Surface body piercing

Prologue:

On holiday in Canada last summer I saw a woman with two vertical nape piercings and thought they looked really cool. I already had a few myself but was looking to have something new and a bit different. When I told my friends they all said I was crazy and that I wouldn’t do it, then the idea kind of fizzled out.

The Piercing
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I told myself I could only get a piercing after I found a new job. Well, I started my new job last week and got my new piercing on Saturday.

I kept seeing microdermals pop up on ModBlog and thought they looked nice and would be ideal for a concealable (non-facial) piercing. I read up on them and watched some videos of the placement procedure.

I was surprised how little info I could find about microdermals aside from site. This is pretty much the place for pictures and stories. It also worried me because I was concerned about getting stories from people with lots of experience with piercings. I have tattoos but this was my first piercing. I admit, I was thinking about how much a dermal punch would hurt vs a needle piercing. I think after the piercing I ended up rating the pain as a 4 of 10.
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So about a year ago I decided to get a sternum surface piercing.  I did all the research and felt I was well prepared to undertake this type of piercing.  The piercer felt that tygon would be the best option, and I had read many positive things about that material.  I decided that instead of the more standard up and down I wanted side to side, I liked the look of it better.  The piercing went fine and although quite sore it looked lovely.

It was a long week ahead, as it was quite painful and it was not easy sleeping.  Thankfully I got through the week without ripping it out (either on accident or out of sheer frustration).  Outside of the pain, I loved my new addition.  I got lots of comments on it, since it’s not as common as some piercings. And I would make a point of wearing low cut tops to highlight it.  All in all things were going great. Read the rest of this entry »

6 years ago I had my nape pierced buy a nice enough, but inexperienced (at least in the way of surface piercing) artist. It was nothing but trouble from the very start. I remember that it didnt hurt as bad as I had expected it to, which thrilled me and I fell in love with it right away. But there were a lot of problems. To start off with, I was unhappy with the fact that the posts of the barbell hung down slightly giving my neck a “sad face”. The piercer reassured me that would be fixed once the piercing healed and he could put in a smaller bar though, so I let it go.   Read the rest of this entry »

I have always found the bridge to be a beautiful piercing that can really bring out other facial piercings.

So I decided I wanted one, and talked to my best friend, who is a piercing apprentice, and he has done most of my other facial piercings so I can go in his portfolio & I have never had to pay a dime for when he does my piercings. I trust him enough to pierce and I have never had him give me a bad or crooked piercing.
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I was in bed one night considering getting a surface piercing on my forearm when i suddenly decided to get the nape of my neck done instead. I I’ve seen it on a few random people before, but no one I know has it and i’ve always thought it looked pretty awesome. A forearm surface piercing would be more visible, and may have caused me problems with dress codes at work etc, but with a nape piercing, I could easily hide it by wearing my hair down. Over the next few days I decided i really really wanted a bar in my neck.
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This is the story of my poor wrist micro dermal that had a very rough start but luckily is still a permanent placement on my body.
I discovered micro dermals when my first piercer had one on his arm. I didn’t fully understand the concept until I adventured on to the website and then on to industrial steels website. By that time I had acquired a labret, a nose stud and 4 ear piercing and was dying for something new that was more unusual then the items I had. Thought was going to be super easy to heal and I wouldn’t half to care as much about it as a surface piercing, I was very wrong.   Read the rest of this entry »

Well, about six months ago, I decided that I would like to go one step further from my stretched ears and my cartilage piercings to something a big more extreme, well for me anyway. I decided I wanted a surface piercing somewhere. After months of asking my parents for one, they continued to say no, so I decided what’s the harm if they can’t see it? So I did extensive research before hand. I heard that they grow out after a period of time, so I took this into very careful consideration. I also heard that if not looked after properly, they can reject and literally pop out of your skin, I also took this into major consideration. Read the rest of this entry »

I had been wanting to get this piercing for a very long time now – ever since I first saw pictures on this website – I was just waiting for the right time. I knew that I would get it at one point but I wanted to make sure that I got it done by the right person. I’ve heard of people having bad experiences with their surface tragus’ and I didn’t want to have to go through all that just for a piercing. I wanted to go to Epidart (another tattoo and piercing place in Moncton) but that didn’t work out for various reasons and I’m not sure that they do surface piercings.
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So a few month ago I wrote a little tidbit about a set of rib surface bars my friend did on me.  They ended up in his portfolio and have done extremely well in getting him some more experience, I mean everyone has to start somewhere right. I was very happy to have been  his pincushion. Haha.

Anyways, this experience is a bit of an extension on that, we ended up putting two more surface piercings into my ribs, but in a slightly different area. As I said a four step “ladder” on either side of my ribcage would have looked a bit wonky, specially with my rather large tattoos, so we  placed these ones a bit upwards  and more towards the ribs under my breasts. Read the rest of this entry »