Types of nose piercing — What is the name of the earring in the nose

In ancient times, a pierc­ing and a ring in the nose were a sign of courage and a sig­nal to the ene­my that the own­er of such jew­el­ry is not afraid of any­thing.

In the East and in India, it is often said that a girl’s nose ring means that she is mar­ried. In some cul­tures — that she is ready to get mar­ried.

Pierc­ing the nose — on the sep­tum, on the tip, on one of the wings — indige­nous peo­ples of many regions of Amer­i­ca and Africa empha­sized their belong­ing to a cer­tain tribe. Some­times only those who deserved it by hero­ic deeds or per­formed cer­tain roles were enti­tled to such awards: lead­ers, war­riors, priests.

To this day, mem­bers of some tribes cul­ti­vate this cus­tom, and it hap­pens that they wear a nose ring as proud­ly as a fash­ion­able suit. How­ev­er, it is not known where the fash­ion for pierc­ings came from in Europe. Researchers of cul­tur­al phe­nom­e­na sug­gest that it came to us with slaves, and is now con­nect­ed with the desire to attract atten­tion. Today it is a way of self-expres­sion, pas­sion and often even addic­tion. The mean­ing of the dec­o­ra­tion deter­mines the types of nose pierc­ing, which we will talk about in detail in this arti­cle.

The main types and names of earrings for nose piercing

The most pop­u­lar names of pierc­ings depend on the place on the nose.

• Nasal lobe pierc­ing is done on the nos­trils. This type of nose pierc­ing is the least painful, some­times one or two nos­trils are pierced.
• Punc­ture of the car­ti­lage between two nos­trils or the skin under the sep­tum is one of the most painful pro­ce­dures, so it is per­formed under anes­the­sia.
• Bridge — pierc­ing the skin of the nose at eye lev­el. Because of the high blood sup­ply to this part of the face, the punc­ture site may bleed pro­fuse­ly. The dis­ad­van­tage of such a pierc­ing is that the body can reject the ear­ring.
• Names of ear­rings for nose pierc­ing:
• labret, or Nos­tra — this ear­ring is best suit­ed for nos­tril pierc­ing. On one side, it ends with a foot, on the oth­er — mobile, usu­al­ly thread­ed, with a screw-in ball. Ide­al for the first pierc­ing and heal­ing of the nos­trils;
• Horse­shoe — a U‑shaped ear­ring that ends with balls twist­ed on both sides. Most suit­able for pierc­ing the sep­tum. Jew­el­ry of this type in oth­er pierc­ings can slow down the heal­ing process and increase the risk of prob­lems;
• bar­bell and banana (sep­tum) — both types of ear­rings have remov­able balls on both sides. They dif­fer in the shape of the rod: it is straight in the bar­bell, and slight­ly bent in the banana. Ide­al for pierc­ing the sep­tum, pierc­ing the bridge and bridge of the nose;
• Bridge is one of the most com­mon types of nose pierc­ing. One of its round parts is raised, which allows you to insert an ear­ring into the chan­nel. Ide­al for pierc­ing the nos­trils and sep­tum at eye lev­el;
• nasal­lang — a very rare pierc­ing ear­ring in the form of a bar, which pass­es through a pair of nos­trils and the nasal sep­tum at the widest part of the nose.

No less than the name of the ear­ring in the nose, the mate­r­i­al from which it is made is also impor­tant. Prod­ucts made of tita­ni­um, sur­gi­cal steel and bio­plas­tics are best suit­ed for this pur­pose. Jew­el­ry made of sil­ver and gold is not used for nose pierc­ing, because then the skin can heal bad­ly. In pro­fes­sion­al salons, where ear­rings are includ­ed in the price of the pro­ce­dure, they use ear­rings made of tita­ni­um G23, bio­plas­tic or a mate­r­i­al called PTFE, which does not con­tain nick­el, which can cause an aller­gic reac­tion or oth­er aller­gic reac­tions.

How different types of nose piercings are performed

Self-pierc­ing or in a ran­dom salon expos­es a per­son to the risk of infec­tion with one of the blood-borne virus­es: HIV, hepati­tis B or C.

Peo­ple suf­fer­ing from aller­gies, blood coag­u­la­tion dis­or­ders, chron­ic patients and peo­ple who need to take med­ica­tion should not be pierced.

The safest pro­ce­dure will be per­formed in a pro­fes­sion­al salon by an expe­ri­enced spe­cial­ist. It can pierce the skin with­out dam­ag­ing the tis­sue.

In the beau­ty salon, a spe­cial­ist will select a suit­able ear­ring, pro­vide infor­ma­tion on the care of a fresh pierc­ing, per­form a pierc­ing and ensure that the pro­ce­dure is com­plete­ly safe for health.

The piercer should have pro­fes­sion­al equip­ment to ster­il­ize the for­ceps used to hold the skin, i.e. an auto­clave, not the usu­al antibac­te­r­i­al spray. He should per­form the pierc­ing pro­ce­dure in dis­pos­able gloves. For pierc­ing the skin, use only dis­pos­able nee­dles, which he takes out of the new pack­ag­ing from the client.

The nose pierc­ing pro­ce­dure dif­fers from ear pierc­ing in that the skin is pierced not with a gun, but with a can­nu­la or injec­tion nee­dle.

injectable or inflat­able nee­dle. The mas­ter first dis­in­fects the skin, then pierces it with a nee­dle and inserts an ear­ring.

First, the punc­ture site must be dis­in­fect­ed. Then the mas­ter marks the punc­ture site and inserts the nee­dle into the skin. The pro­ce­dure itself is very fast and takes sev­er­al tens of sec­onds.

Painful sen­sa­tions depend on the type of nose pierc­ing, the loca­tion of the pierc­ing and the name of the ear­ring. Lido­caine oint­ment is usu­al­ly used as anes­the­sia.

After the pro­ce­dure, the injec­tion site and the skin in the imme­di­ate vicin­i­ty of the ear­ring may be swollen and painful, and blood or lymph may leak. It is worth being patient, because this is how the skin may look for the next two weeks (although it usu­al­ly heals with­in a few days).

Do not for­get that any pierc­ing in the nose (you already know the names) is a seri­ous wound. In order for it to heal as quick­ly as pos­si­ble and to be able to change dif­fer­ent ear­rings, it is nec­es­sary to prop­er­ly care for it. To avoid com­pli­ca­tions, prop­er wound hygiene: 2–3 times a day wash­ing with phys­i­o­log­i­cal solu­tion or antibac­te­r­i­al soap (it is not rec­om­mend­ed to use alco­hol or hydro­gen per­ox­ide, which can dry the wound and pro­long the heal­ing process) with a clean cot­ton swab.

Swelling after pierc­ing in the nose will pass in no more than two weeks, but this does not mean that the skin will also recov­er dur­ing this time. Much depends on the type of pierc­ing. At this time, it is not pos­si­ble to apply make-up, peel­ing or alco­hol-based cos­met­ics in the area of ​​the pierc­ing. Ser­hiy­ka needs to be care­ful­ly moved from time to time, oth­er­wise it will grow into the skin — ask the mas­ters how to do it.

Before the skin is com­plete­ly healed, swim­ming is pro­hib­it­ed, and you can’t drink strong cof­fee or alco­hol, as they thin the blood, and the punc­ture site may begin to bleed.

A green­ish liq­uid ooz­ing from under an ear­ring is a sign of infec­tion and a sig­nal to urgent­ly con­sult a doc­tor.

On aver­age, the final heal­ing of a nose pierc­ing, depend­ing on its type, takes 4–6 months:

• sep­tum — the heal­ing of this ear­ring is not too long, from 4 to 8 weeks;

• nos­trils — this pierc­ing heals from 2 to 4 months, usu­al­ly with­out prob­lems;

• nasal­lang — heal­ing takes about 3 months, prefer­ably with an elas­tic bio­plas­tic ear­ring;

• bridge — from 1 to 3 months.

At the end of this time, you can safe­ly change your nose pierc­ing ear­rings to new acces­sories that can be ordered from the Sil­vers online store with deliv­ery to any city in Ukraine.