Hello this is the story my basement rayna (AKA Monroe), (but I think rayna is a better name my story ha ha ha). But anyways IV always was fascinated with body mods ever since I was 13. And I was visiting cali and I walked in this liqueur store when I first saw savage tattoo (now my fave mod mag). I Was like wow we don't have this kind of kewl shit in lake worth (Florida where I was from). The girl on the cover was so gorgeous she had 3/4 sleeves tattoo work and this oddly placed piercing (a Monroe) and I was like that looks sic as hell. So I bought it and fell in love with piercing so I went back to fla and was totally obsessed with the piercing (and the whole body mod industry for that matter).
At A Glance Author jenni in wonderland Contact snmkorngrl@cs.com Artist moi Studio ahs's basement Location Hamton,nh Completely suffocated with the boredom of my town so I moved to NH (the greatest state on earth) then I discovered coal chamber an OK sounding spooky core band and I saw a picture of basset rayna foss (now rayna foss rose) and she had this magnificent piercing also she's the only person id seen in person with this and it looked even better up close and I decided I have to have it so I asked my mother and of course being a mother she said no then she came home one day from work and she told me that she had saw a girl with a Monroe then I told that's the one I had asked for then she said ohh that would be OK but IM not paying for it so I was like OK being in my current "B, A, H" status (broke as hell) I had to take matters in to my own hands.
Then one night me and my friend ash were sitting in her basement and she jumped up and said "I want my navel pierced" so since my life dream is to become a piercer I and saw the opportunity for some much needed practice I volunteered to do it being trusting Ashley she let me is was kind of hard at first but I did it (successfully I might add) and astounded with my creation. Suddenly I was floating with self-confidence so I was like what the hell why not I'll do it. So I got a sewing needle (I know what your thinking dumbass but I was 13) I marked the spot where I wanted it I took a cork from a champagne bottle. I was so scared so I paused for a bit (more like an hour) I kept asking ash "should I do it should I?" and she was like "goddamit do it already ya punk" so I sat for another 20 min. We went out to eat so I could get strength up and maybe get some balls while I was at it but you have to consider it's my first piercing I was a little nervous so what we went to Mc Donald's and I saw this guy with his septum and labret pierced (want to know something keel the day after I got my piercing I saw him again and since then we started dating and we've been together ever since that day I guess that's another example of modification bringing to people how most likely wouldn't have spoke together and finding love) and I asked him how would it look if I got a piercing right there and I pointed to where I wanted it. Then he said oh a Monroe (until that moment I had no idea what the piercing was called) and I said yeah I guess so yeah and he said oh that would be dead sexy (the reason I asked because one of my concerns was what if I look stupid or it just doesn't suit me but this hot guy telling me of all people I would be dead sexy well ya know) his approval is what pushed me over the edge so I ate in anticipation of my "dead sexy piercing" to quote my hot guy friend here.
We literally flew home I got my stuff ready 16ga needle, (check) iodine, (check), cork, (check), balls (double check) so I got everything and marked the spot explored around the inside of my mouth making sure there were veins or nerves or blood vessels I might possibly hit (because that would truly be a shitty sucky experience). I could see any around where I marked but knowing my luck mines are like clear. Or id missed one and hit a vessel that connects with my brain or something so would be a dead sexy and retarded or not be able to move my face!! But all that aside it was now or never I stared out slow but then I realized that would most likely hurt more then just ya know doing it so I took a deep breath said a quick prayer (even though IM agnostic I just needed some false since of faith for a second) and shoved it through (dammit!!! that hurt). I opened my eyes looked up at the mirror and marveled at the big as needle in my face I was omigod then I realized I had no jewelry something I really thought of before I did this. So I star to panic IM like omigod omigod what am I going to do. Then I got an idea since IM ghetto fab and stupid all at the same time I can make my own temp labret stud for the night I made I own jewelry out of an 16 gauge ear stud and an eraser off a pencil (and before you all scream infection it was only for a night).
I went home and showed my Mom and she didn't believe at first when I showed her. She's like "your a punk you cant even get flu shots but your trying to say you shoved a needle in your face whatever iv seen those magnets before". Than I lifted it up and showed her the inside and she freaked WHAT THE HELL!!!! But she loved it and she wanted it done until she saw me the next morning and was like eww WTF happened to your face. She screamed it's infected take it out but I wasn't giving up that easy. I looked at it and it was swollen and pussy and kind of bruised and wicked sore. So I got dressed and I went to dredz the local head shop/-piercing parlor (since has been closed because of the recent ban of body piercing in NH, fight the power). I could have gotten it done there but IM kind of uneasy with the fact that IM gonna let someone shove a needle through my face at the same place they sell herbal ecstasy and bongs and other "tobacco accessories". Maybe it's just me being paranoid but oh well back to the story. I had the piercer there to look at it and he said that jewelry's gatta go but everything else seems to be apart of the normal healing process. He also gave me some pleasurable piercing cleaning stuff and told me what jewelry I needed. So I got a 16 GA externally threaded curved barbell and immediately put it in. So I threw out that horrible lip torture devise I had in previously had in and I felt way better.
I went school the next day beaming like a rock star. Nobody had seen it before except for on rayna. The swelling was noticeable for the first 3 days and it was sore for like the first week. I was getting lymph for 4 months, didn't affect my speech at all or my eating. Everyone at school loved it, I did what the guy at dredz told me to do cleaning wise. But the thing he said about coming to his place for my next piercing. Well I that damn sure that wasn't going to happen. I've had my rayna for about 3 years now and it doing great. However I've been playing with it like hell and stretched it to a 14 GA.Since then iv gotten more self done mods 00 GA lobes hoping to stretch to 3/4"(home stretching is fun), 18ga eyebrow bar (also by moi) 14ga septum, 14 ga vertical hood (by Dave) 10 ga tongue bar (at class act). Im planning on more in the future. So that's the story of my basement Rayna it may not have been the most enjoyable experience but it certainly was an experience and it was fun sooo ... i guess that all for now bye...feel free to email me or im me @ soulflyskank85 IM lonely bye!!!!!!!!!!