It was probably in the seventh grade when I started getting interested in body piercings. I quickly found out the more and more that was able to be done by looking online and through magazines, also going down to local tattoo/piercing parlors and seeing what others got done. My first piercing was my left eyebrow (14 gauge), 2-4th were my tragi(both 16 soon to be 14) and my eyebrow(14) done a second time. I knew that after the initial reaction from getting my tragi done that I wanted to go more awkward, I didn't want the typical ears or cartilage that most people get in school, I had to be different and rebellious. So after having though about it for awhile, and running several different ideas through my head, I decided that my 5th piercing would be my septum.
At A Glance Author Pat Contact Pat@bme.anon When Three months ago Artist Lisa Rouse Studio Artistic Dermagraphics Location Boardman Ohio I had seen the septum done several times. I made a friend at Hot Topic that had his done and was interested in getting mine done. I asked him how his procedure went and what other precautions that I should take. He said it wasn't that bad, just be sure to keep it tweaked and cleaned. He had also said that I shouldn't get it done when winter is rolling around because sinuses and running noses, his got infected and it was a bad experience for him.
March 7th, a long weekend, I decided to go and finally get it done. My friend Amy had to go out in that direction and also wanted to see if she could get her tattoos touched up while I was there. We got there and I told Lisa what I wanted done, filled out the forms, and informed her that I wanted it at a 14 and that it had to be a horseshoe so that it could be flipped up to be hidden during school thanks to our wonderful dress code. Although she told me that 14 takes a bit longer to heal than 16, I didn't care, I wanted it at a 14, same as my eyebrow rings. I had only been there a few minutes and could feel my adrenaline flowing already as I sat there. She put her fingers in my nose and felt around on my septum for the soft spot to pierce, she put that band-aid smelling crap on and had me lay down. I clasped my hands on top of me and let her get to work. I watched her hands as she unrolled the tools and she got to it. I felt the clamp in my nose first, again feeling around to make sure she was on the soft spot. Then she clamped it and had me breathe. It only took a few breaths and she stuck the needle through. The little pain that I felt didn't even exist until she pushed the ring through the hole. I had no tears in my eyes, I flinched a little due to the surprise of it but it wasn't even really pain, it was just the tiniest pinch, not even as bad as a bee sting. She then got the balls on and had me sit up and gave me a mirror after she made sure it was even. I looked at it and was more than satisfied. She also showed me how to hide it in my nose and how to pull it back out, gave me the whole lecture on cleaning it, blowing my nose, etc. etc. She also told me about how it might shift slightly forward and backward on either side and to make sure that I tweak it so that it stays even.
My friend Amy, once we got in her car, kept looking at it and looking back at the road and back to it and back at the road. She wasn't sure what to think about it at first but she said it's grown on her and that it looks decent on me, better than some that she has seen.
To this day I still have it in and love it. The responses I get from people are varied, either asking if it hurt, or what it feels like "it feels like I have a ring in my septum" is often my response. Graduation is Monday and I'm not allowed to have it in but I don't think that I'll take it out I'll just flip it inside, it's much easier than having to take it out, unscrewing and re-screwing the balls etc. I've thought about gauging it up to a 12 maybe even a 10 or bigger and have done a little research on it, it's easily doable. I don't want to go too large though because I know that I'm going to end up having to keep it hidden at one point or another and I don't want to go through the struggle of taking it out.