Is it an addiction, or insanity? Navel piercing is more popular than ever. Obviously I'm not alone when I say Navel piercing is very sexy and attractive. I think it adds beauty to ones body in any shape or form. Regardless of how popular the piercing is, I truly believe it brings originality to ones self.
At A Glance Author LaraCroft Contact LaraCroft@bme.anon When Two years ago Location Guelph, Ontario, Canada For me, it started back in high school when everyone including their mother had one; some call these mom's "miltf's" thanks to American Pie. I personally thought having a navel piercing looked quite sexy and instantly I wanted my navel pierced too.
At the time, I was under age and my girlfriend assured me I could do this piercing to my very own belly button with some confidence, a clean needle, and some ice to freeze away the pain. Having pierced my upper ear lobe before the same way, with of course a good ol' potato, I thought, why not give it a shot.
I thought about it for days, finally I gathered enough courage to try it. I waited for a day alone in my house when no one could distract me. I thought about drinking first to lessen the pain, but of course worried about my blood thinning too much causing disaster. So, instead, I sucked it up and went for it. After all was said and done, and yes it hurt, I was left with a cute belly button ring. Attached to my ring I had a little hanging green butterfly and instantly my self esteem grew larger. My belly button was pierced and I loved it.
Don't get any idea's, I was young and uneducated. I had no idea my jewellery should have been sterilized surgical steel. Instead, I used some cute ring I found in Shoppers Drug Mart and heated it up with the flame from a cigarette lighter. My navel was infected. I used rubbing alcohol thinking it was the best way to deal with the situation. My skin around my navel grew irritated, and now dried out. I was absolutely clueless as to why my navel wasn't healing as everyone else's did. I ended up removing the jewellery and allowed my navel to heal which took a long time.
Several years later when I was in getting my second tattoo, I had this rush of insanity and decided to get my navel pierced professionally. I was reassured it wouldn't get infected as long as I kept it clean. However, after following the strict instructions on how to keep it clean and what to put on it, the new piercing became infected once again. This time the infection almost healed but it was too late, my navel pushed the piercing out with in two months and I was left with a nasty scar.
What's that saying? Three times always is always a charm right? Wrong, not for me anyway. I was told my first at home piercing created a lot of scar tissue and the second piercing wasn't far enough behind the scar tissue to allow proper healing, hence the reason the ring pushed out. So yet again, I had my navel pierced. I was reassured this time would be the one I'd have until I no longer wanted it.
Sure enough, within three months my navel pushed this new piercing out as well. After asking the piercer about possible allergic reaction to jewellery, he stressed to me that titanium was the way to go. I picked out this cute, small black ring. At first, the fresh piercing took. It looked great and started to actually heal. I had no infection, and no irritation. I followed the piercers instructions to a tee. A bit of warm water mixed with sea salt, but absolutely no alcohol. He couldn't stress that enough.
After three months, my body had once again rejected the jewellery. I didn't know what to do but wait it out. I thought the jewellery was too big and had someone from a local tattoo parlour put in an even smaller hoop. He gave my piercing another week or so, and he was right. My navel ring was pushed completely out of my navel as the skin peeled away. Why me? The local tattooist told me right then and there, he could pierce it again for the fourth time, but my husband insisted I waited for the scar tissue to heal first as I had to flaps of skin sticking out where the ring ripped out. It looked horrible. But eventually the skin peeled away layer by layer and I was left with more scar tissue and discoloration from three attempts to having a navel piercing.
Not an interesting story, I know. But if you're someone like me who is jealous of everyone else's navel piercing, you're not alone. For some reason, there are some of us out there whose body's are absolutely against us having these sexy additions to our figures. I'm not sure if I'll ever temp the piercing again, but if I do, you have my permission to call me insane. Sometimes you want something so bad you will go through every bit of pain and agony to have it.