The last week of holidays first week of year 12... (2004) i finally got my industrial piercing in my right ear (my parental's had only just given in) i got it done in cosmetics plus a piercing and jewlery store at the shopping centre, i'd looked it up and new that if she tried to do it with the gun i'd just walk out and would prob of reported them because the gun in AUS is only aloud to be used for the first lobe anyother has to be a needle...
I smiled so much when i seen her pulling out the needles and clamps and stuff she needed to do it because i new if i didnt get it done that day my mum would bug me about being 'chicken' and my dad would go on his 'your not getting it done' rant all over again...

It all started off really good she marked it up and checked the length of the bar she'd need to put in even at that time my friend that came to watch (she doesnt have any piercings and didnt no how it was done) was starting to get squeemish as the first clamp was cranked down around the spot of the needle would penertrate, the teeth on those hurt more then the needle's being slide through my flesh although you wouldnt no it if you were watching my friend cringing on the floor and her pale face turning to look away from the 4inch needle currently protruding from the cartlige at the top of my ear and then to her horror seeing it in the floor to roof mirror infront of were i was sitting, i couldnt help myself and i new when she'd finally be able to look at me again i'd get hit but i had to crack up laughing at her...
Did she think they'd just line up the jewlery and *POOF* by magic it would be done.?! The second one was done and again the sharpe teeth on the clamp were so tight i though it had biten a chunk out of my ear... I kind of liked the look of the two needles though my skin... The lady started to fiddle with the first needle pushing a hollow plastic tube through it and then pushing it into the second needle and withdrewing both i thought

'yeah ok i guess its easier to see what she's doing to slide the bar through and neatly into the two freash holes in my ear'

She then stood infront of me and i couldn't see what was happening, 2 seconds later i was looking in the mirror at my shinny new silver at witch point i was then punch in the arm and remembered that before it was all done i was starving to have some lunch... For the rest of the day i did my thing and didnt get a chance to look at it again until i had got home at witch case i noted that it looked very swollen cleaned it turned it and went to bed, first day of school the next day couldnt wait to see my uptight 'girls must look and act like girls' princable when she came round to each class to 'inspect' the students and make sure we were all 'roperly attired' lol needless to say i was taken to her office to call my parents...

Only days later on thursday night i went to a piercing place near were i lived that i was told of after the fact as it was still hurting and bleeding and my ear had started to look like i was part pixie because it had curled together into a point and was turning a shade of green... A lady there took one look at my ear and said straght away she new were i'd had it done and that i should stay round and fill out a report while i wait for the guy to finish up what he was doing, as i did that i was half blinded by the meny flashed of light going off right near my face as she was clearly documenting the 'damage' as she put it that had happened to my ear...

When the guy came in my eyes must have been as round as the full moon when i seen the bolt cutters and 2 pairs of pliers he was carrying... The lady had now picked up a video recoreder and started filming the effort he had to use with the pliers to undo the balls screwed onto each end, when finally they were released enough for him to just undo with his fingers the pliers had left the balls looking more like disks with the imprinted grooves of the pliers on either side...

The release on my ear was enough that my breath court in my throught as a sigh seeped over my lips... To there horror and my outrage at the neglagances of that cow that done this to me the plastic tube had just been cut and left in my ear and the bar bell slipped throught it and done up...
I was told that with the infection, dried blood and the fact i'd answered there question perfore hand about that she measured it to need a 30mm bar and only a 26mm bar was inserted, once my ear had sprung back slightly and they had cleaned it i was told that to have room for swelling it should have been no less then 34mm in length... Having then had them tell me that if i did try to leave any sort of jewlery in my ear would contiune to stay infected and they couldnt be sure of the extent of damage that would do to the catlidge i decided that i would heed there advice and opted for the chance to get it redone later down the track by the morning they had already scabbed over by the following monday all that was left as evadence that i had even had it done was for there possition two large lumps that where left where the piercings had gone through my flesh in total it lasted 9 days at a cost of $80...

It is now 2007 and piercest are only now saying the scare tissuse has healded enough to be able to have it redone althought not in the place i want them witch is were it was previousy done...

Lesson for today kiddies is never trust a unpierced untattooed person to do either of those to your body...