My Personal Piercing Story.. Enjoy (lol) (Body Piercing)

Member Name: xjemloux

Product:	Body Piercing
Date:	08/03/09 (123 review reads)
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Advantages: I like them

Disadvantages: other people may not lol

Everybody has different opinions when it comes to body piercing, as people do with the majority of things. If we all didn't have our own opinions on things then the world wouldn't have the drama and events it does today. I know from just listening to friends and family that people have so many different opinions and thoughts on body piercing.

I'm one of them people who actually love piercings, in moderation though. I find it unattractive and quite an eyesore when somebody has drastic piercings EVERYWHERE or more than one piercing in one particular place e.g three eyebrow bars in one eyebrow. I personally think I like body piercings on myself as for some reason it boosts my confidence a little, same with tatoos. I've always been the overweight girl and always walked round like a lost sheep as I never followed any of the girly trends, you know everything pink, glitter eyeshadow, boyfriends. Don't get me wrong I liked it all but I was the outcast when it come to the popular girls and whenever I tried doing something the same as them I was always bullied and told it was "wrong". Because of this, despite me only being such a young age say 12-15, I came out of my shell a little when I decided these little girls did not decide when I did something wrong etc so I thought I'd do something different and have some piercings (and tatoos).

A piercing helped me feel good about myself. I always found I had piercings before any of the "popular" girls in school, so for once I was the one who stood out and had a bit of attention and became popular for a short length of time. See even though I was the overweight girl, and not the prettiest in their dolled up eyes I still enjoyed the attention and limelight from other kids. Even now I can admit I'm still the same.

Obviously this isn't the reasoning behing everybody's body piercings, but I wanted to let you all know my reason. The reactions I've had have been many but I love every single one of my piercings whether other people agree with them or not.

When I was about 14 it seemed all the girls in my school were having their noses piercing, so I wanted to follow trend and have mine done. For some reason my Dad wouldn't let me have it done. I was devastated to be perfectly honest, how was I ever going to fit in. Now I say for some reason he wouldn't let me have it done because strangely he turned around and said I could have my tongue pierced? I LOVED the thought! I would of been the first girl in my school year to have their tongue pierced, break the trend and have everyones attention. I told all my friends I was having it done and word soon got around. I went into my local piercing shop and asked for my tongue done. They prepared everything and told me to poke my tongue out and curl it up. So I sat there, poked my tongue out and thought I was curling it up. I was told repeatedly I needed to curl my tongue up, well I thought I was, my tongue was normal to me. My tongue then had to be checked to which I was told I was tongue tied and wasn't able to have it pierced as it may affect my speech and possibly split my tongue. I don't know which was worse the fact I was gutted I couldn't have it done or the fact I knew I was going to have plenty of jip in school when they realised there was no bar twice the size of my mouth rammed through my tongue (lol).

In case your wonder when you are tongue tied it's where the tongue tissues (or the skin underneath the tongue as I call it) isn't positioned properly which restricts the tongues movement. This means I can only poke it so far, I call it a short tongue. A tongue tie is usually noticed when you are born and can be removed as it is said it can cause feeding, tooth and speech problems, depending on how far forward the skin is to the tip of the tongue. Unfortunately I wasn't special enough as a baby to be noticed (lol) and it wasn't removed but I have had no problems with feeding, with my teeth or with my speech, I should know as I don't shutup! It can be removed when you are older and you consult a doctor but only if it is causing alot of problems as it is also known to hurt.

All this though didn't stop me wanting more piercings, I say more as I already had my ears done 3 times either side at the bottom and twice each side at the top. The ears were the norm though, I wanted to be different. Now here are all my other piercings I have had through the years.

I then went and had my tragus pierced, this is the part of the ear at the entrance of the ear canal. It takes 8-16 weeks to heal. I also had problems sleeping on that side until it felt normal.

My belly button, top and the bottom. Both unfortunately grew out after just months and due to putting on weight again I decided not to embarass myself and have them re-pierced.

I then had my Conch pierced, this is what I think we would all call the back of the ear or maybe the inside. This piercing takes roughly 8-16 weeks to heal. It does hurt to sleep on so I had to keep sleeping on the other side until it felt fine. You can either have a bar or a hoop in it also.

Another part of my ears the Forward Pinna, this is the beginning of your ear that starts at the top of your ear by the side of your head. Again it takes roughly 8-16 weeks to heal and also causes slight problems when lying on it.

I have had both my eyebrows pierced numerous amount of times, due to either my body rejecting them and them growing out or me just getting bored of it and taking it out. The eyebrow piercing takes 4-8 weeks to heal.

The Madonna piercing - This is your upper lip usually situated where most people would probably know a 'beauty mole' or 'beauty mark' to be. This takes 4 - 12 weeks to heal.

My Nipples - I had my one pierced 5 years ago, but because I was having a C-Section with my twins I was told I had to take all jewellery out including my nipple bar which I was a bit disapointed with as it was my favourite piercing. Unfortunately it closed really quickly, and I had to wait over 12weeks before I could have the same nipple pierced again, so impatient me had the other nipple pierced instead. This piercing takes 4-12 weeks to heal.

Last but not least my Hood, this is the the top hood of the labia which is known to cover the clitoris. WHYYYY!?!? I can hear you all saying. I have wanted this done for so long I can't even tell you why, maybe so I can just say I have it done and it makes me feel good saying it. Well last week I plucked up the courage to have it pierced and for anybody interested (Lol) It didn't hurt half as much as I thought it would. It takes 6-8 weeks to heal. Genital piercings can heal quite quickly, so long as kept cool and dry and not aggrevated purposely.

Of course there are plenty more places on the body you can surprisingly have pierced and many tatoo and piercing studios will all give you similar on advice on how to keep piercings clean to allow the healing process and how long they actually take to heal. I havn't said whether any of these hurt or not (apart from my most recent piercing) as yes they all did hurt, but everybody is different when it comes to pain and experience it in different ways and feelings. What I find agonising, may not be half as bad for somebody else.

Summary: the reasoning behind my piercings