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Ok, so my older sister (who was 16 at the time, me 14) had just gotten her navel pierced. I was at the studio when she got it done and saw the
piercing immediately afterwards. I had always liked them, but never thought that I would get it pierced.

When I saw her with her newly pierced navel, I decided I was in love with
them. Immediately a week after, I got an appointment to pierce my naval. I was so determined to get it that I rejected babysitting jobs for the sake of the piercing (I usually never reject them).

So I came into the studio, very shaky and nervous. I stayed for a few
minutes in the waiting room until the piercer (who's name was foreign and I don't remember it whatsoever) came in. She needed to set up in her piercing room so we stayed for another few minutes.

I was getting extremely nervous and shaky, although I didn't want to back
down now that my sister and her friend had brought me there for it. A
receptionist gave me papers to fill out and sign, then I went in the room.

The room was extremely small. In the middle was a type of dentist chair,
then on both sides were cupboards (which I assume is where she kept her
needles).

The piercer walks in, barely talks to me, didn't explain a thing and marks
the places on my belly where she will pierce, and gets me to lay down.
Right off when the needle goes through (which is about 2 seconds) there's a lot of pain, then once it's through there's nothing but a bit of pulling. Since she didn't explain anything I had no idea what she was doing when, but I think thatthe whole thing took about a minute. So I was pierced and done with, I loved how it looked and I was in less pain than with my ear piercings.

So I just get up and walk out, show off to my mother and my sister and herfriends. Then all of a sudden I don't feel good. At all. The room starts
spinning and I thought that I was going to throw up, so I run to the
bathroom, my mother following me.

I pass out flat on the floor next to the toilet. I wake up with my mother
looking like deer in headlights and to my sister's laughter. The piercing
brought me some water from a nearby restaurant, then I get up and leave, to my sister, her friend, and my mother's laughter. They still keep reminding me. Amazingly I didn't get hurt at all event though I went down flat as a board.

I like my piercing. After I went up and all and I was fine I looked in the
mirror. There was almost no blood whatsoever and it looked really good. For me there was never some redness at all. Right off getting up and siting
down would hurt because it would move and push it up and down. I had no
choice whatsoever in my barbell, but I don't quite like the hoops so it did
end up good. Now looking back if I want another piercing, I don't think
that I'll go back to her. Especially that she started her career piercing
navels and eyebrows with the gun, she barely spoke to me, didn't explain a thing, and my friend who got it done there had to do it again since there
was almost no skin and it was falling off. But luckily for me it worked out
good. And my twin went and got hers done the next week.

So end of it all, it was a bad choice to impulsively go there after no
search on the piercing or anything. But the only bad thing I got was
passing out, which was nothing really. I didn't have much of an aftercare
intruction either. Just to soak it. But I used the same antiseptic that I
had used on my ears, and it worked very good, thank god. It was a really
stupid choice to just go there, I never saw the needle whatsoever. She
didn't show me, I have no idea how I got pierced or what happened to get it
pierced. But I love it!

When she was piercing she would walk around the room, getting the barbelland the needle out, most of the time I had the needle in me, she was walking around the room. She also said that if I wanted to, she would
pierce me with a gun. But my friend had it pierced with a gun, and it ended
up to infect on her and it didn't look good. So thank god I opted to pierce
with a needle, my 8 holes in my ears are pierced with a gun though.

Not one of my piercing infected.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

The same thing happened to a friend of mine.
Ah memories...
Oh yeah and impulsive piercings... bad idea... i should know from complete experience. But mine ended up fine.
I hope you get some cool ones in a good place next time!

My first piercing was my navle. The piercer was very friendle and told me everything about the things that was about to happen. Since I was 15, my mother came along.

My second piercing was my labret. I went to a gue I chatted with on the net. He wasnt pr9offesional at the time, but he is know a part owner in a piercer/tattoo parlor down town.

My last two piercings was done at a friends home last summer, and they have not healed yet. They are not infected but just wont heal. Do it at a proper parlor.

when i branded myself i had to much of an adrenaline rush and i passed out i fell down stiff as a board, at least thats what my friends say, and on the way down i hit my head on a cupboard handle and when i came to my head hurt worse than my arm we all just laughed about it

worse idea-impulsive tattoos

Iunno, I'd had ideas about getting all sorts of s**t pierced, but if I don't suddenly have an impulse to go and do, I'd never had gotten all the piercings I have now. mrgreen

Me too, no professional piercer uses guns, especially on body piercings. gonk