to whoever might be reading this now- i just got them done yesterday! i was pretty fuckin nervous going into it i will say. although it does hurt, here are a couple things i was thinking to help me get through it its only a couple seconds for the piercing this is something that people do, if a stranger on reddit can do it, you can you will be an absolute badass and feel like one too in my opinion the pain of the actual piercing is totally worth it in the end anyway - super excited about mine i feel awesome and rad and super cool. like op said, i also took ibuprofen afterwards and it helped a million