Im just like a pin cushion! (Body Piercing)

Member Name: SamPerry

Product:	Body Piercing
Date:	06/11/08 (71 review reads)
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Advantages: Looks good as long as you dont go over board

Disadvantages: It hurts!! Doesnt look so good once the fashion wears off!!

The first body piercing I had was when I was 9 years old and I had my ears pierced. I had always wanted my ears pierced since being a very little girl but my Mother wouldn't let me have them done until I turned nine. So on my ninth birthday my Mum took me into a Jewellers shop in town to get them done. I remember feeling really scared while I was waiting but it was over and done with in no time and I was the owner of two beautiful stud earrings, of course I wanted dangly earrings but wasn't allowed to change them until my ears had healed!!! I couldn't stop looking at myself in the windows as we walked past!! I had to say that it didn't really hurt very much, the actual piercing stung for a second and afterwards my ears ached a little bit but it was a bearable pain. (Cant believe I can remember as far back as being nine!!)

The second piercing I had done was when I was fifteen years old and I had my nose pierced, which was all the rage at that time!! Although I have had piercings, I have a terrible needle phobia and can't look at the needle otherwise I pass out. So I went into a tattooist and requested my nose piercing, I lay back on the chair and closed my eyes. The man marked out the point on my nose and told me he was about to pierce it. OH MY GOD it was absolute agony!! My eyes immediately started pouring with water and my nose bled like I had been punched in it. The piercer advised me that this was perfectly normal and that the nose was a very sensitive area, well I wish I had of known how bad it would be a s I would never have had it done in the first place!! My nose bled for about 10 minutes after and at one point I actually felt like I was going to pass out. Finally it stopped enough for me to leave the shop and go home!!! I remember my nose was soooo sore for days afterwards, I couldn't even blow it and it was all swollen inside!!!

I am clearly a glutton for punishment as I then went on to have a third piercing when I was 19!! This time it was my tongue, again it was all the rage in my day and I felt like I needed to do it to make a statement!!! Now the shop numbed my tongue this time, they sprayed a banana flavour numbing agent on it and I was pleased to say that I didn't feel a thing when they pierced it. The put a metal bar through my tongue with a ball screwed onto each end so it didn't fall out. The first thing I remember when leaving the shop was that I couldn't speak properly!! The piercer warned me that it may take a couple of days to get my speech back to normal and that my tongue may swell slightly!! It was when I got home that my tongue then started to swell; it got so big that I could hardly talk!! But I was pleased that there wasn't any pain with this. The swelling went down after roughly a day and I could finally speak without sounding like I had a lisp!!!

My final piercing was when I was 21 and was my belly button. I had this done in tattooist in York. I have to say that this one was by far the most painful one I had. The needle was absolutely huge and once the piercing had been done they then had to thread some plastic though the hole to get the belly bar through. They did numb me so it wasn't painful but all the tugging and pulling made me feel sick, I nearly passed out but managed to hold it together!!! This piercing didn't last as I got a slight infection and my body rejected the belly bar, but being stupid I went back to another parlour and had it re-done. I am pleased to say that my belly button didn't drop out and that the piercing held the second time around!!!

Do I still have any of these piercings, I hear you ask?!! The answer is no!!! I still have the holes in my ears but I never really wear earrings as they annoy me so that was a waste of time!!! I took the stud out of my nose when they stopped being fashionable, that hole has now healed up, thank goodness!!! One day I was walking along when the ball from the end of my tongue stud fell off and I swallowed it!! I was then stupid enough to not replace the screw on ball so I removed the stud until I could get a replacement. Two days later the hole in my tongue had healed over, so i couldn't insert the stud again, I was quite disappointed as I really like my tongue stud but I never had it re-done.

I removed my belly bar when I was pregnant as my skin stretched that much I was afraid that it would rip out. I really like my belly button piercing so I tried to put the bar back in once my son was born but the hole had also healed up. I could probably have got it through if I had forced it but the thought made me want to vomit so I never bothered. I won't get it done again now as I don't really think it's necessary anymore, maybe I have grown up a bit!!!

Summary: I wouldnt get any more done.