So.... one day a couple months ago I decided that I really wanted my septum pierced. Like pretty much everyone who's ever written one of these, I thought that septum piercings were unattractive and not good looking (this mostly due to living in a small town and never really getting the chance to see them up close or at all.) But after I started looking at BME, I came across pictures of people with their septums pierced and thought they looked pretty cute. I've wanted a tattoo for as long as I can remember, but I decided then that a piercing just felt right. I last stretched my lobes to 0 in June, and since that's the biggest I'm going, a new piercing seemed like a fantastical idea.
At A Glance Author Ursula Contact yournewaesthetic77@hotmail.com When A month ago Studio Top Gear After figuring out what I wanted, reading all of the info I could find about it, etc, I talked to my parents about getting my septum pierced. They really thought it was a bad idea, and were definitely against it (my mom threatened to not help pay for college.) But since I'm 18 and can do whatever I want (I always say this for everything, but in a half-sarcastic way) I decided to do it anyways. My boyfriend also thought it was a really dumb idea, because I just want to be rebellious/not be pretty anymore (his words), but I told him to suck it and that I can do what I want (to which he agreed to, just not the suck it part.) We had a big talk about it the night before, and I told him I would think about it overnight.
The next day, I decided that I still wanted it no matter what anyone thought, and kind of just started driving to the studio with my boyfriend. I didn't tell him outright that I was getting it, but we both knew so I felt kind of shitty. When we got there, I signed some junk (I've never had my signature look like that ever, I was so nervous) and waited awhile. I talked to the girl sitting next to me, about what we were both getting (her a tramp stamp, me my septum), and then got called to go sit down.
The piercer first talked to me about what gauge/jewelry I wanted, and all that stuff. Then she cleaned my nose, and then clamped my nose (after finding the "sweet spot"). I didn't think the clamps hurt that much, until I realized that they weren't really on all the way, because when they were it hurt like a jerk. She had me breath in, and then out and while breathing out she pushed the needle through. My boyfriend held my hand the whole time, which I thought was really nice of him because he was so angry at the time (such a great boyfriend, for serious). I kind of stopped breathing when the needle was halfway through, which was probably really dumb to do, because I'm thinking that's why my piercing is kind of crooked.
After all of the aftercare and everything else was taken care of, my boyfriend and I left to go walk around in some town out kind of in the middle of nowhere (because we had planned to do this a couple days ago). I flipped up my circular barbell, and we drove off. My boyfriend barely talked to me the whole time (a couple hours) and just sat there while I cried on the way home because he wouldn't talk to me. Not cool. So then I went home and talked to my parents for a while, and then told them I got my nose pierced, and they didn't seem as pissed as I thought they would be (most likely because they couldn't see it.)
But besides what people did/thought, my nose was sore for probably a week, and I think it's now finally really healing a month after having it done, since I'm pretty sure I had a boil basically on my piercing on the left side of my nose, and I've been using very warm sea salt soaks lately so that makes it feel 10 times better. I think it will take awhile to heal, mainly because I scratch my nose I my sleep every night (stupid habit). But once it is healed I plan to change the jewelry to a retainer (it tickles having balls in my face (the metal kind)). My piercing is a little crooked, but I figure that my face isn't that symmetrical (it's not disfigured or anything, I'm just saying that after looking in the mirror for like a chamillion hours I can notice it's not symmetrical), a kind of crooked septum piercing is okay with me. And I love it too much right now to start over.
So after all of this, I've learned that...
Boyfriends eventually get over stuff like this (especially if you have long arguments about it)
Parents can get used to anything (as long as it's not visible and it's kept a family secret for forever)
The inside of my nose is pretty neat looking (more hair than I thought)