**This is going to be long, but I want to be as detailed and possible.**

It's funny that it's finally my turn to write my own 'experience' story; after religiously reading all of YOUR stories over and over again. So, for the past 4 months i've been intensively researching all I needed to know on VCH piercing. I kept saying to myself, 'I'll get it on the last day of summer' (thinking it'd be the best time to get it when it was still relatively warm outside so I could wear a dress; but nearing to the end of swim-season so I would not be tempted) .. yet everyday inched closer and closer to September, and I thought i'd never get this done.

So, today rolled around, the day before school, and I still had 'VCH' on the mind. As a spur of the moment thing, I drove my friend and I to a piercing place in Toronto - thinking, i'll take a leisurely drive down there.. and if I chicken out, it wouldn't waste my time that much. So my friend was planning on getting her nipple done, and I wanted to get my VCH but we were both pretty nervous at this time, so we went shopping for a bit. Finally, I was just like, "lets do it!" so we walked in, and I asked for a 'vertical hood' piercing (thinking that this would be embarrassing enough to ask, but it wasn't as bad as I had envisioned). I waited no time, and the piercer came out and greeted me and asked her to follow her to the room. To my surprise I wasn't really nervous at all. (Sort of off topic, but I had just started getting brazilian waxing and that hurt like a motherfucker for me, so I figured a single needle couldn't hurt as much).

So, I walk in the room and sat in a chair. The girl asked me to pile on all the questions I had, but I told her that i've been researching a lot and pretty much knew everything I had been wondering (thanks Tribalectic). So she started to set up for a bit, and then finally told me to sit on the bed. I took off my shoes (to make me feel more at ease) and then my piercer joked, "it's a good thing that you're wearing a dress because it'll make this a little less awkward!". But after having suffered through a brazilian wax; this wasn't awkward at all for me. I told her that (after trying the q-tip test at home; multiple of times) "I don't think I'm suitable for a VCH, but hopefully I am". She took a look down there, and tried the q-tip test herself. I failed. She started telling me that I was right, and was not suitable for one. I was pretty upset at this time, and was contemplating getting a HCH or nothing at all.. but I was at this point already so I told her "I guess you can go with the HCH". As she was preparing the ring and the needles, I said again "Are you sure you can't do a VCH?" (I mean, my heart was really set on one). She was so friendly/nice and said "let me check again for you, maybe I can work something out". So she did the q-tip test again, and even took out this ruler-clamp thing, and said "Yup". I was so ecstatic at this point, that I almost forgot that the worst was about to happen.

She marked it, and verified it with me. Then she put the receiving tube under my hood, and THAT felt uncomfortable enough. She ended up taking it out, and lubed it up a bit to make it 'less uncomfortable for me'. She asked me to hold the lips around my vagina away for her, and then she asked me to take one deep brea-- and by this point she had put the needle through. I thought i'd scream or curse for sure, but I just whispered "oh.. my... goddddd". This was just the needle. Then she started to fiddle with it to put the barbell in, and this was when I was squirming. That was the most uncomfortable part. Then she started to wipe down the tables she had her supplies on and I said "Is that it? Can I put my underwear back on now?". She giggled and told me that I probably should, and that I was free to go.

I thought i'd forsurely feel my new, fresh piercing while walking down the stairs, but I felt nothing. I had to sit in the waiting room next for my friend to get piercing, and I thought my vagina would be pulsing at this point, but I felt nothing. Maybe an hour later, I started to get a pinch here and there from awkward sitting positions but nothing to major. I am very surprised at how much it doesn't afterwards! For those who want this piercing as much as I did, go for it! It's so rewarding afterwards. And seriously, BRAZILIAN WAXES HURT TEN TIMES MORE THAN A VCH PIERCING.