I've always been attracted to septum piercings. With a small gauge I think it looks very feminine and cute on women. One of my old co-workers is a professional piercer so i asked her if she would pierce my septum, the only problem was that I was flat broke. So she told me to rake the leaves in her front yard and she would do it. Yippeee!! After a few hours of raking leaves she told me to come inside and pull out the jewelry I got. I had a sterile 16 gauge silver horseshoe still packaged and everything. We went downstairs and I sat in the chair while she set everything up.

So on October 1st I finally decided to get my septum pierced. I had been thinking about this piercing for a while but was a little hesitant because I don't think that everyone can pull this particular piece off. Just not sure if my face was suited for it. I decided to just go ahead and do it and if it didn't look right there should be no reason I couldn't take it out or just flip it up. So I went to my piercer who is about an hour away. He's been piercing a long time and this made number 8 that he's done on me.

When I first got my ears pierced a long time ago, in my early teens, I thought "D*mn, this is going to hurt". Then I got those with almost no pain at all. I got my eyebrow pierced for free by a good friend (professional piercer in a shop, not an at home job) and thought it would hurt at least a little, but really all I felt was the pressure from his fingers pinching my brow as he was piercing. I will always remember how cool of an experience it was.

More recently, I got my lip pierced, and again, expected at least a little pain, but felt almost nothing.

Soooooo... I haven't seriously undergone piercing in almost six years. I went through a big piercing phase in my teens and over the course of three years completed 23 piercings. I didn't have much left that I wanted to get done. One thing I always LOVED but never had the balls to do was get a septum piercing. I thought they looked groovy as all hell but would look terrible on me due to the, um, interesting topography of my nose. I'm not sure what struck me almost six years later, a few piercings less but still quite holey, to get my septum pierced on a whim.

A week and a day ago i decided to get my septum pierced. i had checked out the shop about a week prior and talked to one of the piercers and asked a few questions, i was mainly worried that it would have to go through the cartilage, but he said it didn't, but he only looked so i didn't really know. when i went in to get it done i asked a lot of questions again about a few different piercings and told her i wasn't sure if i was ready.

I've had my septum pierced for almost five weeks now, and I really do love it. I knew I wanted to have it done for a while, and I wasn't worried about it hurting (I have tattoos and other piercings so pain isn't a big deal for me). I have a friend who lives about two hours away from me that I stay with on the weekends, and she'd said she wanted to go with me. We planned to go on a Saturday to a well-known body piercing / tattoo place, but ended up not being able to make it. Sunday rolls around and I'm DYING to get this done, but literally every piercing place in her city is closed on Sundays.

I just got my septum done today. I have had it in my mind for a long time, but any time I ask my friends who have it done, they always scare me with how much it hurt, or their piercer ending up getting some of the cartilage, or it migrating or something scary.

So, after not wearing my 27 year-old septum piercing much at all since the 1980s, I decided to run an experiment and try wearing it now that I am older. I tried two things: wearing a U-shaped retainer type "out" and wearing a small captive segmented loop (5/16") with "rainbow" coloring. Amazingly enough, I got two compliments from young women (strangers) while wearing the retainer. I got one compliment from a younger woman (someone I worked with in a professional setting) with the loop and a "cool" from one guy I also work with.

I had my septum done many years ago (early 1980s). I stopped wearing it many years ago as well--I guess I got a career and responsibilities and all. The hole never went away (two holes actually, but that is another story), nor did the memory--years later, I have always felt somewhat "naked" without it. Strange, I seemed to have been "imprinted" somehow. Odd things would pop in my mind from time to time, like if I had a dream that I was wearing jewelry it would be a septum piece of some kind and not the more common earrings or whatever.

When I went to high-school I told everyone when we talked abbout piercings, that I wanted a "bull-ring" piercing.
I didn't know what they were called back then.
Once I dropped out of school, I tried piercing it, with just a make-up mirror, big sewing needle and a horseshoe ring while I was at a party at my girlfriend's house, well it turned out to be very crooked so I took it out.