STORY RATING: * * * * (4 out of 5 stars)
[From sent E-mail to Self-Piercing: Technically, it wasn't done by me, but it was done at (my) home, by a guy who was completely acknowledged in what he was doing. I researched and did everything right as far as getting it professionally done, it's just I had to get around the parental consent issue, so I got an educated, non-in-studio piercer to do it at home. *Names are changed.*]
Title: Rod of passion!
Author: *Sarena*
Complications: Absolutely none, well, O.K. I have an instinctive need to stick out my tongue now
End Result: a very attractive and perfectly healed piece of art
Happy with the Result: I'm so so glad I did it<
Date Done: Friday, January 31st
Story: Well ever since the eight grade especially, I have been very interested in body modification from an outsiders point of view, and had started considering it for myself. Being me, I was very attracted to the tongue piercing and after doing much research on many piercings over vast amounts of time and years, I decided the "classic" tongue piercing was it for me.
So along comes junior year in high school, after many attempts at persuading my mom into letting me and failing I decided, enough is enough, I'm taking things into my own hands. So when a friend of mine got her navel done by an out of studio piercer, I figured I want in, so after getting in contact with him, he said he'd do it.
He came over on a Friday, about an hour and a half before I had to go to work, and that’s when all the magic started. I was a nervous mess waiting for him to show up, and when he "finally" got to my house I was in some strange euphoric high type of anxious excitement. He came in set up his little "station" set out his tools and prepared himself so that everything was all nice and sanitary in their sealed packets and such.
He had me stick out my tongue, dried it off, grabbed it with the clamps, marked it, took the clamps off, looked at it, clamped and marked it again, told me to take a deep breath in out, in, out, and just slid the needle through. It was such an amazing feeling I can't even begin to get you to understand. As he was putting the needle in and then the barbell (when there was a slight pinch during transition) I was in such a strange state of adrenaline pumped excitement yet, sedated calm, both at once, it was amazing. If you've ever been on laughing gas at the dentist, it almost felt like that.
Then he screwed on the balls, cleaned me up (cuz during it I had drooled a little), packed up his things, took a picture of my new best friend and was on his way. Just like that, the whole process took about 15 minutes.
Needle: supplied by *Zack*
Gauge: 14 gauge
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Jewelry: surgical steel barbell
Gauge: 14 gauge
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Aftercare: 2parts Listerine, 1part water mouthwash (to reduce harshness) in morning, and after every meal, salt water rinse twice daily
Purchased: CVS, Market Basket
Cost: about 3 bucks for the mouthwash, and 2 for the sea salt
TOTAL COST: 45 bucks, like I said, it was almost the exact same as getting it done in a studio, just it was at home w/o parental consent, so of course, it's gonna cost almost the same
| Information: Basically this was something extensively pre-meditated and well though out/planned. I know it was a long story, but I took the time and effort to make sure my health and best interest were well invested and insured in, unlike many others who have posted this on this website, to them I say, I hope all goes well with the safety pin technique, to each man his own. As for me, I hope to become a body modification artist and/or a metal working jeweler by profession, both designing tattoos and tattooing, very much piercing and making/creating body jewlery as well as jewlery. |