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to ask about nose piercings??

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kissinggiraffe · 07/12/2014 18:16

My daughter, 15, had her nose pierced yesterday ( without my knowledge or consent).
It is pierced with a stud with an arrow shape on the end ( the end inside her nostril).
At the moment it looks clean and she says it is not sore unless she knocks it.
It was pierced with a nose gun. she was not told how to clean or look after it or how long until she can change the stud. The bar is quite long and pokes the inside of her nose.
How do we even take it out? Does the arrow have to slide through the hole? I know nothing!

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kissinggiraffe · 07/12/2014 20:51

The arrow shaped bit is inside her nose the stud outside on show

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AnotherGirlsParadise · 07/12/2014 20:54

Wow. How the hell they got that in is beyond me - my eyes are watering! You definitely need another professional to have a look at it in the flesh - there's a chance that the pointed end is threaded and unscrews, but I doubt it. I've never used anything like that in a nose piercing.

Bunbaker · 07/12/2014 20:58

What will happen if school tells your daughter to remove it?

DD's school are very strict about facial piercings and won't even let anyone do PE with earrings in.

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kissinggiraffe · 07/12/2014 21:07

Thanks anothergirl it's good to have someone who knows what they're talking about but very worrying that you've never seen anything like it, I was hoping you'd say it was a standard nose stud Confused
They told her those are the studs that it the 'nose' guns. She said the gun was a different shape to the one she had her ears pierced with and that the stud/bar was one whole piece that go pushed through by the gun. Who knows what they used.....

bunbaker I'm taking her to have it removed tomorrow because school do not allow them.

She's very scared about having out. She thinks it will hurt more than when it went in. If they have to pull that back through the hole I think she may be right.
I think this is definitely a mistake she'll learn from. Poor thing.

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fluffyraggies · 07/12/2014 21:11

Oh god they wont pull it back through - they'll snip it wont they?!

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kissinggiraffe · 07/12/2014 21:14

fluffy I hope they will snip it but I have no idea. I am feeling really sorry for her. I know she was wrong to do it, but she is a child and they do tend to make mistakes.
She had it done at the clothes show in Birmingham.

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Tsoukalosy · 07/12/2014 21:14

Ouch! How the heck did they manage that?! I have mine pierced twice and have a rings and corkscrews both done with needles and healed beautifully, I would agree with the others take her straight to a proper piercing place where guns are banned and try and get them to change it to something else.

I don't want to say it but that looks like its been put in the wrong way as i have a conical one where the pointy end sticks out of the nose as decoration.

Good luck to her poor girl.

simbacatlivesagain · 07/12/2014 21:14

OP- you are prepared that age 15 she will be excluded from school tomorrow?

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kissinggiraffe · 07/12/2014 21:16

She wont be going to school until it has been removed. I will take her to town first thing and hope we can get it sorted

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Tsoukalosy · 07/12/2014 21:20

If push comes to shove and they can't remove it , the A and E will be able to get it out for her but she would have to leave it to heal and do it again at a reputable place. Are you in Birmingham? Plenty of good places.

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kissinggiraffe · 07/12/2014 21:29

So I've hunted the piercer down on facebook and messaged them for some information. They said they used a system called studex which is not a needle or a gun!!? Has anyone heard of this system?
I am waiting for more info about the actual stud....

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Tsoukalosy · 07/12/2014 21:31

Studex is ear piercing system my sister uses?! it is a gun and ear rings?

ravenAK · 07/12/2014 21:32

I agree with Tsoukalosy - that looks suspiciously like it's a standard barbell (designed for ear cartilage, not noses) that's been inserted the wrong way round. Can't think why anyone would have the pointy end inside the nostril.

Is there any chance that this piercing has actually been carried out by a clueless mate with a sewing needle & a barbell they've bought over the counter? & now she's scared to come clean?

Because for a start, you wouldn't get that in a gun - they use studs like AnotherGirlsParadise's picture. Even if the pointy bit was screwed on after the hole was made, it's still a distinctly weird thing to have in your nose!

You need to get a proper piercer to look at it & advise.

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kissinggiraffe · 07/12/2014 21:32

Hmmmmmmm they've stopped replying to my messages........

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kissinggiraffe · 07/12/2014 21:36

raven it was done at the clothes show in Birmingham in a 'piercing' studio. She definitely didn't do it herself or get a friend to do it. I know this because the mother of the friend she went with saw her go in and get it done!! She didn't try to stop her but wouldn't let her own daughter have it done!

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Tsoukalosy · 07/12/2014 21:36

www.studex.com/STUDEX

ravenAK · 07/12/2014 21:36

Article on studex here...apparently you can use them on noses.

news.bme.com/2005/01/31/do-piercing-guns-suck-bme-reviews-the-studex-system-75-the-publishers-ring/

New one on me - but I think I'll stick to having mine done with a nice sharp sterile needle.

Tsoukalosy · 07/12/2014 21:36

www.studex.com/ sorry link fail

Tsoukalosy · 07/12/2014 21:37

cross post! yeah I would say stick with needles so much safer.

fluffyraggies · 07/12/2014 21:41

I've no experience with body piercing, apart from ears, but lots of experience with 15 year old daughters (i've got 3 over 15) and i think your attitude is great, OP :)

These things happen. At 15 it's no good ranting and raging - better to stay calm and collected and let her know it'll all be ok and 'worse things happen at sea'! as they say Grin

Let the school know what has happened and treat it just like a medical problem which needs sorting asap. Which indeed it is.

Good luck tomorrow.

Tsoukalosy · 07/12/2014 21:45

Have you googled reputable places to visit tomorrow OP? That will be an idea. And keep us updated how it turns out. Good luck to your DD.x

PreMadonna · 07/12/2014 21:47

A bit of hope for you... it's not all bad!

I had my nose pierced at age 16. They used a gun.

I swapped it about 4 days later from the ear stud to a nose stud - I think it was a sort of right angle bent one.

Never had any soreness or infection. No lumpy bits.

24 years later......

I've mostly worn some sort of stud. Sometimes have a few months without.

Now I like the ones with the bobble on the end. I don't lose them.

So even if I've done it all wrong it's still all ok.

mikeyboo · 07/12/2014 21:48

That is the stud from a nose gun (a decent piercer would have used a hollow needle) - neither end unscrews, and they have to be removed by pulling the cone back through the piercing.

Removing nose bones that came from a piercing gun tends to be more painful than the actual piercing.

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kissinggiraffe · 07/12/2014 21:49

I'll be taking her to a piercer local to us who she has been to before to get the top of her ear done (they don't use guns!!) And I know lots of people who have used them and they have a very good reputation. I feel she will be safe in their hands.

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PreMadonna · 07/12/2014 21:54

Can I point out i do know better these days. D2 has a few piercings done properly.