welp, i finally did it. i now have a pierced clitoral hood. i went there wanting a horizontal captive bead ring but came out with a 12 gauge vertical barbell. im happy with it. it looks great. 🙂 i think ill stick to barbells, considering i really like the one in my navel.. except for my nipples. i would much rather have captive bead rings there, it just looks nicer. and since i get piercings for how they look..
so, now i have a total of 11 piercings, 8 of which are in my ears and one of which (my right nipple) i have taken out, in order to get re-pierced with a larger gauge. part of the reason ive had so much trouble with my piercings healing is that we’ve been piercing too small, and my body had been rejecting the jewelry. thats what happened with my eyebrow (gone), and my navel (which im fighting to keep). i also had my tongue done for a while but ended up taking it out. it got in the way.
so, the schedule now.. after my hood heals, is to get my nipples done tandem with 12 gauge captive bead rings in a month or so, then re-pierce my tongue. i may end up taking out my navel piercing and getting that re-done also, but it all depends on how it does with the 16 gauge curved barbell i have in it now. it seems to be doing better since i got rid of the 18 gauge ring.. and ill eventually stretch it to a 14 gauge no matter what. we’ll see. im also considering a labret, but ive got mixed feelings with that one. facial piercings dont really look good or bad on me, they’re just.. there. if im going to shove needles through my body, it better look damn pretty, and i certainly dont miss my eyebrow piercing.
heres a copy of what i sent to BME to add to their catalog of piercing experiences. there is a LOT of stuff on that site that just flat out scares me, especially in the pictures.. but as far as the writing on it goes its a great place to get real accounts of what a piercing is like before you decide to get it.
I am definitely no stranger to piercing. I am however a stranger to piercing studios. Out of the 11 piercings I now have (not including ones I’ve taken out for one reason or another) only one of them was done in a professional studio. While my experiences with home piercing were not bad ones, as we had all the supplies and whatnot, my hood was something I wanted done by someone with a bit more experience. I will most likely never bother with piercing at home again, as the peace of mind Amber gave me was well worth the price I paid for it to be done professionally.
I’ve been debating about whether or not to get my hood pierced for a few years now. I’ve always been really sensitive and dont really like direct stimulation to my clit, which is essentially what a hood piercing gives you.. but finally, after much consideration, I decided to just do it. How bad could it be. If I am too sensitive for it, all I have to do is take it out. If I take care of it like I am told, infection shouldn’t be an issue either. What have I been waiting for?
I made a day out of pampering myself. I bought pretty clothes, ate a nice lunch, hung out. I stopped by the pink zone around 1pm to make an appointment for 4pm, left my deposit and went off to have fun. This relaxed me a lot, gave me something to look forward to when I got home (getting new clothes for me is like christmas, I love coming home and trying things on again) which would also help me get used to maneuvering with my new addition.. and I didn’t feel rushed. This was a key factor in cutting down on my nervousness.
Around 3:30 I strolled into the Pink Zone and talked with Amber about jewelry and gauges and all that good stuff. This was an excellent learning experience being that I’ve done my own piercings and now know what I did wrong on many of them. Small gauged jewelry sucks, people. Me being the closet weenie that I am, I would always opt for 18 gauge jewelry hoping it would hurt less to heal, when in fact since my body just kept rejecting such a small object it ended up causing me more trouble than if I had just sucked it up and gotten a decent size. I had a damn navel piercing that wouldnt heal for a year and a half. Now that I’ve 1) switched to a barbell and 2) stretched it to a 14 gauge, it’s proceeding to heal nicely.
Originally I was to get my hood and left nipple done, but after talking with Amber about jewelry size I chose to wait until after my 18 gauge hole in my right nipple healed, (I did it a month and a half ago, and it had already started to migrate.) and get both my left and right pierced with 12’s tandem. It was all about the hood on this trip.
She had me sit up on the table, examined me, and told me i was best suited for a vertical barbell, which was the exact opposite of what I originally wanted.. a horizontal captive ring. Although I am -really- glad that I didnt try to deal with a horizontal with how slender my build is, I think 5% of the population of girls who are actually suited for that piercing are genuinely lucky. Beautiful things, they are.
I made my boyfriend stay with me. I was tough enough to choose a 12 gauge over a 14 but still I didn’t want to be alone. He was rather disconnected with the whole thing. After reading the majority of the experiences here, I think I’m one of the very few whos boyfriend didnt have a say in whether or not i got it. This was for me.
I layed back on the table with my feet on ambers knees, as my legs were a bit too long to comfortably rest my feet on the stirrups, gripping the corners of the table with sweaty palms. She was really good about telling me what she was doing and what was coming next, and was gentle and precise in her movements. She cleaned me with something damn cold, I know she told me the name but I was a little distracted.. and inserted the cottonless tip of a q-tip between my clit and hood, to measure. This wasnt exactly comfortable, obviously. After the measurements were taken she then inserted the receptor tube into the same area. Now, I’m one of those people who think they’re going to blow chunks whenever they’re getting a PAP its so unsettling.. but this was bareable, and for some reason it actually helped knowing that the needle was gonna hurt a hell of a lot worse than this did.
She told me to take a deep breath in, and let it out slowly. As i did my hood exploded in a quick, sharp pain and then became very warm. I started to gasp and moan as the rush of adrenaline ran straight to my head, and I felt myself starting to hyper-ventilate. If you’ve happened to have ‘experienced’ nitrous, that was the same effect i felt after the needle was pushed through. i didnt even feel the transition from the needle to the barbell. The pain was quick and bearable. anyone who tells you a hood piercing is the worst pain they’ve ever felt has most likely never gotten their nipples pierced.
Afterwards I was really impressed with how little i felt it. I could tell it was there but mostly on an emotional level. An already good day was even better now, I had finally done it after all this time. I walked out of that place feeling like a million pierced bucks.
This was definitely a good decision. There was very little blood and almost no discomfort after the initial prick of the needle. It was relatively quick, easy.. and Amber was great. She even re-pierced my boyfriends eyebrow for him, since she had scheduled me for two piercings and I had only gotten one. I’ll be going back to her in a month or so to get my nipples done. I’ll be sure to write about that experience, too.
I got the piercing yesterday afternoon, and today it is noticeably sore and sensitive. Sitting is pretty difficult and any contact whatsoever with the area, including idlely crossing my legs is damn uncomfortable. But i mean, come on.. i had a needle shoved through my hood. I have a bit of bruising in the area and a little swelling, but no more than I normally get when I’m aroused. I’m following my aftercare to a T and doing my best to keep the piercing protected. Perhaps once it has healed, I’ll send in a photo. I didn’t see any up there that look quite like mine. 🙂
Thanks for the soapbox, BME.