At A Glance Author megan Contact megan@bme.anon When Two years ago Artist Me Studio My parents' bathroom Location my house Hey guys, my name is Megan and I have always been very interested in body mods. I love tattoos, piercings, hair and whatever else you can think of! So it's no surprise that at kind of an early age, I wanted body piercings and not just my boring double pierced ears.
I asked my mother at about 12 years old, way too young, to get my nose pierced, and for her sake just a stud. Expectedly, she said no. But this was not going to stop me for long.
The summer after, when I was 13, I decided that I would no longer wait for my mom to accept the fact that I was going to get a piercing whether I was of age or not.
However, I was not 18 and did not look it, so I decided to ask some friends who I knew had piercings of that nature what I should do. And when I felt confident enough, I went to buy a clear nose bar to put in; while getting advice from the woman that sold it to me (she had recently done her own nose).
I went home feeling nervous but psyched! I was with my friend Kaitlyn and her weird cousin Sammy haha. I first numbed my right nostril and then sterilized the piercing needle with heavy alcohol. (Trying to be safe ya dig?)
I got the nerve finally to start from the outside after I marked the perfect spot. I started pushing the needle hard to my nose. Unfortunately it took a lot of time to get it through the skin, but there was minimal pain. It took about 15 minutes to get it close to going through,
Right before I pushed through all the way, I snapped a nerve the traveled to my right cheek. It hurt so bad I fell and blood started flowing like crazy. My eyes started tearing and I wanted to stop, but I thought that if I just got the bar in and held a tissue there and cleaned it I would be fine, so that is what I did.
As soon as I walked out of the bathroom, my dad came home, and I was so scared he'd notice he blood, but luckily my dad doesn't like me very much and didn't look at me, so I was golden.
After I left the house to show off my new awesome piercing, I started to realize that my face was feeling very numb. I pressed on it and could not feel my right cheek at all. I freaked and thought I had done something terribly wrong, but I had only snapped the one nerve and it was harmless. To this day I still cannot feel that part of my face. It's crazy!
After I found out that my face was fine and that I was going to live, I absolutely loved it. Everyone that I showed it too thought it was great however thought I was stupid for doing it myself. But I told them that was my only option to get what I wanted. And that is just the kind of person that I happen to be haha.
Oh, and about three weeks later, my mom watched me leaving the house and says
"Megan, what is on the side of your face?"
And I thought, "Oh my God, she caught me, I'm done." But it turned out she just saw some eyeliner smear. However, she followed me to the bathroom to get rid of it and saw the clear ball somehow.
I didn't get grounded, but I was supposed to take it out. I didn't but about a week or two later, the bar fell out at a party and it was dark and I was not normal, so I couldn't find it. By the time that I could've made it somewhere to get a new bar or stud or anything just to fill the hole, the skin closed up. I was so upset.
My parents like to tell people that they noticed the first time they saw me, but that is a total lie. They saw me for three weeks before they noticed. And that was only because of that stupid smeared eyeliner and her following me to the bathroom, like, why would she follow me to the bathroom haha, weird, I don't know.
But I definitely would get it again professionally now that I am allowed. I am also going to get my tongue, eyebrow, naval, and lip pierced. So I totally hope that this made you want to get any piercings done professionally. I was very lucky that I didn't cut an important nerve, that I didn't get an infection, and that I didn't pass out from the blood loss or pain (oh yeah, there was a lot of pain, A LOT!)
Thanks for reading! Good luck and peace!