00:01If it wasn't painful it wouldn't be as cool, right? I say screw the pain, bring
00:07on the jewelry. My name is Aspen Evans and I'm getting a septum piercing done
00:14today. I was always the angsty teen so for me piercings were kind of my form of
00:21rebellion. It's definitely frustrating when you're creative and you want to
00:25look more creative or look the part or do more of the part but you don't
00:30necessarily have the funds to kind of go out and really be your artistic self.
00:34As far as piercings I have two ear piercings and one that I turned into a
00:40gauge and then I have a belly button piercing and then I used to have nipple
00:45piercings but sadly I had to take those out because they did not agree with my
00:48body well. Very upset. I definitely say I'm a piercing junkie. My name is Brian
00:54Keith Thompson. I own Body Electric in Los Angeles. I've always been into fashion.
00:59I just have always been more free thinking in fashion and jewelry and a lot
01:03of men are afraid to wear jewelry because they think it looks feminine. I say screw
01:08that. To say that I'm going to put a stud on each one of their nostrils in the
01:13same place, it's not going to happen. It's going to be different on every single
01:17client. It's the physical act of piercing. It's the art, as some people say, of the
01:27decoration and it's the experience. It's all three of those things together making
01:33a trifecta of my business. When I think of septum piercings I usually think of
01:39someone artsy and creative because I went to art school and I swear everyone had
01:43one. So I think that was probably when I first thought about getting one. So a
01:47septum you're going on the center part of the face right in between the
01:51nostrils. It is one of those things that any type of degree of error just slightly
01:58is going to make that piercing look off. It's the one piercing when I do it I'm
02:04constantly thinking in my head, you know, don't screw this up. Don't screw this up.
02:09That is one of the drawbacks I thought about with septum piercings. It's just that it's
02:13right there in your nose and I swear I have the worst allergies. So I'm like what
02:16if I blow my nose and it like comes off like I don't know. I definitely say I'm
02:20kind of nervous. For someone that loves piercing so much I very much have like a
02:25low pain tolerance so this will be pretty funny.
02:35The way I start with a septum piercing is I'm gonna lay Aspen down. I'm gonna
02:40clean her septum. I draw a purple line across the outer part of her septum so
02:58it's just my guideline.
03:13So I like to pierce on your exhale. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get lined up.
03:17Once I'm comfortable and ready to pierce I'm gonna have you take a big deep
03:20breath in through your nose. Slow and steady out through your mouth. Okay in one
03:28hand I'm holding a receiving tube. My right hand I'm holding a needle and I just
03:35slowly pierce through the septum through the sweet spot.
03:50Good job.
04:00I like to kind of hover over the client on a septum piercing. I feel more
04:06comfortable piercing that way.
04:47also remembers. I think I look with you today because
04:48remember when you are setting in the. cant or ear Unto. I see over here for up arm
04:49just said, well Romeo, you can see his checklist. I'm holding a finger at left.
05:05AndHHHHHS means to that physic they are carrying Wilset. It burns to tut QU милли
05:06upup they're all gonna get you and add it and URL. And then there's another
05:11the less you touch it the less you play with it the faster it will heal a septum can take
05:15anywhere from three to six months depending on your body flipping it up is okay if you have to
05:22that's the beautiful part of having a septum piercing it's one of those that you can hide
05:27the only people that can see it are children and who's going to believe them anyways flipping it
05:31up less is best so try to not do it a hundred times a day
05:42oh i love this my initial reaction after getting the septum piercing was excitement i love it it's
05:50so cute and definitely perfectly frames like my nose like i thought as soon as i got the piercing
05:55done i was like oh i'm ready to get another one like a cartilage or something probably something
05:59along my ear i'm a piercing junkie it's a problem me as a piercer i have to be laser focused
06:04because there's such an easy chance if i'm not for that piercing to come out crooked i saw her face
06:12the way she wore her makeup she needed something subtle clean since brian is more of a visual person
06:20a designer when it comes to jewelry he chose getting this kind of curved situation versus the barbell just
06:27because it complimented my face more it worked well with the already gold jewelry that i had
06:32and he even like switched out got me some new gauges so exciting i think it looks amazing on aspen
06:37i expected the piercing to hurt a lot more than it actually did it was really more so just pressure
06:43and like a pinch it barely hurt i was like i've had worse piercings than this so this was a
06:47breeze
06:48your nostrils are made to kill and trap bacteria so it's almost impossible to get an infection i haven't
06:56seen maybe one that got really gnarly and it was the client was swimming in a lake so yeah don't
07:03do
07:03that no lakes as far as healing i feel like it'll be okay i'm gonna try not to touch it
07:08too much knowing
07:09me i'll want to fidget with it septum piercing is kind of one of those you really don't need to
07:14mess
07:14with or clean too much i say just clean the outer part of the jewelry with a little bit of
07:19mild soap
07:20nothing antibacterial i like dr bronner's but you do you i have a spray that i can spray on the
07:26inside
07:26a couple times a day just to make sure it's like clean moisturize all that stuff because i want to
07:31make sure i have this for the long haul a septum piercing is is literally in your face and in
07:37everyone else's faces so the piercing the actual physical pain is going to be very short-lived on
07:44something like a septum or an earlobe or a nostril if you're worried about the pain don't you really
07:51need to be focused on the aftercare i definitely feel more creative with this on my face now i've
07:58been itching to like get something that screams like i'm an artist i'm a creative now that i'm in
08:03la and i feel like this just suits me perfectly
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