Let the Mutilation begin!

So, yup...got me another whole in my head.  Can't seem to keep my brains in, so thought I would just give it one more place to eeek out of. 

Nadia and I decided to go and get mutilated together.  But first I practiced with bindi - sticking it to places instead of forehead. ------->

We went to Pultan Bazaar and found a shop that would pierce us for 200rs (Gasp! you say!) yup.  Well, we then talked with the woman for like 10 minutes trying to find out a couple of things.

1.  If I was going to get another piercing I wanted it to be SUPA small.  No big gaping wholes (my brains need to slowly leak, not gush).

2. How was the piercing done you ask (oh wait, no I asked)...well, some times its by gun method - which I am sure most of you are familiar with.  Or did they do some other method?  this was starting to bring back memories of my own piercing applications...
3.  How about the pain or cleanliness?  the night I pierced Whitneys nose...that wasn't so bad...Or the night we pierced what's his name - Steve's ear...The best was Janine and I in the break shack at the fish hatchery on our 15 minute break from pit tagging silver salmon.  Couldn't think of anything better to do then to give ourselves piercings.  Could I trust they would use hypodermic needles like we did? - HEY! the needles were new!...who cares that they were meant for the fish....Would the earring be clean? - I just took the earring I was wearing out of my ear and shoved it thru the whole in my belly...India couldn't be worse...right? 

Well, the lady kept insisting that there is nothing smaller than the studs she presented to me...which were rather big I thought.  But if I didn't want to do the stud, I could do the ring.  And she did not have a gun at all, and did not know of any store around that did.  In her store, they just rammed the pointy stud thru your flesh. So it was looking like I could just do it on my own again and be fine instead of paying someone.  However, I wasn't sure I wanted to do this one on my own.  Her store wasn't the cleanest either, but that was neither here nor there.

We ended up leaving that store and going to a strip of stores with really fancy jewelry shops.  It took a while to find another store that did piercings, but at last - Bombay Jewelers did the trick and for 100rs (that's like $3).  We went in and my nerves almost went out on me with the realization that this was really gonna happen. There was a bit of confusion with how things would be done - they said they had the gun method, which was the only way Nadia wanted to get her piercing, but then it turned out they only used the gun on ears.  They also said they would put a stud in, but again, this was only with ears.  For noses the only way was to do a ring..It took a bit of convincing but Nadia, who almost chickened out, finally agreed...that is after she grilled me on the pain factor...what pain??

So yeah, I went first. Its only a very select group of people I would ever let put their fingers up my nose, and this guy is now in that group and I don't even know his name!...what an honor!...it was strange.  It was also unexpected but I cannot really tell you why.  Logically he's gonna have to hold onto something!  He took a bit of silver wire and rammed it into my skin and then quickly, though not as deftly as I would have liked, bent it into a loop, pulled it thru the closing and using wire cutters snipped the excess metal off.  It stung like a mother and my right eye teared up. It stung like when you get a shot from the doctors, that initial sting, then if you've ever had someone miss your vein and "dig" for it...thats what it kinda felt like afterwords, he had to continue to twist and shove the ring through.  It all took less than 1 minute once I sat down.  Now, 2 days later it does not hurt that much, only when I absentmindedly touch it.  If its a purposeful touch its fine.  Guess I'm braced for the tweaking sensation that comes along with it.