To start out, I always thought septum piercings were absolutely disgustingly ugly. It did not make much sense at all to me why any one would want to walk around looking a lot like a bull. With this, and many other things I now love, It slowly but surely began to grow on me, and I started to begin to obsess with getting this piercing. I came on the BME web site almost every day and looked at the septum piercing picture section, and read a lot of the stories, and I knew it was the piercing for me. I thought that the little captive ball rings were so adorable and cute, and then the horse shoes finally also grew on me after time. So after much consideration I absolutely had to have it done.
At A Glance Author XxCringexX Contact XxCringexX@bme.anon IAM XxCringexX When Six months ago I soon after talked to my best friend who knows a lot about piercings because she has had so many I can not even count them all. I told her I really wanted to get my Septum pierced, and she said she would be down with piercing me. She is not a professional, but she has done other people's piercings before and she knows all about sterilization and I knew she was considering becoming professional. Though later I did find out she had never pierced a Septum before! None the less, I was told to get prepared for her to pierce me the very next day. I was excited but very, very extremely nervous. I stayed up until the early hours of the morning watching videos of people getting it done, to see their reactions and how it all went down.
The day had come. She called me and told me she got a 14 gauge horse shoe piercing kit from Hot Rags, and that she was prepared to stick that needle through my nose as soon as she could get to my house. Though I have had other piercings before, this one made me extremely nervous knowing how thick that area of the nose is. I shook for at least an hour before she got there if not longer. I had my other friends there telling me how crazy I was, of course making bull jokes at me.
She had finally arrived. The shaking got a little worse knowing that in a few minutes I would have a needle being shoved through my face. I nervously sat down in a chair and she made marks in my nose, and told me to go to the mirror and look at the placement of those marks. I fixed it up a bit more towards the place I wanted it, while she cleaned off the table and set everything up. She cleaned my nose off with this the alcohol swab and grabbed the clamps, which she has previously sterilized. The clamps were a bit of a pain. They were not easy for her to work with, but somehow she got them to finally clamp. The clamp was definitely painful, as most piercings the clamp is usually more painful than the actual needle. She told me to take a few deep breaths while she counted and bam, I had a needle through my nose. It was a quick, slightly painful pinch then just aching. She took the clamps off and struggled to get the horse shoe in. Then she told me it was crooked. I figured it couldn't be that horribly crooked, but I looked in the mirror, and of course, it was extremely crooked. I didn't want to make her feel bad, but I had to tell her to do it again. It looked horrible.
My nose was still pounding and slightly bleeding, but she took out the horse shoe. I held a tissue on my nose to stop the bleeding, which seemed to get worse after she took out the ring. After a few minutes it finally stopped bleeding enough to where she decided it was time to try going at it once again. She cleaned up my nose for the second time and decided to try it with out the bother of that horrible clamp. She felt the inside of my nose to find the right part of my nose and once again, stuck the needle though. It did not hurt much worse than the first time. It was already so sore it could not possibly feel any worse. She stuck the horse shoe back through and it was perfectly straight and in the perfect spot.
It took about a couple weeks until the sore, aching feeling finally went away. Unlike all my other piercings this one never got infected. It healed pretty quick and I never had any problems with it at all. It's definitely one of my all time favorite piercings now and I have a totally new point of view on it then when I first saw people with it. The only thing I'd suggest is getting a good clamp and not one from a piercing kit. Other than that I'd say if you're thinking about it, definitely do it. It's so worth it!