Thru the skin…

By Krissi.

On the day of March 6, 2010 i got my belly button pierced.

I’ve wanted it for years and finally had the guts to ask my mom (btw I’m 15 yrs old). Not to mention I’m a bit terrified of needles..lol..but I kinda figured i would have to go through some pain to get what i want. Like my mom always says it hurts to be beautiful. When my mom gave me her “approval” i started searching for local tattoo and piercing parlors in the area.

I ended up deciding to go to a place called Wonderland Tattoos in St. Clair Shores. The service was great and the place was clean.! And it was only 25 bills outta my pocket. My piercer was a guy named Robert. He was absolutely great in taking care of me that day. I just couldn’t stop smiling. i just kept thinking in my head that i was getting what i wanted all along. Rob had my mom and I sign some papers b/c i’m under age and he talked to me about how to clean my piercing, what to clean it with, how often to clean it, etc. and all that other good stuff.

I was soooo excitd until he took me to a room and told me to lie down on the table. Then the smile just disappeared. You would have thought someone had just brought me some bad news. That’s when he starting telling me not to make any sudden moves and to take 3 deep breaths. When i took my breaths i told him i was ready in a shivery whisper..(haha! i was so scared. wish someone recorded it so i can laugh at how big of a punk i was!) As soon as he had the needle about 5 inches away from my belly i thought i was going to cry like a big baby.

I yelled and told my mom to come and hold my hand but she just sat there and laughed like it was a joke. After a couple of seconds it was then that i realized Rob was done. I barely felt the needle go through. All that complaining and whining for nothing. It was just a itsy bitsy teeny weeny pinch. No pain at all.!
Bring out the cute short cropped belly tops.!

Now I’m just ready for more piercings and tattoos to come in the future…..sweet 16 coming up !!!!!!!!!!!!

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Third Time’s a Charm!

By Esmeralda, from Texas.

Ever since I was 16 I have wanted to have my belly button pierced! But of course my parents were strictly against it! My mom always kept telling me that until I was 18 I could do whatever I wanted with my body. So once I turned 18 the first thing I did was get my belly button pierced!

The first time I got my belly button pierced everything was going great with the healing except that I had not done all of my research on the healing process and always kept touching the piercing and moving it around. Bad idea! Eventually the piercing start to reject and the skin around the jewelry was starting to thin out so I took it out. I was so upset cuz I was very excited about my piercing.

A couple of months after that I decided to get my belly button re-pierced once again. Soon afterwards my boyfriend bought me a really cute belly ring that I couldn’t resist and had to put it on! My piercing still had not healed when I switched out the belly ring to the cute one and I also went to a water park, which id not help my piercing. Once again my piercing started to reject. And I had to take it out.

Now that its been almost a year since I had my last piercing I finally decided to give it one last try! I am currently in college and went to the piercing studio around here that everyone goes to. My boyfriend and I went one Friday afternoon and my piercer was very nice! Her name was Michelle and she explained the whole process to me and showed me all of the equipment. This third time that I got my belly button pierced hurt a lot! The first 2 times it did not hurt at all….but this time since it was all scar tissue it hurt a lot! But right after she put in the belly ring it didn’t hurt as much. The area was red for the first 2 days but it quickly went away.

I’ve had the piercing for only a week and so far everything seems to be going great! I don’t touch it and wash it twice a week with antibacterial soap. I am definitely not doing the same mistakes I did the last two times! And hopefully it heals quickly!

my belly button piercing!

By Katie from Michigan.

i got my belly button pierced about two months ago. what inspired me to get my belly button done was losing weight.

i always wanted to get it done but i am really body conscious. so i saved my money up and after i lost 15 pounds i went and got it done! i did need my parents permission,plus Birth Certificate, and ID. It was two for Tuesdays so my mom got hers done too.i guess you could say it was a win/win lol.

i went to Gun Lake Tattoos, i’ve been their before when i got my lip done last year. i love going their and i wouldn’t go anywhere else! hes a nice guy and explains EVERYTHING! and answers all your questions. i know when i got my lip done it didn’t hurt at ALL but when i went to get my belly done….it was a whole different story lol…i had to lay down on this bed thing and i watched while he got everything ready, he asked me if i wanted him to count or just quickly do it. i was so scared and nervous that i was just do it. I would say the clamp hurt less then the needle! i actually yeled “HOLY S&*%#!” LOL. but it was quick and the guy knew what he was doing.

he also said belly button piercings was the most popular their. after all that pain, me and my mom went to the dollar store and got anti bacterial soap and sea salt. The healing process was quick i know i was risking an infection but i changed my belly button at 3 weeks.. it didn’t hurt at all and its still doing good! i put in a simple pink checkered acrylic belly button ring i got from Ltisia.com where i win all my body jewelry from. Ive talked to people about belly button piercings and they hate them and say i wish i never got mine done! but i don’t know whats so bad about them. i LOVE mine! and im soo soo glad i got mine done! =]

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Hear’s To Heart Ache

By Mirandia, from Linden, U.S.A

Okay well i have to start at the very begining, last year has been very harsh for me. I found out i had a heart murmor, then i found out i had a hole in my heart and that resulted in having to have heart surgery. I brusied serverly around the cut marks and couldnt walk too good for about a month. Then a few months later i got bit by a brown recluse and had to be put on two different types of anti biotics, i was bitten by a bunch of fire ants and then i caught h1n1 and was in bed for about 10 days. So a few weeks ago i got to thinking, lifes to short and theirs so many close calls in life for me to go around wanting to do stuff but not have the courage to do them. Ive wanted a belly ring for so long but always been afraid too actually have it done so after a year of bad luck and close calls i decided that it was time for me to do something crazy and unexpected. So i talked to my mama about it and the next day she rode with me to the local piercer and i had it done, i picked out a double jewele banana ring to be put in that was the same color as my birthstone. When it was all done with, as i walked out the door i told myself “Heres a year of bad luck and (quite literally) heartache”

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Its not easy being green!

By Erin from Yreka, U.S.

My sister got her belly button pierced when she was 18 and I wanted mine done too. I was 15 and my mother said no.

I was so jelous as I watched my sister take care of her piercing. She would take half an hour in the morning and half an hour at night to clean it. It was so beautiful and it seemed to give her more confidence. After about a month her belly button started turning red and it got infected real bad. She had to get it taken out at the hospital. What a bad way to find out you are alergic to metal.

Well that was many years ago.I have been buying belly button rings for years just waiting to get up the nerve. They sit in their packages waiting for the day I can open them and use them. I am 27 now and I got a piercing on friday. I have had no problems with metal piercings in my ears I hope this works. My husband took me to a local piercing place. I had been there before to see how they clean their equipment. Each needle is packaged in sterile packaging and onlyh used once then thrown awa.. The guy answered all of my questions. I picked out a bar that had green stones because green is my favorite color. He made me feel relaxed about a needle piercing my flesh. He used an alcohol pad that numbed the area.

I clean it every morning and every night. I use a shot glass with sea salt and warm water to clean it and pull out any infection in the mornings and I shower with antibacterial soap at night. I see no problems and I am excited about how it looks.

I may have waited a long time for this but I think it was worth the wait.

My piercing story

By Simmy, from Slovenia

Hello, my first piercing was eight years ago. It was belly piercing. I have no problems with the skin, but the piersingman did take me too little of skin so I must be careful.

Next week I will get another piersing belly. I will send picture too.
Sorry for my broken eanglish. Have a nice day from Sloveni ex Yugoslavia.

Bye Bye Simmy

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SWEET 16

By Takira, from Baltimore.

I asked my mom can i get a belly peircing because i didnt want a tatto and she said no lose some weight and i will think about it and i only weigh 130 and i was 15 at the time

I had no gut and i still dont so my 16th birthday rolled around and i asked and she said idk im not sure so i tlkd her into it by saying im on the honor roll i have ben doing good blah blah blah and she took me 2 go get my belly ring

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In and Out in 20 minutes!

By Alexis, from Ohio

I had been thinking about getting a belly button ring for a few years now, but never really gave it serious consideration. That changed a few weeks ago, when I suddenly had a desire to get one. I had finally gotten the stomach I wanted and thought that a little bit of sparkle would compliment my bikini ready belly perfectly.

I found out that Ohio does not require piercing parlors to be certified which made me a bit nervous. There are all those horror stories out there, and I did not want to create my own.

I looked online to see what people had to say, and found the Association of Professional Piercers. With a site named safepiercing.org I felt comforted reading about their standers of professionalism. Through their site I found a place that went out of their way to get an APP certification, and the best part was that they were only about thirty minutes away.

The shop, Body Anthology, has their own website, and they list the piercers and have pictures of what they have done in the pat. All of the testimonials repeated the same key words over and over again. The place was professional, clean, and welcoming. Many said that even during a tour of the place they used quite a few pairs of rubber gloves.

On one of my days off, I went to just check it out for myself. I had thought of putting it off until my birthday, which would have been in the middle of summer. Once I stepped into the place, I felt at ease and knew that they would take care of me. The parlor was well lit and the piercing station had almost a hospital feel to it. They explained the whole process to me, opened up all the tools in front of me, and then marked my navel. I laid down and he applied the clamp, which I did not feel at all, and then he told me to inhale and then exhale slowly. On my second exhale, he quickly pushed the needle through and then I was all done. I felt just a quick pinch, and the whole thing took a lot less time than I thought it would. It felt just like getting my ears pierce except that the healing time is much longer.

It turned out to be a good thing that I got it done at the beginning of April seeing as how I cannot go into lakes for about three to four months. After we were all done, he described the healing process and gave me a packet of sea salt with written directions as a just in case. He also let me know that I can always email or telephone if I have any questions, and I feel comfortable doing just that.

So far I have not had any problems except for the few times I tossed a bit too much in my sleep and accidentally hit the top ball. I love my new piercing so much. While the jewelry I picked out is simple and goes with everything, I cannot wait for it to heal completely so I can change it and show it off!

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All you have to do is  write your unique belly button piercing story, take a picture of your belly button and submit them using my NEW website HERE!

To qualify for the prize, your belly button piercing story has to meet the following guidelines:

Please make the piercing story at least 300 words long;

You can describe how you decided to get the navel piercing, how you went to the piercing studio and what was the whole navel piercing procedure was like.  Was it painful or just a pinch? Who was with you? What type of ring did you choose? Add some interesting moments. Remember that other Belly Button Rings Guide’s readers will  rate your story!

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12 years young.

By Emily, from Mt. Keira, Australia.

I got my belly button pierced when i was12 years old. It was a very painful proxess resulting in me fainting.

I kept the original piercing bar in for about a month or so. That was when the stones fell out after my first swimming experience.

So, i went to a tattoo parlour and got a new bar put in. I knew it wasn’t healed. So i didn’t do it myself. I didn’t do it myself until my piercing was about 6 months old. But even then i was paranoid about steralising, clean hands, anti bact soap and everything.

I’m now 14 and have the same belly piercing. Im still fair paranoied about it because i have made it this far without infection and i love it a heap. Even today i call it the best $90 ever spent.

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