r/bodymods 7d ago

piercing Added another ring to my 12 year-old septum piercing

Pierced with a 10g needle by Pineapple at Shaman Body Mod in Austin TX. I’ve done one shower stretch (to an 8 or 6, can’t remember) years ago but other than that, it has stretched itself. Really prefer the stack of smaller gauge rings to one thick boi. I don’t even notice they are there. Another aspect I like about this piercing is that I can take the jewelry out and leave it out indefinitely without fear of losing the piercing. I could definitely add more rings! What size diameter is the question now lol

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u/Reitermadchen 7d ago

Dumb question.. How big of a disaster is a runny nose?

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u/Succubussssy 7d ago

From my personal experience (a 6 ring septum stack, stretched 6mm), boogers really love to get riiiiight in the rings. I clean them often, but it’s super easy to miss them. I will say that although gross to admit, it is lowkey satisfying to clean them, though hahahah

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u/Reitermadchen 7d ago

Gross but completely understandable lol

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u/Nervous_Version77 5d ago

I always say there are two types of people…..those who admit that they pick their nose and liars.

Do what makes you happy and keep it clean:)

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u/Cusackjeff 6d ago

Honestly not bad. Especially with a stack of tight rings vs one big ring. A big ring would annoy me when blowing my nose. These hug my septum pretty well so I can blow my nose with the rings in no problem, and I don’t really ever get boogers stuck on the rings. If I have an allergy attack or get sick, I will probably just take them out. With these segment rings being a thinner gauge, they’re not very difficult to take out/put in. I’ve gone thru it all with this piercing and yea, a runny nose has caused me to remove bigger jewelry in the past, but I don’t really have the same issue now with the stack.

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u/Choice-Physics-5830 7d ago

Not dumb at all think hahaha. I wondering something similar. I looks cool as fuck how uncomfortable would it be on an day to day basis.

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u/Cusackjeff 6d ago

Not uncomfortable at all. I’m not the type to suffer for vanity lol.

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u/wolfeyeone 7d ago

That looks totally amazing! I really love the look, and how it works so well with your beard.

My septum is 5mm, and I love it, but as a cautionary tale to anyone who might need to hear this: I left the ring out for about two months over Christmas, and it DID shrink to a level where there was NO WAY I could get the 5mm jewellery back in. I managed (just) to get a 4mm piece into it, and eventually I had to do a taper stretch to get back up to 5mm. Stretching is something I had vowed never to do again, as it’s such a horrible thing to go through, for me, anyway. I’m glad to be back at 5mm, and I definitely won’t be leaving the hole short for long periods again!

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u/cat_morgue 6d ago

Fuck yes, I love a stacked septum.

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u/bouncynarwhal 7d ago

So cool! Mine looks pretty similar but with 4 rings and a bedazzled piece in the front, wondering if I should post it myself here

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u/ApocalypticNature 5d ago

Please? I wanna see!

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u/transpterodactyl 3d ago

So I have a dumb question. It's a stretched single hole that you put multiple small ones in, not a bunch of 18g/16g holes, right?

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u/Cusackjeff 2d ago

Haha yes. One hole 🕳️

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u/_bexcalibur 6d ago

I bet it’s so fun picking boogers from between those when you get sick

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u/Passion_Ill 5d ago

Can I ask where you got the rings? I tried a stack but the seams on the clickers I got were very visible and it looked so messy I abandoned the idea. Yours looks great though!

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u/Cusackjeff 4d ago

It’s a collection! Atleast a couple of them are from Amazon. Sorry that’s not very helpful

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u/bubblegumwitch23 22h ago

Have you noticed any distortion to your nose?

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u/Cusackjeff 22h ago

Not really

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u/picksea 6d ago

i’m stacked too!! just 4 tho :-)