April 17th 2008 Posted in
life 
Well, kinda. I guess two two piercing that will become an industrial once it heals.
I had been intending on getting something done for a bit, and I’ve had several well-pierced friends lately. I decided on Chameleon in Harvard Square since it was close and reasonably priced. I called a few friends to go with me, but everyone was busy. I resolved to go anyway by myself. Keep in mind that I’ve never had anything pierced prior and until recently I had a deathly fear of needles in general.
So I show up at Chameleon. It’s actually kinda split into two stores. There’s the one in the middle that you purchase the jewelry at and sign up, then the piercing/tattoo parlor. At first I was sad, and didn’t think I was going to be able to do it. I was 100% set on a titanium piercing only. My skin doesn’t do that well with some metals that contain any copper or nickel. I know my hands eat through guitar strings and other metal instantly it seems, and that my father doesn’t do well with gold generally. They didn’t have any standard industrial bars in titanium. I was sad.
However, after talking with them a bit anyway and they wouldn’t pierce with that if they had it. Apparently industrials don’t heal well if pierced with the bar and they use captive bead rings instead (basically two small hoops as you see in the photo). Also from what I gathered this is one of the lesser fun piercings to get done pain-wise as it goes through cartilage twice.
Getting it done wasn’t bad. Owen is great at what he does and made it much better than most visits to the doctor. Too bad he isn’t a dentist, because he was really much more understanding about pain than any dentist I’ve ever met.
It only cost $70 + tip including the titanium CBRs, which wasn’t bad. I got some saline spray to clean it with, and everything so far is great. I’m hooked and can’t wait to get a few more piercings. The only downside is that I have to learn to sleep on my left side for the next few weeks.
