I was told today the piercing I want is $85 for the first bar, and $20 for each additional - which covers the jewelry.
So it's like a 1-900 number?
It's been a decade since I got my last piercing, so I don't know if that's good or not. Do pay attention to whether they autoclave their stuff or not, though. And get some Epson salts that you can use for nice hot baths afterward. Mmm, salty baths....
Exactly the same. You call them up and they drill a bolt through your dong.
I think after todays fiasco I'm gonna take a bath with some valium and a toaster.
Yeah, the $85+20 seems a little steep. I've got another place to check. This was #2 by the way, those 570 douches don't have a piercer on staff currently. Ink only.
The inker at the $85 place told me he estimates two full day sessions for my back piece, which are $550 a day. I'd go insane sitting there that long getting inked, I think I'll go for an hour at a time or something like that, every couple weeks. He had a portfolio of his own flash he drew himself, plus photo albums a-plenty of his other stuff he's done on actual skin. He's willing to take a rough sketch of my own, a few photos off the net for stylistic concept*, and draw it out and submit it to me for approval. He's good. Nice young guy, full sleeves, clean cut, clear eyes. I'm keeping this whole thing ont he back burner, but so far, so good. I think I'd be pleased with his work.
* I'm into the Japanese modernist stuff, bold colors, cartooney, very splashy looking. Like this:
And he had a few examples of that, he's pretty good at it. He had a full battle regalia Samurai with the ornamental freako-masks they wore, looked like devils, very cool. (Random factoid, those masks are called Mempo)