Hello again! I'm writing about my nose piercing that I did yesterday (19July2001). I've wanted my nose pierced since I was about 7, I can remember walking through the flea market and there was this shop that pierced noses, and I wanted one SO bad, and now, I'm glad I had to wait 10 years. After getting my conch and my industrial done, I decided I needed a facial piercing, but due to the fact that I'm underage and my mother is against facial piercings of any kind, but yet I can punch holes in my ears all I like...ironic
At A Glance Author Emily Kay* Contact punk4christ7@aol.com Artist a guy Studio 23rd Street Body Piercing Location Oklahoma City, OK On to my story...
After begging to get my nose done for about 2 weeks, and my mother telling me it was ok and then wasn't, I finally started talking about when I was gonna get it done, and what with. I decided against a stud because number 1 they fall out all the time, and number 2 rings are so much easier to clean. I was planning on getting it done right before school, but I got my chance earlier than I thought I ever would.
Yesterday was the big day that I never thought would come. After getting something to eat, at Quizno's (NOT a good choice of food), we headed to a few places (I think she wanted me to suffer) and then it was off to 23rd Street. The guy that was at the counter was the piercer that did my conch; I still don't know his name though. After signing off my soul again and being told that I needed to get it at 18g instead of 16, we headed back to the little room.
My piercer wasn't in too good of a mood, and I've noticed that most of the piercer at 23rd are very moody. That's cool though, cuz I was just there to get my nose pierced.
Now to the actual piercing. He cleaned the TOP part of my nose, not the inside. I thought that was kinda odd, but I wasn't about to question. This was the first time I could actually see what they were doing, and the first time I saw the needle really well, and it was NOTHING, a little bitty baby needle, so there's really nothing to be scared of. After oking the first placement, which was PERFECT, he changed his gloves, which I always like to see. Then I was asked to breathe in and out, at the out he would pierce it. But nooo that's not that happened, he pierced it just as I was getting to the top of my inhale, which was BAD, I got that really scared feeling that you do when you gasp, I hated that. As for the pain, it was very minimal, and there was not any bleeding at all. To describe the pain, it was like poking the top of your nose, and having a little pimple on the inside of your nose. There was a little big of redness, and NO SWELLING AT ALL! For the first day, it bled a little while I was going around doing errands and messing around, but not near as much as my industrial. For the first few hours, it looked like it was fake, something about the black around the ring, I do not know. But now, it looks perfect, even with my glasses, which was a big concern because they don't always look good with them.
Right now, when it gets bumped or sometimes just on its own, it feels like I got socked in the nose really hard. As for cleaning, it's totally easy! I could move the ring to clean it, even on the first day.
Nobody I know, none of my friends, have seen it yet, so I'm kinda nervous about it. I think its a good thing not to let them see it first off, so you have time to get used to it and fall in love with it, so peer pressure wont get to you and make you take it out. One of the first things people said when I told them I was getting it done, was that it wouldn't look good, because I'm not a prep (yea, I live in Oklahoma, most 'punks' get their septum done now) and that I would look like a poser, that's why I did not get it done until now, because of what other people said, and finally I decided that I did not care what people decided to think about me, and if any of my current friends decide not to like me because I have it done, they weren't friends to begin with, said all that to say: Don't let your friends decide what you want and what you don't.
That's my story, if you have any questions my AIM is Punk4Christ7
Thanks for reading
Emily Kay*