I can remember a time when I was a little girl and I thought that piercing were for freaks. But when I reached the age of 15 I decided that one-day I wanted tattoos and piercings. The one thing I wanted most to be pierced, my eyebrow. I brought the subject up to my mom when I was 16 and she immediately refused, saying that she didn't want people to think that she had some sort of goth freak as a daughter. Then with the turning of 17 came a stronger desire to get something pierced. Sure I had my ears done, but that wasn't enough. Finally after months and months of begging from my grandma, and me she relented. So I got it done ten days after my 17th birthday. I was excited but really nervous. I had stayed up late for many nights researching and reading peoples horror stories about piercings gone wrong. I looked at as many eyebrow-piercing pics as I could. All of them appealed to me and as much as I wanted the anti- eyebrow I chose the standard one. Then the big day came. It was the day after my senior portrait for school. I followed all the stuff I read about and ate a decent meal about an hour before I got pierced and I wore a button up shirt so that I wouldn't get caught up on the piercing afterwards.
At A Glance Author Beth Contact seanismywench@hotmail.com When A year ago Artist Chris Studio Inflictions Location california, usa I chose a place I had heard good stories about, called them and got the price list for what I wanted to get done. I took my best friend with me and he held my hand the entire way through. My mom however, waited outside, she wanted nothing to do with her "freak" daughters experience, and she only drove me up there because my grandma made her do it. When we got to the parlor my piercer Chris helped me select a barbell, then took everything to be cleaned. I can remember the feelings of anticipation and dread as he motioned for me to come into a back room. I sat on the table, took off my glasses and closed my eyes as he made two dots on my right eyebrow. I looked at it and didn't like how close to the end of my eyebrow it was so he made two more dots. Those I liked, it was more close to the inside, but still out on the edge. He had me lay back on the table and just talked to me about normal everyday things, which really helped me calm down. Then he asked if I wanted the clamp or not. He admitted that he like to do it free style but said that he would use it if I wanted. He tried it on me and I said no, because I didn't like the pain that came with it. So as I was lying on the table I felt him place and replace the needle, all while ha kept on talking and I kept a death grip on my friend's hand. He asked me if I wanted him to count down to when he was going to do it and I said no, better it be a surprise than to have me flinch and have him mess up.
When it came, it was like a pain I never experienced before, not bad, but different. Whenever people ask, I always say it's like popping a bad pimple. Then the barbell when through, and the bead was put on. He had me lay on the table for a few more seconds before I got up. And then I got to look at it and I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. I loved it from the very moment I saw it. He ran me through the clean up process, then I paid and left. The first few days were really hard to get through, I was extremely conscious of my piercing and was very afraid of getting it caught up on my shirt, which I did do a few times. Even getting to sleep was hard because I didn't want to sleep on my right side. But after a while I got used to it. Every now and then leaks puss and gets an infection but so far it hasn't migrated out and I've had it for little under a year now. The only bad thing is the place that I work doesn't allow me to wear it so I very rarely if ever wear a barbell in it, just a plastic retainer. Since then, I've wanted more piercings and have gotten a few more in my ears. But sadly I can't get anymore done right now do to the fact that my work is prudish.
So my advice to all is, if you want to get a piercing, go for it. I've never regretted getting mine.