At A Glance
Author	vixstar
Contact	vixstar@bme.anon
IAM	vixstar
When	It just happened

After nearly a year I'm deciding to say goodbye to one of my most favourite piercings .My lovely hole through the middle of my nose is going to piercing heaven. I got my septum pierced back in January after not much thought at all. It was something I liked the look of and I thought bugger it... if I hate it I'll take it out. Well it turns out I actually quite liked it. It also seems ironic that I've retired this piercing when its caused me no problems and I even thought about stretching it up at one point. Its strange when you consider one of my helix holes for example that I've battled with since day one. I still have it as I don't want to retire it. My septum healed remarkably quickly and was a lot LESS painful than I imagined to get pierced. Put it this way if I still really miss my septum piercing in 6 months time then I wont be put off or scared to get it re-pierced. Ask to me get a nostril pierced and I WILL think twice about that as I found that much worse.

So my reasons for retiring. Well it is something I've thought long and hard about. Firstly it is one of my only piercings I cannot wear the jewellery in all the time. Also due to the way my nose shaped is I cannot wear a U-shaped metal retainer (it drops down) and have had to resort to a plastic labret retainer (worn through sideways) which I found very scratchy and annoying. Sometimes it was still visible and that annoyed me as it could be mistaken for dry skin or snot. Don't get me wrong I'd love to wear jewellery in my septum all the time but I doubt my employers would have favoured that and in respect of the fact that they have been good with all my other piercings and my stretched ears then I don't want to push my luck. Also we regularly get a lot of elderly people in our place of work and I don't want to scare or shock them with this piercing as it is a slightly more unusual piercing.

Recently I'd been experimenting more different jewellery I can wear in my septum and if I wore a horseshoe for example that is less heavy in weight it hung slightly to one side and highlighted that my septum hadn't been pierced straight. This annoyed me and is another reason I wanted to retire it. I hated looking in the mirror with the beautiful turquoise horseshoe and seeing the squintness.

Also I'm changing more with age and growing older. I can feel it. I'm pleased to say my mother has become accepting of most of my modifications (she freaked out at first) but she still cringed at the thought of my septum piercing. She didn't even seen it with jewellery in as I never let her see as I don't want to upset her. I've realised with growing older that as much as my mods are important to me my relationship with my parents is too and I respect their views. I was worried for the day we would bump into each other in the street and the sight of me with my septum jewellery in might make my mum cry(my mum is that sensitive!!). Also recently I've been having a lot of health problems and being physically sick, each time I've taken the jewellery or retainer out of my septum so I can blow my nose properly without then having to clean snot and whatever else off the retainer. At least with not having my septum piercing in I can be sick and not think no!! I still have the jewellery in and worry about it.

Lastly I've retired my septum as my kind of tribute to my Granddad who died very recently. I know it sounds strange but my piercings are very important to me and I thought it was fitting that if I was going to loose it I would take it out on a date that significant to me. So the day before my Granddad's funeral I took the ring out of my nose. Now having sat through a very painful but moving funeral I'm so glad I did take it out. I was able to cry freely and wipe my nose as many times as I wanted and not worry about the retainer slipping or being visible. I could relax and not hide behind the hanky touching my nose to see if the plastic was showing as all.

So its goodbye to my septum at the moment. It may get re-pierced if I miss it too much but we'll watch and see what happens. For now I'm just planning on what to get next and keep for a long long time.

happy days with septum piercing.