year old brother up from the airport. He was returning from a month long vacation in England with my grandparents. My dad, to my surprise, said to him "So how do you feel about an eyebrow ring?" He said, "I dont care, it's not my eyebrow." We went out to dinner at Fuddruckers, a local hamburgur restaurant and I saw a guy with an eyebrow ring. Now I had never seen anyone in person with an eyebrow ring (laugh all you want). What a coincident that I see him on this day. This boosted my yearning for an eyebrow ring.
I kept on with nagging my mom, coming up with things like, "We can do it and hide it from dad," and "We'll just do it, and if he sees it what can he do about it?" She discussed it with him and he was about to give in when his face lighted up as he discovered a problem. I was supposed to go to Houston that weekend to try out for Teen Jeopardy.They wouldnt like an eyebrow ring. I didnt say so, but I agreed. So my mom told me later that if I cleaned the house all that week, we'll do it the monday I got back.
My dad and I were planning on leaving Saturday morning. But when Friday rolled around, (I had indeed cleaned the house all week) he came home and said that he didn't receive the bonus he had expected in his paycheck and we wern't gonna go. That upset me a lot because I had been looking forward to going for months. The next day my mom took me to get my eyebrow pierced, partly because she was mad at my dad.
We got to Just Another Hole around two o'clock. I told her I wanted a circular ball ring and she said I'd look better with that instead of a curved barbell. I've noticed that most people get them in the right so I wanted to get it in the left. My mom asked her if there was a "gay-side" due to my brother pointing that out, and Kim said no. That mainly had to do with guys getting their ear pierced and it was popular a few years ago to have a gay side but now most guys are getting both holes so it doesnt really matter.
My mom and sister watched while she put the needle in. It didnt hurt that much. More like if you take a safety pin and put it through the loose skin at the end of you finger nail. At least that's what they told me. Well, the needle came out when the ring was only halfway and the skin closed up a bit so she spent the next five minutes trying to shove it through, and that hurt a lot. There was a lady who looked about 40 lying on the table next to me. She was getting her belly button pierced. She left the room and was all done while my ring was still trying to go through and my piercer asked the other piercer to grab her a taper, which looked like little forceps to open the skin. She used those and the ring came right through. I was thinking, "Why didnt you use those in the first place?" but I didnt say anything.
When she was done it was bleeding. She took my pulse and got me a Shasta Root Beer (yum). It all turned out good in the end. It's been almost a week since I had it done. Yesterday it started bleeding for no reason at all, but I'm not worried. I clean it morning, noon and night with liquid Dial, and twice a day I fill a shot glass with warm water and salt and put it on my eyebrow, creating a vacuum so it won't drip. I do that for about ten minutes then dip my finger in the salt at the bottom and put it on my eyebrow ring and turn it around so the salt gets inside. It hurts like crazy. I know that sounds a lot but I'm trying everything to get it healed before school starts because my school doesnt allow piercings except tongue. I'll have to put a retainer in for school. Anyways, thats my story, have fun!