It started out like any work day, I stumbled out of bed and headed straight for the shower to wash and brush my teeth, not knowing that the next time I showered I would have a fresh piercing to take care of.
At A Glance Author Sarah muhn Contact glorious-matricide@hotmail.com When Three months ago Artist My Brother Studio Bess Accessories Location Town Hall I have my ears pierced and stretched to 8mm each, my tragus and conch pierced, I recently had taken my labret out in hope of one day soon getting snakebites and I didn't want my lip to look cluttered.
I packed my work things and a warm jumper and set off.
It was a cold day and around 11:30 I was sitting in the office drinking my coffee, I was an office junior at a big company in town.
I remember now that I wanted a septum piercing ever since one of my friends bought some cheap fake sleepers at the reject shop and we'd mucked around sticking them in our noses and lips.
Thinking back now, I must have been seven and she would have been about twelve when she jokingly clipped the sleeper onto my septum and told me I looked just like a bull.
From then on I was referred to as "Daisy".
9 years later, here I was, contemplating what to do in my break in the next hour when my mobile rang.
It was my brother Jesse
"I'm down at Bess, I work there now, I do piercings, how far away are you from the Victoria building?"
"We'll see" I told him.
In my lunch break I walked down to the Victoria building which turned out to be about a five minute walk from the office and to my delight right next to the music store I had wanted to visit for some time. and located bes. I told him that today would be the day I get my septum pierced and I wanted him to do it. He just said ok and took me to the back room. As he cleaned my nose with a cotton bud he explained how a certain cherokee tribe got their septum's pierced as a transition between youth and adolescence and that being sixteen this must be a fitting experience for me. I tried not to nod or move my head too much while he fitted the clamps.
He then told me he needed me to breathe in, count to three, hold it for three and then breathe it out. I did.
Now being my brother and at the same time, a right bastard, he told me he would count to five before putting the needle through.
1, 2 *POP*
Tears were running down my cheeks from my sinus's which I had been warned would happen and the needle was through, but to my horror it was through at a diagonal.
Oh no, I breathed through the pain and looked at him.
"Don't worry we can fix this"
He pulled the needle out, repositioned the clamps and without breathing, without counting, shoved the needle straight through the sweet spot.
A little piece of skin between two pieces of cartilage in your septum.
The second time I could hear my heart pumping in my head but it didn't hurt nearly as much as the first time when it went through the cartilage.
I really love my knew septum piercing, my grandparents don't but that doesn't matter much because with work I have it tucked in anyway.
If it weren't for the first little mess up with the needle going through uneven I'd say the worst part was putting the jewelery in and that it was virtually painless.
I know it sounds like he butchered me and it did feel like he did, but he's my brother and not only that but I had waited for this piercing for nine years and I wasn't about to let a little bit of pain stop me. It really disappoints me when people tell me they'd like something pierced and that the only reason they don't is because they're scared it will hurt.
I was very discreet about it and didn't tell anyone, I just let them find out, I think my Dad must have seen me cleaning it in the morning over the sink but he made this story up that I was sleeping and he came in to tuck me in and could see up nose. He wasn't angry because I had respected his feeling and had kept it inside my nose.
I think that if you're looking to get a piercing that your folks don't approve of that if you come to them and speak to them maturely they might let you get what you want if you get it with more subtle jewelery. It's not exactly what you had planned but you can change jewelery when you're with your friends once it's healed and keep everyone happy.
I don't live with my parents anymore so it doesn't really matter but I did compromise with my conch and tragus when I had them done.
Good luck to you and thank you for reading, I really hope this helped.
Sarah
P.S I went to the music store and bought some parkway drive. was rad.