A word of warning, about a year ago my wife had both her nipples pierced, her right one healed fine and was quite comfortable but her left one was extremely painful and she just couldnt settle with it at all, i told her that the pain she was getting was not worth it and asked her to take them out, ever since her left breast has never been quite the same and she sometimes finds it uncomfortable to have too much attention to that nipple, we think that maybe when it was done the piercer hit a nerve or something, cus the pain went from her nipple right along the side of her boob, its not too bad now but it was not a good experience for her, so others advise in here is very wise, about finding people who have had personal experience of a particular piercer, not just as we did and think, "oh that place looks nice and modern and clean", there is a parlour near us that looks like crap, but since then we discovered that they are absolutely superb at what they do, oh well, just thought i would ask from people in the know, is it possible to "hit a nerve" as we thought??