She Freaking Pierced Her Own Nose
“Ouch!”
Taken February 9, 2008 with Canon PowerShot A550
Guess who
ain’t
gettin’ a
tattoo for her birthday?She swore she wouldn’t. Pinky-swore,even.
It looks like hell, doesn’t it? I told her it looked like it was infected already, and she said, “Yeah, but only a little infected.”
She’s been after me for over two years to let her do this. I told her we would “research” it - you know, ask around, get some advice, and make some phone calls. Every “professional-type” person we’ve talked to has said the same thing: Don’t. Do this. Yourself.
She agreed with everybody that told her that an infection of your nose would not be a nice experience, that getting it done professionally (with her mother’s permission) was the smarter move. We even looked at nasty, infected, gangrene-y pictures of nasty, infected, gangrene-y noses. My stomach is still flip-flopping.
Around here, you can only get a “professional” nose-piercing at a tattoo parlour. So, of course, at the end of all the “research”, she decided she’d rather have a tattoo. A very small tattoo. On her shoulder blade. Of a music note. Relieved and Happy Mommy said she would allow such a thing (done by a real tattoo artist in a real tattoo parlour with her real mother - ummm… yes, Me - present), if she could wait for her birthday next summer, and promised not to pierce her nose in the meantime. Problem solved.
Ha. Her nose will probably fall off, now.
Guess who ain’t gettin’ a tattoo for her birthday?
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February 9th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
She Freaking Pierced Her Own Nose…
She’s been after me for over two years to let her do this. I told her we would “research” it - you know, ask around, get some advice, and make some phone calls. Every “professional-type” person we’ve talked to has said the same thing: Don…
February 9th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
So you’re actually telling me she just took that earring/stud whatever that blue stoned item in her nose is, and just jammed it THROUGH the skin of her nose? OWWWW!!!!
Has she doused it with rubbing alcohol? That’ll kill the infection. It’ll hurt like hell, but it will kill the infection. Incidentally, I grew up with rubbing alcohol in the house and on every bloody anything that I presented to my mother.
I believe I was in my mid-20s when I learned hydrogen peroxide will do the same thing and won’t BURN LIKE HELL!
Ouch.
Les Says: Ky says, “No…. I put rubbing alcohol on my nose…. then I stuck a needle through…. and the reason why it looks all red is because it was bleeding because I tried to put an actual nose ring in. But… it DOES kill.”
I think she’s trying to be tough and admit it hurts like hell at the same time. Stupid kid.
February 9th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Teenagers are such idiots sometimes. Can you even imagine how much that had to hurt? Kelly’s friend Halie pierced her own nose once, then ended up letting it close, so all that pain was for naught!
I hope it heals nicely so that she gets to keep all of her nose.
Les Says: Did Halie end up with a scar? I’m SURE Ky’s going to let this grow over (her ears have grown over about 8 times already), and then I’m going to have to listen to her bitch and moan about the big, horrific mess her nose is in. Assuming it doesn’t fall off, that is.
February 9th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Oh my word.
No… tell me she did not pierce her own nose! OUCH! I know there are times when I have a little blackhead on my nose and I find myself cringing in pain. How did she pull off piercing it?
I hope it turns out ok though. Yikes.
Les Says: YOU hope?! Omigod. Yes. She did this to herself. I still think her nose is going to fall off. And my parents will find a way to blame ME for it, you watch.
February 9th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Ewww……. good luck for not getting worse of an infection…..kids…..
!
Les Says: It actually seems to have cleared up now… no redness, no puffiness, no blood - well, unless I smack her one for piercing it in the first place. Haven’t decided about that yet.
February 9th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
ARAY!!! (That’s the Filipino word for ouch!) My goodness, just by looking on that pic, i can imagine how painful it is. She should go to a doctor rightaway, right? She did that by her own? How brave coz that surely hurts alot!!
Les Says: Every time I bring her to the doctor, he rolls his eyes at her. She has an appointment coming up soon for her yearly physical - I can’t wait to hear what he has to say to her about this!
February 9th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Kids! Remember…my granddaughter kept on until she got her belly button pierced…they have to learn the hard way!
Me, I’d have too much trouble picking my nose with that thing in there!
Les Says: I never thought of that. I should have told her that her head would cave in.
February 9th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
That’s so incredibly gross! She’s an IDIOT! What was she thinking?! She could have gotten a tattoo! A tattoo! That’s a million times better than a nose piercing!! Pfft…kids these days
I hate nose piercings though - I think they look horrible, I don’t know - they just don’t do anything for me. But doing it herself *cringes* *then shudders* *then cringes again* I’m a wuss, I can’t even imagine how much that hurts! Her nose won’t fall off but there is a good chance that she’ll have a scar - especially if it gets infected. If it looks better already, she keeps it clean and doesn’t take the thing out for six weeks, she’ll be fine.
Les Says: SHE might be fine, but *I* will never get over this. Nor will I hear the end of it from her grandparents.
Yeah, let’s go back to “idiot”.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:25 am
Hey I forgot to ask the first time, how does one decide WHICH side of the those to pierce? My niece has it on the left side. So when you look at her it’s on the left, but it’s HER right side. She’s right-handed and I had assumed that’s why she chose her right side.
But when I was back in college I had my left ear double pierced, because I’m a bad ass. Yeah, that’s right. And the saying was “Left is right, right is wrong.” So my friends and I had only our left ears double pierced and not the right ear. Righty just has one hole in my head.
So is there any meaning behind her piercing the right side (HER left)?
Les Says: I haven’t a clue. When I was in high school, all the girls were doing the double-piercing and then triple and quadruple-piercing, but it didn’t matter which ear. The ones with the most guts had earrings up and down both ears.
Of course, this was in the 80’s. when the tight jeans would restrict much of the blood circulation, so we probably didn’t bleed…
I do remember when the guys started the piercing of one ear - that had to be done on the “correct” side - left, I think. Otherwise, they were labeled as “gay”.
Addendum: Yes, apparently, around here at least, a nose must be pierced on the left (from the piercee’s POV - you would see it as on the right, Cardiogirl). Unless you want to be labeled as “gay”. Or unless you ARE gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Unless you FREAKING PIERCE YOUR OWN NOSE. There’s plenty wrong with that!
February 10th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
couple of hints: if it does get infected:
1) do not go to the doctor … go to the professional piercers … they are used to dealing with infected self-done holes and doctors want to heal the whole thing up - including the piercing.
2) do not remove the piercing
my understanding is that since this is a different kind of “wound” than most doctors are used to dealing with, they apply standard techniques to it which can actually make it worse. (I read about one case where the infection more or less got trapped inside instead of healing) a reputable and trained piercer, on the other hand, knows how to get the sucker to heal up for real.
Les Says: Good to know, Ender… so far, so good on the “not infected-looking anymore” front. I will definitely keep an eye on it, though. God help me, it’s all I see when I look at her, now.
February 10th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
OMG. Yow. Ky and Max are forbidden to spend any time together. The illustrated and holey-unholy alliance.
Les Says: Great. Now, when I come to visit, I’ll have to leave her in the car…
February 10th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
It sounds like you had worked out a very reasonable compromise. I always get fooled by that - thinking you can talk to a teenager like a reasonable, logical person.
My daughter wants to get her tongue pierced, so I guess I better watch out. We haven’t made any agreement about a tattoo. We just said NO.
Les Says: Yeah, see, I should know better… except that sometimes compromise actually sort of almost kind of works. To a degree.
Welcome to Where the Walls are Soft, Anna! Hope you come and visit again!
February 10th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
hi!
i just can’t help but notice the swelling around the pierced area. that’s painful i’m sure. she should have sanitized the materials she used in piercing her nose before she did it. if in case an infection occurs, she better take antibiotics ASAP or else further damage to her nose could happen. I think she did enough damage already.
Les Says: Hi Jessie - Actually, there hasn’t been any swelling. I’ve just spent the last few minutes peering at the picture, and I guess I can understand where you thought you saw swelling around the stud, but nope. That’s just her plain ol’ nose.
She had pierced it the night before this pic was taken and managed to keep that side of her face away from me I guess… I never had a clue until she finally got the nerve up to tell me. Just before I took the picture, she had tried to remove the stud and replace it with a regular nose ring she had purchased - and that’s what started the bleeding - bits of which can still be seen in the photo.
It looks like any other piercing today. I’m still pissed at her, though, to say the least.
February 11th, 2008 at 8:35 am
And I thought I was “cool” when I had my sister pierce my ears…
There is no explaining teenagers. Do you know that until about age 25 people are operating on stoopid?
Les Says: Even more unexplainable is how they insist that it’s everyone else that’s stoopid…
February 11th, 2008 at 9:16 am
I enjoyed this blog too. The Webshot is very appealing to the eye but the site
itself is better. The last post: She Freaking Pierced Her Own Nose - made me
laugh. I’ve pierced my own bellybutton. I will visit again! I’m smiling
already.
— Terrah Dawn
Les Says: Good to know I made you laugh - hope you didn’t pop your bellyring in the process…
Thanks for the visit, Terrah - come on back today for The Big “Extra Copy” Caption Contest!
February 11th, 2008 at 9:35 am
She pierced her frickin nose ? Man that’s gotta hurt.
Another thing that works well on infections and is a little less painful than rubbing alcohol is hand sanitizer. I discovered that a couple of years ago when I got a nasty hangnail and I’ve used it ever since.
Why is it kids do dumb stuff like this ? I mean we never did anything stupid right ?
Right ?
Les, stop laughing, it’s rude.
Les Says: I’m… sorry…. OldGuy…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
February 12th, 2008 at 2:30 am
good lord!
Les Says: I KNOW!!!
February 12th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Oh, my… I know a guy (ok, my hubby, but don’t tell him I mentioned it to all the world on a blog) who pierced his own ear when he was in college. It’s been closed for about 20 years, but he still has a sort of indentation there, so it looks like it’s still pierced. A reminder of his former youth, I suppose.
Les Says: I’ve seen some older men with earrings - when I think about it though, those “old” men are probably guys I went to high school with.
February 12th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
That must have hurt like crazy. I pierced my own ears as a teen, but nothing like this! Love your blog.
Les Says: Thanks, Cindy! Nice to have you here… make sure to come and visit often. Hey enter the Caption Contest, what say? Great prize in it for you…
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:37 am
Getting a pierce is an art for me, in fact I have one on my brows, but doing it on your own without the knowledge on how to do it right is definitely a “no - no”
Les Says: Where were you when I needed you, Bittersweet?!
Welcome to Where the Walls are Soft - come back soon!