...maybe I'm not ready for nipple piercings now...
I went and talked to a couple of people at my hubby's work, who are mostly in their teens or early twenties, and they almost all recommended this one place right down the road from my place called 'modern Man Modifications'. I went there, they did look clean, and neat, and i sat there and pretended to look at designs while the counterperson talked to two teenaged girls. He told them all the same stuff you've said here...and then told me it costs about $50.
I went to another tattoo and piercing place, and walkedin, and the stuf they told me about heaing times and aftercare kind of didn't sound like the stuff Modern Man' told me. Even though they offered to do my piercings for $25 each, i think I'd rather go to Modern Man. After all, if I'm putting holes in me in a place where the Goddess didn't intend for holes to be (she would have put the holes in herself if she did), I don't want to 'get what I pay for'.
Thank you for all the advice, and I'm definitely going to the more expensive place when I am ready to get it done!!