lignocaine
being the bearer of many tattoos ranging from a photorealistic rendering of a neolithic dagger to biomechanical circuitry, and having sported a PA, cheek, lip,nipples and nape of the neck piercings, all i can say is 'short is the pain, long is the ornament'.
these days i've lost the facial piercings as i'm now training as a psych nurse and don't want to scare the patients, still have a great love of tattooing culture, i design my own and the odd one for others.
Getting my first tattoo at 18, a standard off the wall chinese dragon on left bicep...could have made a worse selection as i put about as much thought into it as putin signing the bushwhack ticket for that KGB fella...remembered to not go sunbathing pissed on the beach before the next one too...said dragon was only a 60 minute job, but with rapidly worsening sunburn not a pleasant experience at all.
Getting a PA was approached with great trepidation - i'm into the art of body decoration/ modification and view the pain as an inevitable part of the process, but thankfully a brief one - however, after being nagged by my girlfriend of the time to get one, i finally relented.
actual procedure was brief, the piercing itself was painless; the squirting of the lignocaine (local anaesthetic used by dentists)was more of an 'eye opener' as it were. i don't know if they keep that stuff in the freezer, but it felt like it. by the time i stopped wincing from that the job 'twas done.
advised to piss with the afflicted appendage immersed in a pint glass full of warm water for a few days to minimise the stinging, got some funny looks in the pub khazi though. healed extremely quickly, your own urine being sterile apparently.
apologies for length, it's the weight of the chrome.
(bollox, not again, Fri 1 Dec 2006, 23:05, Reply)