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Monday, April 16, 2007

Actually navel piercing was really quite a hassle compare to normal ear-piercings as the piercer has to make sure the your navel is cleaned and disinfected thoroughly before he proceeds. I did mine at Exotic Tattoos and Piercings at Fareast, Level 3. Look for Jason if you wanna do it, he's really cool and calm when he did mine. Basically it's like this:

1) Clean and disinfect with alcohol. He did it 3 times in total, which feels really strange. What are the chances that you get your navel digged by a complete stranger?! I had to stand with his face in my navel while he's sitting down. Really really awkward position.

2) Do 2 markings with a pen, above and underneath your navel. As per normal just like how you do other piercings.

3) Check it out in the mirror! To make sure you're okay with the position la.

4) Lie on the cold, hard bed that feels like a surgery table.

5) Clamp your navel with a, uhh, clamp? The clampy-thing is shaped like a U so that the markings fall in the middle of the 'U'. Geddit? Both markings should be parallel.

6) Puncture the markings with a needleeeeee.

7) Remove needle, and push navel stud through the hole pierced earlier on. This is the most painful part! I could really feel him pushing the stud through by force! It's not exactly painful, but uncomfortable enough for me to have the urge to kick him away.

8) Screw on ball stud when the stud is pushed through piercing. Done!

Sounds quite gross isn't it? I think it's worse when you watched the whole procedure right in your face. I couldnt quite see it probably for one, my boobs are blocking it, muahahahahahaha. Or the angle just wasnt right, cos i had to lie down completely in order for the piercing to take place. So far so good, it doesn't hurt at all now, and i can squat and shit as usual. Just have to be a little more careful that you dont yank it when you change and stuff. For mine, it was quite a bad experience. Evelyn and i went to the toilet after that, and i was waiting for her in front of the mirrors. Suddenly i felt my blood drained to my feet, and there was huge rush of waves that hit me. I couldnt quite see probably, and i couldnt hear anything she was saying. I felt like i was blacking out soon, as the visuals were completely highlighted out of visibility. Then i staggered to sit on the toilet bowl and break out in cold sweat. Horrible. I felt better awhile after so i went back to the shop. They say i'll probably have low blood glucose. How did they know i have low blood pressure?! Are they the same?? Anyway they gave me alot of sweets after that, and that guy was still saying like, "Ah, mint is nice. Refreshing. Oh, you want a toffee? There's chocolate inside bla bla bla...." Hilarious guy.

But i was okay la. Still can shop and eat dinner after that, hahahahaha.

But anyway, the bad thing is the piercing will only heal after 3 to 6 months. Which means i probably cant engage in any sports within half a year. No swimming, no suntanning, no poly50! Sigh. Ohh by the way, if you want me to compare the threshold of pain, i'll think it should be something like that. Ear piercing is 1/10, nose piercing takes probably 1.5/10? Navel piercing should be around 3/10. Clear enough? Funny thing is the aftermath of a ear piercing probably hurts more than the navel piercing. Really. But of cos, i dont play with the stud and yank it around la, that's why it doesn't hurt.

"Faaaaaahed" @ 2:43 AM