shakti

i had the WORST piercing experience EVER the last couple days!

get this...

mnislahi and i went to get our lips pierced in georgetown. we drove through an hour and a half of traffic to get there. when we get there, they tell us that there is no piercer on duty that night. so we're kind of bummed. but we decide to try to find another place in the city. arkane knows of a place on ninth and u, so we drive there (which is not close, mind you) and their piercer is busy for the night. so on our way back to georgetown to pick up my husband at a bar there (he didnt want to drive anymore after the initial traffic), mnislahi sees a sign for a tattoo and piercing shop! we were all excited. we go inside and of course she is all SMART about it and is totally sketched out by this place but i'm like whatever, it will be fine. so i pay the money to get my lip double pierced and go into the room. so she shows me the rings shes going to pierce me with and they are HUGE and i ask if she has anything smaller and she says no. so right off the bat i should have backed out but i just figured i'd change them once they healed. anyway, she goes to pierce me and she obviously doenst know what she is doing. she has to pierce it two different times to get it right and it turns out the jewelry isnt the same size as the needle so she has to really shove it through. which was sooooo painful. then she goes to the other side (meanwhile i am having a panic attack cause i'm all stressed out) and she has to pierce that side FOUR times before she gets it right. and she spends about twenty minutes trying to shove the jewelry through. i am like totally traumatized by this point. i say thanks and we leave.

then YESTERDAY when i am trying to move the jewelry, since it isnt the same size as the hole really, the piercing just literally falls out. my husband and i manage to get it back in after like an hour but it was wicked painful. then i'm trying to GENTLY move the other one, and the piercing falls out (these are the shittiest rings i've ever seen). we cant get this one back in so we drive to a store that sells jewelry to try to get labret studs. meanwhile my lip is too swollen for any of this. we try with the rings and the studs for about an hour and then give up and put a tongue ring bar in there. my lip was so swollen that it looked just like a labret stud and i slept with it like that to keep the hole open.

so i wake up this morning with my lip so swollen that i am going to refuse to leave the house all weekend. i would post a picture because its literally AMAZING looking but i am wayyyyy to embarrassed about how i look. i dont know whether to take them out and have wasted 90 dollars or to keep struggling with this and hope the swelling goes down. ugh, i'm miserable.