Septum Piercing
Nose no Limits!
You will find all the background to this story on the Ampallang page, and you can also find out my feelings about the septum here (and I did ditch my girlfriend incidentally:) I had this piercing performed at the same time as my Ampallang, so I won’t go in to much non related detail here, so having overcome the negative feedback / opinions of those who should know better, I decided to go for it (the septum).
Now many people see this as sort of the ultimate when I comes to facial piercings not in the same way as the amp i.e. that it’s a intense piercing, but because it’s so up-front, if you have any facial piercing you are really wearing a sort of badge of pride which says “I love piercing! Why not stare at me and ask me lots of questions?” And until I had my Conch fitted I felt I was letting the side down somehow (hiding my piercings), but don’t get me wrong my primary reason for doing this is that I love piercing, any other effect is just a nice bonus.
Anaesthetic?
So once inside the studio, I laid down and Warren asked me if I would like anaesthetic for the piercing, I replied I “no” as I like to get the whole experience as unadulterated as possible, and that the only time I had requested it (for the conch) it really made the experience nondescript, something that I didn’t want to experience again, sorry to repeat myself but I feel that piercing is special and I regard it as sacrosanct and certainly shouldn’t be seen as just a means to an end!
After checking that my septum was suitable and preparing all the necessary tools, he began, I have to say that I felt the needle every millimetre of the way, really intense, not unbearable you understand but I certainly wouldn’t recommend it to a novice as their first piercing. After, I sat up and with tears still running down my face warren said, ” It’s (the septum) a very emotional piercing isn’t it?” I had to say “yes” as I wiped the tears from my face:)
And that was about it, it’s been a week now and it seems to be healing well, it isn’t too sensitive now and I cant wait to get the circular barbell in place!
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