What was it that made me decide to have the bridge of my nose pierced; it wasn't something that I would have normally considered. To be honest I had seen another girl with the same piercing and thought it looked good on her. It was a girl who I talk to on Yahoo Messenger and have never met in person, so I had only seen the piercing in her photograph but it seemed to suit her and she had a similar shaped face to my own. Previously I had thought the bridge piercing was more of a male thing and didn't really suit girls but I wonder if this was because there were no girls that I knew personally with the piercing.
At A Glance Author SugarPinkMice Contact sugarpinkmice@hotmail.com IAM SugarPinkMice When Three months ago Artist Stuart Copley Location Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England Anyway I decided to get it done and started to ask around to see what the chances were of it rejecting etc. I didn't want to be left with a noticeable scar across the top of my nose! I discovered that my friend Lisa, herself a body piercer, had previously had the piercing a few years ago and had removed it when it started to reject. Possibly because it wasn't pierced deep enough she told me. She has no visible scar so I wasn't put off by this. The girl who I had seen with the piercing told me that she got hers done a year ago and had no problems with it, she also told me that it wasn't painful to get pierced. This part I didn't quite believe, as I imagined it would be a painful area, not being one of the more common piercings.
I asked my ex boyfriend, a trained body piercer to do the piercing, although he hadn't done many bridge piercings in the past, I trusted him to do it well. It helps having friends who can pierce so I don't always have to pay lots to get it done and it doesn't matter so much if I show that I'm a coward because they know me. Stuart asked if I was sure about getting it done because it would make a big difference to my appearance. I didn't actually think it would because I have other facial piercings, but of course he was right.
On the day I was due to get the piercing done I had second thoughts. I do normally get nervous about piercings anyway, they aren't like getting a tattoo done, I don't mind that at all. Although a piercing is done in seconds, I hate the feeling of the sharp pain as the needle pierces the skin, the fumbling about to get the jewellery inserted, which seems to take for ages but is actually only a few seconds longer. For some strange unexplainable reason I thought that this piercing would be far more painful than any I have had done in the past. Was it really worth that when the chances were that it could reject just a few weeks later? My piercer, Stuart had everything set up and ready to do the job. I could see the needle and the jewellery set out on the table, I could also see some tissue paper in wads there at the ready, so that meant there was going to be blood! I sat there contemplating for fifteen minutes or so, Stuart was starting to lose his patience unable to see what all the fuss was about. "You don't understand you don't know how much it's going to hurt" I said. Then I thought, why am I such a baby, it's going to hurt for a few seconds and then I will have the end result to show off and be proud of. So I let him do the piercing. I kept my eyes closed and after all the anticipation I hardly felt a thing. Obviously anesthetic wasn't used because of the closeness to the eyes, and the fact that Stuart doesn't think it's always necessary anyway. I can honestly say that this piercing was the least painful one that I have had done so far. I have three eyebrow piercings and two of those (the ones on my left side for some reason) were not very painful in comparison to some of the other piercings I have, this was even less painful. After the jewellery was inserted I could feel a trickle of something down my face. I didn't open my eyes, not sure if it was blood or sweat from my anxiety that I could feel. It was blood; I was given some tissue paper to hold against my face and then presented with a mirror to see the re "\Ãw€ë sult. I looked very strange, like a different person. I hadn't realized how prominent the piercing would be but I liked it and was glad I had it done.
I checked that the piercing was straight the day it was done but over the next few days my nose swelled a little bit at the top and the placement of the piercing started to look uneven. I became very self conscious as people had commented on the fact that it wasn't straight. After a couple of weeks it settled down and started to look straighter again. Nevertheless, because the muscles on each side of my face are not equal, the piercing only ever looks completely straight when I am totally still. This annoys me, I know its straight; I keep checking, but in photographs and when I'm laughing or talking it becomes lower placed at the left side. I hadn't realized that this could happen; I automatically assumed that both sides of my face were the same movement wise.
Overall I am happy with the piercing but a problem arose when I started my new job. I bought jewellery with clear plastic balls in an attempt to disguise the piercing. From a distance it does the job but close up it's still quite noticeable and is in fact the first thing that people notice about me when I'm talking to them because of the location being straight between my eyes. I overcame the problem by wearing glasses for work. Although the glasses cover the piercing, it gets in the way of where the glasses should rest on my nose and I do have to keep pushing them back up onto my face.
If anyone reading this is thinking of getting a bridge piercing done I would say to them think about how it will fit in with your day to day life. I wouldn't remove my piercings for anybody and they are a part of who I am but I can also understand how it can look a little bit intimidating to others if it's not what they are used to seeing. I have now had the piercing for about 5 months. I don't regret it but neither is it my favorite piercing. I sometimes wonder if this is the one that makes me look as though I have gone too overboard with the whole piercing thing. Too many facial piercings can result in that being the only thing that people notice about you and although I am proud of them in general I don't want that to be the case.