At A Glance Author Pierced Beauty Contact Pierced Beauty@bme.anon When It just happened Artist Mick + Tara Studio Blacktown Tattoo + Hairhouse Warehouse Location Blacktown + Mt Druitt I have wanted my nostril pierced since I was 8 years old; I remember seeing a woman walking down the street with a small ring that 'hugged' her nose. Since that day I wanted it done, but over the years I realized what my mother and step father were actually like.
Over the years other things came up and I developed an obsession with tongue piercings until it became so intense that I had to just do it at the age of 15 and behind my parents' backs. Now that I am 18 and legally and adult (over in Australia at least) I told my other half that I wanted my nose pierced, but I had no money so he said that he would pay for it.
I was so excited as it was only a week away until I got my piercing so I wanted to look at pictures of other people's piercings as not many of my friends have it done in fact only one of them does. I came on BMEZINE and I was looking at the nostril piercings when I saw it. A young woman who look to be about 20 or so with a double nose piercing, I wanted a double but I wanted both on the left side until I saw her nose with one stud in each side.
From that moment I knew what I had to do I had to save up my money so that I could afford do get the other side done. Luckily I got birthday money and a fair bit of it.
Finally my birthday came around I was finally 18 I had waited my whole life for this day. I did the usual I saw my dad and I waited for my mum to come home so I could spend time with her. Then I got ready I went to my other half's house and picked him up. It was a really long drive even though it was only around the corner I was nervous, we walked in and he told Mick that I wanted a double nose piercing which I wasn't expecting to have both done, but he said that it was part of my present.
I picked out my studs they were just so perfect like in my dream that I had always had, they are a small circle with a pink stone and they are the perfect size.
I sat down and I couldn't stop myself from asking if it hurt, I know how stupid it sounds when people ask that so I asked what hurt more a nipple piercing or a nostril piercing, Mick stated that compared to a nipple piercing nostril piercings are nothing. For me this information was wrong, he put the dots on so that they would appear to be in the same spot. Mick clamped my nostril (left side) and then he pierced it with the needle and it hurt like hell, there was no way that this was less painful than my nipple.
I screamed and my eyes began to water I felt really light headed so he gave me a glass of water. I drank it and he helped me out to lay down on the lounge in the front. I didn't have the energy to go through that again so my other half got his eyebrow as a comfort for me as he got to see me in pain so he put himself in pain so that I would feel better.
The next night I was annoyed and disappointed in myself for not getting both as I didn't think I could go back. I made up my mind that I was going to get my right side done. I was really excited so I woke up my sister and we went in to Mt Druitt and I remembered that there was a body piercer at a hairdresser who didn't pierce with a gun. I saw some of her work in pictures and I was talking to her about getting it numbed. Tara (the piercer) told me that the stuff she had may not work on a nose in my case it didn't. I had it numbed even though it didn't work, she got me to lay down and she put a wet cloth over my eyes and she put a tube up my nose I asked what she was doing as Mick didn't do any of this I was sitting up when Mick did it.
Tara told me that the cloth blocked my eyes so I wouldn't flinch when the needle got close to my face (this was good for me as I hate needles) and it was wet in case I felt light headed or got hot when it was being pierced. The tube was so the needle didn't hit the other side of my nose and so the needle would hit the tube and bend so I wasn't hurt.
The second time around was still painful, but it is a pain that I would go through again. I am happy that I have done this I feel that it makes my face look more like my personality and it reflects who I am inside. My mother and step father are very angry at me, but I am now an adult and I have to do things for myself and not try to live up to other peoples expectations of what I should be.