I would like to have my hood pierced. I'd love to have a double like Tasha's, but my hood's likely too short for that. I have an under-control addiction to body modification. I think about it all the time, especially in the weeks after I get something done. I'm just about dying to get a second tattoo.
I found getting my nipple pierced to be very painful, much more so than anything else I'd had done (eyebrow, tragus, tongue, ears) but so, so pretty! However, at the time, the work I was doing in a commercial kitchen, which involved a lot of sudden stooping and hefting of 50LBS bags of dry goods, or perhaps a 60 quart, steel bowl full to overflowing with pizza dough (120LBS+). The resulting jostling and pressing prevented my piercing from healing, so I had to take it out before it could migrate too far.
The eyebrow piercings never hurt, but they kept migrating on me, and so I gave up on them. I do have a cute scar from this adventure.
The first time I had my tongue pierced it didn't even hurt a little. I felt it swell, and that was uncomfortable, but there was no pain. Unfortunately I pulled it out by accident later that night. Long story. When I had it redone, it hurt a tiny bit, like a pinch. The worst part of either time was hearing that sick sound of the needle going through. You know how things that happen inside your mouth sound kind of loud? Yeah. That was a little gross.
The least painful of all was my tragus. I didn't even know it had been done! The tragus is a
little cartilage flap across from your earlobe. I get a lot of comments on this piercing.
The tattoo is on my upper abdomen. It tickled. I laughed the entire time, and the artist said he never saw such a thing before. The outline tickled more than anything. Mike, the artist, said that as he got closer to areas most found painful, I would laugh harder. I told him if it made him feel any better, I hated to be tickled. He thought that was funny. Getting the design shaded in burned. It felt like I was being scratched by hot claws. During the healing process, whenever it itched, I just applied more oil, or tapped gently on my loose bandage. I used bandages a litter longer than advised, because my body spat out ink like a broken pen. I ran out of clothes I was willing to ruin.