Don t Touch

I was browsing through BME at the eyebrow piercing section, looking at all the types and the different styles, and I knew then and there that I just HAD to get one. They looked so interesting! I only had one piercing at the time, a nose ring. Boring. It was just a hoop, nothing special. Nobody in my small town had body mods, so I thought it was time to get more.

I asked my Mom if I could get it for an early Christmas present, and she said yes right away. Up to this day I have no idea why she didn't even think about it first, but whatever.

So I thought about a few places I should go to. At first I thought about going to Electric Lettuce in Nanaimo, but we didn't have enough time to drive down there at the moment. So, we went to the only place in Port Alberni that does piercings other than ears. Camille's.

My Mom made an appointment for a couple days later, and it was all set. I was so excited about it! So on the days before my piercing, I looked at different types of jewelry and colors etc. I decided on getting titanium, because I wanted color in my piercing.

I got allergic to anything cheap, so I guess I couldn't of gotten anything else.

So on the day of my piercing I was bouncing off the walls! So we finally went there and I told her that I was here to get my eyebrow pierced and she led me into a room on the other side of the studio. It was also a hair/makeup place so there was people getting their hair dyed and such. I looked around the room to make sure everything was clean.

I laid down on a comfortable chair, like a dentist's chair and relaxed. I watched her wash her hands thoroughly and put on gloves. She showed me a box of jewelry in sealed plastic bags, there wasn't much to choose from, because she was going to get a shipment of jewelry in a couple days, and there wasn't much at the time. But I picked a titanium hoop, kind of purple and blue, and a blue ball.

I was getting kind of nervous, but that went away very quickly. I wasn't worried about the pain, because it only lasted a couple seconds, so I was ready to go!

She took all of her tools out of sealed packages and got them ready. She cleaned the area with some stuff, I don't know what it was.

She asked me if I was ready and I said yes. She told me to breath in through my nose and breath out through my mouth, as to relax me. While I was doing that, she stuck the needle through my eyebrow, and I didn't even notice a bit, I was too busy breathing.

I said, " Is it over yet?" and she replied with, " It's already done".

Boy, was I surprised!

I looked in the mirror, and there it was, my eyebrow ring, in all its glory! The area was kind of red, but thank god, not bleeding. The eyebrow ring itself was sticking straight out! I asked her why it was doing that, and she said not to worry about it, just push the hoop down every once in a while, so when it's healed it will lay flat. She said over and over again, " do not let people touch it!" So I definitely listened to her.

She said to clean it twice a day, or when needed with Saline Solution, (you know, the stuff you clean your contact lenses with.) And if it got infected, go and get Sea salt from the health store.

So we left and went to the drugstore to get saline solution.

It was hard sleeping on it, because it hurt when I put pressure on it, so it was hard to get to sleep the first couple of days, scared of it getting infected or ripped out by a loose thread on my pillow.

The first couple of days were okay, but I noticed a lot of green puss coming out of it very frequently. I guess I was playing with it too much, or not cleaning it as often as I was supposed to. I made sure not to let people touch it. You would hear from me "don't touch" almost every day when people were looking at it.

So, one morning, about a week later I woke up and noticed my right eye was all puffy and red. I started freaking out and asking my mom what I should do. She phoned Corky and she said to go get sea salt from the health store.

We got the sea salt and ran the hot tap water until it was burning, on fire hot. She told us to dump some of the sea salt into the water, get a clean cloth, dip it in the water and hold it on my eyebrow, to flush out the puss and whatever else was in there at the time. Damm, did it hurt! We did that every once in a while until it was better.

I used bactine on my eyebrow since then. And now it's fine!

A few words about the piericer...

I guess you could say I was impressed by her techniques, she wasn't all that great, and she wasn't bad at it. She also changed the ball my nose ring, because the ball I had was huge and purple! So she changed it to my first one, a tiny black/gray one.

But I wasn't too impressed with her on this. The ball fell out as soon ass I got home. She didn't fit it tight enough. Oh well, I don't mind, there's a big gap, but I just hide it

The price was 77 dollars, not too bad, because cheap piercings are not good news.

It's been a couple months now, and it looks awesome. I'm going to get it changed because the jewelry is too big for my face.

I hope you liked reading my standard, boring eyebrow experience! I sure had fun writing it!