OW MOTHERFUCKER, OWWWW!

So, today I went under the needle. The Piercing Needle. My purpose? To finally get some vertical nipple bars stuck in those babies, and make a nifty little 4-ball look (when I get 2 more barbells for my horizontal nipple piercings). It was fuckin’ hell today…

Apparently I have very tough skin. I remember back when I got my navel done in Seattle, the guy pushed the needle in as hard as he could for some-odd like 20 seconds before it finally went through. He said "you’ve got the 2nd toughest skin I’ve ever pierced." No one else had mentioned that before or after though. Well, there was some probs. getting my vertical bridge done, but I assumed that was the location rather than my skin type.

Today though, ohhhh fuck, it came crashing home. I wish I would’ve brought my DV Cam to show everyone the pain. My good friend Mike came with and can attest that it hurt him just watching.

Trino (from Big House Tattoo in Orange, CA did a wonderful job though, to be clear) However, when he first tried putting the needle in behind the already pierced horizontal ring, it wouldn’t go through all the way. I was all pumped, ready to go, I felt the sting and shook my foot to shake off the pain - thinking "this will be over in just a sec". He stopped pushing. I felt the wave of relief and post-piercing tranquility rush over me. Then he said "Fuck!", I looked to the mirror on the right… it wasn’t through! Only about halfway. That clamp was killing my nipple, and pinching the pierced horizontal portion pretty heavily. So, he retracted the needle, and I asked him to take off the clamp. He did. He couldn’t figure out why the damn needle wouldn’t go through. He originally thought it was scar tissue.

He went through a second time, without the clamp, just tried holding onto my horizontal CBR. After he put all his might into it, and about 10 secs. later.. it finally pushed through. It was another bit of grueling pain just to get the new jewelry in there. Fuck, that hurt sooooooo bad.

I sat back, still feeling the post-piercing pain. I felt a bit relieved for a second there. Then I realized - oh shit, there’s a whole right nipple still waiting to receive that torture.

He said "God man, that’s got to be the toughest skin I’ve ever pierced". So, I’m guessing it wasn’t scar tissue afterall.

The game plan for the second nipple was to use the clamp, and since the jewelry was my horseshoe-shaped surface bar, it would slip in and not clamp the piercing itself. He was just gonna push that needle through as hard as he could.. minimizing the torture I suppose. Well, thankfully, that plan worked. It pushed through fairly quickly - but godDAMN was that some painful shit. I remember my first nipple piercing hurting quite a bit, but when I went back to get my right nipple piercing - it was nothing. I guess my left nipple just hates me. However, this was easily the most painful of all my upper body piercings. It ties in with the P.A.

Anywho.. pics are below. They’ll look a LOT better once I get some barbells for the horizontals.

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