So to start off I think I should most likely give you some background information. I'm 16 years old and I have my tongue pierced and my ears are stretched. It took me about a year to talk my mom into letting me get my septum pierced and only on the condition that, if I do, I must sign a contract that I won't ask for anymore piercings until I turn 18. So, naturally, I jump at the chance and sign the little contract!
At A Glance Author Caitlin Contact consolidatedzero@msn.com IAM shylove When A week ago Artist Jennifer Studio Randy Adams Tattoo Studio Location Fort Worth, TX At this point in my life I have a job, which is how I paid for my piercing. I was completely ready to get pierced on the Friday that, I though, I would be getting paid. It turned out I had to wait another whole week! For some people this might be O.K. but to me? This was unacceptable!!! BUT I did, of course, wait the length of the week. All during this week I was getting overly nervous. When I got my tongue pierced I never remembered being THIS nervous! Then the day finally came.
It was Friday morning and I went up to my job to get my paycheck. I walk in and try to find my manager. I finally find her and tell her that I need my paycheck, but she says that I will have to come back between 2:30 and 6:00pm. Now, I've already waited a week, and I wasn't going to wait another three hours! So I told her it was very important that I get my paycheck now, since I had an appointment to get to at noon (it's not THAT big of a lie!!). So she gives me a mild lecture about how this is going to be the "first and last time she ever does this for me" so I walk out of the restaurant, with a little hop in my step knowing that I was on my way to get my best friend and my favorite piercing.
After I cash my check, I headed out to get my best friend. She went with me to get my tongue pierced two years before and so I thought I'd keep the tradition going. So after we get her we're on our way to Randy Adams Tattoo Studio (only the best!). So we get in there, me being ridiculously nervous, and I tell Jennifer I want to get my septum pierced. She asked for my birth certificate and both of our ids. We then come to find out that my mother forgot my birth certificate!! So we have to go all the way back home and get my birth certificate and then go all the way back, but it was worth the trip!
So we finally get back to the Studio and we get all the paperwork settled out. I pay Jennifer and she takes me back into the piercing room. I remember the room from when I got my tongue pierced and ears stretched before. I knew about the dentist-office looking chair and the metal bars you can hold onto on the side! She puts the gloves on (in which she changed about 4 times!) and started feeling around up my nose. I'm completely not used to this feeling seeing as I barely put my fingers up my nose myself. She then started to clean it and feel around a little more. When she put the clamps on is when I really started to freak out. I am terrified of needles and held on the metal bars for dear life. So she put the clamps on, which were only a little uncomfortable, and got the needle ready. From reading others' experiences I knew to take long deep breaths. It turns out I completely forgot how to breathe during this whole piercing process. She stuck the needle through my nose and, I'm not going to lie to you, it hurt like crazy. It wouldn't go through in one swift motion like my tongue piercing did. Finally, the needle was just sticking in my nose and she was getting the jewelry ready. This hurt so much more than the piercing in my case. I got a 14 gauge retainer put in and it was just very uncomfortable to get it put in right after you get pierced! But finally it was done. I looked in the mirror and the first I think? "I don't know if I want this." It was like a rush of emotion all of a sudden. Jennifer calmed me down and told me the aftercare and I was on my way.
Throughout the whole day I was just very uncomfortable. That night at work was interesting nonetheless! I work as a hostess and so I deal with people very much and they, of course, gave me the obligatory "Did it hurt?" and "Why would you ever do that to your nose!" That night I went to sleep very unsure about my new piercing. The next day I wasn't too uncomfortable. It was bleeding a little but that's all really. I try to put my retainer up inside my nose when I realize that my septum curves slightly (deviated septum) and so it wouldn't go up. Well, I went into freak mode and asked Jennifer, she said it would be fine. But I was still very unsure about the whole thing. To me, if you get something that you constantly question then maybe it just isn't for you. That's what I think this was. That night at 10:00pm I went up to Randy Adams and had Jennifer take it out. She was very gracious about the whole thing and I really appreciate it.
Now, the one thing I can say right now is don't take my experience to heart that yours will be exactly like it. This piercing just wasn't for me but I really did love it. I will still appreciate everyone who gets a septum piercing because it is very painful to go through! If you really want this piercing then I say go for it because even though my experience wasn't the greatest I still believe you should make your own mistakes and you might find out they weren't mistakes at all!