Ouch.

Aug 29, 2005 00:02

SO I went to the Body Art Expo here in beautiful San Francisco today. I was thinking of getting a cheap expo tattoo, but I pretty much settled on a piercing.

OK, so, I wanted ear piercings. I had no ear piercings, so I figured I had to get some. But I wanted 0 gauge, and I didn't want to wait and stretch and wait and stretch. So I got a dermal punch.

That's like a sharpened metal straw that is driven with all the piercer's force through my earlobe, grinding slightly circularly against this thing he was holding behind my ear. I have the world's toughest earlobes, it seems. He said so. When he was done with the grinding and causing me lots of pain, he switched to causing me incredible amounts of pain when he used the edge of a sharpened needle to scrape the flesh off the back. There were seriously sizable bits of ear coming off.

I was pretty quiet but I grunted a few times and said "Christ" once. He at one point said "It's hangin on by a thread!" of the bit of ear and I think the thread was a nerve or something retarded.

He was scraping away and paused, and I said "Are you done?" and he said "Almost done" and he scraped some more and paused and I said "OK now you're done?" and he said "Almost done" and I said "You said that almost ago!"

Anyhow I bled like mad and almost fainted twice and I got a free bottle of aftercare spray cuz the guy who ran that booth watched and said I was a trooper. I guess I was cuz that shit was fuckin hurtful to me.

The endorphin high was possums.

I will take some pictures maybe when they are not scab city.
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