About a year ago I really got into the idea of nipple piercing, and rolled the idea around my head often but never committed my self to getting it done. I started reading stories here on BME and looking at photos, slowly but surely getting more and more obsessed. To me it is a beautiful piercing, and as I have smaller boobs I though that it would look cute and sexy on me.
At A Glance Author Sarah Contact Sarah@bme.anon When A week ago Artist Daryl Studio New Tribe Location Toronto Ontario I came close to getting it done in the summer but put it off because I wanted to go to the beach and not have to worry about sand and nasty lake water getting into it. Then came my move off to school, where I said I would get it done, no ifs ands or buts.
Enter second semester, and me finally getting my G1 (at 18, sad but I have no desire to drive). So here I am ready, willing and with proper photo ID.
I arrive at New Tribe, the only place I wanted to trust my nipple to, ready to do this only to find that the shop was closed for renovations, I read the sign and come back Thursday to find I miss read the sign they are opening on Friday. I go back Friday but I don't have my birth certificate on me and can not just use my student card. Next my boyfriend comes down, bring my drivers license with him as it arrived in the mail at home. Off i go again to find out that the piercers were not in that day. Grrrr, so much for 3rd times the charm or even 4th for that matter. I then make an appointment for Monday, call my sister Alex (not really sisters, best friends since grade.2) to tell her she is coming with me on Monday to get my nipple pierced.
Mondays arrives, I go fill out the little sheet and pay my money (If I remember correctly 45 dollars, not bad a lot of places charge more) and wait, and wait because the tools needed were in the autoclave being cleaned. Eventually I get called back and I meet my piercer Daryl (actually I lost the little card with his name on it and I am horrible with names, but I'm sure that his name is Daryl), I think he's new there because I have never heard of him before. We go into one of the rooms and he explains the cleaning and procedure while setting up showing me the fresh barbell and needle straight from the package.
He then tells me that I have to take off my shirt "just to make it more uncomfortable for you" to which I responded that I was not uncomfortable at all, I'm sure he's seen plenty of nipples. While he cleaned my nipple he told me where he used to work called him the nipple king, because all he ever did was nipples. I said that I got the right man for the job. Checking the marks and seeing they were straight I went to lay down on the table like thing similar to what I would expect to find in a doctor's office but lower and on goes the clamp. The clamp did not hurt at all I hardly noticed it was there, but then again I have a high pain tolerance. I breath, I close my eyes, I breath some more and then BAM sharp fiery pain flares up in my left nipple causing me to gasp. Then it's gone, they are not kidding when they say its a few seconds of pain. In went the barbell, tiny pinch feeling but not anything to complain about. He fumbled around with the bead trying to get it on and finally I was done. I look in the mirror and instantly fall in love with it, Alex has a similar manic smile that matches my own and says its cute and that she is proud of me.
I leave with the biggest grin on my face, and it lasts me all week long. I feel that this piercing brought me back into the present and back into being me. I felt a bit lost for a while, not quite sure of who I had suddenly become, or why I was trying to fit in at school so much when it had not mattered before. I had come to the conclusion I would try to be me again. Even with the realization and the decision to change I still felt like I was not living in my body but there is nothing like a needle going through your nipple to bring you back to the present.
The healing has been going fine, excellent even. Had a bit of blood the first night, but not much. After that the only time I had blood was when I got elbowed in the boob, ouch that hurt. I have even went to the gym as I usually do, I was nervous about that because I usually do kick-boxing classes but no problems at all. Other than that, no blood no crustiness, no pain, just beauty.
My boyfriend saw it just this weekend, and he loves it and says I should do the other one as well and I happen to agree, just not yet. I even told my mum who was shocked beyond recognition, then said ouch. When I showed her she commented that I need to get something prettier than surgical steel. I myself like the steel, I love the new addition to my body and can finally understand what people mean when they say that it is a part of them, I cant imagine not having it.