mypeircing

exotic piercings
strange body piercing
I’ve had ear piercings since I was ten years old, starting with the usual ear lobe, then later on, I got my cartilage done, then second lobes and so on and so forth. I had been toying with the idea of a new and different piercing recently, so when a friend mentioned that he was getting people together to get pierced, I was pretty much on board.

Since I am still defiantly not ready to get any piercings away from the ears, I decided to research into what I could get on my ear. I wanted something different, so I did a bit of research, and found this web site. It had so many useful pictures and stories that helped me find out what I would like to get done.

Eventually, I had decided to get either the rook or the tragus… eventually settling on the tragus. I had never had a piercing done with a needle before and I was so terribly nervous, it was all I could think about for two days.

When the day finally came round, we set off into downtown Vancouver to Next! on Granville Street. The long car ride out there was painful to sit through, but well worth it in the end. We entered Next! which was incredibly hot inside, I guess because they lacked an air conditioner for the hot summer days that we were enduring. The main room was dark, with many different art pieces on the walls, tattoo artists sketching in their sketchbooks, a few casual customers browsing about. We walked up to the desk, I was trying my absolute best to seem calm and collected, which ended up working well in the end for me! Anyways, we filled out the necessary forms, saying how old we were, what we wanted to get done, we picked out jewelry, and discussed with the guy at the front desk what we were getting, and did the whole small talk nervous thing for a while.

After all was paid for all we had to do was wait for our piercer to be ready. We waited and waited, and finally, our piercer Kori emerged from the back rooms and another happy customer followed shortly behind, brand new piercing all finished and was showing it off to her friends and thanking Kori for her excellent job. Kori then came over to us, introduced herself, and again we did the small talk thing, and then we followed her to the back of the main room, into a hallway, which led to the rooms in the back for piercing.

I ended up having to go last of three people, but I was intent on watching the other two get their piercings so I got a basic idea of what to expect. The first piercing was snake bites, which technically counts as two I suppose, and the second one I watched was an eyebrow piercing. Both piercings went smoothly, which meant it was my turn to lie in the chair. I climbed up, proclaimed which ear was to be pierced and off she went to work.

First, she cleaned the area to be pierced, and then she marked it. She got the approval of myself and my friends and then told me to lie back in the chair and turn my head to the right (Since I was getting my left ear done.) She got the needle ready, and came round to the left side of the chair. Head turned, she got into position, and she told me to take deep breaths. As I did so, she watched and listened, and on the third breath, she inserted the needle. Now, as I said before, I read stories on here about getting this particular piercing, and everyone said that it was going to be very painful. For me, it really didn’t hurt as bas as I was preparing myself for, but it did however make a crunching noise as the needle was passing through (yuumm). The part that did hurt a bit was the actual inserting of the jewelry, but nothing that was unbearable or anything.

After the hoop was clamped closed, I had to pick a coloured ball for the hoop. I sat up, finally decided on a yellow one, and glanced in the mirror to admire it. As I did that, I noticed that I had blood dripping slowly down my neck, and was a little shocked. I defiantly didn’t think about the possibility of it bleeding for some reason. I got the attention of the piercer, who was sterilizing the ball, and she quickly cleaned it up, and assured me that I was done bleeding. She got me to lie back down, and inserted the ball to the hoop, checked one more time for blood, and I was all finished!

The pain from the tragus piercing, for me, was fairly minimal. I did get a bit of a weird tingly feeling in my jaw, and it hurt a bit to smile the next day, but other than that, only the expected tenderness that a fresh piercing will exhibit. The only weird thing was that it started to randomly bleed later on the day I got it pierced… in an ice cream shop… down my neck… nothing like a little blood to draw some attention to yourself!

All in all, I am so happy that I picked the tragus, but that is not to say that I wont go back for a rook later on my next piercing excursion!

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