I remember wanting to have my nose pierced when I was just a little girl. I always thought it looked really cute and accentuated faces well. For the longest time I never did it though because everyone is always saying, "If you want a job, don't get holes in your face!" Plus, being a waitress, I'm not sure than im supposed to have facial piercings...but now 19 and sick of serving anyways (and almost hoping to be kindly "let go" from work) at this point I don't really care.
At A Glance Author anonymous Contact anonymous@bme.anon When It just happened Studio American Skin Art Location NY So, my experience actually begins yesterday when I called my friend and asked him what he wanted to do today. His response as expected was "piercings?" since it wasn't good beach weather. We usually end up at the tattoo parlor every few months, where he usually gets tattooed and since I'm fine with one of those, I get a piercing or just watch him.
We go to American Skin Art, our usual parlor for tattoos and piercings. They are really cool people and do good work. My friend went into the room first to get his first ever piercing, his upper cartilage. It takes like 10 minutes...with clean up and everything and he's out. I'm next and at this point I'm a little but nervous. It's funny because I dread needles, like shots and stuff but I want a bigger needle through my nostril? Anyways, he asks what nostril and I was thinking left but wanted his opinion first. He looked at me and said left, "because it has more of a curve on that nostril". (I'm glad my nose is mishapen haha you learn something new each day. I only wanted left because that's my picture posing side.) So I go in to the room where I've been pierced before and sit down. The piercer cleans me up and marks my nose. I check it in the mirror and okay the spot. I begin to get a bit nervous, but I was actually a lot more contained that I would have thought. He tells me to lay down and then says to me while putting something up my left nostril, "I'm just lining things up". But he was about to do a little more than that...
I say okay and just zone off looking at some photos of him and a girl on the ceiling. How convenient I am so zoned out because totally out of nowhere, unless I'm just deaf and never heard him say a he was going to pierce me, the needle is through my nose and I felt the hideous, horrific face I managed to make. I think I may have barked quietly too. In fact I am very sure I barked. Then I laughed because I knew how ridiculous my face was. Seriously though, I was not expecting to be pierced at that moment, it was a shock. I thought we were aligning, I wasn't very much not ready for the climax. My eyes watered pretty bad. I was shocked though too, how fast it happened and how quick the pain was. Well not even pain, just immense pressure. The piercer made sure I was ok and commented on the lovely face I made. I felt fine, it didn't even hurt, like I said, it just shocked me because I wasn't expecting to be pierced at that second. I told him that but I think he thought I was crazy. My nose bled pretty bad for a while..coming out of the top of the piercing and out my nose. Like I told him, I bleed a lot. In fact whenI had my cartilage pierced the piercer said to me in reference to the continuous blood flow, "Shit, it looks like I shot you in the head." I looked in the mirror and decided it looked ok..I actually didn't expect it to look good on me, but actually looks nice. My friend told me that it makes me look even bitchier..."in a good way".
It only hurts when I flare my nose, accidently rub it, or make a weird face. My cartilage piercing was way more sore than this, at least right now. I'm actually trying to take care of this one, since it's you know...in the middle of my face. I clean it every four hours or so with H2Ocean. It works nicely getting the crusted crap off and out of my nose and helps keep it nice and clean. Right now I just have a boring silver stud (it's the screw kind). I want to swtich it when I can with a small diamond. Although I will probably be too lazy and too scared to switch it.
My boyfriend didn't even notice at first. My parents will ask, "what's on your face?" and my boss will probably fire me. YAY!:)