Experience With Piercings

So my older sister has always been interested in piercings, and she is 6 years older than me, so when I was 16 I wanted a piercing for my birthday. I wanted something different and got the bottom of my navel pierced.

I went to a place called Artistic Impressions in Welland. And I regret that. The piercer didnt get it straight and at this parlour they have a thing about putting rings in any piercing at first, so this only made it worse. A navel piercing is considered a surface piercing, and it should not have a ring in it especially while it is healing because rings move a lot. The get flattened against your skin which pulls on the freshly pierced skin, it can get pulled and twisted which is terrible for skin that is trying to heal inside you, it gets irritated easily and causes keloids, its just not good to have rings. Since this was my first piercing though, I didnt know. So just having left the original ring in for so long caused me a lot of trouble. By the time I could change it to a bar, it was so reduced that it looked really stupid. I kept the piercing for maybe 4 or 5 years before I took it out.

My second piercing was my right nipple. The experience of getting it was perfect and I have never had any problems with it. I asked for it to be done vertically instead of horizontal, and the guy who pierced it decided to do it with a barbel at first. It hurt a ton getting it, I could feel the pain all the way down my arm to my hand, it was like he hit a nerve. His name was Devon and he seemed really shaky (but gorgeous to look at).. I was unsure about him but when he did the piercing he was smooth and gentle. He took a lot of time to make sure it line up with the lines of my body. Having a bar in a new piercing was great because it didnt move around, it was still easy to clean, it sits perfectly and has never grown out. I got this piercing in March when I was 18. It was right before my trip to Europe. I have had it since then and have never changed it. It is still perfect and I am considering getting my other nipple done, but the piercer has moved on and I am afraid to trust anyone else to do it so perfectly.

I got the top of my belly button pierced after my nipple, but before I took the bottom out. A girl pierced it and she was really professional about it. She was informative and did the job quickly. This is another piercing that I have had no problems with. It healed very fast and its been a lot of fun. I took out the bottom soon after because the jewelery for the top covered the bottom piercing.

My most recent piercing is the redoing of my lower navel. I had it done with an actual surface bar and it has been great up until I started working out. It hurt a lot and I had a plan to get a second surface bar underneath. (pictures show what I have and what I had planned to get).. But now that I have started working out, with so much stress on my stomach it has started to irritate the piercing so much that I am now planning to take it out and just not get another piercing on the bottom. I dont regret having it done. It was fun while it lasted. I have been told never to just take a piercing out especially when it isnt healed and this is such a long bar that it could cause a lot of problems. I am planning to downgrade to a regular navel bar as the amount of skin reduces. I am not worried about a scar because almost all my jewelery for the top hangs and covers it. Scars tell stories, they have history, and I dont regret any of mine.