It all started when I saw a beautiful picture of an African girl in an issue of National Geographic.She had a tusk in her septum about the size of a sharpie marker.I thought it was beautiful.The first stretched septum I had seen was when I got my first piercing ever and one of the piercers,and who came to be my favorite piercer ever, had one.I thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.The whole reasoning behind the septum piercing and looking at pictures from Borneo made me think it was an awesome way to show your spiritual side and what it stood for.I already had an 8 gauge retainer in my septum and thought the look of a 4 gauge was even better.I had a 4 gauge pincher from when I stretched my ears that I thought would look even more awesome.I had lost the o rings but found that using the pincher with no o rings did not matter because it stay put without them.I thought this was awesome as well because it meant I could use any pincher and not have to make a bunch of trips to the shop for o rings.I took the pincher out of my jewelery pouch I keep with me and soaked it in sea salt than in saline solution.I removed my 8 gauge retainer which I knew I should keep for when I was at work because I couldn't have facial jewelry there.
At A Glance Author Breezee Contact rainbow_dreaddie_gurl@yahoo.com When A week ago Artist self done Studio my house Location springfield oregon I placed the one side of the pincher the left side of my septum and with my finger pushed in the skin of my septum.I then pushed the pincher through slowly while applying ky jelly to the pincher.It slid right in with no blood and no crusties.I was amazed by how well my septum reacted to the jewelry being shoved in.Alot more so than my ears had been.
The first few days was a little tough with putting the retainer in and out while I was at work,and the cartilidge plate about the septum had some bruising because of the trauma it caused.After a few days of sea salt soaks and saline soaks it was beautiful and not even any signs of any sort of rejection.I had than went into the local tattoo and body piercing shop to show the piercer who did it and said I had done an awesome job.He said most people have a rough time because most people have crooked septums,but mine was miraculously straight.He told me he had never seen such a straight septum in his entire time as a piercer which he informed me was 12 years.I smiled and he asked me if I wanted to look at some septum spikes and I said sure.
I came across a white septum spike that looked to be about a 4 gauge and he told me the price was 30 dollars and I had to wait to get it because I had only 15 bucks on me.I took a look at alot of other jewelry and decided the white one was the best one they had in the whole shop.The only other one I liked alot was an opal tusk but the white one was made much better.I told him the white one was perfect for me but I did not have the money with me then.He told me he would hold the jewelry for me bcause I was friends with their tattoo artist.I smiled and thanked him and left.
Now the septum pincher I have in is healing it beautifully and the retainer sits in my nose alot more loosely so I can comfortably where it while I am at work....the whole booger thing is not fun though.I clean it about 2 times a day and when I shower I make sure to take the pincher out and clean the nose area completly and soak it still two times a day in sea salt.I love my septum and can not wait until it is fully healed and ready for another stretch.I want to eventually go to a double zero gauge, but we will see how the job permits a huge gaping hole in my nose like that.With a plug in it it shouldn't be too noticable.Lets hope I get there.
The one question people often ask me which I laugh at is if it feels like I always have boogers in my nose.I tell them no but there usually is.People also are a little freaked out by the thought of a septum ring or especially a stretched septum because they watch on television how these things are done in tribal communities.I always explain that in America these things are done a lot less painfully and that it is a right of passage in my eyes.Usually people are very interested by that point.
Now its off to stage three....